The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-10

! CHlCAGO, July 9.-Hurrled meetings
of all the gold state delegations were
called as soon as the convention ad-
journed this afternoon, and the New
York contingent vert to a nearby club
house and began work Immediately.
They were not in an amiable mood at
all, and the talk of boiling the conven-
ton entirely was loud. Congressman
Charles Tracey said he would not go
back, as also did General Frederick
I Bartlett. Ex-Governor Flower called
the meeting to order, and Senator Hill
took the floor. He said very little, but
! was pointed.
He believed the platform violated the
established principles of the Democ-
racy in many more places than the
mere adoption of platform. TO sup
port "a candidate on sucn platform
would mean virtual agreement with
it, He did not believe it was policy to,
at present, so far act as TO give it an
endorsement. his remarks were re-
ceived with applause.
/ He was followed by Colonel John r.
Fellows, who was very bitter in his re-
n2arsk.
There is not one iota of Democracy
in such a platform" he declared 1t
is tissue of populistic and anarch-
istic notions compiled by men who have
no claim to recognition as statesmen
or even politicians, but VINO are fren-
zied fanatics. l cannot see how 1 can
support such a platform or any per-
son placed upon it,
Mr.. William c. Whitney said he had
visited several delegations of gold
l.
! that they would follow New York's
! lead He was personally not averse to
/ leaving the convention, but he would
not like to have it said that New York
! led such revolt. He was in favor
of remaining in the convention, but
nof. taking amy part in the election of
a candidate and urged with Senator
Hill the appointment of a committee
of five to arrange with the other gold
states a plan for action.
The temper of the meeting was shown
when Congressman Sulzer arose to
speak. He advocated that the delega-
ton, as good Democrats, should stay
in the convention and take part in its
( proceedings. He believed that majority
rule had always been looked up to in
! the party, and it should not now be
disregarded. At this -juncture some
body said: DO you mean that we
should vote for this silver platform ?"
Yes said Sulzer, "and work for
Shame, shame" were the cries, and
| the speaker was cried down.
| Judge Clute of Albany, an alternate
for Erastus Corning, showed decided
silver proclivities and he also was
shown no sympathy.
I Senator Thomas F. Grady was al
most violent in his denunciation of
what he described as the outrage per-
petrated on the convention and Demo-
Gratis by the silver men. He said he
was very much in favor of repudiating
Democracy, but he did not know that
this was not true Democracy, but IA
naticism.
Delaney Nicoll of New York ended
brief but bitter talk with these
words: Il am a Democrat, but 1 can
not support such a platform, and 1
will not vote for a candidate named
upon it,
Governor Flower made the warmest
speech of the evening, and Hill and
/ Whitney had all they could do to pre-
vent a bolt resolution being put
( through at once. He said the plat
form was "a crazy quilt of anarchy
and the outcome of incompetent
brainless fools" He denounced men
of Altgeld and Tfllman's stamp as
mischief breeders and schemers to
ruin the Democracy" and then closed
by saying: 81 will never cast my vote
for such a ticket or its representative.
l am a Democrat and this platform
/ is not Democratic.
Governor Flower then read tele-
graphic extract from the Brooklyn
Eagle Dem.) of tonight, advocating a
belt. Part of it read as follows and
was received, with shouts of approval:
1--WE have no fear that the sound
a free silver platform, a ticket of
Reputation and of anarchy and the
trampling out of the rights of sound
money delegates in the convention. A
bolt is inevitable. A Democratic ticket
for which Democrats can vote is be-
coming necessity. 1t will be sup
piled. The anarchists, the Populists,
the communists and the nihilists who
are controlling this convention will
never control the Democratic party"
Senator Hill interposed and offered
this resolution:
THAT a committee of six be appoint
ed to visit other state delegations in
structed for gold and urge upon them
the necessity for refraining from ac-
ton, and that this committee act
both in the convention and hereafter
for the New York delegation
1t was appointed and the chair APP
pointed Senator Hill, William c. Whit
ney, James w. Hinckley Roswell P.
Flower, Frederick R. Coudert and
William F. Sheehan. The nesting was
then adjourned, it being the sense of
the members that New York's vote
was not to be cast for a presidential
OF other candidate.