The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-10

gerald, Leake, Dwyer.. Metzger, Raglan,
Mater, Trippett, Church.
Fisher-Foote. Mcguire, Dozier, Lane,
Caminetti. Burke. ~
In this contest was an element not seen
on the surface Weaeock has made firm
fight in Michigan against the a. P. A.
The members OF that organization IN this
convention banded against him. Mr..
Foote, who was willing 10 walk to Sacra-
mento TO blow out q dark lantern. IS the
toast in the lodges of intolerance to-day
throughout Michigan.
Interest in the convention as q slaughter
house ceased with this rolicalL There
will be furious scenes over the personality
of candidates, but public interest lags.
When an assassin wounds his victim with
the first shot there is an excited rush to
the rescue, but when his work is finished
no one tries 10 keep him from firing into
the corpse, for be cannot hurt 1t. The
community then takes an interest only IN
his punishment.
The platform will be discussed to-day.
The majority has refused in the commit
tee as it will in the convention TO protect
existing contracts. The money plank pro-
vides for the repudiation'of every existing
contract payable in gold, and demands
that the making OF specific contracts in
the future be made felony. AS the plan
Is retroactive upon the rights OF property
By repudiating past contracts it might as
well be applied ex-pnst-facto TO the rights
Of persons and devote to penal servitude
the men who made the contracts which it
reaches backward to destroy. It also at
tacks life tenure in Office which the con-
stitution grants to Judges OF the Federal
courts, and which is one OF the prime
safeguards against anarchy. 1t is said this
plank was drawn By Debs.
The minority report on the money plank
was presented and Tillmsn opened the de-
bate. He was coldly received. In ten
minutes he lost control OF the convention
and audience and then lost mis- voice, his
head and everything but his venom.
When he abused Cleveland and Carlisle,
the Kisses sounded like steam escaping
from thousand boilers. When he boosted
that South Carolina broke up the Demo-
cratic party in 1860 on g sectional issue
and that the silver issue is sectional, his
less frank ex-Confederate comrades were
uneasy. When he closed, poor old Jones
=
and thread, and patch the tatters Tillman
any one should have mentioned sectional
ism. As for him he vas willing TO die as
often as necessary for silver.
After the moist Jones had been wiped
OF the stage, Senator Hill appeared TO
speak for the minority report. Here was
the last chance for the old Democracy.
For twenty minutes Is, 900 people cheered,
stood up, waved hats and handkerchiefs,
stamped and stormed. The chairman,
Richardson Of Tennessee, was mad of
course and tried to stop it, but the more
he tried the more it wouldn't stop. The
Southern delegations scowled and sYore
Old Isham Harris put his rubber tobacco
sack between his toothless gums In mis-
take for tobacco and chewed it, but still
the thunder rose and roared and rolled.
The old Democracy quit when it got ready
and Hills first sentence rang 70 the rafters
OF the great place:
II am Democrat" said he. "but not a
reyoIutionist." That stated the case and
the speech that followed left this majority
OF reds and 3. ssgarts not leg TO stand
on. Villas AID Russell followed in sup
port OF the minority, and then Mr.. BRYAN
OF Nebraska Bryaned. With the rollcsI
the work OF the convention had been
stripped down to the litter of Presidential
ambitions which have been meEling and
paging in their nurses arms for week.
What follows 70 the end is not i'm
portant. The party may go into the
hands OF receiver, but the country won't.
TONIGHT people are leaving. The third
rate orators Of the convention are picked
out TO make spec ches for the third-rate
candidates and the lourth-rafe orators to
second the same California gets in the
last list by Foote'S second Of Joe Black
burn. Joseph, by the way, is unduly ex-
cited by my presence here and thinks it
improper. The advice OF Stewart, Jones
OF Nevada. Dubois. Martin. Carter, Debs,
Herr Most aud Herr Altgeld is more to
Joseph's rank Kentucky taste than that of
Democrats. JOIN ?. IRIsH.