The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-07
HOWELL TURNS AGAINST HILL.
GEORGItNS To BACK DANIEL FOH
TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN.

Ex-senator Walsh Chosen Chairman
of the Delegation and He VIII
Cast Its Vote with the siIverItes.
The Georgia Members of the Gon-
Ventlon COmmittees-TeIIer Apt 20
Get the Delegations support.
Chicago. July 6.-The Georgia delegation
arrived at noon to-day. and Is quartered
az the Leland hotel. At O'Clock this
afternoon the delegation had its first mee--
Ing 10 organize for to-morrow's combat.
Ex-senator Pat Walsh was made chair
man OF the delegation. and will cast the
vote Of the state, as a unit, In favor OF
silver on ali points touching the organi-
cation Of the convention and candidates.
Senator Daniel OF Virginia will get tho
vote Of Georgia for temporary chairman.
as against Senator HUI, the nominee of
the committee, and on the other differ
ences with the action Of the COMMITTEES
that will come up for settlement on tho
floor OF the convention Chairman Walsh
VIII keep the delegation squarely on the
silver line.
Clark Howell OF Atlanta was named.
without opposition, as national commits
teeman to serve another term.
Capt +. r. Howell was selected as ttA
NifAAhti Oh AN6 thNAMlANNtt On EEHbAuLlQNa
and platform; Hal Lewis for the commits
tee on credentials and ]. p. Hill and VIII
liam Howard as members OF the commits
tee 10 notify the candidate Of his nomina-
ton.
B. NJ. Davis Of Macon was made vics
chairman of the delegation.
When the question of the delegation go-
ing into the proposed caucus OF the sill
verites was sprung by Chairman Walsh,
who stated that he had been requested
by the steering committee 10 put it be-
fore the meeting. Capt. Howell imme-
dlately put his veto upon Il. He made a
speech. IL was unheard OF, he said, 10
hold such a caucus and such step
could only result IN strife and disoord In
the party and, he said. harmony was what
was wanted Besides. he declared, the
| proposed caucus was nothing more than
q scheme In favor Of candidates who hoped
| 10 profit hy lt. The candidates to whom
] Capt. Howell referred are supposed to bo
| Bland afd Eeies and as he Is in the wake
Of the Ee!ler boom. he was, OF course,
/ opposed 70 f.
Senator Teller's friends based their
/ strongest hopes on the general breaking
| up OF the forces OF the other candidates
| when they got through with lighting each
! other. Some Of them even think that the
| gold men would vote for him out Of spite,
| and for the further purpose Of giving them
a good excuse for putting out camiidate
OF their own.
| For the same reason that they opposed
! the caucus-the desire of the leaders to
| see Teller nomnated-the Georgia dele-
| CATION opposed the aDrogation OF the two
thirds rule. To do this they felt would
| make 1t possible for the gold men to COM
| bine With small percentage of sllverites
and nominate a man who was not straight
| on silver.
Committeeman Clark Howell appeared
before the delegation and gave an account
| Of the proceedings OF the national cons
| mittee, in which he intimated that some
crooked work had been done by the gold
| contingent to change the line OF action OF
| several Of the members. Yesterday, he
| said, these members had openly said they
| were willing to let the silver men have
| full swing but to-day they changed
| their mind and not only unseated the
| silver delegates from Nebraska, but put
| Senator Hill upon the convention as tenn
| porary chairman. No vote was taken on
| the choice Of the delegation for
| President. this being deferred until to-
morrow morning at $3.50 o'clock. Pend
! ing decision Of this important question
| the delegation heard speeches from the
| boomers of the various candidates, all
| Of whom were knocking at the door, hope
| full OF securing Georgia's vote. The most
| interesting of these hearings was that OF
| the Teller boomers. In his behalf Con-
| gressman Towns of Minnesota Senator
| Dubois of Idaho, Senator Pettigrew OF
South Dakota, and Congressman Hart
| man OF Montana made speeches They
! banked on the south to support their man
and declared that the south would not
| be true to slversm II 1t failed TO take ad-
| vantage of the opportunity. Senator Tel
| Ter, they argued, was the only man who
| could be elected on silver
platform. The popuists would en-
man Hartman presenting a letter from
| Chairman Taubeneck and other populist
| leaders 10 that effect, and the silver re-
publicans Of the west would come to his
| support. IL he was not named by the DEM
ocrats. the silver republicans of the west
would be forced to unite with the populistS
and the south could not elect silver DEM
| ocrat. With Senator Teller, the silver men
could sweep the country and capture the
! lower house, while with any other can
| didate the democratic party would be sure
| " defeated and the republicans would not
/ only capture the House and presidency,
| but also the Senate. According to the fig
! ures of the Teller boomers, he could de-
liver 265 electoral votes. while no demo-
crat could carry more than 1877, while 224
! would be necessary to elect.
! During the presentation Of the case of
Senator Teller, Capt Howell and others OF
| the delegation asked frequent questions to
bring out more fully the strong points in
| his claims. and the speeches were re-
| ceived with great deal more enthuaiasm
| than those Of the friends OF the other can
| d.dates. Capt Howell concluded the
! Teller case by reading dispatch just re-
ceived from VI. r. Wright, pop, and A.
! Richardson, dem, of CedartoWn. saying
| that Senator Teller's nomination would
/ unite the two parties in Georgia.
| Senator Vest Judge White and Gov
| Stone of Missouri, presented the claims
! of Mr. Bland.
Frank p Shively, the democratic candi-
| date for governor of Indiana, spoke for
Gov, Matthews, and Gov. Boies was placed
before the delegates by L. 7. Genung,
delegate-a at-arge from Iowa. Aside from
Teller, Bland appeared to have the most
strength with the Georgia delegation, and
il may be that he will receive the vote
Of the state on the first ballot