Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-29
NOW FOR CHICAGO
Silver Men to Hold a Conference
There Tomorrow.
WHAT SUPPORT THEY WANT
The Talk Of Compromising on the
Vice President.
NOT CONSIDERED LIKELY
NOT CONSIDERED L
LIKELY

ful one politically. Many important moves
will be made on the great political checker
board, and it is not unlikely that next
weeks game will be played in advance.
The air Is filled with rumors to the play
ers TO be engaged in the game: what they
are doing and what they expect to do.
Washington is no longer the center of in
terest in this deep and absorbing contest.
Chicago becomes the place where the last
moves are to be made. For months the
preliminary skirmishes leading up to this
fight have taken place here. Practically
the plans of the final struggle were planned
here and those plans will be carried out in
the main at Chicago.
Skurrying toward the big western city
today are many of the political leaders of
both sides, but the majority Of them are
silver men, billed to be on hand to take
part In various conferences during the
week. The first of these conferences will
be held tomorrow. 1t will be made up Of
members CT the Democratic Bimetallic
League, OF which Senator Harris is chair
man, and of one member of each state del
esatior. 81 nator Harris left here last night
for Chicago. He declined to talk about his
plans or the plans Of the silver men.
The Meeting Tomorrow.
The meeting tomorrow was called some
time ago by Senator Jones of Arkansas.
The purpose of it Is to go over the stua-
ton and compare views. No effort. it is
thought, will be made to turn the confer
man. The most important things to be
considered will be how best to resist the
fight to be made by the gold standard men,
under Whitneys leadership, and how best
to unite the various silver elements under
the democratic banner This is the most
nerDlpyiuer question hafOra the silver
They want the support Of the silver re-
publicans. popuists and all classes of sill
Yer men, and the object of the various coL-
ferences throughout the coming week will
be to decide the best plan to attain this
end without sacrificing the principles of
the democratic party. The job sometimes
looks mighty ponderous. it is said, but the
attempt will he made, with hope Of sue
cess.
The silver democrats can easily find out
what the populists and silver republicans
want. The leaders of these parties will be
in Chicago in droves. Senator Stewart will
leave here for Chicago tomorrow. DR..
Mott the chairman of the American silver
organization will be there tomorrow or
next day. He has called a meeting of the
national committee of his party, to be held
in Chicago. The object of the meeting is
to lay before the democratic silver leaders
what they want. 1t is even said that the
committee will be on hand when the nomi-
nation is made, so as to at once decide
what Will be the course of the silver party
Gen. Warner the head of the same party,
will also be on hand. Senators Dubois and
Cannon and Representatives Allen, Hart
man and Towne are expected to be either
close to Chicago or in close communicate
with that city. Representative Hartman's
plan some time ago was to take several
hundred western silver republicans to the
convention. There will be hundreds of sill
yer men in Chicago fre m tomorrow on who
are not delegates. They will be there to
confer with the silver majority in the con-
vention.
Mr.. Whitney's Journey.
The gold standard leaders won't show up
in large numbers until the end of the week
unless they change their plans. Mr.. Whit
ney will leave New York Thursday. He
will go on a special train and is expected
to have some eminent and powerful COM
panions on the journey. Ex-Gov. Russell.
Bradley B. Smalley of Vermont, Carlos
French of Connecticut and others are ex-
pected to be of the party. Various confer
eDces of the Sound money" men will be
held in New York before the departure for
Chicago The silver men are in training on
the ground where the battle is to be
fought, while their opponents are getting
ready away from the battle ground.
Mr.. Whitney had an important confer
epCe in New York Friday night with Don
NJ. Dickinson and other members Of the
Mr.. Whitney gave out an interview. He
said the situa ton was very much like IL
was in 1860, and unless there was a change
he saw no chance for Sound money"
hIr. Whitney said that the nomination of
free coinage man on a free coinage plat
fern would practically disrupt the party
No power on earth can coerce or persuade
ound mo1 ey democrats to forsake a funda-
mental principle of the party"
Mr.. Whitney said he did not despair Of
doing sorcething at Chicago. He hoped
that knowledge Of the attitude of the
eastern democrats would have an influence
on the southern silver democrats in the
convention and that they would consent to
a conn rOnliGe.
The Talk of Compromise.
It is noticeable that all the talk of COM
promise comes from the gold standard men,
So far not a silver leader has given out a
word advocating a comp romise of any kind
and it is not believed here by those who
keep UP with the situation that there will
be a dozen silver men who will do thing
in the way of a COMPROMISE The opposite
course may be expected from many of the
leaders. There is strong feeling among
such men as Gov. Altgeld and Senator
Tiilman that it would benefit the demo-
cratic ticket to have the gold men bolt the
convention. That's what they want they
say. 1t would remove all doubts, they
claim, that the gold men had anything to
do with naming the nominee. They are
Tore afraid of that than anything else
They hope that the man who Is ultimately
nominated will rot receive single gold
vote. They claim that this would queer
his nomination and render it suspicious.
Stevenson to the Front.
There is again slight talk about the gold
men picking up Vice President Stevenson
as the compromise candidate. This talk
was indulged In months ago, and was men,
toned In The Star. The likelihood is that
any man who is voted for by the gold men
will be dropped like a hot cake by the
silver nen.
The opi1 ion of such men as Col William
R. Morrison is that silver man will be
nomns ted. They rather think it will be
Bland or Boies.
Controller Ecl<eIs Talks.
Controller Eckels in an interview, points
out the cordial relations which Eave always
existed between the democrats of the south
and east, and speaks of tho eastern men
having upheld their southern brethren for
years. He cannot see how the southern
n en- can desert the democrats of the east
at this time He points out that in a bust
ness way it will be bad for the south to
follow the silver wave. Too much north
ern and eastern money Is invested down
there. and there is a chance for much more
of 1t II the offer of cordial relations Is ac-
cepted instead Of being repelled.