| Show FIRST BLOOD FOR SILVER hilt hill turned down for temporary chairman rJohn IV Di lillet of vircinia vire lnla elected Klc et instead en ell a motion to adopt the minority report sutern 1411 ireen friends De eldist to take xo no chaure by a kouma money speech the chicago july 7 judge powers power came into headquarter at aoam 10 a in today after attending a conference 0 of the silver men at the sherman house avid and addressed the utah delegation it has ha been beena agreed greid unanimously that chesil the silver men shall follow in the wake ot of senator jones of arkansas when lie he rises rise we are to rise when h ili makes a motion we are to support it that is if the gold bugs attempt to td capture the convention by force Clayton Clayto not of ala barna bama will move to seat daniel as chairman senator white of california will nove move to adopt the rules of the last national we must remember this ard ad act accordingly if necessary two conventions convention will be kept running at the same time gold and silver are striving for supremacy the situation is important and critical and wemusa we must look well to our strength arid and tee ee that it Is not broken or in any way dissipated the prospects are that we e will have a most exciting fight having thus delivered himself about too loo utah people fell into line and marched arched 11 to the illinois central railway u here they took the train tor for the coli seven miles dist nt As the convention seated itself chairman H harrity stepped forward and with a sharp stroke of the gavel announced in ringing tones the select selection lop of senator david B hill for temporary chairman the gold men leaped to their feet and with waving arms shouted applause among the spectators also there was a cheer of approbation somebody called three cheers tor for david B hill and they were given with a will S P sheerin Sheer ln of indiana for secretary and john martin for sergent at arms were also announced when the convention had quieted down what is the pleasure of the convention asked harrity calmly as if he did not know the storm which was fofol to follow clayton a member of the national committee front from arkansas arose every silver man in the halt hall knew the gauntlet was wag to borbe be thrown down dow ri they rose to a man and cheered As soon as clayton announced that his duty was to present the minority report the demonstration that followed the announcement of the selection of hill was a breeze compared to a cyclone six hundred delegates mounted the chairs and cheered wildly from 1000 throats in the audience came a hoarse roar of applause that sounded like thunder tP under over thirty minutes the demonstration continued and was renewed at several points as clayton read the minority report nominating senator daniel As clayton closed with an emphatic demand for roll call the silve rites cheered loudly whitney shehan and fellows fellow sitting in the new delegation had evidently thought I 1 themselves hern selves defeated for they chatted arid and smiled delegate C S thomas of colorado seconded the demand for roll call it the purpose of the I old men to flaunt thel defiance in the face of their silver opponents and chairman herrity replied firmly to the cries for a vote with the statement stat ement that as is long as lie he contin continued lied to preside over the convention the deliberations delile rations would be orderly ile he recognized delegate waller of connecticut when order was restored with the consent of the convention I 1 will give way to the gentleman from new jersey sold said waller and mr air mc ate a heavily built man with it a white waistcoat made his way to hie platform and began to say something soni ething which merely brought upon him cries of louder raising his voice mcder mot fioke of new ferbey as ar the only state north of the maon alason and dixon line which always catt the electoral cec toral vote vole for the nominee ol of the democratic deno cratic convention 1 ill I pay tribute to lo lion hon john W daniel lit he declared arid and then we went n t on to lo praise the service of a man inan who knew no faith except 1 I am a democrat the partisans partisan of senator hill sent up it a thrill shrill cry I democracy believed in the rule of the majorities i mcdermott continued continue a but we me are here herein in response to lo precedent and he begged democracy not to begin by violating the traditions tradition if i it had a giants strength to save it for no vember ex governor waller stepped to the front of the platform when mcdermott McDer molt sat down his HI first word quieted the delegates but he very soon oon inspired a shout by the decla atlon that the names name of daniel and hill should be cheered tj 14 gether he advised the election ol of hill as a temporary chairman and daniel As 41 permanent chairman j are there any ny other arrangement arran gemen a made he asked sarcastically I 1 yes ye shouted stoney money front rom w a broad brimmed straw hat from the like block if A I 1 seats eat below vie lie platform J sit whitney and his hl fellow delegates irom from I 1 new mew york applauded the declaration that hat hill and daniel should be honored together aether there was wa an attempt at a demon str stra lon lion when waller shouted that he would he be the last man to bolt but the silver men en were very chary of i giving any applause at the conciliatory advances advance of the he gold met men when waller asked if the he convention was w going to turn down david B hill after another tribute to hill there were laught laughing ng arid and cries we arel we arel adroitly he work ed d up to the climax of his speech when tie he asked who it was proposed to turn liim him down a man who had fought all ail ila his life for democracy turn down david B hill he asked in gods goda name it Is this a democratic convention ile he tried to appease the silver men by intimating that senator hill would not be oppressive but when he asked will you turn him down there were cries ofa V will beey ilveen well he shouted defiantly turn him down and we will fight you here and elsewhere this unmasking of the position of the gold men was met with a storm of hisses and one of the silver allver men shouted one vote for mckinley william F of california tol fol lowed in favor of the minority report the money question is the only question he said in which the democracy of the country cosit has an interest in this campaign we want the tempos temporary ary chairman of this convention to sound the keynote of the situation and go to the country as a declaration of our views views we are determined the keynote shall be a silver speech in harmony with the vie views we of this convention A volley of cheers greeted this briel and outspoken characterization of the issue on which this fight on hill was made after the california member concluded the galleries arose to peer over into the pit to discover the meaning of cheers that began sputtering like firecrackers fire crackers they saw a short man with a red chubby face and curly gray hair dushl pushing ng lit hl way out from the group of new york delegates in the corner where whitney hill tracy grant and sheehan sat sal he was wa colonel john R fellows a war horse whose customary reception at conventions of the past had been friendly and 4 not limited to faction the reception to fellows was tame cheers were started when he rung dung out the taunt that the majority proposed to begin the convention by adopting a republican precedent disowned and dishonored by democrats everywhere four years ago fellows said we from the east and some other sections of the united states stales met here to oppose the candidacy 4 of the present president he taid the new yorkers doubted whether tw two 0 thirds of the convention four years sigo ago had been tor for grover cleveland Clevela iid the first direct mention of the name of gro ver cleveland brought on an outbreak of enthusiasm which however was confined to the galleries then with a flash of his old fire fellows said col orado alabama california let it ring like a coronal hymn that although you gave u us a candidate new york gave yo you u the only democratic donl rit the country has had in thirty years I 1 make no threats threat I 1 shall make none we are democrats we desire to march with our party ina and do what we can to make it perpetual and successful but we do not want you to inflict this punishment onus on us if you must select a victim to drag to the altar at least do not one so hallowed and so loved by the democracy the motion to substitute daniels for hill was carried when virginia was reached daniels voted no hill re restrained from voting when new york was called the vote resulted in favor of substituting daniels for hill against |
