The San Francisco call., 1896-07-02
BOSS OF THE DEMOCRACY READY TO ROUND UP DELEGATES

wool, She wine and % tfsi-iruit no
ducers Of CaIifornia and cher States, he
was as dumb as boiled oyster. That's
the case with all OF them now-not the
oysters, but the Democratic leaders here.
They are like the policeman with the sill
yer dollar over his eye; they can't see any
thing else but the silver.
l could not help thinking how very
Democratic the Senator was when he ex-
pressed his approval of plank sympa-
thizing with the revolutionists in Cuba,
while at the same time he had not tear to
spare or word OF sympathy to bestow
upon the starving men, women and chill
dren in the great cities of the United
States who are unable to buy bread be-
cause the Democratic system of tariff, as
exempilfied in the Wilson bill, has pre-
vented them from obtaining employment
for any wages at all; whereas, under the
bene6cent workings of the Republican sys-
tenn of protection, there would be plenty
of work for them at fair wages.
But Democratic National Convention
is not the place to speak of starving peo-
pie. There is too much else that needs
attention. There are candidates to be
nominated; there are combinations to be
made whereby the party may be enabled
to take possession of the Offices of the
country, and with them to reward her
faithful sons. How can we Democrats
here pay any attention to ruined wool and
fruit raisers when we are going 10 have
here next Monday 5000 or 5000 uniformed
Bland Leaguers, with dozen or two brass
bands playing Dixie the 'Star-span-
gIed Banner, America and "McGinty"?
How can we pay any attention to tha
barefooted and barelegged boys and girls
and women in many of our large cities,
when on next Sunday between fifteen
and twenty special trains filed with men
wearing Bland's uniform will leave Mis-
souri,, shouting, singing and cheering all
the way to Chicago, to give us an object
lesson on the fact that Bland and silver
are the only issues worthy of considera-
ton by the Democratic National Conven-
tion2 How can we find time to think
about depression in business, of the falling
off in the money received for exports, of
the tens OF thousands of men and women
tramping the inhospitable sidewalks of
the big cities or skulking along the hedges
on the county roads when the Flambeau
Club from Topeka, Kans., armed with coal
Oll JOICucc, 10 OOih'h6 -iCAS III thIeS SpccldI
trains to set the streets on fire for sSilver
Dick?
o. w. Powers, a delegate from Utah, is
another silver enthusiast. He told me
to-day that Colonel Isaac Trumbo made a
serious mistake when he neglected the
opportunity of walking out of the Repub-
lican National Convention in st. Louis
when Teller, Cannon and the rest bolted
the Republican party.
"Ah that was a serious mistake" added
Mr.. Powers, very regretfully. eff he had
done it his people would have stood by
him to the last, but his action in remain
ing member of the Republican party has
cast distrust and suspicion upon his mo-
tives. He is a splendid rustler and we had
always thought him to be sincere in his
work, but and here Delegate Powers
shook his head in very melancholy
manner.
The first sign of animation in things
political, observable to-day was the still
hunt from hotel to hotel and from room to
room by Governor Altgeld of Illinois and
Governor Stone of Missouri The second
was conference between two representa-.
tives of the two opposing factions, and the
third was the formation of "a crowd of men
in the lobby of the Palmer House. listen
ing to heated and unmannerly discussion
on the subject of finance by two men, who
appeared to know as much about the sub
iect as the little, pinch-faced, stunted 10