St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-30
SILVER CONVENTION.
Arrangements Being Made for the
Great Gathering in Chicago.

Great Gathering in Chicago.
CHICAGO, July 28.-In most of the
hotel rOtundas and Hobbies today the
subject of conversation is silver. The
van guard of delegates is very active
in assisting the local committee to get
things in shape for the great convention
which is to give expression to the views
of the friends of the white metal.
This afternoon the local committee
and the delegates who had arrived held
a meeting at the office of Coin, where
reception, hail. invitation and press
committees were appointed with the
following chairman, respectively: Col
w. II. Harvey, Joel BigelOw, Judge Hen
~ &. Miller and George f. Washburn.
1t was decided to hold a mass meeting
Tuesday night at o'clock in Central
Music hall, where addresses will be
made by leading silver speakers of the
country. In the course of the discus
sion on this subject, a motion was made
to invite the officers of labor OrganiZa-
tons to the platform of Tuesday nights
meeting. One of the delegates wanted
to include the officers of the board of
trade, which caused W. II. Ferguson to
rise IN opposition. 1.-The board of
trade" he said, ''has been sandbagged
by the money power. That power has
directed boards of trade and chambers
of commerce to call meetings to ad-
vocate the repeal of the Sherman law.
They had to do it, for they are at the
mercy of the banks VINO discount their
paper, and in turn the banks are ruled
by England. England is the confidence
man; the United States the sucker
Are you going to let England dictate to
you?" Cries of mo, never" split the air
of the confined room, and the speaker,
as he continued on the same line, was
greeted with much applause and cheers.
However, the meeting invited the
officials of all commercial, financial and
economic bodies to occupy seats on the
platform.
1t was announced that the silver con-
vention proper would open in the main
hall of the First Methodist church.
Washington and Clark streets, at 10
O'Clock Tuesday morning. On Wednes-
day night great rally on the lake front
will be addressed by Gen. Warner,
Senators Jones and Walcott, Congress
men Bryan, of Nebraska; Bland, of
Missouri. and many other leading free
silver men.
Carl Brown. California delegate. will
make an address on the lake front to-
morrow afternoon. Brown is the or
ganizer of the American Industrial
League-the free silver society of the
West. He made his appearance at the
meeting today and created somewhat of
a sensation by his dress of tanned buck
skin.
Secretary j. Brown. of the Colorado
delegation, arrived in the city today.
The delegations headquarters are at
the Palmer house. Gen. Warner, presi-
dent Of the league, is expected tomor-
row, and with his secretaries will open
his headquarters at the Grand Pacific
hotel.
Congressman Pence and Bell, of
Colorado, left tonight for Washing
ton. I'VE should like to remain"
said Mr.. Pence, ''but our presence
in Washington next week will be
of more service to the silver people than
attendance upon the convention. The
convention will forestall any attempt of
a compromising element to get a hear
ing by refusing to admit any one who
does not favor the free coinage of silver
in the rotio of l to 10 with gold" Con-
gresham Sweet, of Idaho. who is at
the Grand Pacific. looks for the arrival
of the delegation from his state some
time tomorrow.