New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-03
WAITE WANTS MORE BLOOD.
EXCITED SILVER ADVOCATES.
COLORADo'S GOVERNOR STIRS Up THE
DELEGATES.
STORMY SCENES IN THE CONTENTION.

PIERCE REBUKED FOR ATTACKING
PRESIDENT CLEvELNND-A TUMuLT
THAT ALMOST gnoKE UP
THE MEETING.
rBY TELEGRArH TO THE TkBCSE.I
| Chicago Aug. 2-The Bimctallic Convention
has. al or two days work adjourned Wien the
delegates arrived at Central Music Hall this
morning they were surprised to find that the
doors of the auditorium were net open. They
continued 10 come until the broad vestibule was
completely filled. The hour named for the meeting
was o 80 o'clock and about 10 the scrgeant-ai-armS
announced that the doors would be opened very
soon Meanwhile the manager Of the hall was
seen, and il was found that W. was waiting ior
some guarantee for the payment OF rent. 1t was
not until cN Senator Hill and cN-Congr'e'nah
Symcs of Colorado, arrived and guaranteed th'
payment that the pcop" were admitted. col
lection WAS taken up last night, but for some
unknown reason the money hal not been PAID
over 10 the manager and hence the delay
The attendance was not large at the morning
:. ~sion, either the part OF delegates or spec
tatOrs. Everybody seemed TO nc urea out
II WAS known that the committee resolutions
would not report until late in the day. and the
morning hours would be consumed in speech
and last evening that all seemed suricited But
after ealing the convention 10 order Chairman
Allen w Thurman announced that, in the alb
snncn of the report of the committee on resoll-
tions the committees on order of business had
provided "a list of speakers who would address
the conycntion At One. there Yell Tor
Governor Waite, of Colorado. but the chairman
when order was restored said that th" DloodN
man from the Centennial State would not speak
until after the recess
1hcr, has been much apprehension on the part
OF the managers of the convention that something
diseraccful in the line of violent oratory might
occur and il has faxed the wits Of General Warner
ex Senator IIill Of Colorado: Chairman Thurman
and others to forcstal any accident of TINS KIND IT.
il plain also that the Populist spirit ran hSh
in the convention and that there was set pur-
pose 10 mako the occasion cyenttul by the forIna-
tion Of a National party with III" silver i-su" a>
a basis Men with speeches and resolutions tend
ns i'm this direction were firmly chokcI oil when
ever any indication, were manifest of pursuance
Of this plan Finally the chairman succoc led in
getting ex-senator Hill at the spenkng desk and
a long, dry dissertation upon the subject of blinet-
allism resulted
VIEWS or TX SENATOR HILL.
Ex-senator Hill rcpcllcd the idea that Tho cN-
isting financial depression in In" country was
due 10 the Sherman act and preferred To trace
back the origin OF the troubles to the failure of
the Barring Bros and tie resulting consequences.
,SfpT than 10 any legislation by Congress in
favor Of silver He insisted that the United
States could safely Try the experiment Of free
coinage and that il was the only country IN the
world that could do So He claimed that th"r"
WAS nothing in Europe thar II was ner'sNlry ior
Americans to purchase. and that IN" United states
was mistress of her own markets ~ wei ~ "i
her own standard of currency.
Congressman Francis q. Ncwland~ Of Nevada,
was th" next speaker a man of unusually pr'po--
-..--ing appearance and style of oratory. Ills
srecch aroused the delegates 10 great enthusiasm.
! He insisted that IN" present tfouhl" was du" I"
newspapers in Ncw-lork, which. Ii" al
legged. had AT th" dictation Of wall
Street Influences begun crusad" against silver
last January in series Of intlamnatory "ii-
torials pointing TO the disasters that would over
take the country unless the sherman law was
promptly repealed and demanding that a special
session Of Congress he convened for that purpoS"
1h,sn editorials he said. found their way into
English ncw-I apcrs, thereby creating alarm and
causing n steady and persistent overthrow of
American securities and a resulting drainage of
gold from this country.
He denounced Il system which permitted thi,
Government TO he 50 hopcssly ~ the mercy
of England and her capitalists That country
possessed the gold of the world and had tli"
good sense 10 legi~latc III her own interests,
while the United States possessed the silver oi
| tn. world and had not the good 10 leg
islatc in th. Interests of her own people. Eng
land he added, could always force this country
into its existing condition of financial peril at
her will by a simple unloading of her American
securitics and in the event of war between
herself and this country could in advanc" strip
II, of our gold and leave Us helpless before I'll"
world
GOVERNOR whITES BASIIFU LNESS.
Then senator AlLn, of Nebraska who announce
himself a. Populist. took tho platform. His
speech throughout WAS of IN" quality when
pleased an audience of such composition. Every
now and then some striking sentence would be
met with shricks from delegates of "Whoop her
up." Hit him again. Go for him. Let 'cm
have it," and the like But there little in
what senator Allen said beyond general plea
for the Populsts and their cause. When he
resumed his seat there were yclls for Governor
Waite which nctted the chairman. Finally
Chairman C. :. Thomas, Of the Colorado d"l'@a-
tion was called forth and made prolonged speech
based on the theme of No comProm'" lir
had to he finally pulled down lay General Warner
vino intinlatcd that the hour for recess had ar
rived Immediately upon the Resembling OF the
convention after the recess Governor Waite came
forward 10 deliver his promised speech
When lie stepped to the front he said: IN en-
sequence of my youth and ineNpcrlrnce ana en-
treme bashiulnc,-, | will speak to you from maili'
script
This was followed by tremendous roar of
laughter and applause. during which he bro,Sh'
from his pocket mass Of writing paper WHICH
had a threatening look, Governor Wait" has a