The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-07
WAR OF SIL1ERITES
PROSPECTS OF Lively FIGHT
AMONG WHITE METAL MEN
DECIDEDLY CHEERFUL.
RIVALRY AND JEALOUSY
AMONG THE NUMEROUS CANDrx
DATES AND THEIR FRIENDS
HOURLY INCREASING.
sHREwD MOVE MADE BY H1LH
In Absenting Himself from the Gala
Meetings-Leaves Chairman
ship in Doubt.

In Ahsenting Himself from the GoIa
Meetings-Leaves Chairman
ship in Doubt.
Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, July 6.-This is a wild
convention night. Hotels are ALI
jammed to suffocation, the Palmer
most literally so. 1t takes half am
hour to go from the office to the parg
lor floor. Bands are playing at the
hotels and In the streets, and in adj
dition to those on the inside all outs
doors is filed with people, The crowds
greet Dixie" when played by the
bands, with yells Of delight, but no
more so than did the crowds at ST.
Louis. Apparently, both parties can
unite on Dixie, and it might be a good
plan to take that for a common plat.
form and let everybody be happy on
a once more united country There
was a small Bland torchlight process
sion tonight, one of the banners car
r1ed reading BLAND, Bimetallism or
Bust" The last alternative shows that
while they hope for the best they are
prepared for the worst The selecl
tion of Hill for temporary chairman
by vote Of q to % for Senator Dam
iels, of Virginia, in the national coma
m1ttee, has drawn the lines of demar[
cation between the factions Hill is;
especially popular in the South, and
If any one can win silver votes he ean.i
Ii he should be chosen you might see
ticket made of Hill and Mclean, orli
a free coinage platform, without mem
t1oning Is to 1. A good many claim
Hill can win, but | have visited silvera
delegations at the various hotels to-
night, and find no detection from Dam.
fels that they will admit One man I'M
the Missouri headquarters told me he's
would vote for Hill, but he was
jumped on so furiously that he recant-
ed, and / almost felt like escapingi
myself.
THERE'S BLOOD ON THE NOON
on the ticket question 1 heard propo-
sitions discussed at one of the Bland
headquarters of cancelling all tickets
issued to spectators and Issuing a new
set. One man with oaths enough to
indicate that he must at some period
have been a Republican, declared he
would offer such resolution, and
others unanimously said they would
support it. They said the gold men
had packed the house and silver men
cannot get tickets. The silver
ties are talking more bitterly
tonight than yesterday. They have
been braced up by the western crowds
who have come in today.
Two of the morning Republican,
papers undertook to boom Mclean for
president today, but outside of Ohio
he Is not much talked of save for vice
president. They told me in the Ohio
delegation today that they were for
Mclean first and last for president and.
not for vice president, still he is a good
deal talked of for vice president. part
ly because he comes from Ohio and
would make big fight on McKinIey's
own ground. If they really want to
make strong fight Hill and Mclean
would do 1t, but the mischief is to get
a platform with sufficient straddle.
Eastern Democrats would take Hill
with moderate platform, but moder-
alton In this crowd, there's the rub.
The Minnesota delegation, or the gold
portion, called on Whitney tonight and
had very pleasant interview. I met
MIN to-day but he says as he is not a
delegate 1t would not be becoming to
talk for publication. I think I diagnose
the gold mems position correctly when
l say that they are at sea as to the
future, and what win be done depends
upon circumstances, which will be met
as they arise. They will not support
a sixteen to one platform and it's candf-
date under any circumstances, but how
they will oppose 1t they do not at this
time know themselves. 1t may be done
IOxy fI1A,, I'll
by leaving each protesting Democrat
to act for himself, certainly to act in
hostility to the silver craze. Tomorrow
Will be the beginning of open war and
If the silverites elect Daniel for tenpor-
airy chZrman, as they have the power
to do, the sight of first blood may
lead to such extreme measures as to
FORCE AN OPEN BREAK
in convention. No one can tell in adj
vance what would happen Hills elect
ion would be personal and not a gold
triumph. While he is making a great
personal effort ] do not think he ex-
poets success. Teller Is still a minus
quantity. Republican boilers are run
ming his campaign from parlors IN the
Great Northern hotel. The only state
openly for him is Colorado, and that
only in case he is a candidate They
may vote for him just to get his name
before the convention.
The silverites denounce Cleveland as
strongly as they advocate sixteen to
one.
People who condemned Hill fornot ap-
pearing at the Auditorium meeting Sat
urday night now see the shrewdness OF
his move. Silver men claim that ne
absented himself because he is not in
full sympathy with gold. If he had
made a speech that night it would
simply have made the contest for
Daniel so easy that Hill would scarce
ly know he was alive. Now there is a
fight on.
Minnesota got her signs up at the
Victoria hotel, tonight, showing where
the headquarters are located One is
placed over the archway leading to the
bar, and now / am sure everyone will
know where Minnesota is located.
Here's no to headquarters.
The decision of the national commit
tee in favor Of the gold contestants
from Michigan and South Dakota will
likely precipitate an open fight in con-
vention. In fact. II will be nothing but
fighting, and the length of the ccnveu-
tion depends upon whether the sill
verites apply the gag rule Of the pre-
vious question. Tickets for the. entire
convention, which were held at $50
Saturday, are being offered on the
street now for SIS. Perhaps the owners
of these tickets fear the silver men will
carry out their threat OF cancelling all
the outstanding tickets.
After the show OF hands Tomorrow
the silver men propose to counsel to- +
gether and see ii a definite programme
can be agreed uYtns1 THE rivalry OF .