The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-09


state Chairman Allan +. NsI5errne ets Il,
rand VIII sweep everything befofe taieAzi.
insy VIII eat up every cTalHb Of the feast
ana let as have not even a toothpiclS- One
OF Two OF our men are making some little
ncise for silver, but it's because OF ttleir
aesiTe TO get on what appears TO them
20 be the popular side
The Jerseymen are deeply Disguised
With the whole situation and make no
preteuse at eoncealment
Senator Smith did not go near the Con-
vention Hall today. He has evidently lost
interest, for he has been spending mis-
time making social calls among his Chi
cago friends. Some few of the delegates
say mat they are ready to go home and
they facettously refer to the convention
as the Populist gathering Every single
one Of them, even ex-senator Drake of
Morris and ex-Judge Noonan of Hudson,
think that they see a Republican plurality
IN New Jersey OF anywhere from 10000
to 40 900. They all take particular pains to
report TO each other the number of express
slons that they hear from the delegates
and Democratic visitors who are declar-
Ing for Mckinley.
Senator Daily, In imitation Of Senator
Hill, declares that he is a Democrat. and
willing to accept the inevitable because
the majority OF the party decreed crazy
of the delegation refuses to vote the men
who started from New Jersey with a
Vice identiaa boom win throw his sup
port TO the majority.
tfl<tlt AlSitJeIIfl9lL Is getting 31SillYHly
hot on the situation. He threw bomb
into the Committee on Resolutions early
this morning when he stood up for the
gold standard He angered Senator White,
who actually abused him and among
other things said that McDermott had in
suited the committee by veiled sfurs at
their intelligence and he openly declared
that a man with such a small and petty
intellectually should be repudiated as a
Democrat. Notwithstanding Senator
Whites venom the Chicago paper quoted
Mr.. McDern1ott in full and praised him
for the strength of his concfliatory ad-
dress.
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. MeDermott
did protest on the floor of the convention.
Governor McLaren of Mississippi, was
supporting the majority report Of the
Committee on Credentials. The Governor
managed to find a silnile in the War Of
1872. which had an ancient and fish-like
smell and aroused Mr.. McDermott SO
that he arose and called the speaker
to order, insisting that the imaginary is
sues of 1812 have nothing to do with
tine faEht in Michigan in 1896
Thdre were several cries you're
right I, Chairman Daniel ignored his point
of order. to the expressed disgust OF
many delegates. but the Governor must
have realized the point of order that he
was not talking epertinent to the. busi-
ness before the Convention, and he re-
tired. M. McDermctt IS likely to say
something worth hearing when the ml-l
nosity report of the Committee on Reso-
luti0ns is presented. This Will proDaDly
be his valedictory and he will then go
into political retreat to mediate on the
past and future.
Allan MoDermott continues to get des-
patches from New Jersey praising him
for his independent course and urging
him to lead the Jersey delegates to bolt
the convention in case of the adoption Of
a free silver platform. He has received
400 letters and dispatches from both Re
publieans and Democrats indorsing his
course. and this has had the effect of
urging him to more aggressiyeness.
Completely hemmed in by silver dele
gates the New Jerseymen had the dis
tasteful ordeal of sitting still and watch
ing the wild demonstration over the de-
feat of the minority report from the
Committee on Credentials. All about
them were screaming, shouting, jumping
silverites who guyed them in their dis
Scomfiture but never once did the Jer-
seymen finch Their twenty votes had
been cast, along with New York, Con-
necticnt, Maryland, Delaware and other
Eastern States, on what they conceived
was ffle rignting of a wrong, rebuke Of
the power of might. and they could stand
the affrOnt.