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The herald., 1896-07-03
THE BLAND BOOM
VIII Be Worked for All 1t Is Worth by Mis-.
sourians

80uftans
KANSAS CITY, July 2.-Extensive
preparations are making to carry Mis-
souri, and Kansas Bland supporters to
Chicago by the hundreds.
Col Joseph Mercer, delegate to the
national convention at Chicago from this
district, left for that city tonight to per-
feet arrangements for the reception of
these men in Chicago. The local Bland
club has already established headquar-
ters here where delegates and others
bound to Chicago from the outlying
cities and towns are being cared for.
Kansas Democrats who are going on
what has been named the BLAND spe-
cial," will arrive in Kansas City Sunday
morning, and letters are being received
every day by the club from Kansas and
Missouri points, noting the intentions
of dozens of clubs to go with the same
train. 1t is estimated that the train,
which will leave over the Alton at 4:45
p. M, Saturday next, will carry fully 800
people. Three other Bland specials, one
from Southern Missouri and two from
ST. Louis, which will carry an aggregate
of about 1900 passengers, will meet the
KANSAS City section at Bloomington,
Ill. There they will be made up into one
monster train and run on to Chicago,
drawn by five engines. The regalia of
the Bland club will be straw hats and
blue satin and medallion badges, with
the picture of Mr.. Bland suspended from
a silver bar surmounted by two flags.
EDITORIAL SUPPORT
KANSAS CITY .TI,lv o-Tba Kapsas
City Times has heretofore been pro-
The herald., 1896-07-03
IN THE FIELD
Gold Men Are Coming but the SiIverites Are
Confident

Confident
CHICAGO, July 1.-The announcement
that the eastern gold standard leaders,
William c. Whitney and others, would
arrive here tomorrow, has put some
heart into the gold standard men who
are here. The rumor of withdrawal
of the gold standard men from the con-
vention il they are defeated, is still cur
rent, but it cannot be definitely placed
in the so-far arranged plan of the gold
standard people. The plan arranged is
at least calculated to make things lively
even If it has not the greater effect of
obtaining converts. 1t will be similar
to the plan adopted by the New York
Democrats during the days preceding
the convention of 1892, when in the same
halls the orators foretold the destruc-
ton Of the Democracy if President
Cleveland was re-nominated. The plan
is to have Senator Hill, Mr.. Whitney,
ex-Mayor Grant, John r. Fellows, Sem
ator Smith of New Jersey, ex-Gov. Rus
sell of Massachusetts and other we'll
known orators discuss the situation with
not only the leaders of the gold stand
ard movement from other states but
with the leaders of the silver move.
ment. If these discussions, like the Hill
and Cleveland discussions of 1892, are to
be made public the result can hardly
be foretold for the silver element is Of
an excitable character. A conference
OF the gold standard men is called for 8
O'CLOCK tomorrow night at the Auditor
ium, and 1t is expected that a policy
Will be mapped out at that time.
The herald., 1896-07-03
TELLER'S ADVICE
Support the Democracy II Il Stands Tor fres
Silver

~
Silver
DENVER, Col, July 2.-Senator Teller
will go to his mountain home at Central
City, Col. for week or two to recuper-
ate. During the campaign he will deliver
a number of speeches in the interest Of
the silver ticket in Illinois and Indiana,
and probably also in Ohio and several
other eastern states and in California.
Just now it looks as if Bland or Boes
were in the lead. with Bland little
ahead, if anything" said Senator Teller
today, when asked regarding the situa-
tion at Chicago. Il believe that the
Democratic party will declare for silver
at 16 to 1. The silver people are too
much in earnest to allow straddl,.
II do not think the gold Democrats
will bolt the convention. but they will
knife the ttket at the polls. The gold
forces of the country will be unit in
November
What would you advise should the
Democratic party declare unequivocally
for silver?" he was asked.
II would advise all the silver forces to
support it, for that is the only way we
can win," he answered. I'VE must meet
the enemy with a solid front. believe
that if the silver forceo unite and there
Is a genuine silver ticket in the field on
a straight silver platform we will sue
ceed this November
The herald., 1896-07-03
STEWARDS VIEWS
PopuIists end siIveritas VIII Not Support
Democrat

PopuItsts end Silveritas VIII Not Support
Democrat
CHICAGO. July 2.-Hon. William
M. Stewart, the Nevada silver senator,
is in the city taking notes on the progress
Of affairs in connection with the Demo-
cratic convention. He is supposed to be
here in Senator Teller's interests, but he
declined to say explicitly what his mis-
sion is beyond that of making observa-
tions.
Upon being asked for an interview, he
said:
II have asked several Democrats
whether. If the Democrats should adopt
a gold standard platform. and if the Re-
publicans should adopt free coinage
platform and nominate Mckinley
Lodge, Reed or any of that class Of
faithful Republicans, they would vote
the Republican ticket because of the
silver declaration. Every one to whom
the question was put has said in reply
that he would not. Still they seem to
think that the Republicans ought to vote
the Democratic ticket, provided the
Democrats adopt a free coinage plat
form. They appear to ignore the vul-
gar old saying that What is sauce for
the goose Is sauce for the gander' How
ever, so far as have seen, the majority
Of the Democratic gathering is more
patriotic than the majority has been in
any other national convention for twen-
ty years. They seem really anxious to
take such action as will insure success
for the silver cause, and am inclined
The herald., 1896-07-03
AN OFFICE OPENED
There 10 q Great Desrth Of CieveIand's Pic.
lures

There 10 q Great Dearth Of Cieveiand's Pic.
CHICAGO, July 2.-Headquarters Of
the gold standard men have been opened
at the Palmer house.
A counterfeit presentment of Grover
Cleveland partially hides the large mir
ror before which that dusky but attrac-
tive queen, Liliuokalani, performed her
morning toilet while in Chicago.
The smiling face of Roswell z. Flower,
in a crayon, looks down from the top
of the dresser and the royal coat of arms
on the high desk was hidden tonight by
an immense placard announcing that on
Sunday night there will be a mass meet
ing Of sound money advocates. The room
is to be used as headquarters for the New
York delegates, and is the same room
occupied by the New Workers in 1888,
when Cleveland was nominated.
There" said Sergeant-at-ArmsW Wag-
er, as he placed a picture of Senator Hill
and one of Senator Murphy each side of
the presidents, that is the only picture
of Mr.. Cleveland that you will find in
any of the headquarters" and the state
ment proved true. There is great dearth
of Cleveland's pictures here.
The herald., 1896-07-03
THE GOLD MEN ARE COMING
And Will Undertake q Campaign Of Edu.
cation by Oratory
Stubborn Silver Advocates VIII Insist on Or
ganizlng the Convention
The Latest Estimates lndIests Thst the
Tree Coinsge Men Lack but Size
teen Votes OF the Neesssary
Two.thiedS
Associated Press Special Wire.


CHICAGO, July 2.-The executive COM
mittee of the national Democratic COM
mittee have decided to recommend to
the full committee to proceed in the
usual way to designate a temporary
chairman for the national convention.
It is not yet determined whether the
executive committee will assume the
responsibility of naming the man for
the place. The matter is still under con-
sideration. The decision to recommend
this course has been arrived at, not in
defiance of the request of the silver men,
but because this is in accordance with
precedents Still there are evidences
that the committee prefers to take the
chances of an open fight In the conven-
ton to submitting tamely to what they
look upon as an unjustfied effort at die
tation. There is no doubt that If the full
national committee accepts the recon-
mendation, it will precipitate a live
ly skirmish on the floor of the conven-
tjon on the threshold of it's proceedings.
The silver men show no disposition to
yield unless a pronounced and we'll
known silver man should be named by
the national committee, which there Is
reason to believe will not be DONE Ii
gold man Is selected the silver minority
of the national committee will bring in
q report recommending silver man and
the first contest between the gold and
silver forces will be fought out then and
there.
1t has been intimated in case affairs
reach this stage that Chairman Harrity
will refuse to order general roll call
and will arbitrarily seat the gold candi-
date The silver men refuse to believe
he would pursue such a course. but
shake their heads ominously when asked
what would result in case he should.
The gold members of the national COM
mittee are not united upon man for
presiding officer, but discuss the names
more fully than the silverites. mention
ing Senators Hill and Villas and Hugh
Wallace member of the national COM
mittee from Washington. and son-in.
law of Chief Justice Fuller. There is
belief among members of the commit
tee that Senator Hill might prove ac-
ceptable to the silver people. and in
case they should signify a Willingness
to accept him, he might be named as a
compromise candidate.
The herald., 1896-07-03
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR. NO. 275.

hand to attend the meeting and swell
the numbers and create enthusiasm.
The document was typewriter and
was not signed.
WHO THEY ARE
NEW YORK, July 2.-Headed by Will
liam c. Whitney, the gold contingent
left for Chicago at 4:3O this afternoon
over the New York Central railway. The
party includes as guests of Whitney
United States Senators Gray of Della
ware. Smith of New Jersey. ex-Gov.
Russell of Massachusetts. District At
torney John r. Fellows; Signal officer
Christopher c. Baldwin, State Chair
man James Hinkley, National Commit
teeman William F. Sheehan, Col. Geroge
Is. Harvey. Whitney's secretary. At AL
bany Senator Hill and Smith M. Weed
Will join the party. The party will reach
Chicago at S o'clock tomorrow after
noon. I'VE CO." said Whitney. "as
Democrats desirous of doing the best
we can for the party and the country"
The herald., 1896-07-03

for the Populists and silver Republicans
to vote for their nominee, without going
into the Democratic party for that pur-
pose.'s If they do not, fear that there
will be two silver candidates in the field
to divide the silver vote and give the
Tory Hessians another victory"
Senator Stewart declined to state
whom he expected to be nominated or
to give in detail any of his reasons for
hoping that the nominee will be other
than a Democrat. He says he will re-
main in Chicago until after the close Of
the Democratic convention, and will
then proceed to st. Louis to attend the
silver convention to be held there on the
22d inst
The herald., 1896-07-03
REGULAR MILITARY RULES
The First Regiment, N. @. C., Will Go
Into Camp
tion, and the Boys Expect to Be.
come Real Soldiers

SAN FRANCISCO, July 1.-The Third
battalion, First infantry regiment N. G.
c., Major Charles L. Tilden command
ing, will have an eight days camp at
Stockton from July to July 18th in
elusive. The camp will be strictly a
military one Of instruction, and the
training thu. men will receive Is ex
pected to help the Third battalion into
front place in the guard.
The members of Major Tilden's bat
talon will participate in the Fourth of
July procession in this city and as soon
as that is over they will return to their
armory and prepare for the trip to Stock
ton, hustle into fatigue uniform and at
$3.50 p. m. will be at the Nationals ar
mory with blankets. haversacks and
canteens ready for the march. At
p. m. they will start for the Stockton
boat, which has been specially engaged
for the trip.
At Stockton the men will march to
Goodwater grove, where an advance
guard will have prepared camp.
The camp will be under regular mill
tary rules. the morning being devoted
to hard drilling in school of company
and school of battalion, together with
the other regular camp work. In the
afternoon, until time for dress parade,
and in the evening until taps, liberty
will be allowed the citizen soldiers.
Camp Budd" will be the name this
time in honor of the commander-in-
chief, who. with his staff. will pay an
Official visit during the latter part of the
week. The men hope that the selection
of major general will be announced be-
fore the camp breaks up and that Camp
Budd" may have the honor of giving the
new commander Of the National guard
his first military recentiOn.
The herald., 1896-07-03
THE TWO.THlRDS RULE
Leading Democrats Hold Various Views Re.
gardlne Enforcement

Leading Democrats Hold Various Views Re.
Rardlnp Enforcement
CHICAGO, July 2.-Leading Demo-
Gratis were asked their opinions on the
plan to abrogate the two thirds rule in
the convention. Their views follow:
James Fl. Eckels-I am not in favor of
the abrogation Of the two-thirds rule.
In order to be successful the party
should be a unit 1t cannot be that
with bare majority favoring the sue
cessful candidate.
DR.. Mullinix of Oregon-The governor
hit the nail squarely on the head when he
said that the two-thirds rule was un-
Democratic. I am heartily in favor Of
its abrogation.
John Welsh OF Oregon-I am heartily
In favor of the abrogation of the rule
James A. George of Nebraska-The
two-thirds rule is undemocratic and
therefore Objectionable. am in favor
of its repeal.
w. H. White of Seattle-I am for
Bland. Five out Of eight of our delega-
ton are for silver. Senator Teller would
suit me also. We will be with the ma
jority Of the silver men on the two-thirds
rule. Senator Harris of Tennessee
would do for temporary chairman.
w. H. Barnes of Arizona-One of our
delegation is for Stevenson, the other
five are for Bland and the unit rule pre-
walls.
Senator Turpie of IndanaAThe ques-
ton of the two-thirds rule will not, in
my opinion, be one of moment. The ma
jority will be so pronounced that in it's
natural progress it will accumulate
enough to make it two-thirds. For that
reason 1 do not believe there will be
contest on that question in the conven-
enough Importance to discuss 1t formally.
I observed that the Illinois delegation
did, but have nothing to say about it,
Col. Hickey of Missouri-The Illinois
delegation does not want this two-thirds
rule, or rather Gov. Altgeld does not. At
the present time it is not in the way of
any one. When the committee on rules
about this two-thirds rule. 1t might do
in case of pinch. and then it might be
better out of the way.
J. T. w. Tiller of Arkansas-Of course
it is good thing and what we will have,
or at least l imagine that the western
and southern delegates will want it en-
forced. The fact that the Illinois delega-
tion says that it must not be is the one
reason why think 1t will be enforced.
The Illinois people will not have the
strength they think they have.
The herald., 1896-07-03

nounced in its advocacy Of the gold
standard and unwavering in its support
Of the Cleveland administration, comes
out this morning with an editorial prac-
tically admitting that the silver men
have already won victory at Chicago
and pledging the Times to support the
nominee of the convention.
In conclusion the Times states that
its position in a word is as follows:
For the Democratic party, its plat
form and it's candidates.; its platform
whatever 1t Is; it's candidates, whoever
they may be-"
In addition to the editorial there ap-
years on the first page three-column
portrait of Richard P. Bland, under this
caption:
For president Of the United States,
Silver Dick Bland of Missouri"
The herald., 1896-07-03
WAR ON THE BIKE
The Silent steed as Bad as Corsets or Hoop
Skirts

The Silent Steed as Bad ns Corsets or Hoop
Skirts
WASHINGTON, July "A very re-
markable circular was issued by the
Women's Rescue league of this city 1t
is signed by Charlotte Smith, president,
and Virginia N. Lount, secretary, of the
executive committee, and it calls at
tention in most sensational manner to
what these ladies consider the manifold
moral and physical ill effects of the rid
ing of bicycles by women. The occasion
of the issuance of the circular at this
time was that next week there will be
bicycle parade in Washington. in which
it is thought that fully 1000 wheels will
participate. OF the $4,000 bicyclists in
the city at least $1,000 are women.
President Smith has of late been CIV
ing considerable attention to the in
crease in wheeling, particularly among
women. Instead of being an athletic
exercise which will build up the physical
system. as bicycling is popularity sup
posed to be, she holds that the result of
her investigations prove conclusively
that women who wheel will be physical
wrecks. She also thinks that bicycling
for young women is to be deplored. be-
cause Of the evil associations which may
result, and of the opportunities for i'm
prudent action which may result there
from. One of her most remarkable state
ments is that bicycling by young women
has helped more to swell the ranks Of
reckless girls, who finally drift into the
standing army of outcasts, than any
other medium. She calls the bicycle the
DEVILS agent, and declares that it has
ruined thousands. both morally and
physically.
The herald., 1896-07-03
IOWA POLITICS
Failing st Chicago, Bo,es Can Be Elected TO
Congress

Congress
DUBUQUE, Iowa. July "A large
contingent of Iowa Democrats will pass
through Dubuque Monday morning on
their way to Chicago.
Friends of ex-Gov. Boies here, while
confident of his nomination at Chicago,
are planning to have him nominated for
Congress if he should fail at the nation
al convention. There is no doubt that
Col. D. B. Henderson will be renomi-
mated by the Republicans at Waterloo
on the 9th inst, without opposition. He
has never been defeated in this district,
his smallest plurality being 1873 in 1890,
when Judge Couch, Gov. Boies' law part
ner, opposed him. The silver men claim,
however, that Boies can be elected to
Congress, and support this claim by
citing the fact that he carried the dis
trict in 1889 by 1851 plurality when first
elected governor and in 1891 by 2435, and
a third time in 1892.
Should the silver Democrats carry ou.
their plan as outlined in interviews to-
day, the congressional contest in the
Third Iowa district will be the bitterest
ever waged here, as Boies and Hender-
son are recognized as the strongest men
and most evenly matched the two par
ties could name.
Arrangements are being made for the
printing of thousands of copies of Gov.
Boies' plank. rejected by the committee
on resolutions at the Iowa Democratic
state convention. The printed copies
will be scattered among eastern dele
gates. especially those opposed to radi-
cal silver movements. The following is
the rejected plank:
I'm making this declaration we do not
ignore or underestimate the Importance
Of the Democratic doctrine that the par
ity of coins made from the two metals
of which double standard is composed
should be faithfully and honorably main
tanned. And while we believe a ratio
which has been substantially continued
for three-quarters of century in the
most prosperous period of our country's
history will prove equally efficient and
equally satisfactory if re-adopted now;
still, if when silver and gold are re-
stored to absolute equality before the
law, with equal rights in the minds of
the nation and as money of final re-
demption, reasonable experience shall
demonstrate that the parity at the ratio
aforesaid cannot be maintained, we
pledge the Democracy of Iowa to aid by
establishment of a new ratio just to all
classes Of our citizens alike, by which
such parity shall be maintained"
The herald., 1896-07-03
The gold standard people are left. on
this basis, with only these states, with

In connection with these figures 1t will
be noticed that the silver men lack but
sixteen votes of having the necessary
two-thirds to nominate, but they claim
that the eight votes counted for gold in
Ohio will come to them after the tenn
porary organization, while Michigan's
votes are also expected. 1t will be fur
ther noticed that Nebraska is figured
in the silver column, and this is because,
while there is contest, the silver men
say they will see that the gold standard
men are not seated.
1t Is the security in this preponder
ance of votes that makes the silver lead
ers confident of ultimate victory. The
decision upon the abrogation of the two
thirds vote on nomination may be de-
ferred until after temporary and pernna-
nent organization, and until the conven-
ton is ready to nominate. Then, unless
the gold standard men recognize the SUI
periority of numbers and succumb to the
inevitable the silver men will force the
issue and rescind the lang standing rule.
The herald., 1896-07-03
SOUND MONEY MEN
Organizing for Work at Chicago During the
Convention

CHICAGO. July 2.-The following.
headed Memoranda for Friends Of
Sound Money" and marked "Confiden-
tial" was sent out today:
First-Meeting will be held at the
Auditorium hotel on Friday evening.
July 8, at $3.50 p. m. 1t will consist of
not less than two sound money repre-
sentatives from each state, for the pur-
pose of organizing and laying out the
work during the convention.
Second-Delegates have been invited
from each state where there is a sound
money sentiment to address various
delegations
Third-It is expected to have a mass
meeting in the city of Chicago to be ad-
dressed by the best speakers in the coun-
try.
Fourth-Large numbers of sound
money Democrats have been invited and
every provision made to have them on
The herald., 1896-07-03
GERMAN POLITICS
Tho narlne Bill Passed-The Reichstag Pro-
rogued TIL November

BERLIN. July 2.-The reichstag today
passed the marine bill, but the govern
ment was defeated by a vote retaining
two amendments which Baron Won Ham
merstein, the Prussian minister of agri-
culture, and DR.. Won Boetticher, the i'm
perial secretary of state for the interior,
declared would render the bill unaccept-
able to the bundesrath. The Centrists
voted with the Conservatives in favor OF
the bill.
Late Prince Hohenlohe prorogued the
reichstag until November 10. and in con-
veying the thanks of the emperor to the
bundesrath and reichstag for the adop-
ton of the civil code bill, he declared
that the new uniform system of law con-
stitutes new bond of union for the ma
tion and strengthens German authority
abroad.
The herald., 1896-07-03
MORTUARY STATISTICS
A Marked Decrease in the Number Of Deaths In
California

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2.-The record
for the fiscal year which closed today
exhibits a marked decrease in the num-
ber Of deaths over any year since 1882
80, according to the following statement:
1sS9-9O, 637S; 1s9O-91, $3.50: 1912. 6911;
1928, 6O61; 1S93-94, 5000; 1S94-95, $685.
1886, 1866.
During 1866 there were 3S3 violent
deaths, against 339 the preceding year.
The net decrease in deaths from disease
was therefore 137.
The most marked decrease is found
among children of the age of or under.
of whom 1882 died during 1S94-95 and 1851
during the year just closed.