The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-01
|SCAEMES OF THE SlLVERITES.
ALIdELD AND STONE SAID To
HIVE CCHBINED FOR BLAND.


or and girded themselves for the coming
fray.
To-day the Sherman house, where the
white metal headquarters have been To-
Gated, resounded with shouts and yells
of its advocatbs resplendent in l6 to
badges. button4 and other insignia, while
its register bore more distinguished
names than hhye been Inscribed in the
books of the hosiery for a quarter of
a century. So ia none of the prominent
advocates of the sold standard have put
in an appearalk re- and consequently the
silver people hbv bndisputed possession
of the field. FFroni Tomorrow, however,
the former wiz ls3 An to be in evidence,
and from then Iou i tery day will witness
some new phasE ia battle between the
majority and I'D aInest, aggressive. un-
conquerable md Ino q. The conspicuous
features of theN 0 Ahing of the war to-
day were the cfbn Ance between the bi-
metallic demock Il national committee
and the outsidea Nr men. the meeting
between Gov SNO-s bf Missouri and Gov.
AItgeld of IlnnNos land the declaration
of the Illinois ii Alton In favor of the
abrogatiOn of thNe yt-thirds rule.
As to the first III vas much more largely
attended than hi L. cen anticipated in view
of the fact thafA was simply prelimi-
who r&sponded to The roll call: United
stacy Senators Harris .Qf-'1te lessee, 1die
of tennessee, Jones' of Arka tsas, IurPle
or Indiana, CoCkrel of Missouri, Ddniel
SEVirginia, Senatolfclect MO4ey OF MIS-
= sissippi; Gov. Stone of AissOup, Gov AIT
geld of Illinois, Secretary of state Heln-
richsen of Illinois. John O. Tlnhhson OF
Alabama, eX-COngressman F1tpIah OF II
linols, B. f. Shvely of Iudia4a,. ;. 3.
Evans of Iowa, q. +. Humme1 oil Mlchl-
gan, Judge Shackelford of MiAsourl, eX-
Congressman w. j. Bryan any w. H..
Thompson of Nebraska, John Wecn and
Judge w. Mullane OF oregon, O. w. Poers
of Salt Lake City, Wiley e. Johes or Arl-
zona. Among those expected, but VINO had
. not arrived in the city were ex Congress
man Young of Tennessee, 9X-Speaker
Charles f. Crisp OF Georgia AMI Allen W.
Thurman of Ohio. These, however, We're
the only conspicuous aOsentees from to-
tai Of 60 state committeeman and mem
bers of the central executive committee.
The preliminary meeting lasted less than
an hour.
and it was agreed that the oliver forces
need only to work harmonipusly in or
, der to insure the Adoption OF q q aut-and-
out l6 to 4 PLATFORM.
What gave the eonferees most concern
Eas the matter Of the temporary organi-
zation of the convention. The fact was
dwet upon that the sentiment Of the ma
tional committee was opposed to that Of
a majority Of the delegates but on the
other hand Il WaE insisted that ii did
+. not necessarily low that the commit
tee would go 20 ar as 10 attempt to get
in any advantage br attempt 20 consum-
/, mate any stra eyed air of authority vested
Y in it, In order to Ibe on the safe side it
was finally de arnl lned to appoint a com
mittee of five TO lWait on the executive
I. committee of The 1atiOnal committee, and
as the resolution idiplomatically puts it,
10 confer with mat body in reference to
all questions and matters affecting tenn
pOrary organizations and proceedings.
This committee. az designated by Senator
Z Harris, who presided over the confer
ence, is compCse iOf Senators Jones, Tur-
pie, Daniels, anii Cows. Stone and Alt
geld. This cfmmittee repaired to the
: headquarters lf be national committee at
T the Palmer house after dinner, but was
Z informed by Dir Sheerng that Chairman
Harrity woul not arrive till tomorrow
morning, ana that meeting Of the ex-
. ecutive committee had been called for
noon.
The delegaes intimated their desire
to be given an audience a o. clock.
"a The conference between Gov Stone,
leader of the Bland forces and Gov Alt
geld, was held behind double closed doors
? in the latter quarters at the Sherman
fhouse, Col. aries II. Jones of st. Louis
being the only outsider present or within
a hundred yards # earshot. The confer
/. ence was evidently pre-arranged, as Gov
, Stone went 10 tae Sherman house after
registering at the Auditor um. Nearly an
hour was oonSum / in the conference, and
at its conclus on not one Of those present
would say a ORD or breathe suggestion
concerning its import. Gov. Stone, how
ever appeared to be in particularly eX-
uberant spirits, and insisted that Mr.
Bland could rot be kept cut OF the nomi-
nation. Slx-een to j re said, meant
Bland, Bland meant 16 to l; both meant
free silver and that was the issue of the
r. dav.
The news Of the conference spread
quickly around town. and it was taken at
once for granted that the Bland leaders
had made some kind .of an alliance with
Gov. Altgeld at who's word the IS votes
~ OF Illinois VIII be cast as he wills it, and
{ vote as a unit on all questions. Gov. Alt
geld was asked point blank whether such
4 an alliance had been formed, but he mere
y smiled and said that the time to talk
e Ahad not arrived.
The conference created uneasnes among
1e supporters OF Gov Boies, and some
.idedly bitter talk vas INDUCED in con-
y e-inlng the alleged antagonlsm Of Gov.
geld toward the grand old man of the
iowa democracy At rhe Boies headquar-
'-s, in the Palmer house it was declared
= rs evening that # allowed to use their
A4fn mclinations, the followers of the
lana delegation would vote for the
49Na man.
File would have assurances of sympa-
WF from a number Of delegates from this
s4te,' said a member of the Boies com
-.lee, but II is evident tnat they are
-i to the machine. If they We're free
g. act we could corrai the bulk of them
" nAatever the object Of the Stone-Alt-
-N conference, howe eIu we are not 60
s to be dishearrened by a single re-
1. Boies VIII be- the nominee of the
Vention, despite The underhanded
mes that the gold men and others
,ts,e resorted 70. Tho first named know
strength and they lear him more than
& other candidate that has been mem
f0r-d."
fa- meeting OF the IS delegates from IL
..sis called by Gov Altgsld was as livery
was short. The delegation had a
nort N.Y.. of chips On Is shoulders and il
IN. aaNious that ne powers that be of
Iale acquainted w.rp the fact When an
zaron had b.-9 effected by electing
F''. Atgeld as char ban Of the delegation
matter OK tic6els was brought IN.
n delegate and III erpate has been al
5d one visito. kard bat each ana
one has fifty 4 lends insisting upon
rss provided for n proper order this
fef should be Of tended 20 by the ma
ll commitments Mr. Cable. but she
r, who who was tur Ri down at the Peo-
invention Ws again ignored and
n.yer A S. Trud wss appointed com
s Of one to wavupon Secretary Shee-