Show 1 RULES THE national committee overruled hill Is defeated by votes the fight precipitated by iho gold hen results in their defeat the platform will be free coin ape at 16 to 1 committee on credentials Is makens silver converts the new york delegation Is split on the subject of bolting everything in the hands of the silver men headquarters allerman Sl lERMAN HOUSE special to THE chicado Chic aeo july 7 the fifine between balver anti gold in the democratic ne dional convention wag fought in the for temporary control of the control of the convention today and silver won it was a battle royal but the dilver element was too terribly in earnest to be cajoled by promises or intimidated by threats and the result left silver in complete control senater hill was earned by chairman harrity a temporary chairman and senator daniel of virginia was nominated by mr clayton of alabama mcdermott of kew jersey waller of connecticut john K fellows of new hampshire and st claire of west virginia pleaded in impassioned speeches epee ches for hill while thomas of colorado duncan of texas ladd of illinois and clayton of alabama demanded the silver nominee the fight lasted three hours and when the vote was taken silver won by votes the tone of fue gold speakers was threatening and violent the silver orators took the defensive and claimed it wag tho right of the majority to name the oll cere in the ballot hill refused to vote while daniels voted for hill the talk generally was against boiling bland continues to bain but has not enough to nominate the delegates recognize that teller made the esaue for the campaign bat while they honor and esteem him they fear the nomo republican and the attempt to Greely ize the convention is looked upon with fear teller is the substance and bland is the shadow but the shadow is democratic and ie preferred to the political name attached to the substance the fight is now between the silver candidates with teller second choice of bland men Mc Leana nomination for vice president is conceded H by the united press chicago july athe silver men won the first fight in the national democratic convention they routed their opponents by a majority of seated senator daniel in the chair over sen ator hill the nominee of the national committee and broke two records the beual practice which has hitherto prevailed in democratic conventions though it has been sometimes ignored in publican Ile conventions and they held the longest first days session ot great national convention recent memory the aute of cast was one less than the total vote by reason of the fact that senator hill did not vote but this loss in a cal illation of strength was offeit by his opponent senator daniel chivalrously voting against his party and bime elf the result today showed the silver men to be 48 votus short of a two thirds majority tal ing it as a tent vote but in many ecta it was not so there were eight votes of south dakota cast for hill which on a square issue of free coinage will go for silver three votes in west virginia thrown against the silver candidate today will be counted for the silver platform the territories which on the preliminary roll were riven six seats but only two votee each will probably awarded sir votes in the permanent except alaska and the district of columbia which will remain at their present 1 alaska admitted for the first time to a democratic national convention sent six gold delegates to a dilver body and it is said will be punished puni thed for its freshness fresh nesa this will give the territories 32 votes instead of 12 ae cast today and all but ot these votes alaska 2 and district of columbia 1 are counted for dilver the nebraska 16 votes will un be turned over to the silver men by the credentials committee vote ahk h was 4 to 4 on organization will be given 5 for balver and 3 for gold hereafter and maryland which voted 12 cold and 4 silver on or will scatter in the proportion of eleven silver to five gold when it comes to voting tor the different silver candidates though it will remain as now on the question of platform these changes and accessions it is claimed will cocce very near giving the silvar men the two thirds they seek and which will enable them to carry everything their own way if they should still lack a few votes they have michigan to fall back upon A decision ill favor of silver men in one or two con tested districts in that elate will convert under the unit rule the 28 gold vote of michigan into 28 silver and give them a sure two thirds majority for silver the gathing of today was a wonderfully interesting assemblage in the gi gantic coliseum wonderful in point of numbers and interesting with regard to the men who addressed the assemblage the giants of the party were there there was jones of arkansas dignified to a degree portly of appearance but quick in movement harris of tennesee Tenne zee older and not so erect as his senatorial colleague sizing up alie convention with the keen eye of practiced presiding officer tillman leading the carolina delegation less noticeable than his older fellows senators and governor culberson Culber soh of texas who also camo in for his behare of attention william C whitney into the great ball almost unobserved he took his seat with the new york delegation near by to bissell of Buffalo who had been president law partner and looked quizzically about at the aea of faces along through the converging crowds of arriving cell the boyish looking ex governor of massachusetts and with him the other bussell froan the old bay elate who had been unsuccessful in bis endeavor to reach the executive office vacated by his namesake gray of delaware and hilaa of wisconsin mr cleveland moet ardent supporters on the floor of the senate bradley smalley of vermont and others of the gold leaders entered unobserved and took their places quietly when david B hill entered with the new york delegation many of those who afterwards voted to keep him the temporary forgot family quarrels and cheered heartily as tho rest andrt and again the enthusiasm thusia sm broke forth and hill sank modestly into his chair and looked as though he wished to be out of it was nearly ono instead of noon when the convention called to order and for an hour and a halt prior to the time when chairman harrity of the national committee tapped bia gavel the floor had been one moving con verg lne diverging mass of humanity principally male but with a beautiful leavening leaven inc of women to make it marked at the convention hall chicago july 7 at 11 a m the crowds from the ity were assembled in constantly increasing numbers at the Col liscum bat all the doors were closed the newspaper men strove in vain to raise the blockade tar thea were concerned the orders of the sergeant at stupidly conceived and most stupidly enacted kept them out until at last a low of them managed to effect an entrance and to make the way clear for many other associates but in the meantime without any reason for it delegates find alternates and persons holding ticketed of admission were kept out in the broiling sun shine victims of the incompetent clothed with a little brief authority at 1130 the boora were opened and the beats began to fill up to the music of a braae band playing popular air As the hour of noon drew near the sections assigned to the delegates were gradually grad dally occupied occasionally a large dolega tion entered the hall with banners and hags and accompanied by bands of music the iowa delegation bore a silk flag on v aich were imprinted the benevolent looking features of its candidate horace boies senator hill and ex governor roswell P flower entered the hall at half past twelve closely followed by ex governor shee ban and with chee remany delegates raising to do them honor ata p m the convention was called to order by mr harrity of pennsylvania chairman of to democratic national committee who asked that all present should rise and stand while prayer was offered by the rev dr then chairman harrity in slow deliberate tones said gentlemen of the convention by li of the democratic national committee I 1 desire to report the following as the temporary organization of the convention temporary chairman david V hill of new york then there was an outbreak of applause which lasted two minutes the rest of tho organization was read as follows for temporary temp orar secretary simon P sheerin of indiana for sergeant at arms col john I 1 martin of missouri what is alie pleasure of the conven aspedon ask edOn the report as made in the democratic national committee mit tee BEFORT on that mr clay ton delegate from alabama arose advanced to the platform and said gentlemen of the national democratic convention on behalf the 23 members of your national committee as opposed to 27 and as I 1 believe in accordance with the wish of the great majority of this convention I 1 am authorized to present to this convention a minority recommendation which I 1 ahall move as a substitute for a part of the motion made by tho chairman of the national committee to the democratic convention the undersigned members of the national committee recommend that the name of hon john W daniel of virginia be in the committee report for that of lion david B hill of yew york and that the hon john W baniel bo chosen temporary chairman of this convention signed henry D clayton alabama mckae ark michael carpie cal 0 S thomas colo samuel pasco fla clarke howell georgia C W blair kansas arthur sewall maine J D campau mich A J davidean Da mont P keating nevada F H busbee north carolina william C Zeist kow north dakota M L donaldson south carolina P J ainey virginia J W burton utah W J kuykendall Kup kendall wyoming C W shannon arizona J L norris district of columbia II 11 it fergueson new york P M richardson oklahoma 8 J lowan indian territory barry N hilliard of idaho As mr clayton concluded by demanding the call of the states and a roll call cheers and cries of call the roll were raised mr CB thomas of colorado seconded the minority report again cries of idoll call were raised and mr giai rity said it may aa well be understood gentlemen that as long as the present mccu pantie in the chair these proceedings will be conducted in a regular orderly lanner this was received with general ap mr alien of jersey was then recognized to speak support of the majority majo fity report lr mcdermot warned the silver men that they were departing from the of the party in overruling over the committee we of he north want support the ticket tl t you select joa have the of giants do not expend it in bitterle bitterne bit terne s but reserve for the day when yoi will need it in november ex governor waller of also opposed the minority report there were no abler caen ho taid braver democrats ali an the two whose names were involved in thia preliminary discuss sion cheers should bo honored together hill of new york and senator of virginia s i anc eaid is a candidate under usage the other is a candidate by the of a bewer naver before exercised what ought the convention do about it A voice in the gallery elect daniels I 1 laughter and cheers I 1 with you you ought elect him and now hear my you ought to elect david B hill your temporary chairman and man ia this convention whether 16 1 or 1 to 16 ought to vote for him then you ought to elect senator aa permanent chairman cheers I 1 will vouch for it that every man vote for daniel and cheer for daniel so that the reverberation of that cheer will be heard in virginia what is to prevent it are there eoma other made if eo why put them and be equal to the emergency your daniels in the south and your in the cast disappoint your by doing the courteous thing valorous the judicious tabing the very opening of your convention applause when I 1 came from con the republicans told me that wo were going to a convention where we would receive no courtesy where we would be trampled upon sixteen men to one and where wo would be underneath one I 1 told them and I 1 believe it today that we should receive no such treatment ve may be disappointed in the platform to be made we may be disappointed in the candidate to be put in nomination but we will return to the cast and say that we were beaten because you had laore votes than we bad bat that still we received every courtesy that we received from the western democrats and anival rous action from democrate Demo crata of tho south cheers fellow democrats we can stand your beating us with votes we can eland any candidate whom you will nominate if yon will nominate an man cheers we are n this convention to stay I 1 era hero until every other man bolte you cannot drive us out of thia convention by the of your power if you have got two to one against us and I 1 suppose you have what are you going to do are there any two men down there afraid of me laughter I 1 am just as good a fighter there is in the gold section of this convention I 1 will fight as hard and fight as long as any of them and if you are not afraid of me as a tighter why should you bo afraid of my associate what will the republican party eay if you violate your traditions at the very opening of the convention they will eay one of two thing they will lay that you did it i because you were afraid of us A voice we are or they will say that you did it not because you were afraid of us but because you gloried in heap ins personal indignity boon ua chiea of no no no you bayno but your actions do it fellow democrats whom are you proposing tu turn down in indignity and dishonor who is the man who has fought against the foes of the people birce he first voted and has he afis foht against criticisms anil insulza and be has without thy aid of the and without the aid of patronage or power if you turn him down do yoa think that you will slop him or any democrat from matin a speech in this congeni ion and expressing hie views do you think you will stop david B hill A voice never I 1 the speech he would make to you from the platform would be a wise conservative speech becoming such a position as temporary chairman but if you atop him doing it he arill make his speech from the floor and it will go to the people and create enthusiasm so that the indignity which you put upon him will fall upon yourselves iu gods name th of it with reason and sense and dont upon the aaa the indignity that in proposed we are not worms as you know and caca if we were worms sometimes turn on those who tread upon them treat us as you ought not to jo insult us by breaking abo traditions of your party turn down david B II 11 11 as indiscreet men advise you and I 1 tell you what wo will do wo will fight here and elsewhere end we will fight you unal you are sorry for your action of this dav chacie this is the grand old party of my heart I 1 love it as I 1 low iny family and i resent an unwise action that may harm it badly and bring disaster to tho party this feeling is that of at least one third of the convention let us act in these preliminaries with courtesy to everybody let ua stand the ground in the democratic party that party which has stood by the people and has fought for it and is the pride of the republic I 1 trust la god that nothing will occur hero to prevent its doing so while it lasts cheers to bo trampled down and the whole life of the senator from virginia repelled the suggestion that bo could sanction tass unheard of and unnecessary act he proceeded to show the regularity of tha action of the committee which he said for longer period than the lives lot any delegates present has presented for the purpose or organization the names of officers to fill the chairs and its action in this regard had never before been questioned he char the plan now proposed as following a republican precedent disowned denounced and edit cheers and why was it be asked with strong emphasis that all the rest of the report was accepted and only the distinguished geir ileman from new york was |