The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-13
SEE A SIBLEY BOOM.
Partisans Try to Keep it Out Of
Memphis Meeting.
They Don't Want to Endorse
Any One Man.
is SOME FRICTION.
POpulists Make Trouble in the
Resolutions Committee.
Conservatives Have Hard Work
to Restrain Them.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, June 13-The silver
orators began their labors anew this
morning after a good nights rest The
second days session of the great silver
convention opened with no sign of
diminution in the supply of speeches,
and it is doubtful if it will complete its
labors before late at night.
With busy prospect before them, the
silver men decided to begin their work
at 10 o'clock this morning. Around the
hotel lobbies last night there was much
discussion and speculation as to the scope
of the declarations to be recommended
by the resolutions committee. OF the
etand upon the question of free and
unlimited coinage of silver-the main
object, or, as Senator Harris was partic-
ular to put it, the sole object of the
convention-there is no doubt, but the
effect of the addition of seven Populist
members to the committee, together with
Senator Butler of North Carolina and
some of the radical third party silver
men of the west who are nursing the
presidential aspirations of Joseph Sib-
ley of Pennsylvania, is an uncertain
quantity.
The conservative men, however, are be-
lieved to control the committee and the
firm hand of Isham G. Harris, which has
been seen more than once in the conven-
tion's proceedings, will no doubt stay any
attempt to turn the convention into any
thing but what it was originally to be-a
mass meeting for the discussion of the
free coinage of silver.
At 1920 o'clock the Rev. DR.. Brooks of
Memphis, opened the convention with
prayer, after which the arrival of dele
gates from Arizona and one from Arkan-
sas was announced. Chairman Turpie
then announced that the committee on
resolutions was not ready to report and
| introduced Senator VIM. NJ. Stewart of
Nevada, who addressed the convention
At noon the committee on resolutions
is locked in the parlor of the GaYosa
hotel engaged in discussion that is sure
to last the greater part of the day. There
is no likelihood of a report soon.
The injection of the POpulist element
into the membership has caused BILE,
| though this trouble has not as yet assum-
ed more serious form than the neces-
sity of listening to innumerable
| speeches and voting down propositions
of the extremists. The seven Populists
were last night added to the committee
and with their allies in that body as it
was originally formed, are making
an earnest fight for declaration upon
| independent lines.
"In addition to this complication, there
is the Sibley boom which has been how
| ering over the convention since it con-
vened and which has not yet been dis
posed of. There is not much likelihood,
however, that the resolutions committee
will have to face direct proposition to
endorse the candidacy of Mr.. Sibley.
The men who are looking after that
| gentleman's interest are much too clever
to breach any such proposition. There
can be no doubt that the conservatives
control the resolutions committee; that
| that body will not only refuse to be swung
to the support of any mans presidential
| aspirations, but that its declarations
will be confined absolutely to an earnest
| appeal in the interest of the free coinage
of silver.
There was considerable dissatisfaction
| this morning among number of inhu-
| ential Democrats who are in attendance
upon the convention at the radical utter
ances of Mr.. Sibley last night,
! ton in 1896 and the obliteration of pa y
ties. The attempt to swing the gather
| ing into a third party boom, presumably
| in Mr.. Sibley's personal interest, was not
| relished by such men as Senator Harris,
Governor Clark of Arkansas, Mr.. Varda-
man, candidate for governor of Missis-
sippi, and Colonel Galloway, one of the
oldest newspaper men in the south, and
| they were not slow in expressing their
disapprovaL
Gov. Evans, of South Carolina, is
another opponent of the Siblsy idea. He
said to an Associated Press correspond
ent: 81 believe the proper policy to pur-
sue is to capture the Democratic conven-
ton. If the free silver men capture the
Democratic convention, the gold bugs
will secede and join the Republican
party. They Gan accomplish this, as was
illustrated by the recent action of the
Illinois Democratic convention.
"If it became necessary, governor,
would you give up your democracy for
free silver?"
81 would give up anything and go any
where for free silver, if it became nee
essary. The free silver Democrats will
not go into the Populist party for that is
a stencil in the nostrils of the people.
They will not GO into the Republican
party and yet the Democratic party un-
der Cleveland is little better"