The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-07
ALL Is CONFUSION.
Silver's Big Majority
Undisciplined.
NOTHING YET DECIDED.
Silver Dick Bland Leads, With
Not Half Enough Votes.
eoiEs ~ THE SECOND PLACE.
shrewd Leaders Awaiting q Chance
TO Spring Teller's Name.
The Convention Meets Today, and the
Only Thing Settled In Advance IL
That There VIII Bc q stout silver
PIank-HnI VIII Probably BE Ro-
jected ~ Temporary Chairman, and
the Nebraska Gold Delegates ousse
Disagreement Over tho Tariff
Plank - Excellent Opening For q
Dark Horse. Probably.

tnicaEo. July Son the eve OF the DEM
ocratie national convention which con-
veaes In the Coliseum on the lake front
tomorrow all is confusion. Only one
thing looms up like saarchiight In the
fog that hangs over the situation. and OBJ
seEres the vision OF the wlsest and most
far-seeing OF the leaders That is that the
convention will be for silver at Is 10 /
As for the candidates, the convention is
sun cropping In the murk. The din OF the
Hiand and Boles boomers is deafening.
aud so Infectious at times that II almost
carries the public of It's feet Bland Is
unaaestionsbIy in the lead 50 far as ac-
tual votes are concerned. his strength ap-
proximating 80. a liberal estimate, with
Boies moving along al his heels with
ABOUT 20, but neither is able TO demon
stTate as yet how he can win. In this
chaotic condition OF affairs gossip and
SPECULATION casts about for dark horses.
william j. Bryan. the boy orator or the
Flatie. Vice President Adiai T. Steven
son; John X. Mclean. the Ohio Journalist;
tne blue srass orator. Senator Blackburn.
of Kentucky. and senator White. of Cali
tornia. all share the distinction OF being
eanvassed. Even Senator Sill. OF New
York. Is talked Of. and his famous EImira
speech OF 1888 Is recalled as an evidence
that he Is bi-Tnetallist and would make a
strong compromise candidate The name
OF ex-sow James T.. Campbell. of Ohio,
~ also heard. The pennoyer boom from
Oregon was formally launched today, and
ex-Congressman Joe SIbley. OF Pennsyl-
yanta announced his candidacy. At work
IN the background ls the senatorial move
ment for Teller, with the free silver Re-
puelscans and their allies. the Pofnilist
leaders. straining every nerve 20 impress
upon the convention the aayiSabiiify of
nominating the Colorado man
with All these silver forces struggling
against each other. and the gold men solid
and compact, ready 20 obey orders. II IS a
shrswd political prophet who can point the
way out. IL VIII require at least another
day for the fog TO lift. The silver leaders
now reluctantly admit. on the eve OF the
convention. that their two-thlrds major
tty Is az undisciplined mass. running
hither and thither, possibly to be stsni-
neded In the end. They started out with
tho announced intention os getting to-
gether and arranging a programme to be
put through by the sheer force OF their
majority They were 20 abragate the
two-thirds rule and select their candidate
IN a caucus Of silver men Both these
projects were put aside. and they are nog
az the door OF the convention with the
question of candidate open and a dead
lock inevitable. IL WIN require every sill
Yer vote IN the convention 10 nominate
and the friends Of any candidate. IL the
gold men do not plump their votes TO a
silver man who may be Formidable but not
the choice OF the majority. may prevent
an early nomination. This would. o,
course, play into the hands az those who
are maHeavrring 20 bring forward Teller
az the oppOrtune tine or. II the sentiment
of the convention refused 20 Weld IA fhe
leaders of The ST. Louis boilers, into the
hands OF the managers az dark horse.
Buck hinrtchsen's poll Of fha Illinois
delegation. showing n majority for Hand.
Was confirmed today. when the tseiessatton
voted II 10 90 support the AfisSoirlan.
Kansas snd Texas also fen in lire for
Bland. and these acquisitions made Silver
Dicks followers very confident hs1, fsnlea.
boom also grew arace. Iowa's ex-xovern-
or's managers received assurances or x,sp-
port from the South which huovsa M
their hopes. But K is a long road 20 The
two-thfrds majority, and Bland has nat
urally become the target of the friends OF
all the cid candidates The dark horses
are especially willing 20 have the MfSsots-
riaa draw the Ere. IL Is possible thar
eventually Biana may reach the goal. but
tho most saEavf0us political Observers
seem 20 believe be may have reached the
top Of the hii After Re has been RULED
down they expect 10 see the Hard CO.
hortS with NOD aroused turned on Rassz
4
present has the support perhaps uncon-
sciouSiy 50 far as he Il concerned. % many
% the Eastern gold men. who expect 70
bow TO fhe viii Of the ma aioritY Bland
they urge. Is a man q a single idea. In
,he end the situation seems to possibly
point 20 an outsider as the termination os
thls political strife.
The gold men are without 4 aeanFte fsr,-
Eramme. They are practically reecnciled
% defeat 81 FAR as the PLATFORM IL cor
cerue3. but seem 20 Be possessed 81 the
vague hope that eouaethfrx VIII tura m
which viii secure Ter them an acceptable
candidate. Among some % the raafesafx
there Is stili talk of q bolt McDerrnstt
one of the deteSsfcs AZ large fruna New
Jersey. announced today that he would
walk oaf az the convention. and the con-
testing delegation from Texas rYaSfsa IN
their minds that they 68a not want aa-
mission 20 q convention which Was as
they expressed II. deterBlsnes. - rAant
themselves on the silver hsreSv. But urs-
der the advice of whitney and Hi. tae
fear ~ a bolt CO any proportions Is being
assreglesa. and some q the go1d raen who
vere yesterday exceedingly bitter xre
rscre composed ana ready TO Accept the
situation Saoufd there b. a physical
withdrawal from the convention. hexexsr.
q ls Hkely the holters via later place a
ticket iR the field
The SILVER rnsn wiz 20 into the convsn-
tlen tagnorroN w3th nothing asrssiex as to
the psatFerEs. and there promises 10 he
an arsepsicn and perhaps Sad hioaa over
The matter. The rs&torfty largely faSov
4 single SILVER rlank, WhtcA taey regard
as fhs vital and paramount tssGa of tie
coming hattie AZ the paiis- a NeFx cs2fl-
siderable nuEzhrr. SlEh their eyes on The
votes ef sase silver Rsa4estcaes. sestra %
coupiotely ssnore fhe sAESn gssessiags while
otaoTs are n taxor - . lto5aT8fe dscfzra
ten scr t2ss-- which 9lA rA-ss s.G.1laHs