The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-11
David B. Hill and the New
York Delegates Rebuke
the Convention.
ALTGBLD AND STONE KILLED
POLITICALLY.
Defeat of Senator Band Due to the
Action of the A. P. A.
Sympathizers
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Sh1OAOOs Liz, ~.
White-faced and sullen. her bosom heav-
ing with indignation. her eyes flashing
with anger and clutching in her tightly
closed hand the seventy-two votes that she
refused to give to the National Democracy
New York State sat silent to-day among
her lubilant sisters.
Her dignity had been outraged and in
suit had been added to injury. While the
big hall was tumultuous mass of men
and women, standing on their chairs In
the midst of fluttering of handkerchlefs
and waving of flags, New York sat in the
center and did not once clap her hands or
raise her voice. Senator Hill, her great
sachem, wore his white mask and smiled
ct the yelling mob. He and his colleagues
kept their seats. so that there appeared to
be crater in the center of the hall. 1t
was the volcanic crater of discord smolder-
ing with -ancorous fire.
New York's Democracy and her delega-
ton were insulted yesterday, first by that
political BLACKBOARD, Tillman, he of the
evil eye, and later by William ]. Bryan,
the Populistically popular young orator of
Nebraska, and all the time by the jeers
and taunts of the majority, simply because
the New York delegates remained true to
their convictions and their pledges.
To-day, when that delegation announced
that it declined to vote for any candidate
who would stand upon silver platform,
the two-thirds majority hooted, Kissed
and jeered. Some silver men shouted
that New York's seventy-two representa-
tives should be expelled from the floor Of
the convention.
David Bennett Hill smiled smile that
concealed q dagger. 1t was a smile of de-
fiance, threat more ominous than q
drawn revolver. There was more phos-
phorescence than usual in his light-blue
eyes anu a boldness that challenged to
combat. Other members of the delega-
ton gritted their teeth and muttered DUR
ing that rain of Misses, that snowstorm Of
denunciation, that whirlwind of hate.
When the second ballot came round and
the name of New York was called all eyes
turned that way and stiffness fell over
the scene. New York closed her lips and
would not answer.
There was a moments pause. and the
chairman gazed steadily at the group in
the center seats. Then realizing that the
delegation had determined to repay insult
with contemptuous silence. the chair
passed on to the next State, and the storm
OF Kisses burst forth.
The majority in the State of Wisconsin
and other States with gold delegations
announced that they declined to vote, but
New York slapped the silver convention
in the face with the hand of dumb con-
tempt. The convention felt the blow and
smarted under it, and smarted the more
because of that wicked. cruel glitterlng
smile with which the slap had been ac-
companied, and four times the thing
which had been slapped Kissed its hate
like an angry snake
Next to Senator Hill. General Bragg of
Wisconsin was target for the scorn of
the silver majority. A courtiy gentleman
he is, his hair touched lightly with the
SHOWS of many wears. He responded for
the State of Wisconsin by announcing
that the majority of that delegation de-
clined TO vote, for a reason similar 10 that
advanced by New York. He was hIssed
and greeted with coyote ye!ps and owlish
hootings. The minority of the delegation,
being silver men, were allowed to cast
their votes. for all is fair in love, war and
politics.
Every majority or minority OF delega-
ton that declined to vote was insulted.
The rabid silverites Kissed even their own
friends. Thus, when Colorado voted for
her favorite son, Henry M. Teller. the
Colorado Republican was Kissed so noisily
and persistently that delegate who had
red blood in his veins arose and declared
that it was not good Democracy to boot at
the name of any person voted for in that
convention. He also was subjected to the
indignity of the execration of O mob
drunken with power and spurred on by the
demagogy of Tiilman and Altgeld.
The sound-money minority did not bolt.
Its members made passive resistance,
and sat with folded hands while the thing
which they had declared would be the
disruption and ruin of the Democratic
party was being done. They did not bolt by
walking bodilyout of the hall. but they were
jus; as mach out of the hall and out of the
convention while sitting in the midst of
the others as though thousand miles
away.
The votes which they would not give as
delegates they will not give as individuals.
The voices which they would not raise in
the convention on behalf of the ticket are
the same voices which they will not lift
on the stump for the Democracy in the
coming campaign. Let it go down in
history that they did not bolt. Let it be
recorded that they re jected and denounced
the platform, but that they did not COM
nit the objectionable political sin of bolt
ing.
There were several picturesque scenes in
the hail to-day. The thunderstorm of
enthusiasm which broke forth when the
announcement was made that the young
and shallow stump-spesker fromNebraska
had received ESQ votes was one of them.
1t was mighty roar of yells and shouts
and cheers from the threats of 10000
wildly excited men and women.
The interior of the hall became at once q