The herald., 1896-07-24

declare for the free coinage OF silver.
She denounced Mckinley and the plat
form on which he stands.
"Saloon-keepers, rum power and anar-
chists," she said, "were with Mckinley"
$50 were the thieves of Wall street
As Mrs. Cougar concluded she called
upon the band to play America. and the
delegates Joined in the singing.
AMOTION MADE.
Delegate Hall of Illinois said that the
most potent influence upon the voters IN
behalf of silver would be the announce
ment of former party affiliations at
tendant upon the silver convention. he
moved that poll of delegations be taken
for publication.
The motion was carried and a roll or
dered taken at the next session.
The following resolution was offered
for Individual consideration of the del
egates preparatory to the official con-
sideration of the next session:
That, in the present situation ofthe
organization, IS and logically must be
in the coming campaign, peculiar rep
resentative of the independent free sill
yer Republicans, and that the efforts of
the national committee should be care
fully directed toward combining and
augmenting these Republican elements
as an independent force, cooperating
with the others for the election of can
didates who shall be nominated by this
convention for president and vice presi-
dent and for free silver congress"
r. A. Cole of Milwaukee said that
while he had the greatest respect for
Mrs. Cougar of Indiana. he did not think
1t wise to take up the cry of prohibition.
To denounce brewing would be to lose
strength among the Germans. Despite
cries of "Sit down. he continued to
talk The free silver question was one
that interested the masses and should
not be weighted down by prohibition,
he said When he had finished the con-
vention took recess until 2:30 p. m.
THE SECOND MEETING.
The convention was called to order al
3 o'clock by Chairman st. John. a reso-
luton was adopted extending the thanks
of the convention to DR.. j. j. Mott,
chairman of the national committee,
for the work he had performed in behalf
VI lIle lIGG SlNtT CduSt, anu StNtIdl
speeches We're made eulogizing him. DR..
Mott was called for He was greeted
with cheers. and said he felt sure free
silver would sweep the country in No
vember.
H. L. Chaffee of Minneapolis was
asked to make a speech. as the platform
committee was not ready to report
c. b. Lane of California, a gold mine
owner, was next called upon. He said,
though he produced gold, he was for
free silver because if this country failed
to get it, he would be compelled to give
all his gold to the starving millions.
There were loud and uproarious calls
for Coin" Harvey of Illinois. He re-
fused to go upon the platform, as he
said he was not well or strong enough.
Vice Chairman Towne presided at the
afternoon session. w. p. st. John moved
that when the convention adjourn it
be until 10 o'clock tomorrow. He did this
because the conference committee was
not ready to report. This motion was
amended so as to make the adjourn
ment until 1880 this evening.
Mr.. Turner of Texas wanted the con-
vention to get down to business. If it's
sessions We're to be protracted many
of the delegates would be compelled to
go home.
An Illinois delegate said that every
delegate there was for Bryan and Sew
all and if the convention went ahead
and nominated a ticket it would weak
en- its influence with the Peoples party.
Mr. Baker of California was opposed
to an evening session.
The Kansas delegation continued to
object to adJourning over until tomor-
row. Mr.. Baker went on to say that
the convention would be ready to adj
journ as soon as its platform was adopt
ed because inait Bryan and Sewall were
recommended as the nominees of the
Silver party. This remark brought out
loud applause.
Gen. Warner of Ohio agreed with Mr..
Baker and advised an adjournment un-
til tomorrow.
Chairman Little of the Kansas delega-
ton thought it would be a mistake to
adjourn until tomorrow
w. p st. John insisted that it would
be an insult to the Peoples party to
adopt the platform before the confer
ence committees of the two conven-
tions had met. Such action would be
an attempt to jam a ticket down the
throats of the Peoples party. A half
dozen more speeches were made, and
twice that number of men shouted for
recognition.
In the midst of the furore the previous
question was ordered. The vote was on
the amendment to Mr.. st. Johns mo-
tion that when the convention adjourned
it be until 10 o'clock a. m. tomorrow.
The amendment was to change the
time to p. m. tonight. The amendment
was lost by a vote of LAG yeas to 151 nays
by a rising vote. The original motion
was then adopted.
A good deal of confusion followed. and
some of the delegates went to their
homes.
A general Wrangle followed over the
demand made by some of the delegates
that poll of the convention be made
TO find out the previous political be-
liefs of the delegates. 1t was finally
decided to proceed with the roll call Of
the states. The result showed that
there We're 526 Republicans, 1875 Demo-
Gratis, AZ Populists, . Prohibitionists. 1
Nationalist l Greenbacker and u Inde-
pendents. Twenty states failed to re-
port.