The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-11

Manley announced that he had received a
large number OF dispatches from different
parts Of the country urging that ON ac-
count OF the lack Of courtesy accorded 20
the coiOred delegates. the convention be
hel4 ELSEWHERE. He added, that, while he
coulu not speak for the other hotels, he
was authorized by the manager of the
Soutnern TO say that be would carry out
MS contract by receiving and entertaining
every delegate who had reserved rooms in
the house, no matter what his color This
was received with applause. No other ref
erence 10 the trouble was made.
Each member of the national commit
lee and the leading delegates on the
ground was furnished this afternoon with
a suggested monetary plank for the plat
form, drawn up by r. &. Kerens. IL reads
as follows: I'VE believe that our money
should not be inferior to the money of the
most enlightened nations Of the earth. and
we are unalterably opposed TO every
scheme that threatens TO debase or depre-
ciate our present monetary standard. We
4aNoE tne reasonable use OF silver as cur
rency, but such use should be TO The extent
only and under such well defined regula-
tions that its parity with gold as currency
can be easily and efficiently maintained.
AS consistent bimetallsts, We are on
posed 10 the free coinage of silver at
a ratio or TO TO !. as measure fraught
win certain disaster to all commercial
interests destructive to the interest of
the wage Garner, and in the absence of
lHIlernallonaI iI. agreement, sure to lead to
silver monome tallsm. -
Mark Hanna is already taking a hand
IN the nnancial fight, and has set on foot
- oLipHB movement Tor a COMPROMISE
rms afternoon ne sent for umber of
southern delegates, who are known to
be friendly to Mckinley, and urged them
not to push their demands for a gold
plank. He fears big detection I'm the
west, and the whole power of the Ohio
organization will be used from this time
on TO prevent the absolute overriding of
the free coinage westerners.
When the committee reassembled at .
o'clock the Alabama contests We're taken
up without delay. David d. Shelby pre-
sented the case of the regular delegates
az large, David ID. Shelby, c. w. Buckley
John W. Jones and w. r. Pettford, rep
resenting the Vaughan wing of the party
while the interests of the contestants eX-
Gov. William A. Smith, ]. Z. McDufie A
}. Warner (colored) and w. II. Nixon were
looked after by eX-Chairman Moseley and
the venerable ex-governor himself.
The entire issue turned upon the right
OF the executive committee to make up
q temporary roll for the state conven-
| ton, and the regular delegates scored
q point by producing a telegram sent by
| National Chairman Carter on the night
! DeIore the convention, in response to an
inquiry, in which he said that It was
/ the custom Of the national committee
TO make up the roll and that the chairman
ana secretaries Of state or national COM
mittees were only the servants of those
electing or appointing them.
Heated speeches We're made on both
sides ana as soon as the contestants
| had withdrawn, Powell Clayton moved
| that the Buckley delegation be placed
/ on the temporary roll Senator Gear of
| Iowa proposed, as a substitute that the
Smith, or Moseley delegation, be seated
| while W. A. Sutherland wanted the en-
| tire matter referred to a subcommittee
/ ing.
4 suggestion from Senator shoup of
| Idaho that each delegate be given a
| half-vote in the interest of harmony, was
/ met by so many cries of No" and That's
not the way to get harmony" that it
| Mr.. Sutherlands substitute was voted
| down with a shout, and then the roll was
| called on the main question. Thrty-four
delegates voted to seat the Buckleyites
and six the other way. Those voting in
the negative were: Messrs Fessenden or
Connecticut, Gear of Iowa, Leonard OF
Louisiana Crane of Massachusetts, Suth-
erland of New York and Perry Carson
of the District of Columbia
By some oversight the secretary failed
to call the state of Maine but the major-
ty was so overwhelming that Mr.. Hanley
did not call attention to the omission,
although he said afterwards that he
would have voted for the contestants.
The exact complexion of the committee,
therefore, the representatives Of North
Dakota, New Mexico, Oklahoma ana
Alaska being absent, was S8 to T.
Next in order was the contest in the
Fourth congressional district of Ala
bama where Congressman w. f. Aldrich
and H. F. Curry claimed precedence OF
the regular delegates, Thomas c. Dunn
and William A. Stevens. The latter, a
bright colored man, spoke for himself
and colleague an eX-federal soldier and
member of Gen. Hancock's staff, and de
spite a plausible statement from Rep
! resentative Aldrich, the cOlored man made
out so good a case that the vote to sus-
tain the regular delegation was unani-
nous.
There was applause when it was an
nounced that the Sixth district contest
had been abandoned.
The Fifth district was passed until
Thursday.
exander and John S. Curtis the regular
delegates, told a story of attempted riot
and threatened bloodshed at the district
convention while the contestants, James
A. MOrague and John I. Guzzle, sought
to put another face on the matter.
When the room had been cleared Com
mitteeman Payne Of Milwaukee expressed
the opinion that the time had come to
frown upon such convention methods as
those that had been narrated and suggest
ed that both the regulars and contest
ants be excluded from the regular roll.
Committeeman Hahn, however, moved to
seat Alexander Curtis, and there were
but four voices in the negative.
The Eighth district contest was with
drawn and the names of the regular
delegates, w. w. Simmons and II. V.
Cashin were placed upon the roll.
In the Ninth district A. D. Winds. col
ored, and w. c. Hanlin, a Grand Army
veteran, both adherents Of the MOseley
wing, contested the seats of J. W. Hughes
and W. L. Saunders. State Chairman
Vaughan made the argument for the lat
ter, while Moseley argued that what was
sauce for the goose was sauce for the
gander and that the committee could not
decide against the contestants in this case
without admitting that-the facts being the
same-it was wrong in the Seventh dis
trict contests.
The committee agreed with him, and
Powell ClaytOn's motion to seat the colored
man and the eX-northern volunteer was
carried with a shout
At 6;15 o'clock the committee took
recess until tonight at S.o'clock. 1t was
subsequently announced that the Fifth
district case would be settled by arbi-
tration Of the regulars and contestants,
one favors Allison, one Mckinley and two
Reed.
When the committee reconvened at S15
O'Clock the contest on delegates-at-Iarge
from Florida and those in the Third and
Fourth districts of California We're made
the special order for Thursday morning.
Georgia was next in order, and Chair
man Carter remarked as he surrendered
the chair to NJ. II. de Young, soto voce
that at the present rate of progress the
committee would be still in session when
the convention assembled on Tuesday
ONLY two seats of the four delegates-at-
large from this state proved to be con-
tested r. r. Wright, colored, and who
at the outset announced himself the orig
inal Mckinley champion Of his state, open