The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-09
THOUGH SILVERITES MAY GET THE
NECESSARY NUMBER BY UN-
EATING GOLD MEN.
SOUND MONEY MEN INDIGNANT
AT THE UNPRECEDENTEDLY HIGH
HANDED METHODS OF THE
| MAJORITY.
GREAT OVATION FOR Hill
Demonstration Which Astonishes
the SiIverites-Gen. Bisseu
Cults in Disgust

Special to the Globe.
| CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 8.-While the
| Coliseum is the best building 1 have
| ever seen for a national convention,
! it has the disadvantage of being To-
| Gated eight miles from the center of
the city. Through express trains make
the run in fifteen minutes, but it is
| nevertheless a good deal of an under
taking to hold two sessions a day at
| such a distance from where the dele
gates eat and sleep, and probably I
might add drink. The convention this
morning ought not to have lasted ten
minutes, because no business was
ready. AS it was, four hours were
lost in doing nothing. Nearly one
hour was lost before the convention
was called to order at all, and, as
the business was the report of the
committee on credentials, and that
committee was not ready, there was
nothing to do but wait still longer
The band played and sang and a
Bland band broke into the galleries to
add to the confusion. Finally, v.Hogg,
of Texas, made a dull tariff speech,
for tariff is not on earth now, out
side of Canton, o. He tried to make
out that there was an issue between
Republicans and Democrats and that
Democrats ought to fight the common
foe, he said. Notwithstanding this,
every one here feels that the contest
is an internal one, and no steam can
be gotten up in this convention to
fOhf tho Ria
helped to kill time by financial
speech, which interested the audience
a good deal more than. Hogg's speech,
He, too, appealed to the Democrats to
bury all differences, but he is one of
| the silver men who Is cutting the
throat of the gold faction from ear to
ear, and his appeal fell upon listless
ears Senator White, Of California,
who is to be permanent chairman,
took the gavel this morning because
there was more disorder than Daniel
| could handle. This disorder grew out
of a fact that there was no business
| to be done and everybody felt at lib
| erty to move about at will Although
| there had been vociferous
CALLS FOR HILL,
as soon as Blackburn concluded they
were renewed. The chair, with a good
deal of petulance, pounded the desk
with a gavel and yelled: I'VE must
have order or we will do nothing. Now
what is the use of calling for gen.
tleman who is not in the hall. Mr. Hill
| is engaged with the committee on reso-
! lutions.'
| Following this, Mr.. Obermeyer, Of
Kansas, made fiery talk of about two
minutes. He hurled defiance at the
East by eXclaiming: "On yesterday
| the seat of empire was transferred
from the Atlantic seaboard to the Mis-
sissippi valley" Governor Altgeld
! was the next time-killer, and he was
| greeted with more applause than any
| of his predecessors. He looks the an
archist that he Is. His speech was
characteristic, containing his usual de-
fiance to the money power and corpora
tions, and at its conclusion ne was
given another ovation. The novelty of
silver speech from Massachusetts
was furnished by Mr.. Williams, and, as
at this stage of the proceedings it
seemed impossible to keep the crowd
quiet any longer, the committee on Gre
dentials made partial report, which
unseated the gold delegates from Ne
NJ 0orAd cAAU save luCUl W tH0 silver
column. This adds fourteen more to
the silver force. The gold men doffed
| their badges and silver men marched
in with banner, being greeted with de-
moniac yelIs of delight by the silver
crowd. The stock of oratory now
seemed to be exhausted, and the con-
vention again resolved itself into con-
fusion. In about ten minutes Chair
man White hammered for order and
announced that Mr.. Altgeld moved a
! recess until o'clock. Altgeld was the
man who proposed to have only one
| day convention and even as late as
| last night he gave it out that business
must be finished up today. When he
made the motion for recess, there
were loud cries of mo, no." but the
| chairman said that there could be no
business transacted until the commit
tee on credentials reported, and It
would be some hours before they would
be ready. This explanation. coupled
| with the fact that Altgeld made the
motion, settled the matter and a re-
cess was taken few minutes before 2
/ o'clock, and $1,000 people scrambled for
| trains for the city, where something
| besides soft drinks can be secured. If
| the convention building had been. as
heretofore, right in the city, recess
would have been taken within ten min
utes after assembling.
+ OF course the convention was opened
with prayer, and the Democratic party
still sticks to the Episcopal church
The Bofes men got in their work by
having minister from Cedar Rapids
To-. offer the prayer, and they selected
a Protestant clergyman. probably be-
cause Bland's wife is Catholic, and
they want to make themselves solid
| with the A. p. A.
PRAYED FOR PROSPERITY.
and possibly is another advance
| agent" though I suppose Hanna had
exclusive right to exhibit the sad-
vance agent of prosperity at Can
ton. The prayer was received with