Show GOLDBUGS GATHER ILLINOIS STATE DELEGATION QUITE ACTIVE Vliltney It of the Opinion That the Aorogmtiooi of the TwoThirds Rule Has Been Prevented CHICAGO July 5The gold state delegates gathered slowly this evening for their second meeting The attendance attend-ance was much larger than on Friday night many more of the delegates having hav-ing arrived Some of those who strolled in early were W F Harrity of Pennsylvania exMayor Gilroy of New York W D Bynum of Indiana Euclid Eu-clid Martin J B Sheehan Lee W Spitel of Nebraska and Washington Hesing of Illinois Later on the leaders began to come along among them being William C Whitney John R Fellows William Sheehan Hugh Grant James J Martin Mar-tin John P Ryan of New York ex Governor Russell of Massachusetts Senator Gray of Delaware James W Hinckley and Colonel Harvey of New York Neither Senator Hill nor Governor Gov-ernor Flower attended the meeting the former giving as a reason that HE WAS TOO BUSY with other affairs Before the session Mr Whitney said The meeting is simply to formulate plans We are not going to arrange any individual course It was announced an-nounced however that the meeting was to get the sense of the delegates on the question of bolting several delegates del-egates having urged that course early in the day The meeting was called to order bv Mr Whitney and Senator Gray again assumed the chair He spoke briefly but encouragingly of the work done assuring his hearers that there had been one point gained that of preventing pre-venting the abrogation of THE TWOTHIRDS RULE William C Whitney followed Senator Gray and was greeted with great applause ap-plause Mr Whitney spoke briefly on the situation sit-uation and called attention to the contested con-tested seats and to the fact that it was alleged that the silver men were going to throw out all delegates who did not agree with them This led to a general explanation of the contested seats m Indiana Ohio and Nebraska but particular par-ticular attention was called to Mich igan All the cases as explained by men from the states interested were in favor of the gold delegates The Michigan case was explained by Elliott G Stevenson and Don M Dickinson It was stated by Mr Stevenson that no ground of contest existed no irreg ularity was charged that all that was claimed by the silver men was that Michigan was a silver state and that It should not cast a gold vote in the convention The proposition of the silver sil-ver men is to unseat the four delegates atlarge E G Stevenson Thomas A Weadock R R Baker and Peter White The first was elected in the Michigan convention by a majority of 150 and his election made unanimous WEADOCK WAS ELECTED by 75 majority and his election made unanimous The other two men were elected by acclamation The contestants contest-ants are John W McGrath Spencer O Fisher William F McKnight and T E Beckwith They were candidates before the state convention One of them moved in convention to make his successful opponents election unanimous unan-imous McKnight was elected a district dis-trict delegate after his defeat The delegation now stands sixteen gold and twelve silver if the four delegatesat large are unseated and the silver men substituted the situation will be reversed re-versed and Michigan being under the unit rule would cast twentyeight votes for silver and give the silver men the necessary twothirds to control the convention it was stated that it had been decided de-cided by the silver conference tonight to unseat the gold delegates in Mich igan and that steps are being taken in that direction It was stated that three states Indiana Ohio and Missouri Mis-souri had already instructed the men for the committee on credentials to seat the silver delegates at large from Michigan Mich-igan It was also stated that when the Indiana man was selected he was asked how he stood on the Michigan contest and replied that he had NOT LOOKED INTO IT YET Well was the answer If you dont know how you are going to vote we had better elect another man and this was enough to secure a pledge from the man selected Another statement was to the effect that Senator Cockrell in discussing the Michigan case with Senator Hill declared every gold delegateatlarpe was to be thrown out and the state voted solid for silver The explanation of the Michigan case and the alleged determination of the silver men to throw out the gold delegates dele-gates on general principles alone and not as a matter of pretended irregularity irregular-ity caused a great deal of indignation among the men in the conference The proposed course was declared to be revolutionary and if carried out would justify the gold men in any step they might deem advisable It was said the gold men could not submit to any such highhanded course As no such action can be taken by the silver men until the credentials committee acts no plan was proposed tonight It was decided to > be unnecessary to hold a conference tomorrow night but another conference will be held on Tuesday night after the convention has held one session |