The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-05
CANDIDATES ARE PLENTIFUL.
BOIES AND BLAND LEADING-TEL.
LER NOT CONSIDERED A PROB
ABILITY.
Possibility That Sound Money Men
VIII BOIt-Silverites i'm Minne-
sOta's Delegation.

circus, with anOrher natlOnal cOnVen-
ton on my hands. This time 1T is a
convention containing sufficient num-
Der of elements Of doubt to- make it
interesting. I do not find as many
people In attendance as there were in
st. Louis the Saturday previous to
that gathering. This is accounted for
on patriotic principles. The Democ-
racy inaugurated and conducted the
Revolutionary war to successful coI.-
clusion, and a Democrat invented the
Fourth of July. 1t would consequently
naturally be expected that the Demo-
Gratis would feel it both party and
patriotic duty to remain at home and
help make the eagle scream. Never
theless there are good many people
already in Chicago intent on politics.
There will at no time be such con-
centration of the crowd as occurred in
St. Louis. Mr.. Hama carried that
convention in his hat, and consequently
wherever Hanna and his hat went
there was the convention, and every
body gathered about, much as flies
surround a molasses barrel. Hanna
was at the Southern hotel and no one
need look anywhere else for matters of
interest. Chicago is a much more null
titudinous town than ST. Louis, and In
keeping with the characteristics Of the
town the people interested in this con-
vention are much more multitudiLous
in their opinions than Mr.. Hanna was.
There are three great divisions in the
crowd The Palmer house has the
headquarters of the national commit
tee and the headquarters Of more state
i ~ 1o04 ,ie,
makes that hotel the central figure,
while the Auditorium is the headquar-
ters of the gold standard men, and the
Sherman the rendezvous of the silver
crowd These are the distinctive fac
tions of the leaders of the respective
forces, and still the Bland men have
headquarters at all their places, while
Boies chief headquarters are at the
Palmer house. The largest public
sound money headquarters are also at
the Palmer, where Senator Hill, of
New York is stopping, but Whitney
ard the special gold workers are at
the Auditorium. At ST. Louis one only
needed to go to the Southern hotel to
be in the swim, but here you must
make a triple alliance and then find
people gravitating between these three
localities so that you are never GER
tain where the parties are you may
wish to see. I find here what seems
to me
TWO DEMOCRATIC PARTIES,
as Numerically and violently opposed
to each other as the Republican and
Democratic parties ever were. The sill
yer men are most numerous and most
noisy and at the same time there is
not as much to them and their cause
as newspaper reports would lead one
to suppose. The situation reminds me
Of that veperable story of the man who
contracted to furnish fifty wagonloads
of frogs legs to a summer resort and
after an absence of several days he
appeared at the hotel in forlorn condi-
ton with two quart pail less than
half full of the desirable article. He
asked to be released from further sup
plying, exulaining that he made his
contract based on the noise he heard
when roaming about at night. Ap-
parently the silverites begin to realize
that they have little overdone the
business They are unquestionabIy in
very large majority in the convention
and can do anything they please.
There is a mob led by AItgeld, who
desired to ride roughshod over every
thing and everybody not in favor of
silver. And it is conceded that two
days ago the mob was practically in
control of the silver forces so far as
they were gathered in Chicago
There are not really a large number
of delegates here as yet, but so many
leaders of the silver forces have ar
rived that it is fair assumption that
they voice the sentiment as to what
the delegates will do. I have mingled
very freely with silver men TODAY
visiting the Bland headquarters at the
Auditorium, Auditorium Annex, Pal
mer and Sherman house, and the Boies
and Matthews headquarters as well.
and do not find nearly as much aggres-
| sfveness as l expected. While they do
not admit 1T, it seems to me that 7
can discover glin1mer of sober second
thought. No one would admit. at any
or these headquarters, that there is to
be caucus on Monday, and the whole
convention really conducted at that
caucus, the result to be forced on the
regular body under gag rule. Some
absolutely denied that this was to be
done and every one declared that there
had been no agreement for such a
movement. Some prominent silver
states have declared that they will not
go into such caucus and while that was
unquestionably contemplated and
seemed inevitable a day or two ago. it
now seems doubtful whether it is at
tempted at all
THE ARRIVAL OF WHITNEY
and other gold men last night NAV
have had tendency to check the mob
spirit which Altgeld has been incul-
eating and perhaps the silver can
didates may have discovered the IN
wisdom of putting thing through bv
brute force simply because they nos
Sess it.
Boies arrived in person this morning
and l had very pleasant interview
with him at his rooms at the Palmer
this afternoon. When entersd,T found
him posing for three sketch artists and
during my wait talked quite freely with
two or three of his supporters who
were present They declined to give
any figures as to his strength. but said
he would have majority in the con-
vent1on and was second choice Of so
many that he would soon attain the
necessary twO-thirds. I asked if they
proposed to let the two-thirds rule
stand. and While the parties I quest
tened disclaimed Knowing whether
there was any such programme they