The San Francisco call., 1896-07-22


promise. They claim at headquarters 700
and more votes of the total of 1900 dele
gates to the convention. Among the
States which they assert are solid for them
are: Arkansas with 26 votes, Texas 50,
Georgia 81, Mississippi IS. Tennessee So,
New York "A. Maine 9, California SO, North
Carolina 80, Missouri 3S. Minnesota So and
majority of the Indiana, Ohio and Iowa
delegations, besides scattering votes in al
most all the remaining States.
They can't work any unit rule in this
convention, for the reason that you can't
gag Populist. If there Is one man in
the delegation opposed to all the rest he
is entitled to vote and a voice in the con-
vention," said delegate this morning.
A mixed lot-Democrats, Populists and
Republicans-arrived from California this
morning in the roll of delegates TO the
Bimetallic League to take part in the pro-
ceedings of the silver convention. Among
them are: Hon. Frank J. Moffitt, red
hot programme Democrat from Oakland; !;
Hugo Hornlein, silver Populist, formerly
of Sacramento and now proprietor of the
Cafe Royal in San Francisco; Robert Nc
Killican, Democratic contractor OF Oak
land; DR.. E. H. Woolsey, formerly of the
Southern Pacific Hospital in Alameda
County; George Baker, a high officer in
the Bimetsllic League of California, and
Charles r. Lane, partner of Alvinza Hay
ward in the Utica mine at Angels Camp.
Calaveras County, Cal. Mr.. Lane is being
urged by Senators Jones and Stewart TO
make the fight for United States Senator
from California on the proposition that he
would be a good object lesson, he being an
advocate of the free coinage of silver and
at the same time the owner of a gold mine.
He te.egraphed this morning to William
Kitchener of the New York Exchange that
on tomorrow, July %, he would have in
this city 100000 in gold coin to wager in
any amounts that Bryan will be the next
President of the United States. Hugo
Horlein told me that the Populists of Sac
ramento County are unanimous for free
coinage and Bryan.
ALI Reed, organizer of the second dis
trict of the Iowa middle-of the-roadsters,
in charge of the headquarters here, said
to-day:
'If the enactment of q free coinage law
should be the result of the election in the
fall it would compel the creditor class OF
the United States TO use less than per
cent of their yearly income to buy up and
corner the yearly silver product of the
world and then we would be no better off
than at present, for so long as We have
metallic money the monopolizing of our
finances will continue. We will never be
safe until we have money as sound as the
integrity of our country, because it is based
on the integrity of our country; money
that we will not have to depend upon the
success of one class of industry-miners-
for, but money that will expand as our
need for tour business-expands, be-
cause based on our credit that expands
with our industries.
To-day we look back on four years of
work for reform that has brought 2,000,-
600 people together in advocacy of princi-
Piles that, when once triumphant. will be
q blessing to all mankind. God grant that
we may show stability of purpose suffi-
oient to carry on this great work without
being carried away by the alluring of
barren victory or the glitter of spoils, for
if we are true to our principles and labor
on with steady hands and hopeful hearts
only few years and victory will crown
our efforts for the emancipation of hu-
manity, and man will once more enjoy his
God-given right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness.
1.-THE more united the effort the sooner
the victory; but if there be those who
think they are doing more good by leav-
ing our ranks and forming union with
others, with much regret we will have to
let them go; bat it would be absurd to
think that we would follow them. Those
in whom the conviction lies that the
Democrats of the Omaha platform are
safe and sure cure for our present ills and
for whom a barren victory has no allure
ments can only fight out for that which
they believe to be right, regardless of what
the leaders may do, realizing that union
of forces on the Weaver Taubeneck plan,
If it were successful, would deliver con-
trolling interest of our party into the
hands of those opposed to our principles,
rob US of our organization (if we sub
mitted); and the victory being fruitless,
would create distrust in the minds of the
people against future efforts.
"For over a year the single-plankers
have been hot Oh our track trying to edu-
cate the Populists out of their principles
instead of trying to educate the other fell
lows into our party. Why have they not
labored to bring the silver men to US in
stead of trying to force our party over to
them? have no charge TO make against
the honesty OF purpose of any of them, but
the fact remains that the effect of trim
ming our platform would be the same.
whether secured by the efforts of more
power to down the goldbugs, or by the
efforts of the foreign capitalists who take
from this country $500, ,ooO,0O0 every year
as Americans pay for tilling American
soil and as interest on railroad and other
bonds, for the only hope of these blood
suckers lies not in who secures the trim
ming OF the Omaha platform, but that the
Omaha platform be trimmed.
"But the greatest obstacle in the way OF
success of the narrow-gadguers is the cold
fact that the true blue, broad-gauge Popu-
list, who recognizes in this movement a
disorganization of our forces, can never
consent to be sidetracked. But with a
faith in their cause that will admit of no
faltering, they will toll on, looking for
their reward in due time in the enactment
OF the just laws for which they contend :;
and they will not be disappointed, for