The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-09
BLAKE VIOLENT.
Wanted tot Turn All the Michigan
Men Out.


Men Out.
His place was taken by Delegate J.
w. Blake, of Texas, who made violent
speech in favor of seating the silver
men. He charged that it was notorious
that the Michigan convention had been
packed and manipulated by federal off,
ce-holderS.
'The whole Internal delegation should
in my opinion be turned out" he said,
earnestly, and many of the silver dele
gates on the floor seemed to agree with
him from the manner in which they
received his sentiment. He repealed the
sentiment of Mr.. Sheehan and affirmed
that as a silver man, if he could not
control the convention without robbing
a state of it's votes, he was ready to
surrender
Delegate Mcknight, one of the Michi-
gan silver delegates, replied to Mr..
Stevenson. He said that it was
notorious that the silver men elected
majority Of 200 to the Michigan con-
vention.
GAS soon as the administration at
Washington ascertained this fact" he
continued, "Mr. Stevenson was hastily
summoned to Washington for a con-
ference with the great chief
TITS a lie," yelled Mr.. Stevenson,
mounting a chair and facing the dele
gates. There is not one word of truth
in that statement Mr.. Mcknight in
sisted on his statement and proceeded
to describe the methods by which the
control of the convention had been
wrested from them. In conclusion, he
predicted that Michigan would give
1000 Democratic majority if a free sill
yer platform was adopted.
GALLERIES WEARY.
The Michigan debate was becoming
wearisome, so when Delegate Bruck-
ner, smooth-faced young man from
that state began to talk, the people be-.
gan to cry for vote. Mr.. Bruckner,
however, stirred them to a yell, by de-
claring that while he has always been
a free silver man, he believed the sill
verites had enough delegates to elect
free silver president on a free silver
platform without committing highway
robbery.
Then the gold men were reused to
greater enthusiasm by Charles s.
Thomas, the Colorado member of the
National committee, who spoke in a
similar strain, saying that If the con-
vention could commit greater wrong
than to nominate candidate who did
not represent the wishes of the major
ity. Such a wrong would be to over
run the officially expressed wishes of
thought that virtue which discovered
so late that it had been outraged
should be looked upon with suspicion
and was at loss to understand how
fraud charges affected only four del
egates.
Judge O. w. Powers, of Utah, fol-
lowed He inquired why if the cause
of the gold delegates from Michigan
was just they were proposing to bar
fnT fhaiT- vyrNfa for fe TO-
ton and vote for a gold candidate.
He did not want any delegates seated
because it was necessary to make a
two-thirds majority, "for we have that
already" but because their cause was
just.
State Senator Thomas f. Grady, Of
New York, picturesque, red faced
gentleman with red mustache and
wearing rather short jacket, punctu-
ated a speech for the gold delegates
with violent gestures which did not
avail to secure him close attention.
Mr.. Grady said: 1.-THE question submitted
TO you for consideration is one that goes far
beyond and reaches far above the simple cues
ton as to whether "a or more men constitut-
ing committee shall be sustained because
you are to determine whether a Democratic
principle and precedent old as the party it.
self Is to be violated, and that under the most
suspicious circumstances (Applause.) Let us
not be deceived. The Democrats are not de-
ceived. The delegates are not deceived The
people cannot be deceived as to just what this
means. 1t was the very height of generosity
that they were willing to leave the delegates
at-large remain, adopt the majority report and
under the unit rule have every vote Of Michi-
gan; so that the generosity was more in name
than in fact.
Answering the gentleman from Utah who
has placed his judicial determination, upon
what he read in the newspapers, let me re-
mind him that some of us since coming to
Chicago have read in the newspapers that
right or wrong. some of the Michigan deIega.
ton were to be unseated and were to be un-
seated for the purpose Of making the applica-
ton OF the two-thfrds rule unnecessary: If
the newspapers are to be relied upon for the
gossip and rumors and the statements thew
have published about the Michigan contest
be sure before you vote. The people of the
United States do not believe that your action
in unseating regularly elected delegates is an
attempt to pack the convention. What have
we here? We have under the seal of the state
of Michigan through the officers of the only
Democratic convention held in that state this
year, certificate that certain men had been
duly elected at a convention, uncontested in its
parts and uncontested as to its actions
AS against that some four men have come
to the city Of Chicago, and have written
out their own credentials They have writ