Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-07-08
SENATOR DANIEL.

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word quieted the delegates, but he soon
inspired a shout by the declaration that
the names of Daniel and Hill should be
cheered together He advised the cleo
tion of Hill as temporary chairman and
Daniel as permanent. care there other
arrangements made?" he asked sarcas-
tically.
Eyes, SIR" shouted Congressman
Monroe from Mississippi, waving a
broad brimmed straw hat from. the
block of seats directly below the plat
form. Mr. Whitney and his fellow
delegates from New York applauded
the declaration that Hill and Daniel
should be cheered together and there
was an attempt at a demonstration when
Waller shouted that he would be the
last man to bolt and would stay with
the janitor when every other man had
left the Democratic hall, but the deter
mined silver men were very chary of
giving any applause at the conciliatory
advances from the gold camp They
seemed to
Fear the Greeks Bearing Gifts
and the Southern and Western delega-
tions sat stolidly like men who had fixed
their programme, as indeed they had,
and were impatient Of this preliminary
sparring, which was postponing the
great collision. When he appealed to
know if the convention as going to-
turn down David B. Hill after tribute
to him, there were laughing cries 1--WE
are, we are, Adroitly he worked up
to the climax of his speech when he
asked who it was proposed to turn down
"a man who had fought all his life for
Democracy?
Turn down David B. Hill?'' he
asked.
"In Gods name is this Democratic
convention?"
He tried to appease the silver men by
intimating that the speech Mr.. Hill
would deliver would not be offensive
but he asked: "Will you turn him
down?' there were cries of "we will =
''we will.
Every well,'' he shouted defantly,
''turn him down and we will fight you
here and elsewhere. I"
This marking of the position of the
gold men was met with storm of Kisses
and one silver man shouted, zone vote
for Mckinley"
He finished with an appeal to the
majority not to use their brute force
Mr.. Thomas, the committeeman from
Colorado, was then introduced amid
the plaudits of the silver men He
declared that it was unheard
of procedure for the national
committee to attempt to force upon the
chairman in opposition to the ascer-
tanned will of the majority. This was
the reason no minority report had ever
been presented before at convention.
He appealed to the silver men to
"stand by the minority report. Let it
not be said that in the first skirmish our
pickets have been driven in
Speeches Were Numerous.
There were other speeches in plenty,
all of them short and to the point. The
mention of Cleveland's name by John
R. Fellows of New York was cheered
by the gallery and by part of the gold
delegates, but the silver men were
silent.
National Committeeman Clayton of
Arkansas closed the debate in favor of
electing Mr.. Daniel with all allusion tc
Mr.. Marsdens penchant for ice water
as undemocratic.
This, Of course, raised laugh He
paid a glowing compliment to Senator
Hill. II was here four years ago,
said he, when the anti-snappers were
condemning and denouncing him. At
that time was praising him He was
my champion. / learned Democracy at
his feet and if he had chung to his
Elmira declaration III favor of free
coinage he would today be my candi.
date for president ! The vote was then
tsken