Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-06-20
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licsn party, st. Louis resembles a brid,
bedecked for the coming of her LEG.
lord. Buildings fame with bunting
windows are adorned with pictures oil
the various candidates, the cir beats
with the pulsation Of music, paradine
clubs are sweeping by and the streets
surge with people borne along in resist
less streams while the hotel corridors
are checked with jostling, pushing
| masses OF humanity. 1t ID estlm sted
that $4,000 strangers are guests OF the
Mound City tonight.
The most remarkable feature of the
| convention go far has been the absence
Of bad blood among the partisans Of the
various candidates. The triumph OF
Mckinley has been so complete thus
far that his friends can afford to be
msgnanimous and bis opponents can do
nothing but Rcquiese in the will of the
majority. Partissns of Reed, Quay,
Morton and Allison still wear their but
tons and are as staunch as ever in their
loyalty, but they realize the hopeless
ness Of making shrieking or offensive
demonstrations in favor of their cham
pions, and managers Of the snti-csndi-
dates have practically sheathed their
swords. This does not mean that they
nave abandoned the field. With the
exception of Gov. Bradley of Kentucky,
who dropped out last night, the names
of the other candidates will be pres-
ented and voted for and will probably
poll their full strength.
The real struggle that is gong on is
over the financial plank in the platform.
Free silver and gold are az irreconciis-
BILE as the poles and radical silver men
are prepared to stake their all upon the
issue. Knowing they cannot succeed
they are even now formulating a mani
festo that will sever their allegiance to
the republican party. But these rsdi-
cal silver men are largely outnumbered.
Headed by Senator Teller of Colorado,
they have only mustered five states and
perhaps one territory, lees than fifty
delegates in all out of total of over
900. The real struggle is between those
who favor q bold declaration for the
maintenance Of gold standard except
through an international agreement and
thoee whose friendliness to silver, al
though opposed to free coinage, makes
them seek to avoid q specific declaration
for gold standard. The exact LAM
guage of the plank has not yet been
drawn. but Mark Hanna, to whom all
are agreed belongs the distinction Of be-
ing the dominant power In the conven-
ton, hiss had many planks presented to
him, and all mean practically the same
thipg-the main taipsnce Of gold stand
ard until an international agreement
can be reached and unalterabls opposi-
ton to free coinage.
The situsticn as to vice president con-
tinues indefinite. Opinion does not seem
to crystalize. The talk of the Hobart
men of New Jersey, and Evans of Ten
nessee, goes on but doee not seem to be
regarded seriously. There was q strong
belief early in the day that perhaps the
New York delegation could agree on
come one who would be satisfactory to
both factions and there as renewed
discussion OF Gov. Morton and ex-Secre-
tary OF the Navy Tracy. But when the
factions declared war to the hilt all idea
OF New York furnishing the tail of the
ticket was abandoned. There is still q
lingering hope among q vsst number Of
delegates that Speaker Reed will be
nominated by spontaneous outburst in
the convention.
ST.. Louis, Mo-, June l6-Ths Califor-
mia delegation met today prior to pro-
ceeding to the convention and on motion
of Congressman johnson decided by q
rising and unanimous vote to stsnd out
for free and unlimited coinage Of silver
to the last, and follow Teller in all things
financial, stopping short only OF walk
ing out of the convention hall after the
conventions action on the platform.
johnson was also instructed to 60 before
the committee on resolutions and make
an argument for free silver.
A member Of the committee on reso-
lutions from California is A. B. Lemon;
from Arizona J. A. Zabriskie.
SACRAMENTO, CAL, June 16-The
between the two contesting
delegations from San Francisco to the
democratic state convention was re-
sumed this morning with renewed vigor.
Chairman Gould, Of the state commit
tee, refused to exclude both oontesting
delegations from the hall until the COM
mittee on credentials waa appointed. at
o'clock the Buckley delegates from
San Francisco forced their way into the
hall over thes serReant-at-
arms and his assistants and took their
seats in that portion Of the hall reserved
'or San Francieoo's delegation. The
Junta delegates were unprepared for
The move.
At 1:30 the Junta delegates from San |
Francisco arrived, and finding their
seats occupied by Buckley men, they
scattered themselves through the
,all. The Buckley delegates assert |
hat nothing but physical force will
induce them to relinquish their seats. |
It is predicted that lively scene will
'nsue. 1t is reported that Gould hss
allied upon the chief OF police to send !
detachment Of police to the hall.
ST.. Louis, Mo-, June 16-During the
morning session Pistt and Lsuterbsch
# the New York delegation, received
numerous kilograms from the east.
)elegste-st-Large Lsuterbach said:
We received more favorable news from
horton regarding the vice presidency.
The business men OF New York are
working with him to accept"
At LOO Piatt said: IL can ONLY say
here ia more favorable news" He
yould not chow the telegram.
After Fairbanks closed his speech