The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-08

slavery he pointed TO an American flag
| at his back and secuted the idea of
compromise
Did the men, he asked. ''who gave
up their lives to preserve that flag. talk
| There can be none" AS he finished he
| descended from the platform and he
was accorded another great demonstra-
| ton. The Illinois delegation mounted
/ their chairs and frantcally waved their
| banners. Delegates from other dele
| cations crowded the aisles to wiring
his hand while the galleries yelled and
| shouted.
After the interlude by the band, New
| England had her inning when George
| Fred Williams, the stalwart, fashiOna-
! bly, attired, scholarly looking young
man from Massachusetts whose con-
| version to free silver was recently an
noUnced, was called to the platform
amid great enthusiasm
WILLIAMS MAKES A HIT
He spoke in a new vein for the free
| silver men of New England and his
| speech was by far the most striking e
! incident of the day. He made an i'm
| paSSiOned plea against SectiOnaliSm
| and made it in such .forcibIe, clear cut
| ringing sentences that every one shot
| to the mark like a bullet. His first
| sentence: This is not a sectional
convention brought the silver men to
| their feet like a regiment answering to
| the word of command, and when he
| declared that this is a battle for the
restoration of the union of the states -
the shout made the roof rattle. This
| is no transfer of the seat of power
from the Atlantic to the Mississippi .
he continued, and cries went up of
Il speak" he said, ''in behalf of the
| honest capital of New England, in be-
half of the real capitalists, the men
| who earned what capital they could,
| by honest toll and in behalf of the mil
lions of spindles now silent.
Our customers have been ruined, -
| he declared, and this new portrayal of
issue received
marked approval. The farmers of the
west and south to whom New England
| sold her goods, the railroads in which
| she invested her honest earnings were
bankrupt he continued, "and now we
have finally come down on our knees
with you"
The seat of empire he said was to be
kept in the lumber camps of Maine, the
plantations of Louisiana, the wheat
fields of the west and the mining camps
| of the Rockies, by the restoration Of a
financial system under which prosper
ity would return. When he closed with
| the statement that the seat of power
was to be removed from the control
| of Lombard street in London to -"
the end of his sentence was unheard
amid the great tumult The ovation
which followed his peroratiOn was a
| dramatic one. The Virginia senator
| Daniel, with the face of a last century
| statesman stepped forward to seize the
! young Puritan by both hands with
! words of strong approval while Black
burn in his off hand blue grass style
/ said: You did it splendidly Fred. -
! Passing down to his seat with Massa-
| chusetts delegation in the row directly
| before the platform, he was surround
! ed by approving silver men, and one
| delegate from his own state extended
a congratulating hand.
CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE
The comittee on credentials having
| at last agreed on a partial report, the
chairman, Mr. Atwood of Kansas, was
introduced and presented the report. 1t
as to Michigan and Nebraska. In Ne
brasl1a the report seated the silver del
| egates headed by w. J. Bryan This
announcement was greeted with
| a storm of applause.
The committee asked for further time
| to decide the Michigan contest. T. J.
| MahOney, one of the gold delegates
| from Nebraska, made a brief speech of
! protest.
He and his colleagues, he said, well
| understood that they were not to be
! thrown out, and at the head of the del
| egatiOn they marched out. The report
| of the committee was adopted by viva
voce vote. Gov Russell of Massachu-
| setts first demanded a roll call, but
| subsequently withdrew it.
The band regaled the convention
| with more music and the crowd was
| kept in good humOr While the wait for
a decision in the Michigan case occur
red.
| JUST TELL THEM YOU SAW ME.
Just tell them that YOU saw me-
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| cation marched in. A big banner ac-
cOmpanied the delegation. The Ne
| braskan was given a great ovation.
| The huge royal purple banner of the
| VIM. J. Bryan club was finally carried
| to the platform and planted in full
/ view of the audience. After a lulI of
some minutes Mr.. Marston of Louisia-
| ma. moved that Senator Tillman of
South Carolina be requested to ad-
| dress the convention After ten min
utes the chairman announced that Gov.
IA q % van ion fea1
| a recess until 5 o'clock No one had
! heard the motion on account of the
| hustle The delegates We're eager for
work and there were cries of No, no,
not yet
| Senator White explained that the
| committee on credentials had reported
| that it could not finish it's work for
| three hours. and that the convention
| could not adopt a platform without the
| titles to the seats settled. So, although
| Finley of Ohio moved to proceed, ad-
| journment was had at 1877 until p. m.
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