The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-09
e side by side with men four years ago,

side by side with men four years ago,
/ STAY YOUR HAND.
+ This convention was begun in revolu-
ton; in Gods name do not end it in
revolution
With this parting shot Mr.. Sheeha n
retired, amid the plaudits of the gal
/ le~ies. His place was taken by Dele
+ gate J. w. Blake of Texas, who made
a violent speech in favor of seating the
silver men. He charged that it was
notorious that the Michigan conven-
+ tjon had been packed and manipulated
by federal office-holders.
The whole Internal delegation
] should, in my opinion, be turned out -
/ he said, earnestly, and many Of the
silver delegates on the floor seemed
+ to agree with him, from the manner
in which they received his entiment
] He repealed the insinuadion of Mr.
( Sheehan and affirmed that as silver
man, if he could not control the con-
yen%iOn without robbing q state OF its
votes, he was ready to surrender.
Delegate Mcknight, one OF the Mich
igan silver delegates. replied to Mr..
| Stevenson. He said that
IT WAS NOTORIOUS
! that the silver men elected a majority
of two hundred to the Michigan state
convention, AS soon as the admin
istration at Washington ascertained
this fact" he continued, Mr.. Steven
son was hastily summoned to Wash
ington for a conference with the
great chief"
It's a lie," yelled Mr.. Stevenson,
mounting chair and facing the dele
gates. There. is not word of truth
in the statement"
Mr.. Mcknight insisted on his state
ment and proceeded to describe the
methods by which the control of the
convention had been wrested from
them. In conclusion he predicted that
Michigan would give $4,000 Democratic
majority if a free silver platform was
adopted.
WANTED A VOTE.
The Michigan debate was becoming
a, smooth-faced young man from that
state, began to talk, the people began
to cry for vote.
Mr.. Brucker, however, stirred them
to a. yell by declaring that while he
had always been a free silver man, he
believed the silverites had, enough del
egates to elect a free silver president
on free silver platform without conf
hitting highway robbery.
Then the gold men were aroused to
a greater enthusiasm by Charles S.
Thomas, the Colorado member of the
national committee, who spoke in d
similar strain. He said:
Gentlemen of the convention, it
would be a great misfortune, in my
opinion, for this convention to do
otherwise than nominate a candidate
representing the wishes of the ma
jority; it would be a graver one to
oh 7iro n,r
ing the
OFFICIALLY EXPRESSED WISH
of one of the sovereign states of this
Union. loud applause.) We were
charged on yesterday with a violation
Of Democratic precedent, and the
charge in my opinion was not well
founded. If this majority report shall
receive the official sanction of this
convention, then those who made the
charge on yesterday may repeat 1t
with truth tomorrow. 1t seems to me
that where a number of weeks is nee
essary for an individual to find out the
fact that his virtue has been de-
bauched that such virtue should be
received at least with some suspicion
by a national convention. If l under
stand the testimony correctly, fraud
has been detailed and presented here,
dicted; then, if that is the case, SO far
as the action Of this convention is
concerned it set the seal of its ap-
prevail, without objection and without
protest, upon the forehead of every
one of these Michigan delegates that
were recognized by the national COM
mittee; and, if that be so, it does seem
to me, in all candor, that we should
FOLLOW THE PRECEDENTs
of party and recognize the sovereignty
of states thus casting their vote under
the unit rule. We cannot under any
circumstances transform ourselves
INTO a returning board, and by going
behind these returns seat anyone here
except those who have their creden-
tials. If these four delegates who were
said to be not entitled to seats in this
convention are, by reason of the man
ner in which they have been chosen,
not so entitled, then. 1t follows that
every one of the twenty-eight dele
gates similarly commissioned in this
convention are not entitled to recog-
milton"
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