Evening star., 1896-07-06


ences by permitting the gold delegates to
be seated by the national committee The
silver majority in the convention will allow
this delegation to remain seated and per-
nit the members to vote against the free
coinage plank in the platform, provided the
delegation named will vote solidly for the
presidential candidate whom the silver con-
testants select as their choice. 1t took con-
siderable persuasion and perspiration to ac-
complish this compromise, but the Bland
men put in several hours on It, with the
result Of :. favorable report to headquar-
ters. The Bland people expect to get the
Michigan vote. = u
AS the delegates begin to arrive there are
very ominous mutteRings against Teller.
This is especially. the ease with the south
ern delegates, and 1t Is not confined to the
advocates Of any particular candidate. The
objection of these people to Teller is that
If nominated he cannot. command the full
democratic vote IN the south. The old-line
democrats are tea rock-ribbed in their ar
tipathy to anything republican, it is claim
ed, to be able to accept such brand new
dissenter from repubncanism as Mr. Teller.
Upon this point Congressman Bankhead
Of Alabama said: The Alabama delegation,
as we'll as most other southern delegations
Is coming to this convention with the prim-
ary purpose of furtherng the free silver
cause. 1t has no candidate to offer the con-
vention, and, 1 believe, will be satisfied to
take any candidate who Is an able and con-
sistent silver man. 1 have no idea that
Alabama will cast any votes for Senator
Teller. do not believe there Is any scare
ity Of available timber in the democratic
party"
Congressman Swanson Of Virginia said:
Il think the predominating idea of south
ern democrats generally is that the nom
inee of the party must be good democrat
The south feels very kindly toward Senator
Teller, both because of his attitude on the
silver question and the force bill but this
is democratic convention, and 1 believe
democrats generally look to see a democrat
placed in nomination. AS to the talk about
the populists indorsing Teller in case he Is
the nominee of this convention that is
merely speculation"
Congressman Otey Of Virginia said south.
ern democrats were here to win, and would
support whomsoever the convention named,
presusning, Of course, that he would be a
silver man running on a silver platform.
He continued: 1T looks very much as
though the eastern democrats intended to
bolt the ticket after the convention, and
name ticket of their own. 1 was a great
stevenson man up to last June. when the
bimetallic committee met in Washington,
but Stevenson's silence that time and his
silence since has weakened my kindly feel
ing toward him as a candidate"
simultaneously with the increased arrival
of southern delegates during Sunday there
began to crop out an attitude of menace
toward fo
Altgelds espousal of the Bland cause The
southerners are afraid Of Altgeld and of
anything with which he is associated. They
regard his socialistic views with the abhor-
renee that might be expected from a race
as conservative as the southern people,
Bland at best Is not above suspicion of en-
tertaining sociaHstic views in modified
form perhaps as was demonstrated by the
speech he made in the House at the time of
the Coxey invasion of Washington.
1t Is plain to the observer that there is a
marked cooling Of enthusiasm for Bland
among the southern delegations in the past
twenty-four hours It Is even noticeable in
the Arkansas contingent. who were in
structed by the state convention for Bland.
Some of Bland's managers are casting
about for means Of relieving him from Alt
geld's Endorsement
The boom of Gov. Matthews of Indiana
is suffering FROM 1inaetion and looks very
peaked" as they say in the chills-and-
fever district of indiana.
The effect Of the Indiana resolutions de-
claring fatty against any caucus upon
candidates has beenoito make the ultra
silver howlers leok with suspicion upon
Indiana Accusations awere plentiful that
the state was READY 20 make a deal with
the gold bugs at the first oportunity Sem
ator Stewart was particularly active in
circulating this theory and was bitter in
his denunciation of Turpie, who, he de-
clares, has deserted the senatorial junta.
The Matthews people are beginning to re-
alize that their candidate is not making a
great impression on the convention, and
that II he is nominated it will be by slow
growth, upon the convention, after it is n
session. He will start with the thirty
vCtes from his own state, and is promised
all the votes Of Alabama, a majority Of
those Of Georgia, five out Of the eight in
Florida, and a scattering support in Ten
nessee and Mississippi.
They figure that conservative silver
element will develop in the convention,
| which will finally control the silver vote
| ard will come to Matthews after the Boies
and Bland forces lock horns until they are
tired. NJ ON