The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-26

Quincy house, where the distribution
of tickets of admission to the cOnven-
ton hail to delegates holding creden-
tials was begun.
IN FRONT OF MUSIC HALL
Hundreds of delegates were gathered
in front of Music hall clamoring for
nOunced for the opening of the doors
arrived. They clamored in vain, how
ever. T. w. Coakley of Boston, one
of the silver leaders, appeared at
window of the hall and advised the
Williams delegates on the outside to or
ganize and send a committee to meet
Mr.. Williams and cooperate with him
in bringing about the opening of the
convention. In the hail. Mr. COakley
said, were about 700 duly accredited
delegates, holding the fort on the in
side, and he advised his friends to hold
the fort on the outside
The outsiders adopted Mr. COakley' 5
suggestions, and the time before Mr..
Williams could be brought to the hall
was spent in speeches. At about ll;ZO
o'clock Mr.. Williams reached the scene.
He said that no one knew why the del
egates who had tickets were not ad-
mitted to the hall, but undoubtedly he
would have some knowledge as soon as
the committee that had been sent to
call on Chairman COrcOran returned
When we get inside he declared, we
will admit every man who has creden-
tials." He warned the crowd that it
must be orderly and that the police
the doors a little dynamite" yelled a
man in the crowd, but he was vigor-
Ously hissed and suppressed, cries OF
Put that man down arising on every
side.
A few minutes before noon word came
from the inside of the hall that the del
egates there had organized conVen-
ton.
George Fred Williams then addressed
the crowd and said:
1.-THE state committee refuses to open
these doors We have a regular con-
ventiOn organized and in operation on
the inside of this hall We are ABOUT
to get another hall, where the other
delegates can gather, and will have a
full report of the convention on the IN
side The second convention will in
dOrse the action of that now in session
within. We feel confident that we have
five sixthS of the delegates from the
state on our side. Stand right where
you are until you hear from me"
Shortly afterward a messenger from
the gold standard delegates announced
from a carriage that the state cOnVen-
ton was about to assemble in Fanueil
hall. A few hundred left the vicinity OF
Music hall and followed the messenger
to Fanueil hall. Then there appeared
a man who said that he was a commit
tee representing the delegates in Music
hall appointed to call upon the nre
commissioners to enforce the ordinance
against the closing of the doors OF any
public hall while there was a meeting
or performance in progress there Inc
outsiders adopted a resolution in con-
forrnity with this representation and
dispatched a committee to the city hail
to ask that the doors OF Music ha4l De
broken OPEN
The reappearance of Mr.. Williams
elected some applause, which he ac-
knowledged in a brief speech, promising
to accept the nomination for governor
by the convention sitting in Music ha1I.
The committee sent to the fire com
1nissioners reported that those official
refused to act. Next came the an
nouncement from the interior OF the
han that Mr.. Williams had been nOmi-
mated as the candidate for governor
With cheers and long continued shouts
the meeting in the street ratified this
nomination, and a notice was then glVen
out that delegates would assemble IN
Horticultural hall at $3.50 O'Clock, when
Mr.. Williams would accept the nOmina-
ton.