The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-09
THE GOLD MEN WILL BOLT
Continued from first page.)

| net aide Don" Dickinson and the man
who is accused by the silver men with
rounding up four hundred Federal
office holders to swing the Detroit
convention for gold. Defiantly he
| told the convention that it had no
| right to turn out delegates chosen by
a sovereign State, that by doing so it
would establish a precedent that
would return to damn it, and to those
| declarations were returned cries of
right you are"
The fact that the gold sentiment
! predominated in the audience or that
an American crowd is invariably with
the under dog, brought Mr.. Stevenson
more applause than his predecessors
when he walked from the platform.
| 'BLUE-EYED" BILLY SHEEHAN.
Then blue-eyed, sandy-haired,
! well-built young man mounted the
| stage AS he turned and faced the au-
dience with cheer the galleries re-
cognized "Blue-eyed Billy" Sheehan,
who was Lieut.. Governor of New
| York for four years and who is con-
ters of politics. He too, protested
| EeiilSb h1joCdtltl& INC gnu tlbNSs
| His intimate knowledge of political
presidents enabled him to make
strong argument against the regular
ity of the contesting delegates.
His place was taken by delegate J.
| w. Blake, of Texas, who made a vio-
| lent speech in favor of seating the sill
yer men. He charged that it was
notorious that the Michigan conven-
ton had been packed and manipulated
| by Office holders.
"The whole internal delegation
should in my opinion be turned out"
he said earnestly, and many of the sill
YER delegates on the floor seemed to
agree with him from the manner in
| which they received his sentiment.
Delegate Mcknight, one of the Mich
igan silver delegates, replied to Mr..
| Stevenson. He said that it was noto-
rious that the silver men elected a
majority of two hundred to the Michi-
| gan convention.
'As soon as the administration at
| Washington ascertained this fact" he
said, "Mr. Stevenson was hastily sum-
| moned to Washington for a confer
ence with the Great Chief"
Its ie,' yelled Mr.. Stevenson,
| mounting a chair and facing the dele
| gates. There is not one word of truth
in thalt statement"
Mr.. Mcknight insisted on his state
ment, 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 $4,000 majority
| if a free silver platform was adopted.
| The Michigan debate was becoming
| weariSome, so when delegate Brucker,
a smOoth-faced young man from that
State, began TO talk, the people began
| TO cry for a vote. Mr. Bruc1<er. how
| ever, stirred them to a yell by declar-
| ing that while he had always been a
| free silver man, he believed the silver
| ties had enough delegates to elect a
| free silver President on a free silver
| platform without committing highway
! robbery.
Then the gold men were aroused to
| greater enthusiasm by Chas S. Thorn
az, the Colorado member of the Nation
| al committee, who spoke i'm a similar
| strain, saying that ii the convention
! could commit a greater wrong than to
nominate candidate who did not rep
resent the wishes of the majority.
such wrong would be to overturn the
| officially expressed wishes OF a SOY
| creign State.
Mr.. Thomas thought that virtue
| which discovered so late that it had
| been outraged should be looked upon
with suspicion and was at a loss to
understand how the fraud charged
| affected only four delegates.
Judge O. w. Powers, of Utah, fol-
lowed. lie inquired why, if the cause
of the gold delegates from Michigan
was just they were proposing to bar
ter their votes for seats in the con-
vention and vote for a gold candidate.
They did not want any delegates seat
ed because it was necessary to make
a two-thirds majority, "for we have
that already" "but because their
cause was just"
GRADY STARTS A FIGHT.
State Senator Thos o. Grady, of
New York, picturesque red faced
gentleman with a gray moustache
and wearing a rather short Jacket,
punctuated speech for the gold del
| egates with violent gestures which did
not avail to secure him close attention
Senator Grady was just beginning
| to be listened to when the thread of
his argument was harShly inter-
rupted by the first fight of the conven-
| ton. 1T started over in front of the
press seats to the left of the platform
where a stalwart policeman, through
| mistaken diligence pounced upon q
| delegate from Illinois who was at
tempting to enter the section allotted
to the delegates. People climbed to
their chairs everywhere and small
row seemed on hand until The chair
man pressed the button which sig
nailed the band to play.
Senator Grady coo1ly paced the plat
form, with hands in his trousers
| pockets, while the band played and
when he could make himself heard,
remarked that he never had been able
to speak in convention without start
| ing a fight. His exit set the hall to
crying "vote," vote" once more.
AS the dusk fell the great Coliseum