The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-01
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If the request should be refused It va
suggested that the delegation should eE..t
itself 10 defeat the ambitions Of S=cre ~
Sneerin' who is a candidate for re-electiIr.
The tWO-thirds rule was taken I'D and
/ by unanimous vote il was decided to wa-lt
and vote for its abrogatiOn Gov. Alt--.l
made strong speech against the rule
insisting that Independent Of present Coa-
ditions. the time had arrived in the his
[ tory Of the democratic party when Il
should be abolished for the reason thar Il
WAS undemOcratiC It was "A basic priur.-
pie OF democracy, he said, thar The ma
Jority should govern, and a twO-thirds rl e
simply meant tyranny. 1t was decided th.-
the delegation in common with Others
should exert its influence to secure a claus
in the report of the committee on rules
declaring the two-thirds rule hitherto .u
vogue nun and void. The delegation VIII
again caucus on Sunday morning. when il
viii name its members of the various con-
vention committees and possibly declare
its choice for the presidential nomination
Secretary of State Heinrichsen, who is
one Of the Illinois delegates at large and
chairman of the democratic state central
committee, said after the Altgeld-Stone
conference, when asked IL the Illinois del
egatiOn was favorable to Boies: "Weu, we
want man who is friend Of labor"
When Senator Teller was suggested the
chief lieutenant of Gov Altgeld remarked:
Not in thousand years. We want a
democrat who will get the support of the
populists and westerners generally"
Mr.. HeinrichsOn spoke defiantly of the
gold democrats. with special reference to
William c. Whitney and his mission to
Chicago. "The silver men have a two
thirds majority in this convention" he ex-
claimed, and they propose to take pos
session and run il. We are not going to
be satisfied with debating a platform.
We want a man who fits the platform
A year ago, after the Illinois democratic
silver convention, l wrote Mr.. Whitney
letter regarding a conference Of the
M min Of
answer was short and curt, being to the
effect that conference with so small a
faction OF the party as we represented
was not desired. Well the situation has
altered somewhat since then, and now
we are in a position to say to Mr. Whit
ney as he said TO US in 1895: My dear sir
you represent so small a faction of the
party that really conference is scarce
" necessary He viii find il exceedingly
difficult TO handle the silvermen this time
The Illinois delegates are an independent
lot of men and no ten men can swing
them for anybody"
Although a policy of silence is
observed by the parties to the Altgeld-
Stone conference. the Missouri men at the
headquarters and other friends of the
silver champion who lives at Lebanon,
took the hattering JUNCTION to their polit-
ical souls that Mr. Bland will be sup
ported by the fOrty-eight votes of Ill!-
nois a the proper time in exchange for
something and their talk at the audito-
mum dilAFA was htgEQ 10 lUe luDlidnL
pitch. There was no reliable information
as to what that Something was, but one
report was that Gov. Altgeld was to be
supported for permanent chairman by
the full Bland strength. In support of
this report Senator Cockrell and Col
Charles II. Jones' after the meeting de-
clared their preference for Altgeld, al
though Senator Harris is the choice of
the bimetalic committee The Bland
headquarters were thronged with more
califrs al daY LhaFRrWere the snialle.
Boies quarters, several silver repub-
hcans came to wress their Bland pref
erences. All thdH Members of the Bland
executive commi ee. except Lon V. Ste
phens, treasurer IIarrived to-day and did
all the work they Vcould think OF for their
candidate.
Judge d. w Shackleford of Bonneville.
represented Mr.. Stephens at the meeting
of the national democratic bi-metallic COM
mittee. He says H. the Lebanon man is not
nominated it will be because the poiti-
clans and not the people are against him,
and know they cannot use him if he gets
to the White House
The Subcommittee of the national dem
ocratic committee having charge of the
distribution of Convention hall space and
seats among the Newspaper applicants fin
ished their arducus work to-day so far
as to prepare a report of their recommen-
dations TO be acted upon tomorrow by
the executive committee. The members
think that a lot of applicants can get along
well enough without table seats by being
provided with seats elsewhere in the hall
and gallery and by depending on the press
associations.
Col Martin, sergaant-a t-arrns. was miss
ed to-day al his headquarters by hundreds
of callers who wanted TO talk about ap-
pointments of assistants of various kinds.
He spent the day, in St. Louis attending
chiefly to the selection of numerous trus-
ty men of his acquaintance to keep the
ticketless crowd out of the coliseum.
The politicians are speculating as to
h. oh IG l. s.
hackers on the national committee will
hold out against relaxing his iron clad
rule not to appoint politically backed
men as doorkeepers. He will return from
his home tomorrow morning in time to
attend the committee meeting. and some
interesting developments are expected in
that line. Chairman Harrity will arrive
from Philadelphia just about in time for
the meeting, and he is expected to glad
den the hearts Of the gold men by bring
ing the official news as to their plan of
campaign in the convention With him
will come Charles r.. lngersol and
Charles p. Donelly, Philadelphia leaders
of the party. These three will be the ad
vance guard of the keystone state dele
cation and about the first gold delegates
to put in an appearance.
Senator Pettigrew left the quarters OF
the boiling silver republicans at the
Great Northern hotel to-day, and depart
ed for his South Dakota home. He de-
clined to say at present whom he favor
ed for President among the silver can
didates, and declared he was not going to
resign his seat "yet awhile" because of
his opposition to Mckinley and the gold
platform Il was elected to the Senate
by the free coinage element of my state
exclaimed Mr.. Petdgrew "and still rep
resent it. 1 went to st. Louis without
any pledge from the state convention, and
I betrayed no trust or instructions"
All the members of the Boies campaign
committee, ledl by Capt L. p. Evans of
Ottumwa, were on the ground tonight,
ready to openi big headquarters at the
Palmer house tomorrow, and boom their
farmer candidate with all the means at
their command The headquarters of the
Indiana delega Son, solid for their govern
or, Claude Mathews will also be opened
tomorrow at Ehe Palmer house So far
little has been seen or heard of his sup
porters.