The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-22

ST. LOUIS. July 21-The Populist
and silver conventions convene tomor-
row, the former in the hall in which the
Republican national convention was
held and the latter in Music hail.
where Grover Cleveland was nomin-
ated in 1888. Interest in the silver con-
! vention has been eclipsed by the bitter
struggle among the Populists over the
| question of nominating or endorsing
Bryan.
The programme of the silver con-
veqlrtfon is cut and dried. There is no
division of sentiment. Congressman
| Francis NewIandS. of Nevada, will be
| temporary chairman. and William =.
| 81. John, the New York banker, per-
manent chairman. They will deliver
| their speeches, a platform of a single
plank in favor of the free coinage of
silver at is to 1 will be adopted, Bryan
and Sewall Will be endorsed and the
convention viii adjourn.
| The Populsts, on the other hand, are
rent and torn by internal dissensions.
and the contending factions will
/ plunge Immediately into
A FIERCE AND DETERMINED
FIGHT,
which may be prolonged for four or
five dlys, and which from present in
dicatiOns will probably result in bolt,
no matter what faction prevails The
| heterogeneous complexion of the con-
/ vention, comprising as it does. many
\ whose opinions on the question seem
dramatically opposed and who hold
/ and advocate these opinions with a
/ bulldog tenacity that neither argument
nor suaSion seem able to shake; the
/ conflicting interests and the condition
/ that hedge the situation about, would
/ sItaggar the oldest political prophet
were he to attempt to forecast the re-
suit with anything like detail. The
! Bryan men still appear to be i'm control
/ and che leaders are very confident that
! they are in the majority. Practically
AL the trained and experienced gem
4 erals are aligned with them. They have
the advice and counsel of Senator
Jones and the
sHREWD DEMOCRATIC MANIAC
ERS,
who are vigilantly watching every
/ point in the battle and able allies in
/ the Republican silver boilers and the
! delegates to the silver convention
I They have a very thorough organiza-
/ ton for systematic and effective work
Z Today they were reinforced by the ar
rival of 500 Bryan POpulist shouters
/ from Nebraska headed by Governor
/ Holconb; $50 energetic Populist work
| erS from Kansas and many from other
parts of the west. They are pressing
upon the middle OF the road delegates
| the view that the situation
PRESENTS THE SINGLE ISSUE,
Mckinley or Bryan; that the western
/ Populislts insist upon grasping the op-
/ pOrtunity to vote on the silver issue,
where their votes will count, and that
-
/ party wide open and cause diSSenSiOnS
\ that will never heal. They confront
/ the southern delegates and scattering
/ squads from other sections who Wang
/ to keep in the middle of the road and
/ have no truck" as some of them ex-
[ press Ut, with either of the old parties,
especially the Democratic party, with
which they have been at war. While
/ strong of conviction and vociferous in
( their declarations that they will never
/ surrender, the middle of the road dele
! gates are practically a disorgandZed
/ crowd. They keep a, great deal of en-
( thusiasIn at their meetings and loudly
I claim as high as 400 majority in the
/ convention. The hotel corridors
RING WITH THEIR ORATORY
and the applause Of their followers, but
I their claims of victory cannot be fig
1 ured out on paper, unless in the final
/ contest those who insist upon cOmprO-
mise should side with them. In certain
4 quarters. however, they appear to have
unquestionably gained strength. In
I Washington state. for instance, out of
I the seventeen Bryan men who came in
| the delegation, they claim to have cap
/ tured all but two. They argue that
I they have disrupted both the old politi-
/ cal parties, and with four more years
! of old party rule they will be able to
/ sweep the country. Their meetings are
! the feature of the convention thus far.
/ At a meeting today some one raised
I the cry that a man named Silas Ross,
| of Buffalo, was here in the interest of
/ the Republican managers to
PREVENT THE ENDORSEMENT OF
BRYAN,
I and a. fight was only averted by the
/ discovery that the man at whom the
assault was leveled was someone else
/ The National Reform Press associa-
ton is backing the middle Of the road
/ delegates with all the power it pos
i sesses. Altogether they are making
deafening noise which, as Senator Al
+ len says Creates an impression or
numbers and strength"
Despite the wild claims of the shout
ers it was apparent today that some
OF their leaders were weakening. They
were talking in more temperate
! strain, and were suggesting comprO-
misses as the best road out of the
tangle.
"Cyclone" Davis, for instance. pre-
pared a resolution which he said ne
would offer. declaring that in order 20
defeat Mckinley and the gold stan
dard, the PoDulists should agree upon
common electors. The out and cutters.
I if they should control are all at sea as
j UaT1 dar