The San Francisco call., 1896-07-09

wild, glad shout went up from the rep
resentatives of the irrepressible West.
Governor Hogg of Texas made what
would no doubt have been very fine
speech If anybody had heard what he sa; i.
but his gestures were very dramatic, and
when he scowled like a Thunderstorm in
ST. Louis, and murderously shook his
clinehed fist at few hundred visitors in
the chairs at the farther end of the hail.
the people yelled and applauded him.
This inspired the Governor to greater ex-
ertions and he stamped his. broad Texan
feet and brandished his clinched fist in
heavy villain style, the poor man laboring
under the delusien that THE CALL staff
could hear every word that he said and
were taking down his remarks in six diff
ferent styles of shorthand.
When Hogg got through Chairman
White raped for order, and the gold men
began yelling for Hill again as noisily and
as piteously as flock of lambs that had
lost their mothers. Blackburn of Ken
lucky received a great round of cheers
when he stepped up to the platform and
hurled the resonant defiance of the silver
men into the gold teeth of the opposition
Hill HiIlp' yelled the gold men once
more, and their request was met by the
production of Boss Altgeld, who expressed
his very peculiar views on the subject Of
political economy, advancing the start
ling proposition that if you wished to ex-
change bushel of corn for half pint of
whisky you can't do it without taking in
silver as the middleman, and that if YOU
can't get the half ounce of silve the bushel
of corn and the half pint of whisky will
Immediately be put upon the market for a
quarter of an ounce of silver, and that the
poor man, who in that event buys as much
for quarter of an ounce as he had pre-
viously paid a half an ounce for, is de-
frauded and robbed by Mr.. HiIPs gold
bugs.
Altgeld was well applauded, although
only very few could hear what he said,
but they clapped their hands and shouted
at him to make him feel good aud as a
mark OF courtesy to the boss. Then the
song of Hill was again taken up by the
belated New Workers, and Chairman
White, having succeeded in obtaining a
hearing, remarked sarcastically in that
clear, ringing silver free-coinage voice of
his that the chair would take great pleas
ure in recognizing the distinguished gen.
tleman from New York, ''but'' he added,
whats the use of calling for gentleman
WHO'S not in the hall?p
"Give it up" shouted delegate from
Montana. After this diversion Mr.. Ober-
meyer of Pennsylvania was turned loose
on the platform and narrowed up the feel
ings of the outraged gold men and rubbed
salt on their wounds by exclaiming dra-
matically, yesterday the seat of empire
was transferred from the Atlantic States
TO the Mississippi Valley"
You should have heard the veil with
which this roar of defiance was greeted.
And so on until nearly 2 o'clock there
were silver speeches and gold groans, and
then the convention growing very weary
of SO much oratory and tired of waiting
for the credentials committee, took re-
cess until P. NJ.
The gold men left the hall feeling that
the silver men were on horseback and in
tended to ride roughshod over them.
Several hundred newspaper correspon-
dents are very much dissatisfied with the
manner in which seats for the press have
been arranged. 1t IS right, of course, that
the press associations should be given the
nearest space TO the speakers platform on
both sides, but the hundreds of CORE
sponuentS VINO have been herded and
cramped in a corral 100 feet away where
they can see but little and hear nothing
are chafing in their chairs and muttering
their condemnation of the mismanage-
ment by reason of which they have been
obliged to suffer. Immediately back of
the speakers platform and on both sides
of it, where an excellent view of all the
delegations may be obtained, and where
all the speakers may be plainly heard, is a
large space sufficient to accommodate al
most twice the number of poor devils in
The corral, yet this space is given up to
ladies and gentlemen who have a push.
In consequence, the correspondents are
writing to their respective papers roast
lets concerning the sergeant-at-arms and
the manner in which he has laid out the
ground plan of the convention. There
were 600 seats for the press at the St.