The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-02
GOLD MEN WILL BATTLE
TO MAKE SENATOR HIEL TEMPO
 RARY CHAIRMAN.

Harrity Says the Sound Money situation
 is Not as Desperate as Has Been Depicted
 Gold Men Will Fight All the way-The
 Money Plank in the New York Platform
 Likely to be the Choice of the Sound
 Money Advocates at Chicago.
 Chicago, July 1,-Senator David B, Hill of New York will be temporary chairman of the democratic convention if the gold men of the national com mittee have their way. In making up the temporary organization the com mittee will recommend to the conyen- tion the New York senator for chair man, and he will be selected unless the silver men beat him on the floor.
 The gold men say they have clear majority of the members of the nation al committee, and they do not propose to stand any bulldozing on the part of the silver men in making up the tenn porary roll and the temporary organi- zation.
 Chairman William F. Harrity of the national committee arrived here this morning, and from this time on the sil- yer men will not have the field to them selves. Before night they will know that there is fight on. On the same train With MT. Harrity came Vice Pres ident Stevenson, who is on his way to his home in Bloomington. The vice president will spend a day or two in the city in consultation with the dem- ocratic leaders. He is not seeking the nomination for president, but his friends intimate that he will not run from it if the lightning should strike his way
 There are contests in several states and a very important one in Michigan in which the control of the delegation from that state by the gold or silver men is involved. In that state the sill yer men are the contestants, and it is pretty certain they will not get on the | temporary roll
 | Chairman Harrity is chuck full of | fight for sound money and for Cover nor Pattison of Pennsylvania for pres | ident. He had this to say of the situa- | ton:
 While the odds seem to be against 1 us, I enter upon this fight hopeful and even confident that the unanimous democratic sentiment for sound money l in the great states of New York, Penn l sylvania, the east and northwest will prevail, and that the party will not be l committed to the free silver fallacy 1 We have a hard fight before us, it is l true, but I am hopeful that the leaders 1 of the silver movement as well as many l of the delegates of the south and west | will listen to reason and consent to ac- l cept platform declaring for the main l tenance of the present gold standard l until we can secure an internationa. agreement for bimetallism.
 '.The leaders of the sound money movement arc determined to fight tc the end and they will in this convention enter such a solemn and emphatic pro- l test against free silver that I believe I that movement will be checked in time l But no matter what happens, I do moi believe that the party will be disrupted l in this convention or that there will be physical bolt"
 l The Bimetallic league has appointed a committee to confer with the sub committee about the temporary organ 1 ization of the convention. The free sil. l yer enthusiasts have slate of theil | own which they want the nationa
 committee to accept. Their candidate for temporary chairman is said to bt | Senator Jones of Arkansas.
 l The selection of Senator Hill for ths 1 difficult position of temporary chair l man was first suggested by so-callet administration democrats The friends of the administration, who will be her'
 in large numbers, are very friendl, disposed toward the New York senator and recognize in him the real leader 1T the fight for sound money. It is sait to-day on high authority that the golt men are going to make their fight flo, the adoption of the money plank of tn, I platform of the New York state con vention. That plank was drafted b, Senator Hill and MT. w C. Whitney and while it favors bimetallism by in | ternational agreement and the use 0
 both gold and silver as currency, it in sists on the maintenance of the presen | gold standard until an internationa
 agreement can be obtained. The plat forms of all the sound money state l have been carefully gone over, and i
 is agreed that the money plank of tn
 New York platform is the best one 0 l the lot, and on that the fight is to b l made.
 Every prominent member of tn
 Cleveland administration who can b
 spared from his duties at Washington
 will be in Chicago before the opening