Show GHANGES OF I SILYEII nICK II I Up to Date They Are Certainly of the Most Promising Character UTAH IS GOOD FOR HIM Nearly All the Western States Are Solid California and the Two Dakotas May Go Against Him Dielt Alleged Al-leged to Be Such a Strong Exponent Expon-ent of Silver as to Make Him the Strongest and Most Available Candidate Suggestion of Teller as a Member of Blauds Cabinet I CHICAGO July 5The Bland forces executed a coup today by the convening conven-ing of a caucus at 230 oclock at the t Sherman house attended by representatives represen-tatives of those transMississippi states favorable to Bland The notice of the caucus had not been widely circulated so that the large attendance of prominent promi-nent western leaders was a source of unexpected gratification to the Bland managers Sixteen states were represented I repre-sented having an aggregate of 218 j votes in the convention and from I the assurances given it was believed that most if not all of these western I votes could be relied on for Bland The states represented with their respective I re-spective votes were as follows j Arkansas 16 Colorado 8 Idaho 6 I Illinois 48 Kansas 20 Missouri 34 I J l V 1 j = I NN I I CLAUDE MATTHEWS OF INDIA NA PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITY Montana 6 Oregon 8 Texas 30 I Utah Washington 8 Wyoming 6 Arizona 6 New Mexico 6 Indian Territory Ter-ritory 6 Oklahoma 6 Alaska 6 j WEST OF THE RIVER i These states comprise all west of the Missouri river except California and II the two Dakotas I The meeting was organized by the selection of exSenator Martin of Kansas I Kan-sas as chairman and L T Dashiel of Texas as secretary In taking the chair Senator Martin made a vigorous speech in support of the Bland oandi dacy On a call of tha states a delegate dele-gate from each of the states represented repre-sented spoke of the Bland sentiment Governor Overmeyer of Kansas declared de-clared Bland was the only candidate who could be sure of carrying Kansas and that the delegation from that state would stand for him first last and all the time Representative Bailey of Texas talked in vigorous style in support of Bland but cautioned i cau-tioned the friends of the Missouri candidate I didate to be prepared for that opposition opposi-tion which always concentrated against the foremost candidate Speeches were made also by representatives j represen-tatives from Indian Territory Utah Arizona New Mexico Oklahoma and Colorado They were uniformly enthusiastic I j en-thusiastic and voiced the sentiment that Bland was such an exponent of 1 I silver as to make him the I STRONGEST AND MOST AVAILABLE I AVAIL-ABLE j I candidate in the western states One of the strongest speeches was made by Buck Hinrichsen of the i Illinois delegation who is regarded as next to Governor AjLtgald in influence in that delegation He spoke strongly in favor of Bland and expressed the opinion that the fortyeight votes of Illinois would be given to the Missouri Mis-souri candidate I No action was taken beyond hearing I the reports of the various states and j exchanging congratulations on what the Bland managers regarded as a i most favorable showing They pointed I out in particular that the caucus was representative of the western states j and besides these Bland had a large I following in the south The sentiment I was that the delegates of the west having thus met in caucus and EXPRESSED THEIR PREFERENCES PREFER-ENCES should now exert their influence upon the delegates of the south with a view to persuading them that the west and the south united could command the I situation The meeting adjourned to meet again at 10 oclock tonight at which I time further accessions were expected ex-pected It was explained that the two Dakotas and California were not I represented by reason of the fact that the delegations from these states had 1 not caucussed Tlfe Bland managers j h are confident however that these three states will join with the others which have indicated a preference for Bland I Some question was I raised as to whether the expressions given at the caucus could be relied upon as showing show-ing the tendency of the various states represented Secretary Dashiel said positively after the caucus that the expressions in each case were not those of Individual delegates but correctly cor-rectly stated the position of the various states either as the result of a caucus or of instructions In some of the states represented however it is evident evi-dent the FULL DELEGATION CANNOT BE CLAIMED with positiveness for Bland Oregon has Governor Eennoyer for its first choice and there ar said to be I scattered votes for I qther candidates 4 Ib ° 1LVER DiCK BLAXD t than Mr Bland from several of the states represented at this caucus Before the meeting closed Senator Martin read a letter l just received from San Francisco stating that a club of 1000 Democrats and Populists had been organized favorable to the candidacy of Dick Bland for the presidency and also favoring Senator Teller for secretary of the treasury in a Bland cabinel This suggastion of Teller inH Blands cabinet evoked a double round of applause |