The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-03
SILVER MEN LINE UP
rhav Don Their Armor for the
Battle at Chicago.
EXPRESS CONFIDENCE OF SUCCESS
No Compromise Platform Will he Ac
cepted, They Declare-Meeting of the
National Bimetallic Committee.
Matter of the Contests.

Chicago. July 1.-Since the meeting
of the democratic national bimetallic
committee Yesterday afternoon, when
the outlook of the money struggle was
nrettv thoroughly discussed, the silver
men here express absolute confidence
of victory and scoff at the idea of any
compromise whatever. At the meeting
there was more or less individual dis
cussion of Mr.. Whitney's attitude
among the delegates and it was noted
that there was no expression on the
mart of any one favorable to yielding
ANYTHING to the gold standard element.
The general opinion on this score was
well summed up in a characteristic re-
mark by Senator Harris: 81 am" the
senator said, lone of many thousands
of democrats and of many hundreds of
delegates l can't, of course, speak
for all, but l can speak for myself. l
want no compromise. We should
either have a declaration for the free
coinage of silver on the terms of
equality with gold at the ratio of 16
to !, so plain that no human being can
MHuLlAtNi SltiAle1 AOs VI VIC S1OulO
have an equally plain pronounce
ment for the gold standard, and
think I know which it will be-"
Meanwhile, the United Press dis
patch giving the expression of Secre-
tary Morton's sentiment that the sill
yer men had the road and were going
to keep it, and that the chief trouble
vrs4 IEh;+-n1,3c
the gun was not bigh enough was read
aloud to the assemblage, to the evi-
dent satisfaction of the listeners. "Sec-
tary Morton has evidently sized up the
situatiOn,' said Senator Jones, 'and
his opinion is welcome, even if 1t does
come rather late in the day" "That's
the second sensible thing that Secre-
tary Morton has said since the silver
crusade was inaugurated," said another
(who subsequently made
the inevitable request that his name
should not be quoted). ''The first was
when he returned from a recent 5000
mile trip and acknowledged that the
western prairies were on fire for silver
and said that his own gold delegation
from Nebraska would be lucky if it got
into the Coliseum galleries. 1.-The
next thing we know we shall find that
they are succumbing to the inevitable
and coming into the silver camp" said
delegate John w. Tomlinson.
Boies Men Uneasy.
The conference of the bimetallic
committee created considera BILE uneasi-
ness among the supporters of Gov.
Boies, and some decidedly bitter talk
was indulged in concerning the alleged
antagonism of Gov. Altgeld toward
the Grand Old Man" of the Iowa
democracy. At the Boies headquarters
in the Palmer house it was declared
that, if allowed to use their inclina-
tions, the followers of the Illinois
delegation would vote for the Iowa
man. He would have assurances of
sympathy from number of delegates
from this state" said member of the
Boies committee, 'but it is evident
that they are tied to the machine. If
they we're free to act we could corral
the bulk of them. Whatever the OBJ
ject of the Stone -Altgeld conference,
however, we are not going to be dis
heartened by single rebuff. Boies
will be the coming nominee despite the
underhand schemes that the gold men
and others have resorted to- They
know his strength and they fear him
more than any other candidate that
'has been mentioned"