The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-02

their entirety will be of incalcuIable value
to the country in the future.
1.-THE fact is, Mr.. Belmont continued.
''the root of our financial troubles lies in
the continuance of Government paper
money which needs constant redemption.
The sounder our currency the better will
be our credit, the greater our financial in
dependence, and the less need there will
be OF borrowing or resorting to the unde-
sirable aid of bond syndicates. No one
can be more DESTROYS of avoiding this ne
cesslty than / am. Threats of repudla-
ton, advocacy of unsound and depre-
ciated currency, render doubly difficult
the protection of the public credit. Those
who talk about dearer and scarcer dollar
themselves create what they consider to
be contraction in the volume of the cur
rency, which is in reality the withdrawal
OF confidence and capital from our indus
tries pro iuced by agitators of financial
heresies, who would wreck prosperity alto
gether in an attempt to uphold their theo-
ries of coinage and currency"
A delegation of eighteen all the way
from Florida arrived at noon and were
escorted to their quarters by brass band.
The delegation displayed gilded alliga-
tor labeled FLORIDA gold bug" and each
man carried a large waving palm leaf.
The Florida delegation came in occupying
coach, on the side of which was streamer
running its full length inscribed FLORIDA s
sound money Democracy" At their head,
following the banner, constructed here by
their order, was a picture of President
Grover Cleveland, surrounded by the
words: "Our candidate for President.
Following the Florida delegation came
the Louisiana delegation in special car
over the Big Four line from Cincinnati,
headed by Senator Gallery. Their car
carried streamer similar to that on the
car of the Florida delegation. Senator
Gallery, who is to be the permanent chair
man of the convention, said to a reporter
for the United Associated Presses that his
delegation had not agreed to support any
particular candidate, but were for the
ticket which the convention might decide
to be the strongest.
''No man conYersant with the condition
of affairs in the South" said Senator CAT
fiery, "can deny that there is very pro-
nounced feeling in favor of sound money,
and that the men who advocate that SEN
timenI viii vote their convictions. This
is the case not only in my State of Louisi-
ana, but in other parts of the South. The
fact is that great many old-time Demo.
Gratis Immediately after the Chicago con-
vention renounced the ticket and the
platform and declared themselves for Nc
Kinley as the lesser of the two evils.
While they did not agree with the Repub-
lican candidate on the tariff question and
other tenets of the Republican faith for
which he stands they did approve of his
financial views. These men have, many
of them, gone so far that it is now impos-
sible to get them back, even for the third
ticket which we will here nominate"
Several Tennessee delegates came in
with the Florida delegation. One of them,
Theodore Coole of Nashville, said: "Peo-
pie down our way think Bragg and Buck
ner the logical candidates of the conven
ton. There is, however, strong sentiment
for Grover Cleveland"
Joseph Bryan, the head of the sound
money movement in Virginia, reached In
dianapolis to-day at the head of a delega-
ton of fifteen men. 81 am more than
pleased with the outlook" said Mr..
Bryan to a representative of the United
aSSOS1dIC0 IOSSCS. LII has long Deen
considered treason in Virginia for Demo
crat to say word in condemnation of the
ticket named by the party, but wish to
say that this year the woods of the old
commonwealth, if that be treason, are full
of traitors"
The New York State delegation, seventy
two strong, arrived here on special train
at 2:30 this afternoon with Ex-Governor
Flower at their head. Dewitt Warner
told representative of the United Asso-
ciated Presses that the delegates had no
choice for first or second place on the
ticket.
The Pennsylvania delegation reached
Indianapolis late this evening over the
Pennsylvania Railroad. There were
seventy men in the party. The delegates
discussed the situation on the train and de.
cided not to advocate the candidacy oil
any one individual, but to vote for the
best man, showing the strongest follow
ing, when the proper time arrives.
The Indiana delegation met at State
headquarters this morning and elected
delegates. The delegates did not discuss
preferences for the Presidential nomina-
ton. What expressions were given by
members of the delegation point toward a
vote for Bragg and Buckner.
Governor Stockley of Delaware said his
State had no intention of presenting the
name of Senator Gray to the convention.
1--WE realize" said he, that this sound.
money movement requires a Western
man to lead it. The West is our battle
ground.
According to the sound-money delegates
from Nebraska who arrived this after
noon the nomination of strong ticket
here will draw from Is 900 to %. 900 votes
from Bryan in his own State and assure
the electoral vote for Mckinley. Judge
Euclid Martin, the chairman OF the dele
cation, said that Nebraska has had a
sound-money Democratic organization for
four years and that every district in the
State is represented here. He did not
care to make predictions which would not
be substantiated later, and preferred to
underestimate rather than exaggerate the
chances for the defeat of Bryan in his
own State, but that while the result will