The record-union., 1896-07-08
ROut Their Opponents BY a Majority
Of Two Hundred and Seven.
Senator Daniel Seated for Temporary Chair
man Over Senator Hill
Stephen NJ. White Selected by the Committee on 0Igdnl
ZatiOl for Permanent Chairman.

CHICAGO, July 1.-The silver men
won the first days fight in the National
Democratic Convention. They routed
their opponents by a majority of 20i,
seated Senator Daniel in the chair over
Senator Hill, the nominee of the Nation
al Committee and broke two records.
They upset a practice which has always
heretofore prevailed in Democratic Con-
ventions Though it has been sometimes
ignored in Republican Conventions,
and they held the longest first days ses-
sion of any great National Convention
within recent memory. The vote of 90J
cast was one less than the total vote
by reason of the fact that Senator Hill
refrained from voting, but this loss in
a calculation of relative strength was
offset by his opponent, Senator Daniel
chivalrously voting against his party
and himself.
The result to-day showed the silver
men to be forty-eight votes short of a
two-thirds majority. taking it as a test
vote. But in many respects it was not
so. There were eight votes of South
Dakota cast for Hill which on square
issue of free coinage will go for silver
Three votes in West Virginia thrown
against the silver candidate to-day will
be counted for the silver platform. The
Territories. which on the preliminary
roll were given six seats, but only two
votes each, will probably be awarded
six votes in the permanent organization
except Alaska and the District of Co
lumbia, which will remain at their pres
ent rating. Alaska. admitted for the
first time to a Democratic National Con-
vention, sent six gold delegates to a sill
YER body, and it is expected will be pun
ished for its freshness by having its
representation cut down to two
This viii give the Territories % votes
instead of y, as cast to-day, md all
but three of these votes ALASKA and
District of Columbia u are counted for
silver. The Nebraska Is votes will un-
doubtedly be turned over to the silver
men by the Credentials Committee
Florida's vote, which was 4 to on or
ganization, viii be given , for silver and
) for gold hereafter and Maryland
which voted II gold and silver on or
ganization. it is said viii scatter in the
proportion of II silver TO : gold when it
comes to voting for the different silver
candidates, though it will remain as
now on the question Of platform.
These changes and accessions. it is
claimed, viii come very near giving the
silver men the two thirds majority they
seek, and which viii enable them to
carry everything their own way. If
they should still lack a few votes they
have Micigan to fall back upon A de-
cision in favor of silver men in one or
two contested districts in that State viii
convert, under the unit rule, the 2S gold
votes of Michigan into 2S silver votes,
and give them a sure two-thirds major
ity for silver.
The gathering of to-day was a Won
derfully interesting assemblage in the
gigantic Colesium-wonderfuI in point
OF numbers and interesting with re-
gard to the men who made UP the as
semblage The giants of the party We're
there There was Jones of Arkansas,
dignified to a degree, portly of ap-
pearance, but quick in movement; Har-
ris of Tennessee, older and not so erect
as his Senatorial colleague, sizing up
the convention with the keen eye of the
practiced presiding officer; Tillman,
leading the South Carolina delegation,
hardly less noticeable than his older
fellOw-Senators, and Culberson, the
young Governor of Texas who also
came in for his share of attention.
William C.Whitney sauntered into the
great hall almost unobserved. He took
his seat with the New York delega-
ton near by Bissell, who had been
Cleveiand's law partner and Postmas-
ter-General, and looked quizically about
at the sea of faces. Hurrying along
through the converging crowds of ar
irving delegates came Russell, the boy
ish-looking Ex-Governor of Massachu-
setts. and with him the other Russell
from the old Bay State, who had been
unsuccessful in his endeavor to reach
the executive office vacated by his
namesake Gray of Delaware and Villas
of Wisconsin, CIeveland's most ardent
supporter on the floor of the Senate;
Bradley Smalley of Vermont and others
of the gold leaders entered unobserved
and took their places quietly.
When David i. Hill entered with the
New York delegation many of those
who afterward voted TO keep him from
the Temporary Craftsmanship forgot
family quarrels and cheered as heart
fly as the rest. Again and again the
enthusiasm broke forth, and Hill sank
modestly into his chair and looked as
though he wished to be out of sight.
1t was nearly l O'Clock instead OF
noon when the convention was called
TO order, and for an hour and half
prior TO the time when Chairman Har-
rity of the National Committee tapped
his gavel, the floor had been one NOV
ing, converging, diverging mass of hu-
manity principally male, but with a
sufficient leavening of women to make
il marked.