The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-01

 any candidate for the nomination. It is against the constitution of the or ganization, All we care for is that sil- yer receive its rightful place in the party platform. Of course all the mem- bers have their preferences for the presidential nominee, but they are not pushing them through the organiza- tion, Some are friendly to Matthews. In fact, Senator Turpie, who will place MT. Matthews before the convention, is one of the hardest workers on the com mittee. Others prefer William J. Bry- an of Nebraska, while. Boies has his friends and Bland has number of the members of the committee instructed for him."
 Senator Cockrell of Missouri said:
 "We shall nominate straight silver man on an unequivocal silver declara- ton in the platform. I am, of course, for MT. Bland" he continued, and our delegation is instructed for him.
 "We shall gain immensely in the west, and we shall not lose in the east"
 Senator Cockrell does not consider that there is any danger of bolt by the New York or other eastern dele  gates
 MT. Allen, who is secretary of the Bland executive committee, said yes terday that NIissourPs candidate was in the center of the silver cyclone, and added:
 You can form some idea of his pop ularity with the people of the west when tell you that before the end of l I.A ;,, n;4 representative democrats from the west who will do all in their power to fur ther MT. Bland's interest. l don't ex- pect MT. Whitney's threat or manifes- 1 to, to have any serious effect" Sergeant at-Arms Butler of the Iowa l delegation swelled the Iowa arrivals at the Palmer house yesterday. He cafne to arrange for the formal open ing of Iowa headquarters on July i. He will be in charge.
 There will be 5000 Boies supporters l in Chicago by the middle O next we -k," said MT. Butler.
 Elk Mayor Hopkins, one Of the gold standard leaders in Cook county, said: We propose to fight to the last ditch, although we may have no show of win hing"
 Ex-Senator John Martin, chairman of the Kansas delegation, said: "If had my way about it the two-thirds rule would not last a minute. The ma l jority ought to rule. That is the prin- ciple upon which the government of the United States is founded. It is a mistake to say that this rule is fasten- ed on the party forever. The prece- | a i A Van Buren.
 1 Kansas is a unit for free silver. There were some gold democrats in l our state, but they were sduarely beat l en and in manly way acknowledged 1 it."
 Congressman Towles of Missouri said l when asked about the silver mems at titude toward the two thirds rule: T think the two-thirds rule will stand We can control two-thirds Of l the voting delegates
 The figures compiled by the Bland 1 managers give 9S delegates as instruct l ed for him, 123 pledged and 151 whom l they have reason to expect" will sup l port him, Kentucky and Ohio being credited to the Bland column on the l second ballot, This makes a total of 372 votes claimed for Bland on the sec- 1 ond ballot.
 l Henry | Wiley of San Francisco, one of the delegates-at-la large from Cal i ifornia to the bimetallic convention, I which is to be held in St. Louis on July 23, the same day as the populist na- tionaI convention, said:
 "Our object is to see, silver remone- | ha 60, inn that it did prior to 1873 I have no particular, choice of candidates. The remonetization of silveris the one great thing to be accomplished"
 Alex Delmar of New York, chairman of the New York state committee or ganization, and George r. Keeney of San Francisco, general organizer of the American silver organization, are here to take part in the work of the silver committee
 Senator Isham c. Harris of Tennes- see chairman of the democratic bime- tallic national committee, will proba- biy be the permanent chairman of the democratic national convention. This is part of the program of the silver men, which includes the removal of the national democratic headquarters to Chicago and the election of Senator Jones of Arkansas as the chairman of the national committee to succeed Will liam F. Harrity.
 Senator Harris is here. He came to Chicago almost directly from Atlantic City, where he has been resting in ex- pectation of his selection as permanent chairman of the convention.
 The removal of the national head quarters to Chicago, the silver men de- clare, will certainly be accomplished.
 The national democratic committee will meet on Monday to select the tenn porary officers of the convention. Among the names suggested for the temporary chairmanship are those of Senator Hill of New York, Senator Vi- las of Wisconsin, Senator Gray of Del aware and Hugh C. Wallace of Wash ington.
 Senator Jones said yesterday that he thought the silver men would agree to make Senator Hill temporary chairman of the convention.