Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-24
SILVER MEN WAITING.
No Action Taken at Yesterday After
moons Session.

Vice Chairman Towne presided at the
afternoon session Of the silver convention
al St Louis. Chairman ". p. St. John
moved that when the convention adjourned
it be until 10 o'clock today. He did this
because the conference committee was not
ready to report This motion was amend
ed so to make the adjournment until
$50 last evening. Mr.. Turner Of Kansas
wanted the convention to get down to
business. If its sessions were protracted
many of the delegates would be compelled
to go home.
An Illinois delegate said that every dele
gate there was for Bryan and Sewall, and
If the convention went ahead and nomi-
mated a ticket 1t would Weaken it's influ-
ence with the peoples party. 1t would
stulttfy the convention to go ahead with
business until the conference commit &c
had reported as to what the peoples party
was willing to do
MIR. Baker of California was opposed to
an evening session.
The Kansas delegation continued to OBJ
ject to adjourning until today Mr. Baker
went on to say that the convention would
be ready to adjourn soon as its platform
was adopted, because in it Bryan and Sew
all were recommended as the nominees of
the silver party. This remark brought ap-
plause
General Warner Of Ohio agreed with
Baker and advised an. adjournment until
today.
Chairman Little of the Kansas delegation
thought 1t would be mistake to adjourn
until today. w. P. st. John insisted that
IL would be an insult to the peoples party
ence committees Of the two conventions
had met. Such action would be to jam
ticket or an attempt to jam ticket down
the throat OF the peoples party.
"A half dozen more speeches We're made
and twice that number Of men shouted for
reco Snition.
In the midst of the furore the previous
question was ordered The vote was on
the amendment to Mr.. ST. Johns motion
that when the convention adjourn it ad-
journ until 10 am. today. The amendment
was to change the time to S o'clock last
night The amendment was lost by vote
Of OF l+o yeas TO lol nays by rising vote.
The original motion was adopted. A good
deal OF confusion followed and some of the
delegates went to their hotels.
general wrans!e followed over the de-
mand made by some of the delegates that
a poll of the convention be made to find out
the previous political beliefs of the dele
gates: The convention voted to take such
a poll in the forenoon
The discussion grew out of an effort to
have the secretaries Of the delegations poll
their several delegations and report to the
secretary of the convention. 1t was at
length decided to proceed with the roll CT
there were 526 republicans 1875 democrats.
A popullsts. 9 prohibitionists, l national,
greenbacker,12 independent. Twenty states
failed to report.
a resolution was adopted requesting all
the veterans of the late war to stand UP
and be counted. Objections were made that
at least half the delegates had gone to
their homes. 1t was decided to postpone
counting the votes until today. 1t was an
nounced that the reason of the poll was to
refute the arguments of the gold standard
men that all the old soldiers were for Nc
Kinley. 70
today. T.