The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-10
DOWNFALL OF GOLD
Silver Men Have a Sure Two
Thirds Majority.
AN INCREASE OVER FIRST TEST VOTE
Will Dictate the Platform and Name the
Candidates-The Yellow Metal AdvO-
Gates Completely Routed
and Defeated.

Chicago, July S.-The silver demo-
Gratis have captured the convention and
gold is defeated. They have routed
their opponents by majority of 2O7.
The result of the vote on the adop-
tion of the minority report naming
Senator Daniel for temporary chair
man showed the silver men to be 48
votes short of a two-thirds majority,
taking it as a test vote. But in many
respects it was not so. There were
eight votes of South Dakota cast for
Hill, which, on square issue of free
coinage will go for silver. Three
votes in West Virginia thrown against
the silver candidate will be counted for
the silver platform, and there are
other votes which were given to Hill
which they will have with them
throughout the balance of the session.
If they should still lack few votes
they have Michigan to fall back upon.
A decision in favor of silver men in one
or two contested districts in that state
will convert under the unit rule the 26
gold votes of Michigan into % silver
votes and give sure two-thirds ma
jority for the silver men.
An Interesting Assemblage
The gathering was a wonderfully
interesting assemblage in the gigantic
Coliseum-wonderful in point of num-
bers and interesting with regard to
the men who made up the assem-
blage The giants of the party were
there. There was Jones of Arkansas,
diffident to degree, portly of appear
ance, but quick in movement; Harris
of Tennessee, older and not so erect as
his senatorial colleague, sizing up the
convention with the keen eye of the
practiced presiding officer; Tillman,
leading the south Carolina delegation,
hardly less noticea BILE than his older
fellow senators, and the young gov
ernor of Texas, who also came in for
his share of attention. VIM G. Whit
ney sauntered into the great hall al
most unobserved. He took his seat
with the New York delegation, near
by to Bissell of Buffalo, who had been
President Cleveland's law partner and
postmaster-general, and looked over
the sea of faces. Hurrying along
through the converging crowds of ar
irving delegates came Russell, the
boyish- looking ex-governor of Massa-
chusetts, and with him the other Rus
sell from the Old Bay State, who had
been unsuccessful in his endeavor to
reach the executive Office vacated by
his namesake Gray of Delaware and
Villas of Wisconsin, Mr.. Cleveland's
most ardent supporters on the floor of
the senate; Bradley Smalley of YER
mont and others of the gold leaders
entered unobserved and took their
places quietly.
Hill Heartily Cheered.
When David B. Hill entered the hall
many of those who afterwards voted
to keep him from the temporary chair
manship, forgot family quarrels and
cheered as heartily as the rest. Again
and again the enthusiasm broke forth
and Hill sank modestly into his chair
and looked as though he wished to be
out of sight. 1t was nearly 1 o'clock
instead of noon when the convention
was called to order and for an hour
and a half prior to the time when
Chairman Harrity of the national com
mittee tapped his gavel, the floor had
been one moving, converging, diverg-
ing mass of humanity, principally male,
but with sufficient levening of women
to make it marked.