St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-21
HIS DELEGATES RULE IN CON-
VENTION AND STATE COM
MITTEES.
ONLY THREE FOR SILVER.
EIGHTEEN SOUND MONEY MEN
ON THE RESOLUTIONS COM
NIITTEE.
TO BE INDoRsED.
Probability That Campbell VIII
BE Chosen as Gube-0atoriaI
Candidate

SPRINGFIELD, O., Aug. 20.-The
district and other preliminary meet
ings of the Democratic state con-
vention were held here today, pre-
paratory to the assembling of the
convention at 10 a. M. tomorrow
Senator Brice reached Lima from
New York yesterday and arrived
here today. He is making the fight
Of his life for a platform in con-
formity with the views of President
Cleveland, Secretary Carlisle and
himself on the financial question. He
is not taking an aggressive part
for the nomination of governor or
other officers, but is interested in
the organization so as to control the
committee on credentials, which will
determine the contests, and the COM
mittee on resolutions, which will re-
port the platform. He has a large ma
Jority of the sos delegates with him,
but the free silver men claim 304
OF the elegates-enough to make
trouble if no concessions are made
to them. The delegates are all here
and the question is as to what con-
cessions shall be made to the minor
ity. This afternoon Senator Brice,
ex-Gov. Cambbell and other lead
ers responded to calls for speeches
as the clubs paraded by the Lagonda
hotel. AT that time Gen. Asa S.
Bushnell, the Republican candidate,
happened to be calling on Brice.
Campbell and others He also 1e-
sponded, welcoming his political op-
ponents to the city. The silver men
held meetings again today to secure
Endorsements for their resolution,
but while they were making speeches
the Brice men secured the organiza-
ton of the convention, carrying six
teen of the tWenty-one districts in
the selection of members of the vari-
Gus committees. The committee on
resolutions is composed of business
men like President ingalls,, of the
Big Four; ex-Congressman Mcmahon
Hurd, Vance and Achaur, as fol-
lows:
First, NJ. E. ingalls,; Second, E. B.
Fourth, W. L. Mckenzie; Fifth, j. j.
Moore; Sixth, ]: ". Eylar: Seventh,
y: p. Murray; Eighth. j. M. Lewis;
Ninth. Ninth, Frank E5;ak, + Hurd Tenth, John L.
TWelfth, A. D: Heffner; Thirteenth,
w! e. lScodeld; Fourteenth, Lewis
Brucker; Fifteenth, H. F. Achaur;
slxteenth, J: B. Briggs; Seventeenth,
drlch: Nineteenth, Charles F:llius;
Twentieth, Alfred Whitaker; Twenty
first, Judge E. J. Blandin
BRICE'S STATE CENTRAL.
The Brice men also secured a major
ity of the state central committee.
which holds over until after the selec-
ton Of presidential delegates next
year, as follows:
First, John Haggerty; Second. John
p. Bruce; Third, Joseph H. Bowling;
RouIren.. FRouIrth. A. p. Marsh; Fifth, E. W.
enth, Senator A. r. Van Cliffe; Eighth,
M McAlden Dunn; Ninth. Ross Hodge;
Tenth, ]. s. German; Eleventh, R. R.
Tbietnaatih TTbbeiemani TWelfth' James Caven;
J: Q. Oakere; Sixteenth, Wilbur L. L.
Medill; Seventeenth, l. r. Hill; Eigh-
feenth, T Louis Louis Loichola; Nineteenth.
Vsrd; TWenty-frst.. c. ]. Higgins.
Today Senator Brice, ex-GoV. Camp
bell and other leaders died with Mr..
Thomas, and it is understood that a
compromise was made though it will
not be made known what the leaders
did until after their plans are de-
Veloped in the convention tomorrow.
Senator Brice is the temporary chair
man Of the convention and his key
note speech is sure to be for "honest
money, without regard to .--e outcome
of the fight for organization of the
convention. His speech will be con-
servative. Immediately after it's de-
livery will come the reports of the
committee on credentials, the majority
for seating contesting Brice men and
the minority for seating the free silver
contestants. In consider ring these re-
ports the senator may have some close
ruling, and the silver men may get
mad. 1t is at this juncture of the pro-
ceedings that the contest between the
free silver and Brice men is expected,
although the latter had things their
way today.
ONLY THREE FOR SILVER.
When the committee on resolutions
met tonight eX-Congressman Frank
Hurd, who is as strong for a gold
chairman, and it was found that J. NJ
Lewis, of the Eighth, P. w. Patrick, of
| the Seventeenth, and E. j. Blandin, of
| the Twenty-first district, were the only
4ree silver men on that committee of
| twenty-one members. The other COM
mittees were all strongly Brice organi-
zations. The strongest showing of
the opposition on any of them was
| c;xy D,;1
ministration to five of the opposition,
including the free silver men and
| other elements. The committee on res
olutions appointed a subcommittee of
| five to draw up platform, on which
the opposition was given a representa-
tive and which was instructed to re-
affirm the national financial plank of
1892, whicl. Senator Brice says the pres
| ioent and Secretary Carlisle had in
| terpreted to mean a gold standard. It
| was also instructed to indorse the tar
iff bill passed by the last congress and
the national administration, ana the
record of Senator Brice. Strong
| speeches were made for the resolu-
| ton of the silver men, but it was not
| incorporated in the instructions to the
| trainers of the platform. 1t will be in
| cOrpOrateu III the HiiiloIily ISpoil OIL
| Blandin, Lewis and Katrick, and it is
thought the vote will be 600 for the
| majority report and 200 for the minor
| ity report. The platform will arraign
Gov. McKinleys state administration
severely and point to the revival of
business as the effect of Democratic
rule and legislation, and to the de-
preston of 1888 and 1894 as the effect
of previous Republican legislation.
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