The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-27

tee were responsible. There were sew
eral speeches in criticism of the COM
mittee, and resolutions on the death of
Mr.. Hughes were finally agreed upon to
be presented to the convention today.
The gathering soon quieted down again,
and, While card-playing was resumed
by many, the majority went to sleep.
Soon after q break was made in the
lines of the enemy at some unknown
point, and large baskets of sandwiches
and cans OF coffee were carried into
the hall. Evidently there was q secret
entrance by which delegates could re-
turn to the hall also, for the number
slowly increased towards o'clock, and
an hour later Hon. T. w. Coakley re-
ported that a roll call showed that $50
delegates, with credentials, were pres
ent. At 2:3O a. m. there were, apparent
ly. no more .han 800 in the building.
Shortly after o'clock, Secretary
Nathan c. Robinson, of the state conf
mittee, gold man, appeared at the
hall and asked the managers if they
would be ready to deliver the hall
cleared of the silver men, to the COM
m1ttee at IL o'clock. the hour at which
the convention was scheduled to OPEN
Manager Mudgett stated that there
We're over 500 men in the hall, who had
credentials to the convention as dele
gates, and he did not see how he could
legally remove them. Secretary Rob-
| inson then retired and proceeded to
the Quincy house. where the distribu-
tion of tickets of admission to the con-
Vention hall to delegates holding cre-
dentials was begun.
Hundreds of delegates were gath
cred in front of Music hall, clamoring
for admission when 10 o'clock, the
hour announced for the opening of the
doors, arrived. They clamored in vain.
however. T. w. Coakley. of Boston.
! one of the silver leaders, appeared at
| window Of the hall and advised the
Williams delegates outside to organize
! and send a committee to meet Mr. Will
liams and cooperate with him in
bringing about the opening of the con-
vention. In the hall. Mr. Coakley said
We're about 500 duly accredited dele
gates holding the fort on the inside
and he advised his friends to hold the
fort on the outside. The outsiders
adopted Mr.. Coakley's suggestions. and
the time before Mr. Williams could be
brought to the hall was spent in
speechmaking. At about 11:20 o'clock
| Mr.. Williams reached the scene. He
said that no one knew why the dele
gates who had tickets were not admit
ted to the hall, but undoubtedly he
would have some knowledge as soon
as the committee that had been sent
to call on Chairman Corcoran returned.
When we get inside he declared,
we will admit every man who has Gre
/ dentials
He warned the crowd that it must be
orderly, and that the police were pres
ent to protect property.
! Give the doors little dynamite"
| yelled man in the crowd, but he was
4 vigorously Kissed and suppressed, cries
/ CT Put that man down. arising on
! every side.
A few minutes before noon, word
came from inside the hall that the del
/ ncro 11a
/ ton. George Fred Williams then ad-
/ dressed the crowd and said:
The state committee refuses to open
| these doors. We have a regular con-
vention organized and in operation in
side this hall. We are about to get an
other hall, where the other delegates
can gather, and will have a full report
! OF the convention on the inside. The
| second convention will indorse the ac-
! tlon of that now in session within. We
| feel confident that we have five-sixths
of the delegates Of the state on our
/ side. Stand right where you are until
| you hear from me-"
Shortly afterwards a messenger from
the gold standard delegates announced
/ from a carriage that the state conven-
tion was about to assemble in Faneuil
/ hail. A few hundred left the vicinity
OF Music hall and followed the messen-
ger to Faneuil hall. Then there ap-
| peared man who said there was
| committee representing the delegates
in Music hall, appointed to call upon
the fire commissioners to enforce the
ordinance against the closing of doors
of any public hall while there was
! meeting or performance in progress
The outsiders adopted a resolution in
conformity with the representation
| and dispatched a committee to the city
| hall to ask that the doors of Music hall
be broken open.
While the silver democrats We're
| holding their meetins in Hamilton
place and Music hall the state com
mittee held continuous session in a
| room in the Quincy house Bulletins on
the proceedings at Music hall and in
| Hamilton place We're received by the
state committee. About II o'clock
two of the delegates were sent to
Music hall to confer with the Williams
men and see if a compromise could
! not be effected. At noon the truce
| committee reported that no one would
| be admitted to Music hail. whereupon
the state committee decided to call
| the convention in FaneuiI hall At
| o'clock the committee and about coo
| delegates, preceded by band
| marched UP Washington street
through School street, by the city
hall, where Mayor Quincy reviewed
them, then to fremont street, past
| the entrance to Music hall and from
that point to Faneuil hall. There were
| no demonstrations along the route
| except at Music hall, where the Will
Jams contingent roundly hissed the
| procession.
The convention in Faneuil hail or
| ganized with Judge Corcoran as chair
man. A motion to indorse the nonaa-
nation of Bryan and SewaH and the
j Chicago platform, drew out a protest
! from Thomas j. Gargan, who. a few
days ago resigned from the state com
! mlttee. 1t was adopted, whereupon
Mr.. Gafgan and other gold delegates
! Withdrew from the convention A com
munication from the 16 gold members
OF the state committee was then read
| by the chairman. In it the committee
rendered their designations and stated
their reasons, for the action A COM
mittee was appointed to name electors
at large. George Fred Williams was
nominated for governor, and Christie
pher M. I. Callahan, of Holyoke. for
lieutenant governor, and a committee
was appointed to complete the ticket
A delegate asked If the convention was
the one called for IL o'clock at Music
hail. Ex-Mayor Coughlin. of Fall
River in reply, said that every attempt
! OF the state committee to obtain pos
session of Music hall had been fruit
/ less, and he defended the action of the
committee in changing the meeting
place to Faneuil hall
The 500 delegates favoring George
Fred Williams, who had held the fort
/ in the Music hall all night We're called
together by Timothy W. Coakley. Three
/ cheers were given for Bryan and Sc
wall, with great vim. After organic
/ alton had been effected. Timothy W
Ceakley placed Hon. George Fred VIII
liams in nomination for governor. and
| the nomination was immediately made