The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-07-04
THE GOLD ADVANCE GUARD.
The BODY was Headed by New York.
erE Led by whitney.

Chicago, July 3.-The most attractive
event of the day and the most important
from the standpoint of the anti-free sill
Yer members of the party, assembled in
the convention city, was the arrival this
evening of the advance guard from the
Eastern StatcrL principally New York
representing the gold standard minority.
Their loader, towering in stature and in
1uence, was William G. Whitney The
former Secretary of the Navy had ,en-
gagged almost the whole OF the parlor
floor of the Auditorium aUnex-Iiine
bedrooms and six parlorS-for the use
OF the sound money Democracy. Nh
Whitney was the first to inscribe his
name, and among the others were Thos.
r. Ryan, Walter Staun:on, James Smith.
JT: John r. Fellows. William L. Rus
sell, Senator Gray of Delaware, ]. j.
Martin, c. c. Baldwin. Smith NJ. Weed,
G.B.M. Harvey. II. d. Macdonald. c. r.
Miller. Thomas B Ryan, New York.
When asked IL he had any statement
10 make to the press, Mr.. whitney
said:
II shall have nothing to say tonight
IN the why OF an interview The fact Is
l nave nothing to add to what | said
Tor publication in New York on the issue
ana crisis before the party l do nor
know anything new to talk about be-
cause have been on train for twenty
lour nours, ana have just got in TO look
over the ground
Ihen came Mr. Harrity. the national
Committee chairman. who greeted tha
New Yorker rs il very glad TO see him
safely in Chicago. Close behind Tho
Pennsylvanian walked the Presidential
GGahuidate from Kentucky, Senator
blackpurn, who added his WELCOMING.
words. All the members of the Whit
ney party could not be accommodated a :
the Annex,so they Were quar,ered MT Inc
main hotel. These We're James r. Mar
I'm and ex-Mayor Hugh Grant, of New
York City, Ex-Governor Flower Wont
to the Palmer House
w hlie Mr. Whitney was at the elevo
Tor waiting to go into conference with
Mr.. Harrity and others, he was greeted
nS Goi. 5 w. Ferdyee, president of
the TeXas and st. Louis railway. wbo
forms one of the gold standard contin-
gent from Missouri. He evidently came
10 the convention at the request of Mr.,
whitney as he called to the New Yorker
willie the car was being started: You
sent for me and I came. you see.
always come when you call me and like
TO oblige my friends"
senator Hill and Ex-Governor Flow
er went to the Palmer House. where the
State delegation as a body. has n LARGE
parlor reserved for its use as headauar-
Hefs. Governor Flower discoursed at
some length upon the financial condition
OF the country He said that free silver
was not the cure for the existing evils.
''N' Oh production by
farmer and manufactures alike was
necessary.
The farmer" he asserted "needs
aboVe all things else. a short crop TO en-
able him to sell what he has at good
prices. He has had two or three crops
now so bountiful that he could not well
AspoEe of them at remunerative rates.
ie Is the last of the row of bricks to be
knocked down as the result OF the panic
VI 1873, anu whoever shall be elected
PRESIDENT this year there will be good
tiines believe in 1897. But not upon
free silver basis. Diluting the curren
cy VIII not restore the conditions OF good
and profitable business. Credit and the
must be maintained"
MT. Flower expressed the belief that
1r The convention named candidate
upon a free silver platform, the Republ;-
can ticket would carry the State of New
York by 100000 majority.
a card sent 10 Senator Hill was re-
turned with the statement on its re-
verse side: Just arrived; nothing to say
at the moment"