The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-02
FOR HONEST MONEY
Eastern and New England
States Delegates to Con-
fer Tomorrow in
Chicago.
PURPOSES or THE CONVENTION
Whitney and Hill VIII Be
There to Shape the Dem
oeratie Platform.
BoIEs LEADERS DIscoSoERTED
Governor Altgeld Wants a Pre-
Iiminary Caucus of Free Sill
yer Delegates to Dis
cover a Candidate.
BoIES LEADERS DIscoNcERTED

CHICAGO. July 2. 1sss.-When ex-sec-
retary Whitney and Senator Hill reach
Chicago tomorrow with leading members
of the honest money delegations of the
Eastern and New England States there
VIII be a conference of all the honest
money delegates IN Chicago. The purpose
or the conference win be to find out the
exact strength of the sound money men
and 10 take such steps as may seem nee
essary to insure their rights in the con-
yention. The action of the Bimetallic
Committee in appointing committee to
demand the temporary chairman from the
National Committee is taken by the hon
est money men to mean that the free sill
yer majority means to run the convention
with high hand, and that they do not
propose to give the honest money men a
chance to maintain their independence
and rights to act without interference.
In some respects the action of the sill
yer majority is without precedent, and
as it is based exclusively upon rumors
and statements that were not claimed to
be authentic it was all the more extraor-
binary. The honest money men who are
here claim that the silver majority has
tried to give out the impression that this
is a conspiracy to injure their cause, and
as they have had the field practically to
themselves, nobody has taken the trouble
to deny the stories. The conference of
the honest moRey men tomorrow wifi
take up the action Of the silver committee
and 1t is NOT improbabl ti1at resolution
eo1nciing ne assept ,, e inter5sre e WITH
During an interview yesterday Chair
man Harity was asked if in his opinion
Eastern Representatives would have any
seption
thai am speedily i @ @ Confident IN the mat
'Ii Is , the god Democrats are giys4 , no
Or naming. the candidates. do you think
"a en'ak asaeetion ss haye y" ite
doubt but do not look for a bolt. My
own personal views were fully stated in a
stance, I said I was a Democrat, first.
ald an honest money man second. l
m fsToI Of hoRs e a vea gary ut VII # nS 5e a
The majority. am a believer in Demo
cratic docfFines and I,, one OF them is that
.'Rave the gold members any settled
plans regarding their course at the
None that I am aware of. except to
put W. the strongest tight in their
"Wll the two-thirds rule be repealed?'
Il do not think so. nor do see the
necessity for it. IT has nearly always
ventions has experienced no diiIleulty in
nominating its Candidates The ma
Jority always rules, and the two-thirds
vantage of any candidates who mad a
majority Of the delsgates.n
a,s,a ,Gx,conggressman ag Is p ~ :Biynum, of In
nounced in his opposition to tise proposed
repeal of the two-thirds rule. II think the
repeal of the two-thirds rule LIZ an evil
dence of the extreme finait tc which the
radical silver men are willing to go. The
RUE ought never to be repealed unless
I can conceive of a condition Of affairs
by which candidate might be nominated
by a majority Of delegates that could not
give TO the candidate single electoral
vote The unit rule. By whicn delegates
chosen from Congressional districts are
sp5,vsa oe ag soee 0S IN the convention n la
gated There is no proposition to repeat
the rule. because by so doing quite
nunsber of sound money Democrats would
he accorded the right of voting the sem
timent of their constituents. Mr., Tilder
in 1876 would not consent TO the repeal of
tbs rule. The st. Louis Convention in
1876 recommended that an expression of
the sentiment CT the Democratic party be
but the matter never received any serious
consideration.
4 morning paper says that tae. free
silver leaders have been granted a refusal
CT the Columbia Thee tre until Monday
next, and that Il IS their intention to csu-
Gus there not later than that date. The
t}szt this IS their programme. but they do
coreede that at Is Fefug considereds'
Whea Governor, Alsgsld was asked yes
vest the gold delexafes from the East
nluraping their votes for the most unde-
sirahle silver candidate and thus nom