The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-25

state convention tomorrow will be one
of the hottest contests in the history
of the commonwealth.
All the delegates are here today for
a preliminary skirmish in district
meeting. a polling by al the Louis
vile papers shows that the gold dele
gates are in the majority. The silver
men charge that the Louisville papers
claim most of the uninstructed dele
gates. while they are equally divided.
Lines are drawn on the endorsement Of
the administration, with Carlisle's
friends leading for the administration
and Blackburn's friends against its
financial policy.
The First Test.
General Cassius IL Clay is the adj
ministration candidate for governor;
General P. II. Hardin is the anti-ad-
ministration candidate. The silver men
will try to force nominations before the
adoption of the platform. The gold
men are bitterly opposed to this order
of business. as they claim Hardin IS
stronger than the free silverites. The
first test of strength will come tomor-
row on the selection of temporary chair
members at large on all committees
There are eleven congressional dis
tricts. 1t is estimated the gold men
Will have SIX and the silver men five Of
the comnlitte on resolutions from the
districts, but il the silver men secure a
temporary organization the platform
makers will stand seven TO six. This
is the fight being made today.
The Posts Poll.
The Post, which strongly supports
the administrations financial policy,
today has a poll of delegates showing
435 for Hardin, 37S for Clay and 90
doubtful. The Post says: There are
SIS delegates; 440 are necessary for a
choice and the polling indicates that
Hardin lacks only five votes. The Har-
din men say that they have the votes.
This is not by any means certain.
General c. Gordo Williams was defeat
ed sixteen years ago by James B. Nc
Creary when within five votes Of nom
ina tion."
Tonight the Sound money dele
gates chose ex-Congressman w. J.
Stone as their candidate for temporary
chairman. They say Judge Beckner is
Blackburn'S man. At the Winchester
convention, last week, he opposed the
endorsement of Cleveland and Carlisle.
They will make a test on the vote
between Beckner and Stone, the latter
being popular with some of the silver
ties and Hardin men. Meantime the
conservatives want both Beckner and
Stone to promise to appoint enc silver
man and one gold man as mem5er-at-
large of the committee on resolutions,
and, in fact, to divide equally the mem
bers at large on all the committees.
Has Much at Stake.
olrIa1 xrrIa ho-
at stake at this convention than any
of the state candidates and more even
than Secretary Carlisle, was disposed
to concede to the conservative plan
of an equal division of the members at
large on each of the committees, but
the radical silver men opposed it and
a meeting of the silver men was &C
cordingly called for IL o'clock tonight.
The silver men may be in conference all
night, preparatory to the fight which
begins in the congressional district
meetings in the morning.
Tonight the contest between the adj
ministration and anti-adminisIration
delegates has been more bitter than
ever. The fighting is for temporary
organization, with view to securing
the chairman, two members a. large
OF the committee on resolutions and
controlling the rules and order '1f bust
ness SO IldI UOIllIldIlOllS Sldn UC
made before the platform is adopted.
AS General Hardin claims enough
votes to nominate him, the honest
money" delegates want the platform
adopted first.
Hardin and Silver.
General Hardin is reported to have
said he would insist on a free silver
platform, and when seen he declined
10 deny it His friends claim that he
could not run on a Carlisle or admin
istration platform after the canvass
he has made with Blackburn and
others on the free coinage. There is
a conservative element wanting TIE
convention to reaffirm the national
platform of 1892, and go no farther on
the financial question; but the silver
ties say that would imply an endorse
ment of the administration.
Senator Blackburn favors the reaf-
firming OF the platform of 1892, with an
additional affirmation that the pledges
of 1892 have not been fulfilled by
President Cleveland and Secretary
Carlisle The conservatives argue
that if General Hardin is nominated
and so controls the convention as to
prevent the reaffirming of the national
declarations of 1892 that the state
ticket and platform would be outside
of the party, and that there might be
some justification in the threatened
bolt of the ultra gold men.
The state committee does not name
the temporary chairman for this con-
vention in advance.
Chairman Carroll. of the state COM
mittee, holds the gavel until Che con-
vention selects its temporary chair
man, and the first thing in order is
the election of temporary officers, on
which. at this time depends the fate
of senatorial, gubernatorial and other
candidates and the metallic complex
ion of the platform
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