The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 21, 1896, Page 1

the LS This Paper not to be taken from ! VOLUME LXXX.—NO. 51. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1896. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ARE NOT PREPARED TO TAMELY SURRENDER,| | Populists of Pf'inciple Who Refuse to Give Up the Fight. SILVERITES SCHEME TO GET BRYAN INDORSED. Butthe Patriotic Middle-of-the-Road Men Say They Prefer a Bolt to Party Dishonor. As the Silver Sack Has Been Tampering With the South, There Most Exciting Is a Promise of a Storm in the Convention. “THE CALL’S” HEADQUARTERS, HOTEL LINDELL, ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 20. The silver men and certain leaders of the Populists are trying to accomplish by indirection what they would not dare advocate openly— namely, the indorsement of Bryan. While swearing fealty to the party they recommend a surrender of its principles by fusing on Presidential electors. Ignatius Donnelly, scholar and author, stands by the colors and demands an indcpendent course. He will be one of the central figures of the convention, and around him will gather with enthusiasm the cohorts of those true People’s party members known as middle-of- the-road men. The California Populists arrived to-day and announced their 39 votes were solidly against the other man. indorsement of Bryan or any The silver sack has been tampering with the South, and there will be a storm when the convention opens. JOHN PAUL COSGRAVE. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 20.—California came in with a whoop this morning. Her thirty-nine delegates, aiter having stowed away their effects in the Hollana Hotel and breakfasted, marched down to the Hotel Lindell and taking up a positionin the center of the crowded lobby, started the Populist’s warcry of the golden State. “Rah, rah, rah, Cal-i-for-ni-a. We are thirty-nine and will never vote for Bryan.”” The leader was N. W. Wilkins, editor of a Populist paper in California, a man of fine physique, massive frame and stentorian Iungs. “Three cheers for California,” he roarea, and the cheers were given with a will This astounded the delegates to the silver convention, aud it was several seconds be- fore they recovered their presence of mina to propose three cheers for Bryan. The thirty-nine Californians are middle- of-the-road men, only one of them being suspected of a tendency to waver, In order to keep him in the straight path he was tied by the ankles by the unit rule. The members of the delegatioz who arrived and registered at the Holland Hotel were: J. R. Burnett, J. P. Welch, H. Huphert, Edward McGuire, J. L. Steele, J. S. Dorse, W. W. Browne, J. S. Waybright, E. M. Wardall, E. M. Hamilton, C. F. Bennett, J. A. Simons, Leon Leighton, J. C. Butt- ner, W. R. Woodard, J. R. Garner, J. C. Gore, Joseph Asbury Johnson, E. H. Ful- ton, W. A. Aant, W. G. Miller and K. 8. Oughton. The remainder are quartered in vrivate residences and lodging-houses. The Californians are middle-of-the-road men pledged to straight Populism and will cast their thirty-nine baliots for a straight ticket. The campaign was begun in earnest to- day, the lobby of the Lindell being crowded with delegates and with silver men and Democrats who are trying to con- vinee the Populists of the errors of their ways. The peculiar feature of the Na- tional Convention is the absence of brass bands, or music of any character save that of the chin, which is very plentiful and cheap just now. A band would interrupt the political discussion which is going on and would indeed be a disturbing ele- ment. When people want to argue on political economy they don’t care about being diverted with a strain of “She May Have Seen Better Days’’ or “Since Willie Joined the Guards.” The crowd in the lobby consisted of a collection of various eroups, ranging from ten to fifty persons in each group. In the center of each was & man foaming at the mouth and striking savagely at the air. Every once in a while he was interrupted by some man wearing a white badge with toe words “Middle of the Road” on it. Then the man who foamed at the mouth barked like a mad dog and struck fiercely at the face of his interrupter. Above the din such expressions as these were heard : “You are an ignorant ass.” *‘You are the most ignorant man I ever saw in my life.” “You were born without brains.” *You ought to go to school again and learn some sense.” Then from another group were heard such expressions as these: “The market value of money is 1mpaired by the demonetization of silver,” and the retort, “‘True money should have no mar- ket value, it being merely a representative of value.” Tie more they talked about money the more apparent it was that they did not know anything at ail about the subject, and that a good many of the debaters had bad but a very limited acquaintance or practical experience with money, whether gold, silver or notes. The silver spielers industriously argue that if the Populists would abandon their party and go in with the Democrats and vote for Bryan so that silver might be free every man, woman and child in the community would get from the Government a barrel full of brand- new silver dollars, that poverty and all economic evils would disappear, and that therefore the Populistic party would have | no reason for further existence. In all these contentions the middle-of- the-road men, who are easily distinguished by the white ribbon which they wear, stood firmly to their principles. They let the spielers talk, but will not admit a solitary propesition. - They say that there are other things more important, so far as the welfare of the people is concernad, than the financial question. There is the governmental ownership and control of railroads, which important issue seemed to be altogether forgotten in the present controversy. Toward evening the silver men began to grow more jubuant, and it became whis- pered about among the councils of the miners that Taubeneck, Weaver and other leaders of the Populists would be able to fix things all right for the silver people. While it was felt that to insist upon the indorsement of Bryan might provoke a storm it was deemed prudent to attain the same results by that roundabout method known as whipping the Democratic devil around the Populist stump, and the silver cohorts therefore set about to achieve by subtlety and indirection what they did not dare openly advocate. *‘All these little differences will be set- tled up,” said-a delegate from Tennessee tome this afternoon. ‘‘The bad feeling between the Southern Democrats and the Southern Populists will be patched up by concessions which will be of advantage to both. This mob down here on the floor don’t know anything about it, but then things have all been fixed up by the lead- ers and will be presented on the floor of the convention, backed by a strong follow- ing. The details are now being arranged. Itis proposed, in order to prevent any treachery, that the Populists should put up two of their people for President and Vice-President and nominate their quota of Presidential electors in each State. Then, if after election the Democrats should fail to keep their promise, the Populist electors can cast their votes for the Populist candidates for President and Vice-President.” *‘What are the Populists going to get out of this?” I asked. *‘Well,” said the Tennesseean, hesitat- ingly, *'I have not learned all the details yet, but they are being arranged and wili no doubt be satisfactory to both parties.”” It will be remembered that early in the fight several Populist leaders who came on the ground a week ago spent consid- erable time chasing Democratic leaders all over the country, for no other purpose I can imagine than to tempt the Democracy to make an improper proposal to the Popu- lists. With the arrival of Senator Jones of Arkansas and Governor Stone of Mis- souri, the political partners of Governor Altgeld and boosters for William J. Bryan and the decaying Democracy, the pursuit ended and the details of this gigantic con- spiracy were at once entered upon. The object of the conspiracy was the destruc- tion of the People’s party by throwing the weight of its influence for the Democratic nominees.- At first this was designed to be accom- plished by the indorsement of Bryan and Sewall, but the temper of the delegates was found to be sucn that it would not be discreet to make the proposition. Then it was decided to accomplish the same end indirectly, and the assistance of Populist leaders who could be induced by promise of political preferment and things to betray /] g 2 Wy i it b 50, iy z /"'77 Wy, BOSS OF THE ROAD. [4fter a design by Thomas Worth.| their party was enlisted, and this is the way they are going about it. Senator Peffer in pursuance of this conspiracy, whether he be a member of it or not, says in a public card: “There are two things upon which Popu- list delegates are all agreed. First, to maintain our party organization and ma- chinery; second, to combine the anti-gold vote of the country on one candidate for the Presidency tarough a judicious selec- tion of Presidential electors. Everything else will be made to bear on these two points.” “A judicious selection of Presidential electors’” is the milk in the cocoanut of the conspiracy. Why all this beating about the bush? Why does not the Sen- ator say as every other true Populist: “Let us put up a straight Populist on a Populist platform and fight for our prin- ciples, and let the Democrats and Repub- licans swallow each other if they want to.” Chairman Taubeneck of the National Executive Committee has worded his card very cuuningly, but rather iuconsistently. His first sentence establishes confidence: “1 am most unalterably opposed to do- ing anything to our National Convention which will disintegrate and destroy the People’s party. Iam perfectly willing to do all thav 1s fair and honorable to unite all the elements opposed to the gold standard upon one set of electors, and I think this can be done without surrender- ing our party organization or any of our vrinciples.” ‘“‘Cyclone” Davis of Texas comes to the front in a still longer card, in the conclud- ing sentence of which he lets the cat out of the bag, as follows: “But if the Democrats are placable enough to lower their patrician pride and counsel with us plebeians welcan then form a union on electors that will give more votes on the electoral college than the indorsement of Bryan and still leave each party on its own platform.” Ignatius Donnelly, the talented author of “Atlantis,” *“Cwmsar’s Column” and “The Great Cryptograph,” stands pat like a true Populist, and says: “We believe the People’s party is im- portant to all the people of the world on other questions than that of silver. If we move all our forces into the Democratic boat and the Eastern wing of that party gets possession of that boat and scuttles it and we all go to the bottom together 1t would require diving-bells anda derricks and grappling-irons to ever put the People’s party back where it now stands. We are ready to pat our Democratic friends on the back and call them good boys and tell them that in four years more they will be as enthusiastic over the demand for Gov- ernment ownership of railroads as they are for free silver, and when they resolve (in the language of the Omaha platform) that wealth belongs to him who creates it, and that every dollar taken from labor without an equivalent is robbery, and that if any man does not work neither shall he eat, then we will talk about dissolving the People’s party and joining their crowd.” A report was current this morning that Mr. Donnelly had declared for Bryan, but when his true sentiments, as expressed in the foregoing sentences were read later in the day in the middle-of-the-road head- quarters, he was cheered again and again, The editor of the Missouri World, pub- lished at Chillicothe, in this State, said: “There are many reasons against in- dorsing Bryan and Sewall. One is that the Democratic piatform promises no re- lief except from silver, and the other 1s that the Democratic party does not keep its promises.” Pasted on the walls of the middle-of-the- road headquarters is a manuscriot letter from John G. Maughermar of South Bend, “This will inform you that I am and have been a middle-of-the-road reformer for twenty years. I wasa delegate to Cin- cinnati May 19 and 20, 1891, also to the Omaha National Convention; was chair- man of the meeting of the Chicago Blue and the Gray, and I now appeal to you in all honesty and ask of you in the name of God and suffering bumanity not to allow the Democratic serpent to swallow me up, as I am an old veteran and lost a leg that my country might not be divided, and so am unable to attend the convention. But I hope that you will see to it that if our party should succeed in committing sui- cide its remains should not be disgraced by allowing a Democratic monument tobe erected over its grave.” In reviewing the whoie situation this fact is apparent: that whether the Bryan Democrats succeed in capturing the con- vention there will be a straight Populist ticket put in the field, with straight Popu- list candidates and a straight Populist platform. JouN PAUL CosGRAVE. ULTIMATUM OF THE SILVER MEN Their Ticket Must Be Bryan and Sewall or Nothing, IT IS NOT ACCEPTED. Straight Populists Prepared to Bolt the Cozventiou if They Cannot Rule. T0 NAME THEIR CANDIDATES. California White.-Metal Men Arrive and Shout for the Nebraska Orator. THE CALL’'S HEADQUARTERS, HOTEL LINDELL, } ST. LOUS, Mo., July 20. The silver men to-night issucd their ultimatum to the middle-of-the-road Populists. It is Bryan and Sewall or nothing. The Populists were willing to place Brysan at the head of their ticket, but reserved the right to mame the Vice- President, allowing the electors to vote as they saw fit in the Electoral College. This proposition was made through the National Committees to Senators Jones, Allen, Stewart and Tom Patterson, who have the Bryan interests in their keeping. Patterson told the committee plainly that Bryan wouid accept no compro- mise. That settled it. The jmiddle-of- the-road people will now bolt the con- vention in case Bryan and Sewall are nominated or indorsed and place a straight party ticket in the field. The California silver delegation ar- rived this evening. All are shouting for Bryan. Excitement Is running high to-night. ——— HAVE CANDIATES READY. Prepared to Bolt and Nomlnate Vandervoort and Burkett. THE CaLv's HEADQUARTERS, 8r. Louts, Mo., July 20. ‘Wind and whiskers weie the features of the convention preliminaries about the Lindell was a particularly noisy and be- whiskered one. Here the delezates con- gregated in large grouns. The Bryan by Senator Allen, the noted Populist of Nebraska. He holds the world’s record as a long-distance speaker. He sustained his the “‘miadle-of-the-road” boys into the ditch. He was ably leeondefi by a large and influential Bryan delegation from his buttons and talked Bryan with restless en- ergy. The silver men pounded the antl- Bryan forces all about the hotel and out Still the latter were firm and defiant. They declared they would bolt the conven- tion if Bryan were indorsed. They will Paul Vandervoor: of Nebraska is men- tioned as taeir choice for the Presidency, though a little boomlet was started for after the breakfast hour this morning. Both names will probably be presented to the convention, and should that body fail the ‘“keep-off-the-grass” Populists will leave the hall and take to the middle of the road. ¥ mentioned for second place ou the ticket with Vandervoort. This combination is said te have the united support of the Middle-of-the-Road Populists Are HoteL LINDELL, hotel corridors to-day. The scene at the forces predominated. They were headed repuiation to-day. He talked many of State. All wore Bryan badges, Bryan into the streets. then put a straight ticket in the field. Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota shortly to make a nomination apart from Bryan Colonel Frank Burkett of Mississippi is ultra wing of the Populist . party. When i 1t was sprung this morning it ratner stag- gered the silver leaders for the time, but they soon recovered and commenced ham- mering the Vandervoort boom with great vigor. Vandervoort is the only Populist from Nebraska who does not favor Bryan. road faction because of his extreme views on all things Populistic. Before joining the People's party Mr. Vandervoort was a Republican. He left his party, however, in 1892 and has since been a cofirmed Pop- ulist. He is now president of the Reform Press Association and commander of the Tndustrial Legion and editor of the New Nation, a party organ published at Omaha. Mr. Vandervoort has had a varied and exciting political career. He served asa Republican in the Nebraska Legisiature and was several times the party candidate for United States Senator. “Iam certainly opposed to the indorse- ment of Bryan,” said Mr. Vandevoort to me to-day, ‘I am mnot mow conceding anything and after the election wiil LTRE time enough to talk division of electors. 1f we should make any compromise we could never deliver one-half of our votes. Our people will not stand being traded about any more, as they have been in the past. The Populists have had enough of that kind of business. The course of the National Committee has got us in this muddle and now since we are where we are the oniy way out of it all is to keep in the middle of the road.” Colonel Frank Burkett, who is expected to be put up for Vice-President, is from Okalona, Miss., and was candidate for Governor in that State last year. He is a member of the National Committee and vice-president of the National Reform Press Association and editor of the Oka- lona Messenger. “I am unalterably opposed to the in- |’ dorsement of Bryan,” he said. “I myself served four years in the Confederate army and was in the Democratic party for twenty-five years. I once thought Abra- ham Lincoln svas the man who upset the country and brought on the rebel- lion, but of course I was mistaken. I was one of the bolting delegates in the Democratic Chicago Conven- tion in 1892. After I came home from that convention my house was burned and 1 still carry a scare left by some one shoot- ing me in thé'dark. Even if we should in- dorse Bryan it would do no good so far as the South is concerned. The Democrats have always treated the Southern Popu- lists hke dogs and to now indorse the Democratic nominees would mean social ostracism and ruin of business for us Southern Populists. I am in favor of putting up & straight ticket, and in case we get the proper recognition, to throw our electoral vote to the Democrats.” The silver men do not seem to be worry- ing over the change in the situation. They will harmonize the anti-Bryan forces in the People’s party if they can. If they fail in this they will then drive them from the council chamber. They say that the vast majority of Populists will vote for Bryan anyway and if they cannot run the machine in their own way they will at- tempt to destroy it. Many of the silver leaders want Bryan nominated by the People’s party in case they cannot secure his indorsement. Thomas M. Patterson of Colorado thinks this way. He will even allow the Popu- lists to make a platform; one that is not too radical and one on which Mr. Bryan can stand. But if the middle-of-the-road people have their way they will make the platform so extreme that it will make Bryan’s hair stand to read it. Patterson, however, has been working hard all day to have his ideas carried into effeet. He has had frequent conferences with Senator Jones, chairman of the Democratic Na- tional Committee, and Senator Stewart, the shrewd and venerable silver boss. The Colorado editor says that Bryan will accept the nomination of the Populist party. This is embodied in an address which he has issued to the leaders of the obstreperous anti-Bryan faction. The ad- dress opens with the statement that the Bryan people agree with Chairman Taube- neck that the all-absorbing question with the Populists is and should be how they can assist in the speedy restoration of silver to its former place and at the same time maintain and advance their party organization. The Bryan Democrats, in the address, state that they believe that the Peopie’s party is necessary to the country, and that sbould it become disbanded or inconse- quential for want of members, the money _power would soon resume complete sway ofer both the old parties and the masses be deprived of a protector from the greed of corporations, trusts and syndicates. The friends of Mr. Bryan, however, em- phatically disagree with Mr. Taubeneck as to the means by which these ends are to be secured. To nominate an indepen- dent ticket, one in opposition as much to | Bryan and Sewall as it would be to M- He is highly regarded by the middle-ot-the- | Kinley and Hobart, would not only make it impossible to restore free coinage of sil- ver during the lifetime of the youngest in the coming convention,but it would practi- caily annihilate the People’s party so far as followers are necessary to mak- a party. The friends of Mr. Bryan admit that it is true tnat shonld the Democratic party be successful the Populists might notbeina position to “demand’ appointments to | office from Bryan. Yet the Bryan people want the Populists to understand that they need not doubt Mr, Bryan’s sense of justice and recogaition of obiigations for patriotic duty well done by members of the People’s party. In the address itis said that the claim of Mr. Taubeneck that the Populist party sbould ve an ally and not an annex of the Demogkatic party is an indescent dream. Considering the numerical strength and vowerful organization of the Democratic party, coupled with the plain assurance which its leaders have that the Populists and free coinage Republicans will flock to Bryan and Sewall by hundreds of thou- sands, whatever the Populist National Convention may do, it may be considered out of the question thatthe Democratic party, having already nominated its can- didates and adopted its platform, will make the co-partnership arrangement which is the basis of Mr. Taubeneck’s plans. Besides, it is added, the Democratic National Committee has not the vestize of | { | | the power necessary to enter into such J, P, KELLY NOMINATED, Fifth District Democrats “Vindicate” the Junta Aspirant, WINS ON THE SECOND BALLOT. Made a Congressional Candidate by the Vote of Santa Clara County. HIS SELECTION MAY MEAN A BOLT. Barry and Ciunie Sacrificed by Dele- gates Pledged to Their Support. REDWOOD CITY, Car., July 20. ~The Daggett-Rainey-Lanigan “push” captured the Democratic Consressional Convention of the Fifth District to-day and easily nominated Joseph P. Kelly for Congress. James H. Barry and Thomas J. Clunie and their friends were astonished at the resulting reyelation of how far away from having a chance for the nomination they really were all the time. The thing was done with the clever and automatic pre- cision of high-class practical politics, and there was not a ‘‘raw” feature in the victo- rious play. There were 96 votes in the convention and it required 49 to nominate. During the two ballots San Francisco gave 31 votes to Kelly, 23 to Barry, 10 to Clunie and 2 scattering. San Mateo surprised every- body but the Kellyites by voting her six | votes solidly for Kelly on both ballots. Santa Clara County did the business. It beld the key and kept it for Kelly. Its twenty-three votes went solidly to Clunie on the first ballot. Up to the second bal- lot mobody but the *‘dead inside’’ people knew what Santa Clara people would do. 1t voted for Clunie on the first baliot, not as a joke, but to cache its votes in a safe and harmless place until the first ballot made sure the situation. Santa Clara, though first alphabetically, was put last in the roll that its twenty-three votes might command the situation. On the second ballct the SBanta Clara vote was so nicely played that it was the very last one, that of Sam Rucker, which gave the nomina- tion to Kelly. Lawyer Kellyis the jolly, liked-by-the- boys fellow who two years ago secured the nomination, to be repudiated by the Democratic State Central Committee during the campaign after the story of his connection with the street-sweeping con- tract ‘‘sack” became public. Kelly for months has been getting up early in the morning to secure a ‘‘vindication,” and to-day he was vindicated by Sam Rainey and the Mint brigade. Joseph P. Kelly, Democratic Nominee for Congress in the Fifth Congressional District. agreement, even if they desired to do so. Senator Allen of Nebraska, who is a tall, well-built man with a clean-shaven, hand- some face, said to me to-day: “Iam as thorough a Populist as any- body, but the nomination of a third ticket will only result in the election of McKin- ley. Whether Bryan is indorsed by the con- vention or not he will receive the Populist vote of the entire West, and if the party is sincere in its desires to secure the re- forms it declares for, Mr. Bryan will be its nominee. Iappreciate how the Southern delegutas feel about the matter, but this is atime when party prejudices shoald be subordinated for the good of our common cause.” Jerry Simpson, the sockless statesman, arrived from Kansas to-day. He is for Bryan. “I am confident that we will nominate Mr. Bryan,” said Mr. Simpson. “Anyway that is what the convention should do. The rank and file of the party is for Bryan, and he should be made our standard- bearer in this campaign.” Continued on Third Page. Kelly having been nominsted with the belp of the boss of the administration forces and the supporters of gold in the convention, he is expected to become almost fanatical in his support of limitless silver. Heis the handiwork, as a candi« date, of the San Francisco Junta, which ig out against bossism and for pure, high- class politics. An analysis of the vote shows that James H. Barry’s strength came from the reputable element in the convention. The open and hearty encouragement he has received from all sourzes was of the same high character. The ‘‘push’ and the ma- chine had no use for Barry. The ‘‘push” and the machine quietly nominated Kelly. Barry, inaependent, honest and oute spoken, was to be beaten at all hazards, The convention showed what party ine fluences controiled the Democracy of the Fifth District. The forenoon trains brought nearly a hundred people from San Francisco. Many came who were not delegates, Ed Lani. gan, the shrewd field-marshal of the Daggett-Rainey-Lanigan forces, arrived with no tangles in the strings. Judge