Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-03

advocacy on the ground floor of the
Palmer house, and the cheers and yells
and shouts and ironical CALCULATIONS OF
the listeners combined ito create din
that can be as well imagined as described
The friends of Mr.. Bland were most ac-
tive In addition to their headquarters
at the Palmer house and the Auditorium
Annex they opened up rooms today in
the en;resol of the Sherman house, where
a committee lay in wait to corral such of
the arriving delegates as might first seek
quarters of the silver committee. Mr.
BANDS friends were in high feather to-
day, and while una bic on account OF the
small number of delegates already in
sight to give out any definite ngures, IN
sisted that the prevailing sentiment IN
the city and the advices which they were
receiving from outside warranted them IN
taking their stand that Il was Bland
against the field, with the field already
giving evidence of being run.
The friends of Ex-Governor Boies,
however, were by no means disheartened
by the claims of the Bland men, ana
fell back on the argument that it was
votes rather than shouting that made
nominees. One of the chiefs of the Boies
bureau, and who had a talk with Gov
ernor Altgeld just before the latter left
for Springfield last night, quoted him
as declaring that he had not spoken a
word on the subject of presidential pos
to Bland than to Boies, and that the time
had not yet arrived when the Illinois
delegation could fasten itself to any one
candidate. Out of this the adherents
of the Iowa man managed to extract
considerable comfort There was more
or less about the hotels today concern
ing a ticket made up of the two BIS
Bland and Boies-but the 1owans frown
down any suggestion that their candl-
date would accept the second place.
Vice President Stevenson and Govern
or Matthews of Indiana were also talked
of considerably for the second place on
the ticket in the event of the nomination
for the presidency going to Mr.. Bland,
and late in the day Ex-Governor Camp
bell of Ohio was talked of in the same
connection. Not a single name of any
person hailing east of the Alleghenies
was brought up however, and, as one
of the silver people put it, the general
opinion seemed to be that If there was
an eastern man of national reputation
who is favorable to silver he must have
taken to the woods before allowing his
convictions to go on record.
Indiana and his spirants were reinforced
today by the arrival of VIII English, son
of the late Hon. Will English, who was
a candidate for the vice presidency ON the
Hancock ticket of $780, Although not
free silverite, Mr.. English is a warm
elected as delegate at large at the Fat-
ter's request. His wealth and influence,
1t is said, will be freely used in Governor
Matthews behalf.
The local sound money democrats be-
gan to bestir themselves today, and ar
rungements were made for conference
of all the gold standard delegates that
may be on the ground tomorrow night.
1t will be held at the Auditorium hotel
So far the silver people have held the
right of way, and there has been con-
siderable criticism over the failure of the
Illinois sound money committee to do
anything toward counteracting the efforts
of the opposition. For Saturday night
there has been arranged a mass meeting
in the auditorium proper, and Senators
Hill of New York, Gray of Delaware,
Vile IF Wisconsin, Palmer of Illinois,
Ex-Secretary Whitney, Ex-Governors
Russell of Massachusetts and Walker of
Connecticut, Peck of Wisconsin, Flower
of New York, Francis of Missouri, Hons.
Robert e. Wright of Pennsylvania, Allen
McDermott of New Jersey, w. d. Bynum
>of Indiana and William F. Sheehan of
New York are expected to make short
sound money addresses.