The record-union., 1896-07-06
HILL DECLINES TO TALK.
HE WILL PROBABLY STAND FOR
TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN.
Believed He is the Only Man Who
Can Prevent the Gold
Mems Bolt.

| CHICAGO, July 5.-Senator Hill was
watted upon to-day by number of
prominent silver men, who used all
sorts OF arguments to induce the New
York Senator to withhold permission
for the use of his name as temporary
| Chairman. Among the callers were
Senators Vest and Cockrell of Missouri,
White of California and Walsh of Geor-
e1a. Hill was informed that it would
be unwfse to allow his name to be used
only to be beaten by the silver majority.
He listened respectfully to all the argu-
| ments and was unaffected in his posi-
| ton. He declined to make any state
ment for publication as to his attitude,
but others close to him said that he is
not the man to give up a fight on the
eve of battle It is believed that Hill Is
the only man who can prevent a bolt by
the sound money men of the East If a
free silver platform is adopted and
Tree silver man named by the conven-
| ton; and that if the Senator were to
! bow to the wishes Of the silver leaders
and refuse the use of his name for tenn
porary Chairman he would no longer
be in a position to check a bolt of the
gold delegates.
The visit of the silver men may, there
fore, be put down as Intellectual. If the
National Committee at it's meeting to-
| morrow decides to present the name of
Senator Hill for temporary Chairman it
may be authoritaltively stated that SEN
atOr Hill will stand, and that the over
throw of the programme mapped out by
the National Committee will bring mat
ters to a head between the gold and sill
YER men at the opening of the conven-
tion Tuesday. The gold men know
test vote must be met, and many of
them believe it best to meet it on the
selection Of temporary Chairman with
all the precedents Of regularity on their
side, than to have the Issue presented
on more even terms later on.
They question the ability of the sill
yer men to hold their men together on
a vote to overthrow the decision of the
National Committee, and to turn down
man who deserves so well of his party
as David B. Hill. Such an irregular
beginning to the convention, followed
by other arbitrary acts by the majority,
the gold men claim, would fully justify
them in bolting and refusing their sup
port to the nominee.
Senator Hill shook hands with hun
dreds Of his friends and admirers dur
ing the day. He had a word of cheer
and encOurag cement for all who are try
ing to stay the drift toward free silver.
He said he believed the unit rule on
States and the two-thirds rule on norni
nations, both honored customs of the
Democratic party, would stand in this
convention. He said all the talk about
there being one free silver man in the
New York delegation was nonsense;
that each and every man from the En-
pire State was for gold, and they would
vote for gold even if the unit rule was
done away with.
The sound money delegates from
Michigan called on Senator Hill at his
headquarters this evening. The Senator
received the delegation very cordially.
Elliott f. Stevenson, on behalf of the
delegation, told Hill that the gold men
of Michigan were with him and would
fight for the cause of sound money to
the end Hill said he was glad to have
such faithful advocates Of the cause
and hoped success would crown the
fight.
I'VE are all working to that end" said
the Senator land we will at least put
up a glorious fight"
At the conclusion of the interview the
Michiganders gave three cheers for the
New York Senator