The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-10
PARTY LINES DRAWN.
It is the East Against the West-New
Workers. Hold a Bitter Meeting.

Chicago, July 10.-Hurried meetings
of all the gold state delegates were call
ed as soon as the convention adjourn
ed yesterday afternoon and the New
York contingent went to a nearby club
house and began work Immediately
They were not in an amicabIe mood at
all and the talk of boiling the conven-
ton entirely is very loud. Mr.. Chas
Tracey said he would not go back and
also Gen. Bartlett.
Ex-Governor Flower called the meet
ing to order and Senator Hill took the
floor. He said very little but it was
pointed. He believed the platform ViO-
lated the established principles of the
Democracy in more places than the
mere adoption of a platform. To sup
port a candidate on such a platform
would mean virtual agreement. with it.
He did not believe it was policy to at
present so far act as to give it an en-
dorsement- His remarks were received
with applause. He was followed by
Col. John r. Fellows who was very
bitter in his remarks There is not
one iOta of Democracy in such q plat
FORM he declared. 1T is a tissue of
Populistic and anarchistic notions COM
piled by men who have no claim to
recognition as statesmen or even poll
ticians, but who are frenzied fanatics.
cannot see how we can support such
it. It platform or any person placed upon
Mr.. WiIliam-C. Whitney said he had
visited several delegations of gold
states, and had found their temper
such that they would follow New
York'S lead He was personally not
averse to leaving the convention, but
he would not like to have it said that
New York led such a revolt. He was
in favor of remaining, but not taking
any part in the election of a candidate
and urged with Senator Hill, the APP
arrange with the other gold states
plan of action.
The temper of the meeting was shown
when Congressman Sulzer arose to
speak. He advocated that the delega-
ton as good Democrats should stay in
the convention and take part in its
proceedings. He believed that major
ity rule had always been looked UP to
in the party and 1t should not now be
disregarded. AT this juncture some
body said, DO you mean that we should
vote for this silver platfOrm?'' Yes
said Sulzer, and work for it. Shame
shame were the cries and the
speaker was cried down
Judge Clute of Albany an alternate
for Erastus Corning showed decided
silver procltvities and he was also
shown no sympathy. Senator Thomas
+. Grady was almost violent in his de
nunc12tion of what he desert bed as the
outrage perpetrated on the convention
and Democrats by the silver men He
sad ne was very much in favor of re-
pudi2ting Democracy; did they not
know that this was not true Democra-
cy, but far atheism.
Delaney Nicoll of New York ended a
brief but bitter talk with these words:
Il am a Democrat, but 1 cannot sup
port such platform, and I will not
vote for candidate named upon it,
Governor Flower made the war1nest
speech of the evening and Hill and
Whitney had all they could do to pre-
vent bolt resolution being put through
at once. He said the platform was "a
crazy quilt of anarchy" and the out
come OF Incompetent and brainless
fools. He denounced men of AItgeld's
and Tillmans stamp as mischief
breeders and schemers to ruin the De
mocracy, and then he closed by saw
ing: I will never cast my vote for
such q ticket or it's representative
am a Democrat, and this platform is
not Democratic
Governor Flower then read a teIe-
gram from the Brooklyn Eagle Demo
cratic) advocating a bolt. Part of it
read as follows and was received with
shouts of applause: I'VE have no fear
that sound money Democracy will ac-
quiesce in a free silver platform.
ticket of population and of anarchy
and the trampinS out of the rights of
sound money delegates in the conve1l-
ton. A bolt is inevitable. A Demo-
cratic ticket for which Democrats can
vote is becoming q, necessity. 1t will
be supplied. The anarchists the Pop
ulists, the communists and the nfhilists
who are controlling this convention will
never control this country; they will
never control the Democratic party
Senator Hill interposed and offered
this resolution: That a committee of
six be appointed to visit other state
delega tons instructed for gold and urge
upon them the necessity of refraininer
from action, and that this COMMITTEES