The San Francisco call., 1896-07-02

view of the deficiency in the revenues"
he said. in further elucidation of his Chi
cago programme. 81 want to see tariff
on all raw and manufactured wool. Wool
has suffered from the depression more
than any other raw material. 1 was for
free wool for many years, but I've got
sick of it."
All around, Harry Wise is a very i'm
portant and promising member of the
California delegation. Mr.. Wise has ap-
parently not talked with quite as much
frankness 10 W. w. Foote, who is one of
the several who are claiming that John II.
Wise gave his son into their especial care.
As 10 the rest of the delegation, they ap-
pear to realize only the danger and not
the promise of what Harry declared to
THE CALL.
IL think that this thing of district dele
gates not being bound by the unit rule on
the silver question is just talk said Mr..
Foote. "They can't break away and will
not be permitted to do it. If any OF them
try it"
Focte stopped without declaring what
would happen or how it would be done,
but he looked very severe and ready to
swear.
"How about this, Winter" he called, as
the Senator came along.
AZ certainly regard the whole delegation
as bound to support straight free-sllver
plank, in accordance with the resolution
of the State convention, and l assume
that nobody will do anything else" said
the Senator
whitney is not going to come around
asking people TO break pledges" said
Foote.
"The California delegation will certainly
be bound by the unit rule on the silver
plank" declared Judge Mcguire. 1.-THE
district conventions were constituent parts
of the State convention and none of them
disavowed the action of the general body.
A delegate who should now repudia.e the
State platform would probably be obliged
to spend the rest of his public life explain
ing his action"
The stalwarts will whip Harry Wise
into the traces If they can.
This delegation, as it speeds to one of
the most important political conventions
of American history, is con ptrasted by the
smallness of the crowd vita the ones that
whooped their way 10 Chicago in 1892 and
to St. Louis in 1888, when there was nearer
a hundred Californians along instead of
twenty-five or thirty all told. 1t keeps up
the regulation amount of California hospi-
tality, however, and what is left of 400
cases when Chicago is reached will be
dispensed at the fine headquarters at the
Great Northern. The Auditorium people
had the Californians four years ago at
500 day for headquarters. Harry Wise
telegraphed for the same rooms this year
and the price quoted was 1.-TWO hundred"
There may be nothing personal about that,
though.
BY the irony OF railroad chances the
silver delegation travels in the car sci
Oro" and by the irony of something else
the banner on its inside reads, "Democ-
racy and Prosperity"
"We've had four years of that" observed
a long-whiskered fellow at the Oakland
mole.
In the dining car at P. NJ. there sat at
two adjoining tables Messrs Foote, White,
Mcguire and Coleman, and this recalled
the fact that four years ago Foote, White,
and Coleman were also delegates-at-large,
the fourth being A. b. Butler of Fresno.
GAS far as Mr.. Foote and l are con-
cerned the delegation compares very
favorably with that OF four years ago." re-
marked Steve White, who has already be-
come the chief story teller of the crowd.
And speaking of that dinner by the way
there sat opposite to Mr.. Foote at his
table another one of those ordinary busi-
ness men and lifelong Democrats. who let
it be known that he was going to vote for
protection and sound money this year.
Ex-Congressman a. Caminettl is on the
train, and at 7:30 P. NJ. he was elected a
delegate from the Second District, neither