Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-08-21
BRICE IN CONTROL,
Will. HAVE THINGS MS owN WAY IN
Tur ONO CONVENTION.
Frank Hurd, chairman OF the Committee
on Resolutions, and the Brice Men
Also Dominate other Com
mittees.

sprlngdeli. a.. Aug 2oThe district and
other preliminary meetings or the Demo~
cratic state convention were held mere TO-
day preparatory to the assembling OF the
convention at 10 a. m. tomorrow senator
Brice reached Lima from New York yes
terday ana arrived here this morning He
is making the nght of his life for plat
form In harmony with the views OF Fresi.
dent Cleveland, Secretary Carlisle ana
himself on the financial question. lie ls
not taking aggressive part for the nom
nation for governor or other offices. nut
is interested In the organization SO as 10
control the committee on credentials,
which will determine the contest, and the
committee on resolutions. which VIII re-
port the platform. lie Is believed to have
"A majority Of the SOS delegates with him,
but the free silver men claim Soi of tho deli
egates, or enough to make trouble If no
concession is made to them. The delegates
are all here to-day, and the question is as
to what concession shall he made 10 the
minority, which claims to be over two
fifths and almost one-haif the membership
of the convention. The Brice men are not
placing any objection to any of the free
silver candidates. the Hon. John II,
Thomas and Colonel James kilbourne. for
governor, and they are both pronounced
advocates of silver John II. Thomas has
been opposing Senator Brice very strongly.
But to-day Senator Price, Ex-Governor
Campbell and other leaders dlned with
Mr.. Thomas, and II Is understood that
be known what the leaders did until after
their plans are developed in the convention
senator Brlce is the temporary chairman
OF the convention and his Keynote
Without regard 10 the h on outcome % Of the the tight
tonight for the organization of the con-
Xembont lis speech VII Se So9serNa.roS;
morning come the reports from the com
mittee on credentials. the majority for
tsu fox fpC Rri md 10 IL
nority for seating the free silver contest
ants. In considering these reports the
the silver men may get mad. 1t is at this
iuncture Of the ptroceedinss that the y.2n con
men is expected, although the latter had
things their own way today: ,., =. ;,
a. m, the city. was flooded with dodgers
bearing the following resolution. adopted
at q a, meeting Of the silver deiegates: =,
the law providing for the free coinage of
both gold and silver coins and their use.
without discrimination, as provided for in
the constitution"
The silver men met Senator Brice and
pledged him they had no fight on him, him, and
ator and his friends are on-committal
and want all to wait for the regular report.
badges We're distributed broadcast, in an
This afternoon senator Brlce. ex-Gov-
ernor and other leaders responded TO calls
for speeches as the clubs paraded by the
LaGonda hotel. At that time General Asa
S. Bushnell, the Republican candidate. hap;
ans and others % and ''i he. also. responded. vel
coming his political opponents to the city.
The silver men held meetings again to-day
to secure Endorsements for their resolution,
but while they were making speeches. the
Brice men secured the organization of the
one districts, in the selection of members
of the various committees. The committee
on resolutions includes President ingalls,.
Hurd, eX-ConGressman McMahon and sew
enteen others.
When the committee on resolutions met
tonight ex-Congressman Frank Hurd, who
Is as radical for a gold standard as for
F Wes found f that & al IT. Iewis Sa Of the ishth;
A.W. Patrick, of the Seventeenth, and, f.. j.
Blandin,of the ,Twenty-first district kwere
the only free silver men on that comttittee
of twenty-one members. The other commit
tees were all strongly Brice organizations.
on ne any OF them Was i6 for Bce aHd the
federal administration to five for the OF.
other elements. The committee resolu-
tions appointed "A subcommittee of five
to draw up platform on which i. the op;;
which was Instructed to reahirm the ma
tional financial plank of 1892 which Sem
tary Carlisle had interpreted TO mean
gold standard It was also instructed to
indorse the tariff bill passed by the last
congress and the national administration
and the record of Senator Brice. Strong
speeches We're made for the resolution OF
the silver men, but il was not incorporated
in the instructions to the trainers of the
platform. II will be incorporated in the
minority report of Blandin Lewis and Pat
rick and it is thought that the vote
will be 600 for the majority and 200 for the
minority report.
The Brice men controlled all the COM
mittec, but did not exercise their power
in unseating opponents in the committee
on credentials. They made Senator Brice
permanent as we'll as temporary, chairman
of the convention and continued the tenn
porary orsanization throughout. So far as
the ticket Is concerned the talk tonight
is for nothing but the old tickets of 1889
and 1891, which means Campbell for gov
ernor and Marquis for lieutenant governor
And 1t is understood tonight that ex-Ciov-
ernor Campbell has been assured of such
financial and other support to secure
his acceptance.