The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-10
CONVENTION SNAP SHOTS.
SHORT STORIES OF THE DELE
GATES AND POLITICIANS.

Livingston of Georgia Arrives on
the scene with Ills Photographs.
Southern Delegates PreJudiced
Against Anarchist AltgeId and So
ciaIist TiIImnn-The Awkward PO-
sition of Delegate PendIetOn-Hu-
mOrs of the Convention.
Leonldas Livingston and his photo
graphs arrived with the Georgia delega,
ton yesterday morning. says the Chicago
Times-Herald. He has not missed a ma
tional convention for many years, and
he has always accompanied the men from
Georgia. They could not do without him.
He is a historic character and his pho
tographs chronicle his fame outside the
United States.
The photographs are a recent acquisi-
ton to Congressman Liviugston's tray
cling apparatus. Those who visited Geor-
gia headquarters thought the photo
graphs were to be given away as SOU
venirs. but the congressman keeps them
for his friends. They are memorials of
the congressman's WORK for Venezuela,
and are Photographic counterfeits Of a
statue of Leonidas Livingston erected in
that country. Nothing could be done with
any degree of success by the Goorgians
abroad If Congressman Livingston was
not with them. and he would be incon-
solable without his photographs.
/ find an intense prejudice among the
southern delegates against Gov. Altgeld,
and particularly do they resent the iuti-
nation that he Is the master Of the stu
alton here, writes W. u. curtis in the
Chicago Record They declare In em-
phatic language that they have no SYM
patty with either Alleged or Iillman, ana
that the latter eutrely misrepresents the
respectable sentiment OF the south. 1t Is
amusing to see the southern gentlemen
fire up when Tiliman Is alluded to as
leader, and / am told that Bland has
lost a number of votes In the gulf ana
South Atlantic states simply because Ali
geld and Tiliman are supporting him
Il have no objection to Mr.. Bland" said
a southern senator yesterday, but | cam
not train in the same battalion with GOV
Altgeld and Ben Tilman We want 40
socialists or anarchists in the democratic
party We have no tramps in the south;
no Coxey armies They are the products
of your northern labor troubles, but they
have never invaded our section, and we
don't want them. If Mr. Altgeld is gOinS
to run this convention l shall go home.
If he is 10 write the platform l shall
not support 1t. / have no objections TO
participating Win MIN IN the seltctlOH
of a candidate, but not under his leader
ship. Gov. Altgeld is not the master hand
Of the convention, as you stated some
days ago. BY no means"
c. II. Pendleton is the most worried man
among the Georgia delegates, says the
Chicago Times-Herald. lie has posi-
ton to explain and he has been compell-
ed to carry about with him what are now
known in Georgia campaign literature as
cards of silence. These cards explain
why he, as a gold man of the most en-
thusiastic type has not taken the stump
in advocacy of the silver standard, and
worse than all, is forced to vote for free
silver in the convention.
1t all came about through the unit rule.
Mr. Pendleton is the only gold delegate
from Georgia, and when he was selected
as a national delegates from Congress
man Turner's district 1t was on a free
silver platform His name would never
have been presented If it had not been
determined to place him under cast-iron
instructions to vote for free silver.
The Georgia delegation will vote as a
unit for free silver and Mr.. Pendleton
finds himself a silver man without his
own consent. 1t will not matter whether
he votes or not, but some of the gold
men in Georgia cannot understand mis-
position. Consequently he has had to
write cards explaining his silence on the
money question and he brought a bunch
of cards with him when the delegation
nation worries him more than his posi-
ton.
The free silver leaders laugh nervously
when the subject of the possible effect
OF the sound money meeting of the south
ern delegates is talked about, but the gen.
eral opinion is that there is no necessity
for Il. says the correspondence of the
Philadelphia Record. The situation was
put in few words to-day by Judge Nc
Cabe, a free silver delegate-at-larg from
Indiana He said: IF the Angel Gabriel
should come here to make a speech
against free silver 1t would not have the
slightest effect, 1 believe, on the conven-
ton"
"Demmed If these Missouri people amt
about as mean as they make EN-" said
an Illinois man, according to the New
York SUMS special They tell a story
down my way about a party of fellows
that visited a farm down there, intend
ing to buy II up for a railroad. They
went into the house and saw the woman
there. and asked If the farm was for
sale She told EN- she did not know;
they'd have to go down in the field and
ask her husband. They went down in the |
field. and the only person they saw there
was a colored man milking a COW. They
come back and one Of EN- says to the |
woman: !