Show MICHIGAN CONTEST strong speeches ending in seating silver delegates at 6 0 uio the committee on resolutions filed into the inclosure ilithe in the van was iva the stalwart to form rm 0 f senator 1 hill As the d delegates 9 and crowd caught sight ot of him they rose to their feet and ana wildly chewed cheered the new york tork leader again and again thoy they cried lilt 1114 name but the senator quietly took his beat bat and conferred in subdued tones with those about hint him as it if utterly unconscious cons clous ot of ill tho tumult ten ini minutes later chairman danica called tho convention to order and announced that the co committee m cittee 0 on n credentials denti als was waa ready rea dy to report when tile tho reading clerk read reaal the report beating lour four silver delegates deli from gall ban alit which h changed the complexion of 0 the delegation under ill the unit rule from gold bold to sliver silver there wit was considerable applause among the silver oliver men marv on tho the floor LN ex congressman john C crosty or of massachusetts on behalf ot of the minority of 0 the took th tho a stage and earnestly protested against the decision of the th majority lie ile spoke ho he said bald in behalf slafca hla 1119 voice wash avab hardly audible efty feet away and tho the crowds yelled lot louder aJor ile ho said mr chairman and gentlemen ot of tho the Convent low ing ina elgh eighteen teen states in this convention I 1 deslie to move an amendment to the report of ottic tho hav has been submitted to tn tills this convention I 1 move b bar fr that tho the delegates from the fourth tind and ninth districts be emitted to keep the befits beats they now occupy the metter matter of tills this discussion has lasted through yesterday nearly all night and most of the day clay and lifter after a careful consideration of 0 the merits of the michigan case wo we ot of the minority feel that it if this report Is ne accepted cc pied and adopted it means one of the greatest er eUest injustices that could te be perpetrated upon pon any convention mr chairman the convention which nat met in the state slate of MichI michigan xan in april last consisted of about SOU SOO delegates there anns wa riot not a single contest ae 0 to a single delegate to that convention there thera was a unanimous report and otter after that report had been made these delegates had been elected mr chairman end and gentlemen they were elected in accordance with the law lave or of the state of michigan land and was not thes lightest question made mad or contest made as to the legality or the th validity of abo lh election of these delegates and sir mr chairman I 1 may say further there 13 not the slightest evidence that there was any fraud on tin the pal t of anybody now mr air chairman all we want call all those of us who represent the minority want la Is fair and decent treatment at your handa we ve do not attempt or desi cerii re e to overrule the th majority here but wo we do to have 11 fair ond and just decision and consider consideration allon of tills this matter and so I 1 move that this amendment be and 1 trust that the honest sentiment ot of the co mention will give to these bitting delegates the lie scabs scats billich they now occupy applause I 1 adother PROTEST rn oTEST when lie he had completed a brief review of tile the inherits of the case john 11 brennan a wisconsin gold delle delegate te to followed lowed with wi t h abnot another her protest he said 1 I would like to state for you tile the exact question that will bo be sub submitted mitt the ilie committee on credentials has it ic ported to tho the convention that they will at seat at tile the present presen t ach gates al lai ge from michigan headed beaded by mr stevenson applause they have also reported to this convention that they mil seat th ta contestants from the fourth and nank districts four to be scaled that have sesto in the convention now and four contestants from the distri districts eta to be stated seated that Is the majority report the minority submits a report that I 1 tho he tout tour delegates front from the districts remain and the contests with reference to the districts he be dl allowed aJl owed the ques recurs upon the amendment and will be submitted in this form the committee on credentials have had a long session and have tone gone over all the facts in the cast case very carefully wo we of the believing bellev lne and relying upon the future of this country BS as embraced lit in the principles of the democratic party pai avi tear fear tho the result of the action ot of the majority of the committee on oil credentials applause the state of michigan elects its delegates front from tho the districts the dig tricas recommending to ill the state convention the names only with reference to tho the ninth lnla district two names were proposed said and voted upon in that convention and there Is no record submitted by the secretary of that convention that there was any protest entered there and it was there that they should have had their light and not here applause gentlemen of the convention in my judgment after listening to the evidence submitted to the committee on credentials it rests on glittering gen and conclusions facts are what you want there was a convention in fit detroit of delegates it was a big unwieldy gathering there Is no record in the newspapers that any exception was taken at that time I 1 have concluded front from the evidence that this contest culminated or tour four weeks ago when it was maia ascertained that this convention would lie be ruled by a 0 certain majority find and I 1 have become acquainted with that majority and I 1 appeal to its honesty and fairness sir mr brennan lied had a good stage presence and a clear strong voice and abid was given a respectful hearing lie he warned tho the convention of the danger involved involve e d in this decision tile the gold men in t the ll 11 10 galle galleries rift cheered him lustily when lie he appealed to tile the honesty and fairness of tho the sliver silver delegates THE COMMITTEE DEFENDED gov ln of 0 mississippi also tame to the defense of the committee committe e lie ile made a careful of the facts fact s to show that the will of the democrats of michigan did not prevail lit in tho the state convent convention lon four hundred and twenty four of the delegates to that convention he said were instructed tor for free silver lie he described the alleged method pursued by the administration agents to override this expressed will or of tho the people arid and declared that they were under instruction to carry michigan for gold and the administration some unsympathetic auditor in the gallery shouted shut up and sit doan dow n whereupon there seemed to td be it a attempt to bowl down donn the speaker this roused the ire ir of the filver delegates and ono one of the indignant louisiana delegates arose arid and shouted that if th thae e interruptions wei c continued liep he should move to clear the galleries the gall galleries erles are arc packed by gold men ho he shouted but the clit s of the crowd continued at last col martin the sergeant at arms inter pomia from tile the platform and instructed tile the assistant cit at arms and the pollee to summarily eject any one wit who interrupted the proceedings senator ln drifted into a discussion C of the issue before tin the democrats of michigan whereupon delegate mcdermott of new jersey aey aibe aro re to a point or of order what happened d twenty years ako ago lie be shouted th has nothing to do with the merits of thit controversy tro versy TM the gaill galleries erlea cheered and waved their handkerchiefs at this protest front from the hoor floor the blood of the gold spectators was aroused john 11 1 1 salisbury a member of the famous old salisbury family of delaware who chos cance ancestry Etry runs through ell all american history Til story pushed his way to the platform to protest against the majority report heidi elected its as a free silver del delegate rate ho h sald said but he b lieveld t tho he sitt iniz del delegates e gates front from michigan were entitled 1 to their sta wall 1 1 I prot ho he shouted emphatically that this la Is not tho the place to wash tile tho duty linen or of state stale stations actions after Salli salisbury abury there stepped to the front of the platform a stalwart blonder blonde young man mail mith hh a red rose on oil the lapel of ills his summer coat MAN THAT STOLE MICHIGAN I 1 ant tile the man they it nay ay atole michigan lie ile shouted in a tone that rang to the ra rafi fLOrs cra this deft defiant I 1 t introduction caught the ali fancy or of alic the multitude which sent up a great shout ot of laughing ij approval name naine nartie name the galleries cried stevenson tho the young nian yelled ills ilia full name was elliot 0 stevenson lie he Is tho the law partner of president Clevel irda q friend and onetime one time calif fact aide lion don 24 dickinson the man who Is acau accused cd by tile tho liver dilver men with rounding up to four tir hundred fedial fed ial office boldeia to ewlyn hundred alio llio ho convention for gold defiantly antly he told tho the conen coment llon lon it had u iiii right to turn nut delegate delegated dele gatei 4 clotted circled by a a pig elan state that by doing be 10 it would establish it a precedent tint that would forever damn it these declarations were received by cri chrisof calra 0 right you firo the fact that ai a gold sentiment predominated dor in tile tho and audience lotice or of that an american crowd Is invariably with tile under tinder dog brought mr stevenson more app liui than his predecessor a when lie walked from the platform N oli OF NEW YORK then it blue eyed sandy randy li well built young man mounted the att 9 As lie turned and faces the with a cheer the gall eilee eiles recognized blue billy sheehan Sh celian mho ho was lieutenant governor of now new york for four years year and who mho la in constricted one of 0 tile tho past wand ni masters asters of politics ile he took too protested against un seating tile tho a cold id j ills hl intimate knowledge cof of political pi tria enabled bled him to make a strong drons argument agai rutt the regularity of tho the contesting delaat g katell mr sheehan Shee heui declared dred that the purpose of tile silver men of thi ill L convention on wat was to secure a majority of the michigan gan delegation in order to lo vote them as aa a 8 unit for liver and thus thug increase their majority to the requisite uvo loirda to homi nominate naia you fear he be said with a sweet sweep of his hand band you fear car that you may be obliga to abrogate the time honored two thirds thorda rule it if you do not do tills I 1 appeal to you many of whom stood fide by side aide with fill mft me four years ao ago to stay your hand this convention was begun lit in revolution in gods goda name do not end it in revolution with tills parting shot clr fr sheehan Slice haji retired amid the plaudits pl audits of the ga uciles lea A VOICE FROM TEXAS ill place piece was taken by Dt delegate legate J W blake of texas who made it vi speech malt in fit favor of spa seating ting the silver men lie charged that it was notorious nolor loua that tile the michigan convention had been packed and manipulated by federal ot of Ilc holders the v aholo hole infernal delegation in my lipin opinion lon be turned out lie sat salil earnestly came itly and many of the sliver allver delegates on an the floor seemed emed to arteo with him from the ni manner finner lit in which they received his lie ile repelled tho the insinuation of mr Sli Slie ehan kehan and raf firmed that as it silver man it if lie ile could not control the convent convention lon without robbing a state stale or of llo its votes lie he was ready to surrender delegate mcknight one or of iho ran nui silver dele delcara gittes tva replied to mr jle ile said that it was notorious t or I 1 0 U 4 ill that a t t the h silver men elected it a majority or of two hundred to the soichl itch kin gall convention As soon as the administration nt at washington asce aacen r bained this fact be h continued 1 clr I r stevenston Steven soni spon was wai lias litts tily summoned to for it a conference with the great chief its it lie ile yelled sir mr stevenson mounting st a chair and facing tho the delegates theao Is not one word of truth lit in the statement mr r mcknight insisted on its ills statement and proceeded to describe tile the methods by which tho he control or of the co mention had been wrested wres ted from rom them lit in conclusion lie I that michigan fl T galve democratic majority it if a f arco r ce at silver tr platform was adopted the tha michigan delate debate was becoming wearisome so villen then delegate delc emte brucker Bruck cr a smooth faced young man from that state stale began to talk the people began to cry for a vote mr brucker however low stirred them to a yell by declaring that ho he had always been a free silver man lie hn believed tho the had enough delegates to elect ditt a tree free silver man maji without committing highway THOMAS OF COLORADO theia the uio the gold men were aroused to it a greater enthusiasm by charles 9 thomas the colorado member of 0 tho the national committee who to spoke in a strain lie iio said gentlemen 0 of the convention it would be a great in cat misfortune ml in my opinion for this convention to do otherwise than nominate it a candidate lepro benting the wishes 0 of the majority it would be a graver one to secure urh suil nomination by overturning the officially expressed wish ot of one ot of the sovereign states or of tills this union loud applause wo we wore were charged on yesterday aith a violation of 0 democratic precedent find and the c harge charge in my opinion was not well founded it if this majority report re port shall receive the off iclal sanction lon ot of this convention ven tion then those alho mado mada tho the charge on yesterday may repeat it i ith tomorrow it seems to me that where fa a number 0 of week Is necessary fur for an individual to find out the tact fact that ills his virtue hadi had been debauched that such virtue should be received at least with some suspicion by a national convention we cannot under any clr cum transform ourselves into it a returning board and by going behind these returns seat any one here except those W who ho have their credentials credential it these four delegates who were sold said to be not entitled to eckls in tills this convention are by reason of tile the manner in which v h ich they have been chosen not so entitled then it follows that every one ot of the 1 as 3 delegates similarly commissioned lit in tills this convention Is not entitled to recognition JUDGE 0 IV POWERS of utah followed saying our patiently investigated invest this matter and has made its report to this convention it lias said to you that it has found in the case of 0 michigan fraud which vitiates ajl things and tho the party that had tho the presidency of the united states foully wrested from it after tilden had been elected ought to hane ha no more fraud even eat n though it had to be permitted under the gulso guise of a state stale cheers 1 we have been made aware by the public press that gan gall Is a free balver state we were informed that the majority in fit the convention were elected as silver delegates the result of that convention surprised the w r hole land the people have bay e been madu made acquainted with till these facts I 1 thoroughly believe in tile the right of states to elect their own delegates but believing bel levIng also that no if delegation should sit bit lit in thia convention whose title Is with fraud I 1 ant am in favor of sustaining tile the report made by the majority of the states after patient deliberation era tion riot not that we ave may have a two thirds vote |