The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 12, 1896, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 12, 1896. CONFIDENT SILVERITES, They Believe That Success at the Polls Is Assured. FLUSHED WITH RECENT VICTORIES. Indifferent as to Whether Gold Men Bolt or Stay in the Party. NOMINEE BRYAN'S PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. Will Speak in Madison-Square Garden, New York City, During This Month. “THE CALL'S’ HEADQUARTERS, Great NorTHERN HoTEL, CxICAGO, ILL., July 11. The Democratic National Convention has adjourned, but it has set in motion forces that will stir every stratum of so- ciety in this country as they have not been stirred since the struggle for the enancipa- tion of the black siaves. I do uot now speak of the merits of the issues presented. Re- garaless of the merits, the battle will be tremendously earnest and its results, both immediate and remote, must be of great importance to mankind, no matter which side wins. At the head of the movement on the Democratic side is a man of indomitable will, tireless energy, commanding ability and sublime courage. He has to-day se- lected New York as the first battle-ground of the campaign and is going there in per- son to lead the assault. He is to speakin Madison Square Garden, New York city, during the present month, and as soon as possible he will speak in all the large gities of New York. The campaign prom- ises to be as earnest and vigorous as was the course of the silver delegates in the convention. The silyer men, flushed by their first victory over the gold forces, are filled with the hope of similar successes at the polls. On the streets of Chicago to-day men are everywhere discussing the money ques- tion. The gold men are threatening to form an independent sound-money Dem- ocratic party, but the silver men are utterly indifferent to the threats. They seek to argue the question with the gold men, but do not attempt to dissuade them from bolting. Indeed, most of the silver- ites think the gold men will knife the ticket secretly if they do notbolt, and that they can do less harm as bolters than they can se nominal supvorters of the ticket. The contest for the nomination for Vice- President this morning was full of sur- prises, and was much more animated than was expected. The Californians were startled on learning on the first ballot that Joseph C. Bibley of Pennsylvania was practically slated for the place. As Sibley was a supporter of the funding bill in the Fifty-thira Congress, we set to work dili- gently to prevent his nomination. It re- quired quick and hard work, but the sec- ond ballot showed that his nomination had been made impossible. It pained me greatly to be obliged to make such a vigorous and uncompromis- ing fight against Sibley, because person- ally I esteem him highly. He is a good man, but, like Dog Tray, fell into bad company, and this is no time for trifling with supporters of the funding scheme. I know nothing of Mr. Sewall, the nominee, except that the members of the Democratic National Committee, with whom he served for several years, speak of him in the highest terms. I think that one of the controlling reasons for his nomination was the determination of the convention to disprove and set at rest the foolish and unpatriotic assertion of Sen- ator Tillman that this is a sectional con- test of the South and West against the East. Bewall is and has long been an earnest advocate of the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Under a resolution adopted by the con- vention to-day it is quite likely that Mr. Tarpey will be added to the National Committee. He is unquestionably a most useful and influential man in his present place. JAMES G, MAGUIRE. — JONES MADE CHAIRMAN. Succeeds Harrity In Gulding the Destinies of the Democratic National Committee. CHICAGO, Irv., July 11.—In accordance with the call issued by Chairman Harrity of the National Committee the members of the old and new organizations met at the Palmer House at 5 o’clock this afternoon. There were present all told about seventy- five gentlemen and besides the members of the committee a number of newspaper men were given seats. Mr. Harrity said, after calling the members to order, that the meeting was held in accordance with the general custom of bringing together the members of the old ahd new commit- tees after the convention had completed its work, in order to become acquainted and that authority might be given to close up the business in conmection with the convention, which now consisted largely, if not altogether, of payment of expenses incurred on account of its meeting. He was happy to inform the members of the committee that funds were in the hands of the treasarer more than sufficient to meet all the obligations that were out- standing and to return to the treasurer of the citizens’ committee something of a surplus for distribution to the contributors to the fund. He recommended that for this purpose the sub-committee of the National Committee in charge of the arrangements for the convention be con- tinued until its business be fully con- cluded, and this was ordered without objection. He complimented the treasurer of the local league for his efficiency and success in accumulating the funds for the payment of the convention expenses, although it had been a difficult and some- what tedious job to get together the neces- sary amount of funds, but they were all in hand now and nothing more need be said abont that. General Blair of Kansas, the oldest mem- ber of the committee in point of service, except Mr. Sulloway of New Hampshire, claimed the attention of the committee to present resolutions of tbanks to Chairman Harrity for the impartiality, faithfulness and singleness of devotion with which the chairman of the committee had performed the duties of his position, and to Secretary Sheerin for his successful labors, always 80 | conrteously and kindly given. The resolutions were unanimously adopted by a rising vote, and the chairman and secretary made suitable acknowledg- ment of the compliments paid them. Before the resolutions were adopted Charles 8. Thomas of Colorado and A. S. Clayton of Alabama seconded them, highly eulogizing Sheerin and Harrity. This having been disposed of Mr. Har- ritv suggasted that the roll of the new committee be called, which was done and their addresses recorded by Secretary Sheerin. It was noticed that among the absentees were the representatives of New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connacticut and Maryland. There being no further business before the committee it adjourned. While the committee was in session the candidates—Messrs. Bryan and Sewall— came into the room and were heartily con- gratulated, but took no part in the pro- ceedings. A few minutes later Mr. Harrity said he had been requested to call the members of the new committee to order. He was made temporary chairman and Mr. Shee- rin was made temporary secretarv. An executive session was held, Senator Wuite suggested that the method followed four years ago be adopted on this occasion and that the candidates be notified at a ratification meeting to be held in New York City within a reasonable period of time, within a fortnight or so. Governor Stone of Missouri thought it would be better to follow the long custom of both parties of notifying both candi- dates at their homes. Mr. Bryan was called upon for an ex- pression of opinion and indorsed White's proposition. He said he thought it wonld be a good thing for the party if the candi- dates would go into the East, where he explained the platform and candidates had been generally misrepresented, so that the candidates might be presented to the people of that section and they might see for themselves what manner of men they were asked to vote for and the principles for which they stood. Mr. Sewall, who had been out of the room temporarily, returned while Mr. Bryan was sveaking and briefly expressed his approval of what the Presidental can- didate had said. The National Committee took a recess at this point until 9 o’clock and a meeting of the notification committee was held. This lasted half or three-quarters of an bour, in the course of which a proposition to make the notification in accordance with Senator White’s suggestion and the approval of. the candidates themselves was discussed. The matter was finally referred to a sub-committee of seven, con- sisting of Messrs. White, Plaisted of Min- nesota, Masters of Illinois, O’Donnell of Colorado, Shields of Tennessee, Danforth of New York and Holden of Ohio. They will meet at Candidate Bryan’s room at the Clifton House on Monday at 9 o’clock to make arrangements for the notification, fixing the date, arranging the programme of speeches, etc. The commitiee reassembled at 9:30 and Senator Jones of Arkansas was unani- mously chosen chairman. This selection had been predetermined for some weeks, The chairman was authorized to appoint a temporary secretary, and he selected for the position Hugo Watlace of Washington State, a son-in-law of Chief Justice Fuller. The attention of the committee for the next hour was largely devoted to the de- tails of organization, the appointment of sergeant-at-arms and other similar mai- ters. In the course of the discussion, however, Senator Tillman of South Caro- lina took occasion to express a few opinions about the platform, stating his belief to be that the men running npon it would be successful without question. samEbeRrTs ANTI-SILVER DEMOCRATS. Cook County Leaders Madse Sad by Belng Left Alone In the Wide West., .CHICAGO, Irr., July 11.—The Illinois anti-silver Democrats, who have been actively represented from the beginning of the fight by Cook County party leaders, were disappointed to-day to find they had been practically left alone In the West to meet and decide the question of another Democratic National Convention. The announcement last night oy the Illinois “Sound-money'’ Democratic League that an address would be issued to the Democ- racy of the United States setting forth the necessity for another Democratic conven- tion was expected to be followed by the co-operation of the Eastern delegates. The Eastern States did not make any formal declaration in favor of the stand taken by the Illinois and Texas gold standard men. It was said in explanation that many of the delegates had left for their homes and that the prevailing senti- ment was to test the feeling of their people on the question before openly declaring for another convention. Franklin MacVeagh, chairman of the committee to draft the address, and other Cook County leaders, expressed their disappointment at not re- ceiving prompt support from their Eastern friends. The address is being prepared, and may be issued Monday. —_——— Will Support Bryan. . MILWAUKEE, Wis., July 1L.—Ex-Con- gressman Peter J. Somers, who has here- tofore been & gold man, announced his ac- tive support of Bryan. The Populists in this city are enthusiastic in their indorse- ment of Bryan and favor his indorsement at 8t. Loms July 22. COMNENT OF IR EAGLISH COUSHS Regard the Chicago Conven- tion as a Zoological " Curiosity - AND BRYAN AS A COWBOY References to “the Despotism of Lombard Street” Are Not Understood. BRITISH POLITICS TIRESOME, Significance of the Reception to Bos- ton’s Ancient and Honor- able Visitors. LONDON, Exa., July 11.—Thus far Eng- lish journals, and English public also, consider the Chicago convention much more as a zoological curiosity than as a serious political event. There is nothing in their comment which would alter or illume the opinions which our own thoughtful men have formed aboutit. A suggestion of cowboys ana bucking horses and a tremendous fusillade of blank cart- ridges from the roof of the Deadwood stage- coach colors the general British concep- tion of the wild West, and younz Mr. Bryan, the boy orator, becomes easily associated in reminiscences with the leather-lunged person who used to an- nounce Colonel Cody’s programme to listening thousands at Earls court. As to the vehement references in the Populists’ vlatform to British gold monometallism and the oratorical references to ‘‘the des- potism of Lombard street,” no one here understands them or discusses them. British politics have no longer even the merit of being picturesque. There is noth- ing remotely suggesting a circus or any- thing else amusing or remarkable about Parliament. Those inside share with those outside the common emotion of wearied disgust. To-day 1t is saia that there has been a mistake in the steering of the finance bill’s earlier stages through the House, which will necessitate a consider- able extension of the time allotted for its discussion on report, and thus throw the whole ministerial programme once more into confusion. Tory members hear this with merely another groan. Gross mis- management has come to be the expectea thing. The Government sustained a grave moral defeat over its scheme for forcing India to pay the expenses of the troops that England is borrowing from her for use in the Soudan. Twenty-three of the most influential supporters of the Govern- ment voted openly against it, twice that number refused to vote at all, and there are not a dozen men in thé whole 400 who are not privately cursing the mean stupid- ity for this transaction. The blame for it is laid entirely on the shoulders of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, who threatened to resign if he ¥as not allowed to squeeze this paltry sum out of India. I have never seen a more general and out- spoken disaffection in any party organiza- tion than is to be witnessed now in the ma- jority at Westminster. Gerald Balfour has made quite as melancholy a hash of his chances as has his brother Artnur. His weak attempt to please all sides with an Irish land bill has finally evolved a sort of monster which nobody will accept. De- bate on it begins Monday, but its fate is a foregone conclusion, and its collapse will probably shake some of the ministers out of their seats. If this powerful Tory majority han any leadership worthy the name it might have had all its sessional business well in hand by this time. As it is, chaos threatens everything. So many people on all sides are keen about the bill making the use of motor carriages possible on highways that it will probably get through, but there is p]caitively no certainty about anything else. The deceased wife’s sister bill needs a miracle in its behall to secure a place in the business schedule of the House of Commons. Its backers profess to have a slight hope that this will be attained, but the chance is hardly worth discussing. The final victory of this measure in the House of Lords vesterday was largely helped by the disclosure of a circular letter which Cardinal Vaughan bad sent to the Catholic peers telling them that the Pope wanted the bill beaten. This interference of an Italian priest in English legislation comes at just the time 1o make everybody furious. ‘Englishmen were already angry about the recent Anglo-Saxon flirtation with the Vatican and about a report that the Jesuits are to start a college at Oxford inside the university system and if any. thing could interest them in setting all else aside and shoving this measure through the Commons it would be the knowledge that Rome would take it as a ult'nlp in the face. he most interesting feature of the week in continental politics has been the per- sistent reports from varions Levantine sources that a French occupation of Cy- g{nu is under discussion at Constantinople. ost of these rumors suggest that Russia urges this upon France and that both of these nations are pressing it on the Sultan. For many reasons the story seems like a “ballon dessai” rather than like a reflec- tion of aciual facts; butevenif it is merely pot forth as a feeler it has some value. Turkey continues to fall in pieces. Each week brings new reports of troops mutiny- ing, and the provincial governments are lapsing into anarchy. It is plain that mat- ters cannot go on indefinitely as they are, and as the critical time approaches each suggestion of possible action by one or an- other group of powers ga'hers fresh im- poriance. To-morrow’s secondary elections in Bel- gium have taxen on new interest, owing to for clericalism. Last Sunday’s elections revealed the clericals as about holding their own, CHARACTERISTICS OF WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. Doesn’t drink. Doesn’t smoke. Doesn’t chew. Doesn’t swear. Doesn’t play cards. Doesn’t play billiards. Doesn’t ride the bicycle. Doesn’tknow what itis to be revengeful. Goes to church regularly. | Is devoted to his wife. Is happy in his home life, Is particular about his dress. Is not ““stuck up.” Is as fond of talking to a street laborer as to a Governor. 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Youwr name please and we’ll mail it to you. | but they have no actual majority because of the much smaller Liberal minority. When this happened the last time the Liberals on the second ballot threw their votes to the clericals and put them in power. Now, after two years’ experience of priestly rule, they ask themselves whether even socialism is not preferable, and_ their leading journals for the past week have been urging that it is. Hence to-morrow’s results may have some inter- esting surprises. From many points of view it would be easy to exaggerate the international sig- nificance of the joyous good time which all classes of Londoners are conspiring: to ive the Ancient and Honorable visitors rom Boston. Individually they are types of the Americans who have always be:n delightiully welcomed here by all who had the chance of meeting them. % Their coming in a body, with guns, flags and that superb Salem Cadet band—which knocks everything Londoners are in the habit of hearing—has simply multiplied this chance of extended hospitality to an inaefinite degree. Their hosts are already the movement started at the last moment | looking rather pallid and used u; inside the Liberal party to cast its vote as g“el’,!gln still gu bright asa dolfl'r}”"}‘éh v between two evils for socialism rather than | know the whole royal famil and a pert of the peerage by uiggt, and as for the Prince of Wales, he seems to be an old It was delightful to note, day evening, with what electric swiftness both the Pri and the visitors recognized that they were made for one another. All through the evening the Prince wore a broad and unctuous smile—like nothing else so much as it was like the grin on the conventional effigies of King Gambrinus— and the Ancients could hardly eat dinner for their eagerness to be up on their feet, splitting the air with yells of affection for {’)‘l‘h ldmhh:hh :ood izthllnw ‘:ho wore his ue-garter sash with ordinary even clothes and miniature orders o;y his la to give the occasion its highest possil note of formal importance, but at the same time to make it all seem free and casy. immense was the crush of notables at huge hnthtbnt men like Chauncey M. Depew and Henry Irving had incon- lp!g;om seats at a side table there. They were sandwiched in among London le | There is a concerted effort rivates who had never heard of Mr. Bepew and had never seen Irving save from the shilling-gailery. The privates of the London Honorable Artillery gave little anxiety to those who knew them best at the oatset, for they are socially of a vastly different grade from the Boston visitors, and this generally makes things awkwara in England; but, thanks to the wild whirl of activity imposed on everybody by the rogramme, there was time for nnthini ut ardent and sustained cheerfulness al around. Mr. Bayard’s noble speech caught these voung clerks and shopmen of London. Open-mouthed in wonder and admiration, they cheered him and all his words about the common ties of the two lands as they robably never had cheered anything be- }:)n in their lives, and the Bostonians were ually vociferous. t was the Prince of Wales, however, who was the real hero of the occasion, and who along with the Princess—who yesterday 4nade the pretty point of hav- ing the stars and stripes brought to her and fondling the silk in her hands—will remain uppermost in the memory of the Ancients. Nothing has been lacking to prove what I insisted on last January that, so far as the court here is concerned, it is pro- foundly anxious to maintain the warmest relations between the two countries. century ago it was the court which hated the American and the poiiticians who de- plored this hatred. George III’s only liv- ing grandson, the Duke of Cambridge, nfil rather shares this ancestral feeling, but his cousin Victoria has another view, and her son and heir goes so much farther in the same direction that comparison the modern English politicians seem almost lnfl-Alll!Ll- Mada , I am told, is destined to figure very prominently in Anglo-French discussions during the next few months. on the part of the small French colony of office-seekers and contract-mongers out there to get rid of the resident General whose double offense is that he is learning the urgent i:“}::r ;lroblrmnami :- resolutely tend: £ a; lish-speak- ;: i naries o’ntheillu'l",;na that Laroche may keep nis pl though this is dependent on the vicissi- tudes of home politics. But itis morally certain that the English-speaking mis- sionaries will have to get out. Alreddy their position is very unpleasant, and the French colonial party is egging on_the colonists to render that position insuffera- bile. It is the fact that they teach English in the native schools to which objection is chiefly made, and by fair meansor foul, this is bound to be stopped. America, it is understood, is quite as directly affected by this as England is, but it is not thought that even joint remonstrances from Wash- lnfwn and London will produce any re- sults. ’ The news that the Duke of Wellington is teriotisly ill had served to recall to the vublic the fact that this great title is not extinct. The greum Duke, during the twelve years oi his incumbency, has hardly been mentioned in public hearing. All that is said of him now is that plysically he presents an extraordinary likeness to the late Mr. Spurgeon in his latter years of gross unwieldiness of buik and swollen features. Cardinal Bourret’s obituary notices al- lude to the fact that he is the Cardinal Bergerot of Zola’s “Rome.” Americans could find even more striking analogies for this venerabie, sweet-sonled, saintly humanitarian in their own experience of devoted prelates, who wear their hearts out in fighting the cause of the poor and lowly against the organized bigotry and meanness of Vatican politics. Henry M. Staniey, after a long and ex- husfin&nmnlo, is said really to have turned the corner of his grave il{nen. and to be on the road tore covery. Unbappily there is in his case the uncertain element of j::&k {fever lurking always in the back- RrO! That fever never quite leaves a man who has once been its victim, but Ehnl'a'l friends are at last genuinely 0] t is the fashion now to ascribe all sorts of novel developments to the prevalent cycling craze, but one was hardly pre- pared to find it made answerable for the complaints coming from the dancing school whifi supolies the Paris Opera with its of ballet-dancers. To the lay mind it might even ocenr that severe practice ought to raise the muscular standard of ballet students, but it seems that this advantage, if it be one, is more than balanced by other effects of the wheel. The masiers declare that the girls who have machines are defiant of discipline and will no longer work regu- larly at the classes or submit to correction and reproof when necessary.. They have grown both idie and impudent, with the result that it is going to be necessary next season to draw on the Milanese and other Italian schools for the year’s recruits. HaroLp FREDERIO. [Copyright, 1896, by the New York Times.) FALKYRIE GOING BACK., Will Be Put in Trim to Race With Cracli European Yachts. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 11.—The English yacht Valkyrie is to be taken bacic to England under the orders of the Earl of Dunraven, who is still her owner. Tha skipper, Captain W. J. Dixon, who is to return her to the Clyde, came over on the American liner St. Louis, which arrived last night. Captain Dixon_said: “I have been sent over to take the Valkyrie back to England and shall leave here as soon as I can get her stores on board. We shall probably et away next Monday, and if not then, by g‘neud.y at the latest. We shall proceed at once to the Clyde, where she will be hauled out and put in racing trim. If she can be got ready in time, she will be seen in the Cowes regatta against the German Emperor’s new yacht, the Meteor, and the Britannia. If she is not ready for that regatta, she will be taken to the Mediters ranean for the racing there.” P Aestes England Watching for Filibusters. LONDON, EsG., July 11.—In conse« quence of representations made by the Bpanish Embassy regarding the shipment of arms and munitions of war for the use of the Cuban insurgents, the Foreign Office has detailed officers to watch vessels leaving the Thames, Liverpuol, Glasgow and Hull with such sapplies. ——————— Kalamazoo, Mich., is famous for celery. See Thomas Slater’s advertisement on page 10,