The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 3, 1900, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXVIII-NO. 33. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BRYAN DETERMINED TO JAM FREE SILVER DOWN THE THROATS OF THE DELEGATES [ the Committee on Resolutions Reports a Platform That Does Not Contain a Specific Indorsement of 16 to 1" the Democratic Dictator Will Speed to Kansas City and Make a Personal Fight on the Floor of the Convention-—Croker and Hill at War, and the Vice Presidential Struggle Is Yet in the Air 0T TR TR TR TR AR TR RS TR AT S% 8ce & t'b*Q-kQz*Qt@t@t%i@t@*@t@fism*@*@t@t@*Q*@t@*@t@*ct@t«;*cx‘;*Qficfic*@fi%sfistot@. ¢ * . ¥ = z 4 § 3 « Q : - * x 3 ) * * 3 - ) * « * - ( h - ¢ * ) -« * ) P b+ * v - < { - ¢ « [4 : b - - & 0 ? ) ¢ D. B. HILL. R. A. PATTISON. WILLIAM SULZER. B. F. SHIVELEY. CHARLES A. TOWNE. ‘: b 3 - » LA S L S e SRt e L LN ST SN S L e B D S S S ey J BRYAN THREATENED TO WITHDRAW FROM RACE CITY, July 2.—This is a copy of a message sent by yan to-day whkich whipped all the veteran party lead- y any chance the committee on resolutions decides to re- f which there is not a silver plank there must be d a fight on the floor of the convention. I o Kansas City on the fastest train available, make a the floor of the convention, and then decline to This is on ion if the convention omits the ratio. ly the silver plank Bryan has drafted for k read to Hill: “We hereby reaf- pted by the Democratic National Convention 36 as a whole and in all its integral parts, and i unlimited coinage of silver, without the other nation, at the ratio of 16 to 1. We rd silver dollar shall be full legal tender 11 debts public and private, and we favor prevent for the future the demonetiza- rder money by private contracts. We practice of surrendering to holders ed States option reserved by law to the g such obligations either in silver or PEEPPLAAE IR L 400000204 PP 4444444444044 9 4904404440 is equally good that Bry abide by resolutic views. atic manner that should the committee his pet finan- ted to the con- Implored to Quit Dictating. sazes now iring in seeching him to keep. Kansas City, d to permit the convention, Foing to confer upon him the grea or of renomination by acclama- for the best interests of the pe on here cease to ba rs there dus is a f this contes tion suspicion over the dian trick calculated to It dece is difficult to un- n should diametri- derstand w ] cally differ fre 1 of his friends and ad- 8 't George Fred Willlams of They P Democrats and Sfiver | 3 . 0 the silver States. The men who have been on confidential terms with him for four years are, almost with- exception, declaring that the party is o bound to be defeated, and more disas trously than in 159, if the sflver issue is put to the front. Bryan practically position that the stands alone in the party must again fight for free siiver, It is a Quixotic charging of windmills. Many Democrats are rea to believe that it is a fake fight; that the platform will be modified to suit the views Continued on Becond Page. e R e e R e R e e R R R R R R R R e him | PROMINENT POLITICIANS IN THE RACE FOR THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION. A AR TR TR YRR P OR TR TR TSR TR T AT AT T R PO R TR TR R T FORT RO RT RN, RN HILL'S FAILURE TO CHANGE THE ATTITUDE OF BRYAN ?The Shrewd Ex-Gov | ernor of New York Could Not Convince the Bourbon Standard-Bearer That Reaffirmation Would Not Be a New Feature in @ Democratic Political Convention. ’ BY AMOS CUMMINGS. At 5 o'clock in the morning he ; monkeying with the p! tform embodying ed to ANSAS CITY, July 2—Again are in sleep. the political clouds boarded the train on the return trip. Hill | his views and that it will be presente The storm center is : iy could not realize that Bryan | the convention as the genuine work :;I.Ix{u; The Pikes Peak of Der acy is made up his mind as to the | committee on resolutions. There will be | 0 ¢ nothing uncertain about it. It will be course to pursue. This was evidenced by a remark which fell from his lips. “Well,”” he replied in response to a wltimatum, and no agree- | question, “it isn't settled yet—not yet. I've e eached. 'HII and others | ot him thinking. I've got him thinking. \at reafirmation would not be a | We shail see, we shall see. Hill’s Face Changes. He gave no indication as to what he| should do if the situation did not change. | His friends had declared that if he failed to bricg Bryan to his way of thinking he there. Whatever storms against the peak in s mission has failed. He has located arise plain, direct and to the point, without the use of words of double meaning. | The New York delegation meets to-mor- row to select its members on the commit- tee. Everything indicates that Hil will be left off the programme and the member | ot the new Democratic National Commit- tee will be a stanch friend of Tammany Hall. : The fight for the nomination for Vice would d¢ anything that Bryan wanted, | Eresident remains unchanged. It biw‘nlmflii T s < C * | interesting, however, by the arrival o Upon arriy nsas City his face | s ! e Tt ad bean despondent. To | Henry George Jr. and the famed Dr. John | newspaper friends he laughed in a per- | f;-fi'fg’;r ;f“-:;wx‘;;:_k-“e;- br:;;rmxz;; functory way and began telling stories | & pl N y eyes, 4% | which he seemed to think were funny.|3Rd the muscles of an athlete. He is a| They fell upon paralyzed tympanums, | Close friend to Bryan and is in his full | What Hill will do no man can tell. His | COnfldence. g,',‘fl éf‘svv('tlin,n\;::kpukroump"”;. most intimate friends are utterly at sea. | LY Ny tion a con- His resources are uuknown and he has|fi8ht against Bryan's nomination testing delegation would have appeared | certainly reached a erisls In his new politi- Natt £ ‘Dosvention Hesded” by cal life. Some fancy he will make trouble | 3t ”’;‘3 ““: N alker. Dr. Jobn H. Gird- in the convention and others predict he Joh"r r;{“fl A Gam:'; i \'-lemng! will accept the ultimatum of Bryan and do '&’r . ';3 kengs k ]:« s SN | whatever he can to carry out his wishes. ew Yor! r.\n:\m» ikat e » How he can make trouble in the conven- | Buest at Dr. Girdner's house. R tion without being selected as the repre- | Bryan is reported vo have onte =aid thas sentative of the New York delegation on | !t Was the only brownstone front ir | solutions it is difficult | €Ity in which he felt’perfectly at home. e Smenie, e 1a entirele Miatt | On his arrival here this morning the doe- nated as a candidate for Vice President. | toF went to the rooms of the National Indeed, he never really was a candidate, | COmmittee, where he had a close confer- Al the taik was created by political wise- | ence With Senator -’,;"n?!lflf fifkfl‘nfi? flr‘m N g | ex-Governor John' T. Altgeld o nois. e misled iy [omE S Norman MAdks | e mext visited the Midlana Hotel, seek- | The wiseacres thought that they could | INg an interview with Mr. Croker. An enhance the chances of Democratic suc- | hour afterward it was whispered that cess by presenting a hermaphrodite | the doctor was seeking the nomination for ticket. There was no popular response to | Vice President. His interview with (glo- the proposal and it was undoubtedly dis- | D€l Bryan added strength to the r tasteful to both Bryan and Hill. Nor is | When questioned he would neither deny it probable that the New York delegation | hor affirm it. He admitted he c-ame} wiil elect Hill as its representative on the | Straight from New York without visiting committee on resolutions. Such selection | Lincoln, but added that interesting con- would give the ex-Governor an oppor- | versations with Mr. Bryan might be had tunity for a spectacular display in the | at any time by long distance telephone. convention. He can undoubtedly secure Croker Is With Bryan. a hearing on recognition from the chair | - : without claiming it as a member of the| Mr. Croker's face was sphinxlike at the mention of the doctor’'s name. He simply committee on resolutions. The attitude of Croker is unquestioned. | said he had not a candidate to present for the Vice Presidency and should be He is an avowed and an ardent supporter of Bryan and will willingly accept any |8overned in a great measure by the wishes of Mr. Bryan. platform that comes from his hands. e, / . i1 “ elegations from ssouri, Indiana an Friends on the Alert. other States have called upon Mr. Croker Bryan's friends.are on the alert and |and it looks as though alliances offensive they will see to it that there will be no ! and defensive were being made. Nothing may and George M. Dallas 25, 1544, reafirmed planks of the platform of 1840, dded three planks covering new is- sue The convention that nominated | Lewis Cass and Willlam A. Butler at Bal- May 25, 1848, reaffirmed seven the 1844 platform, amended an- planks of other plank and added eleven new planks, growth of the war with Mexico and of new domestic issues. The conven- tion t nominated Frank Plerce and William R. King at Baltimore on June 3, 1852, reaffirmed nine planks of the plat- form of 1848 and added eleven planks em- bodying fresh political issues. Mr. Bryan smiled when these precedents were quot- ed, but stood as firm as a rock, yielding not an inch, and insisting upon the in- m of & specific plank declaring anew the ratio of 16 to 1. | Very Picturesque Scene. David B. Hill is the only man, aside from Bryan, who can tell what occurred in the conference between them. The scene must certainly have been very pic- turesque. The shrewd politiclan, with | facuities sharpened by years of practice and experience, came into contact with a { man of adamantine character. Bryan | showed Hill the typewritten pages of his platform. The first four resolutions cov. ¢ issues, such as imperialism ana Then followed a reafirmation of the ou | trus | the Chicago platform and a specific reso- | lution making free silver the issue at the | ratio of 16 to 1. It is terse, clear and de- fiant. The arguments of the wily New | Yorker against it had no more effect than | a cloud of thistle down blown against a rock. All questions of policy were bu- ried under the intense convictions of Bryan. Hill came out with drooping feathers, He went straight to bed, giving no inti- mation of what had occurred at the in- terview. He always wears a thinking cap, and he needed it at this time more than ever. He probably wasted very few hours | rounded by a group of Southerners, who | confident of all aspirants, however, is Mr. | and Towne. | Girdner fancies that the selection lies be- - BRSBTS R R R R L a} BOSS CROKER PRESENTS VIEWS OF TAMMANY KANSAS CITY, July 2.—“I wish to correct the impression that Tammany is fightiprg against the incertion of a sil- ver plank in the Democratic platform,” said Richard Croker to- night. “This is not so, and 1t is a point on which I and the whole organization have been more misrepresented and misunder- stood than on any other. I believe and have frequently stated, that a more conservative stand on this question would be much more to the interests of the party, not only in New York, but all over the country. But mark this, if it can be shown by caucuses of differ- ent State delegations and before the National Convention that it is the belief of the majority of the party that the insertion of a 16 to 1 plank in the platform would bring more votes to the Demo- cratic ticket throughout the West, in doubtful States, and the coun- try at large, in fact, outside of New York, than it would lose to the party in New York, then Tammany will yield cheerfully.” % . PRIV IR IR INIRIR IR BB+ O O RHeBRoeNoeNeReBoNeRNeRe b BNeNeneNeNeNeNeteg They R R R A R definite, however, will be known until made political speeches from the after the meeting of the New York dele- gation to-morrow. The Pennsylvanians | are evidently annoyed at the attitude of | week. “On Sth of July,” he continued, Mr. Croker. They seem to be steeped in | “I shall start on a tour with Jonathan P. admiration of Hill and are ardently sup- | D r of lowa. Dolliver takes the Re- porting the movement toward nominating | publican end of the stick and I handle the him fcr Vice President. Democratic end. These joint debates stir James Hamiiton Lewis is ubiquitous. He | people to the core. They flock to them appears at all hotels at the same time and were going to a circus. is a political Cagliostrq. Exquisitely po- | Dolliver, you know, is really the most elo- lite, dressed in vnexceptional taste and a | quent talker. He soars into the clouds, paragon intellectually, he attracts atten- | and I catch him by the tail feathers and tion wherever he goes. Another alleged | yank him back to terra firma. It's a great candidate is Elliott Danforth. There Is a | show and there's lots of money in It.” 4 look in his eye when addressed concerning the matter, and he ‘"“mms‘TELLER'S ADV]CE TO THE DEMOCRACY witticisms betraying apparently the secret of his aspirations. Augustus Van Wyck | Declares a Retreat on the Si1- Sulzer. Colonel Feigl, the editor of Tam- | Yer Issue _wDuld MEGH | me platform and divided the proceeds. ark said he netted over $500 in the past th claim him as one of themselves. The most attracts attention. He is invariaby sur- many's official crgan, and seores of hench- men are proclaiming his virtues on every Utter Defeat. corner and housetop. Sulzer is convinced ETRE e that the nomination lies between himseit | FANSAS CUTY, July 2—Senator Teller Singular as it may seem, Dr. | CESSIa00. was AMGRE: S0-Aay'a Seeheli | He comes to attend the Silver Republican | Convention, and probably will preside over its proceedings. Asked if he thought the Democratic convention should make a specific declaration for the free colnage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, he replfed: “Most ‘emphatically I reply that such a declaration should be made. The demand for a simple reafirmation of the Chicage platform, without other reference to financial questions, comes from the gold Democrats, who did not support Bryan in 1596, and it Is somewhat doubtful whether some who insist upon the pursuance of this course will support him in 1900. In many States west of the Alleghenies thers are thousands of voters who will support Bryan and the Democratic party on ae- count of their position on the financial | question. These people belfeve in the free | coinage of silver at _the ratio of 18 to 1, | and they will regard a simple reafirm: tion of the Chicago declaration as an at- tempt to minimize the silver question as presented in the Chicago platform. They il not belleve that such an omission is insisted upon by the gold standard Dem ocrats for any other purpose than to maks it appear that the contention for f: rendered famous by the birth of Joe BOW- | jiiver’ coinage at 16 o 1 has been aban ers, is a conspicuous character here. He | gorad by the Democratic party. Sueh ie has just returned from a tour in the West | undoubtedly the purpose of the goid ad- ‘with Congressman Randis of Indiana. ' vocates.” tween Towne and himself. In fact, almost every candidate apparently imagines him- self sure of the nomination if Mr. Towne fails to secure it. Montanans March In. There was a characteristic Kansas City scene early this afternoon. The Clark del- egation from Montana entered the cit like a delegation of conquering heroes. | There were over fifty carriages In line, preceded by the Montana band. This troop of musicians is said to be Macus Daly's band, engaged by Senator Clark at a spe- cial rate. The procession was received by an immense crowd at the Midland Hotel. Senator Clark, who was riding in a carriage at the head of the line, made a speech to the multitude, which was re- ceived with much applause and greater curiosity. Among the listeners on the side. | walk was Martin Maginnis, who is now contesting Clark’s new claim to a seat in | the United States Senate. | Champ’ Clark, hailing from the county |