The San Francisco call., 1896-07-24
BOUND TO NAME
ANOTHER TICKET.
Democrats Ready to Call a
Convention in the
East.
NO USE FOR MR.. BRYAN
Representatives of Several
States Meet and Consider
a Plan of Action.
SCORE WILLIAM c. WHITNEY
Mistake of the Leader in Not Causing
Bolt After the Silver Plat.
forms Adoption.
SCORE WILLIAM c. WHITNEY

CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 23.-Pursuant to
the call issued by the Democratic organi-
zatlon of Illinois, which is opposed to the
Chicago platform and in favor OF holding
another nominating convention to declare
against free silver, a conference of repre-
sentative Democrats from niue States was
held tonight at the Auditorium Hotel.
Illinois. Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana,
Missouri, Kentucky. Ohio, Iowa and Ne
braska were the States represented, most
sound money organizations. The unanl-
nous sentiment of the conference was that
another Democratic convention should be
called and the following resolution to that
end was adopted:
Resolved, That 1t is the sense of this confer
ence that there should be a Democratic Ma
tional Convention held, Democratic plat
form enunciated and a Democratic ticket
nominated for the Offices OF President and
vice-President of the United States, said con-
vention to be held not later than September %.
The resolution, which was offered by w.
r. Shelby of Michigan, was unanimously
adopted.
The matter of detail as to the call was
left to a committee of one from each Of the
States represented, which the chair ap-
pointed as follows: Indiana, John R.
Wilson; Iowa, Henry Vollmer; Ohio, s.
Ii. Holding; Nebraska, Fred w. Vaughn;
Michigan, w. r. Shelby; Kentucky,
George NJ. Davies; Missouri. L. c. Kraut-
hoff; Wisconsin, Senator Villas and Gen.
eral Bragg; Illinois, Henry s. Robins.
The committee will report at IL o'clock
tomorrow, to which hour the conference
adjourned.
Early in the meeting there was clearly
defined opposition to taking immediate
action toward issuing the convention call,
and a protracted debate ensued as to the
details and mode of procedure. Senator
Villas of Wisconsin, s. II. Holding of Ohio
and others advocated the holding of mass
meetings in the States represented, to take
counsel of the people there to get the
strength of the sound-money Democrats
who repudiate the platform and demand a
third ticket.
Senator Villas favored the selection of
delegates to a National convention at
mass-meetings rather than at delegate con-
ventions. Those who opposed immediate
action did so on the ground that the dele
gates were individuals who had no au-
thority to represent any one but them
selves.
Several of the speakers sharply criti-
cized Mr.. Whitney for his reported advice
to Democrats to vote for Mckinley and
for not leading bolt from the Chicago
convention when the platform was
adopted. 1t was alleged that the Eastern
delegates had been recreant and dill atory
and that Senator Gray should have ap-
pointed the committee which he was au-
thoriZed to name at the conference of gold
delegates during the convention.
The Chicago platform was denounced as
revolutionary, anarchistic, Populistic and
un-Democratic to the core.
General Bragg, who was chairman of
the Wisconsin delegation at Chicago, pre-
sided over the conference, and G. NJ
Ewing, chairman of the Illinois executive
committee, was elected secretary. A
large batch of letters and kilograms show
ing that Eastern and other States were
represented in spirit was read.
That Chicago would not be considered
as the place for holding the sound-money
Democratic National Convention was the
opinion expressed after the conference by
the members of the committee The
choice is apparently between Detroit and
Indianapolis. General Bragg of Wiscon-
sin was added to the committee appointed
by the chair.