The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-08-16
MISSOURI S%ILVERITES
PROCEEDINGS OF PERTEL
SPRINGS CONVENTION.

SONV lIN tOIS.
Dick Bland the Big Gun Of the Conven-
tIon-The Democratic state Central
Committee R~eorganized on q Thorough
silver Basis. q
PERT1.E SPRINGS. Mo-, Aug. I'm
point of numbers the attendance upon
the "16 to l" state convention, which
began here at noon to-day, compares
nnfavorably with the usual state
gatherings Of the Democracy. Only o
falr crowd isiin attendance.
At the caucuses of the fifteen CON
gressional districts this morning there
was some lively sparring without any
open breaks. There was no point of
difference in any save as to who should
serve on the committee on resolutions.
The one contest in the Fourteenth
ward Of st. Louis was dropped, which
made it only a perfunctory duty to
name Q committee on credentials. The
Second district had a lively tilt be-
tween Robert Bodine Of Monroe and
William Eads of C~arrollton, for the
honor Of serving on the committee on
resolutions. Eads won by one-ffth of
q vote
BY districts, the committee on reso-
buttons is this: First, K. T.. Giles; Sec
Dnd, William Eads; Third, j. W. Sullin-
GER; Fourth James Lamar; Fifth, John
4. Crisp, Sixth, ID. A. DeArmond;
Seventh, r. G. Horne; Eighth. Judge
d. w. S~hackleford, Ninth, r. Z. Nc
Dearmon; Tenth, Police Sergeant Nc
Nance: Eleventh Nick Bell; Twelfth.
Edwin Harrison, Thirteenth Eli Able;
Fourteenth Marsh Arnold; Fifteenth,
Charles III. Morgan.
The committee on permanent organ
izntion is n that will wrestle with
the proposition to kill off the old com
mittee by increasing the membership
n from each congressional district.
There are some conservatives on the
list, but the extremists are in the ma
jority. These are the committeeman:
First district, Il. w. Hawkins; Second,
N. W. Basket; Third, Clint Tilley;
Fourth j. w. Jones; Fifth. w. e. King;
Sixth, r. w. Collins, Seventh, l.. John
son; Eighth, 4. w. Tate: Ninth, Z. w.
Webb; Tenth, Ell. w. Smith, Eleventh,
Il. w. Allen; Twelfth Harry Hill;
Thirteenth, w. 7. Lopez; Fourteenth,
Henry w. Hickman: Fifteenth. M. L.
Benton.
At high oon the convention met III
Tabernacle hall. In the absence of
Chairman Charles Maffitt, called away
by he death OF q relative, John Fl.
Carroll of Putnam called for order.
After a brief address the Rev. Mr..
Berry offered prayer. The state cen
trail committee had selected Mr.. Bland
Tor temporary chairman and Thomas
Love of Springfield for temporary
secretary.
Bland was introduced as that great
Democratic apostle" His reception
was an ovation from the enthusiastic
silverites. Without an o%ratorical flour
ash or a word of preamble he began a
speech which lasted fifteen minutes.
Silver was his theme and he began by
remarking that If these people who
had been saying the free silver move
ment was dying out could glance over
h convention here, they would be
convinced that the silver sentiment
would never die until silver was re-
stored to Where, it stood before the
crime of 1879. Missouri sent greeting
70 Illinois and promised that in the
fight 3of 1895 Missouri and her sister
state wouldsfre the first gun. The de-
~liberations OF the convention should be
calm and deliberate, but should be
marked by all that frmness which
their constituents demanded and ex-
pected. He threw out no promises of
Cancellation. He was for a fight.
With the close of BANDS speech the
convention proceeded to name the diff
terent committees elected at the eau
cuses.
After the temporary organization
had been completed a q%uartette sang a
song about lighting the gold bugs
till we die" A recess was then taken
until 2 o'clock. A ripple of surprise
spread through the convention hall
when the Third congressional district
put forward as vice president John
McMichaels of Clinton. He was the
private secretary of Governor Waite of
Colorado and just how he happened to
get in can only be explained by the
silver men Of Clinton.
The committee on permanent organ
ixation soon. settled it's work by recon-
mcn1ihg that the temporary orgoniz-
alton continue. It adopted a resolu-
ton presented by George w. Allen Of
81. Louis, providing for one additional
committeeman from each district and
four from the state ut lxcge. This
will make a committee of thirty-four.
A plank provides, too, that the chair
man of the state committee shall in
the future be elected by the state con
vention instead of by the committee
The new state committee will stand
fourteen gold bugs and nineteen silver
ties, in the event that the convention
approves it's plan for the increase,
which there is no doubt.