The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-23
1t Contains n Clean-Cut Silver Dec
laratfon and Has No Reference
to Grover Cleveland.
FRENzEL TO BE A DELEGATE
SOUND-MONEY MEN OF SEVENTH
DISTRICT SLAP MATTHEW'S,
But the Convention May Upset This
Gathering of the .Push, from
Out OF Town-Candidates.

Inasmuch as it is a foregone conclusion
that the Democratic State convention
which meets tomorrow, will declare for
free silver, the advance guard which ar
rived on the ground yesterday is giving
some attention to the question of candi-
dates. However. there is still a great deal
Of discussion of the money question and of
vorious phases that the fight has assumed
This much Is stated as practically assured:
The platform will declare for the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of Is to /.
Governor Matthews will be put forward
as the choice of the Indiana Democracy
for President, and should any man opposed
to him succeed in getting on the delegation
the unit rule will be enforced.
The four delegates. at large will be Sem
ator d. w. Voorhees,, of Terre Haute SEN
ator David Turpie. OF Indianapolis; b.
+. Shively. of South Bend, and j. G.
Shanklin, of Evansville.
The nominee for Governor will be ex-
Congressman B. F. Shively. of South Bend
This leaves few questions of any magni-
tude to be determined. Comparatively
little interest is taken In -the makeup OF
the rest of the ticket except by the az
pirants for nomination AMI their boomers.
These make considerable noise but are. not
gold contingent hopes to save something
out OF the wreck by accomplishing the
nomination CT Tanning for Auditor, Chand-
ler for Treasurer and Griffith for Attorney
general. They hope to pull Tanning
through, anyhow, though they may nave to
sacrifice the other two. One of the ques-
tions that is being discussed TO some extent
is whether there shall be anything in the
tion- The sound-money wing hoped until
a couple of days ago to be able to get in
the platform an Endorsement of the Cleve-
land administration. couched in general
terms. but this hope has been given up.
In fact, there is such strong disposition
upon the part of the silver men to force a
denunciatory resolution in that the admin
istration wing will have all it can do to pre-
vent this being done, and will be lucky if
the platform is silent altogether upon. this
subject.
The sound-money Democrats opened
headquarters at the Grand yesterday and
intend to make as big showing as pos
sible in the convention. They claim 312 out
of the LIZA delegates, while the silver peo-
pie concede to them only 1y7. However,
among their delegates are great many
prominent leaders from various parts of
the State and they hope TO accomplish
much through their powers of persuasion.
The most interesting fight lies in the cons
test between the sound-money and silver
wings in this county. The effort made by
Governor Matthews to give the silver peo-
pie control Of the district by having the
district caucus held after the other dis
tricts have held their meetings and the
credentials committee has had chance to
seat the contest.ng silver delegates in this
county. has proven z failure. The Seventh
district meeting will be held this evening
at the same hour as the others and is like
ly to prove memorable struggle. The
contesting delegations will i'lsist that each
be given a half vote and If this were con-
ceded the siverites should control the
district The sound-money people, how
| ever. have the organization and will rec
ognize only such delegates as hold official
credentials, and. will thus control the dis
| trict by a vote of 30 TO 70
triat by vote of 50 to 20. They will send
w. e. English and John p: Frensel to CHI
| cago as delegates and will put w. ID. BY
| mum on the resolution committee. The
| silver delegates and contestants will bolt
and make their own selections and thus
| carry the fight to the convention. $50
The platform. prepared for the most part
by Governor Matthews, was agreed upon
| by conference at his Office last night and
| the substance of it. with the financial
| plank in. full is given below.