The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-06

CHICAGO, July 5-The gold state
delegates gathered slowly this evening
for their second meeting. The attend
ance was much larger than on Friday
night, many more of the delegates hav-
ing arrived. Some of those who
strolled in early were W. F. Harrity Of
Pennsylvania. ex-Mayor Gilroy of New
York, W. D. Bynum of Indiana. Eu-
cid Martin. j. B. Sheehan, Lee w
Spitel of Nebraska and Washington
Hesing of illinois,
Later on the leaders began to come
along, among them being William c.
Whitney, John r. Fellows. William
Sheehan, Hugh Grant. James j Mar
tin, John P. Ryan of New York. ex-
Governor Russell of Massachusetts.
Senator Gray of Delaware. James W.
Hinckley and Colonel Harvey of New
York. Neither Senator Hill nor Gov
ernor Flower attended the meeting. the
former giving as a reason that
HE WAS TOO BUSY
with other affairs. Before the session
Mr.. Whitney said:
The meeting is simply to formulate
plans. We are not going to arrange
any individual course" 1t was an
nounced, however. that the meeting
was to get the sense of the delegates
on the question of boiling, several del
egates having urged that course early
in the day.
The meeting was called to order by
Mr.. Whitney, and Senator Gray again
assumed the chair. He spoke briefly
but encourag ingly of the work done.
assuring his hearers that there had
been one point gained-that of pre-
venting the abrogation of
THE TwO-THIRDs RULE.
William C. Whitney followed Senator
Gray and was greeted with great ap-
plause.
Mr.. Whitney spoke briefly on the sit
uation and called attention to the con-
tested seats and to the fact that it was
alleged that the silver men were going
to throw out all delegates who did not
agree with them. This led to a general
explanation of the contested seats in
Indiana. Ohio and Nebraska. but par
tlcular attention was called to Mich
1gan. All the cases, as explained by
men from the states interested, were
in favor Of the gold delegates. The
Michigan case was explained by Elliott
G. Stevenson and Don NJ Dickinson.
1t was stated by Mr.. Stevenson that
no ground of contest existed. no irreg-
ularity was charged, that all that was
claimed by the silver men was that
Michigan was a silver state and that
1t should not cast a gold vote in the
convention. The proposition of the sill
yer men is to unseat the four delegates
at-large, e. G. Stevenson, Thomas A.
Weadock. R. R. Baker and Peter
White. The first was elected in the
Michigan convention by a majority Of
$50, and his election made unanimous.
WEADOCK WAS ELECTED
by rs majority and his election made
unanimous. The other two men were
elected by reclamation. The contest
ants are John W. McGrath Spencer o.
Fisher. William F. Mcknight and T.
3. Beckwith. They were candidates
before the state convention. One OF
them moved in convention to make his
successful opponents election unan-
imous. Mcknight was elected a dis
trict delegate after his defeat The
delega ton now stands sixteen gold and
twelve silver; if the four delegates-at-
large are unseated and the silver men
substituted. the situati will be re-
versed and Michigan, being under the
unit rule, would cast twenty-eight
votes for silver. and give the silver
the convention.
1t was stated that it had been de-
cided by the silver conference tonight
to unseat the gold delegates in Mich
igan and that steps are being taken in
that direction. 1t was stated that
three states. Indiana, Ohio and Mis-
souri, had already instructed the men
fer the committee on credentials to seat
the silver delegates at large from Mich
lgan. 1t was also stated that when
the Indiana man was selected he was
asked how he stood on the Michigan
contest, and replied that he had
NOT LOOKED INTO 1T YET.
We'll" was the answer. eff you
don't know how you are going to vote,
we had better elect another man. and
this was enough to secure a pledge
from the man selected
Another statement was to the effect
that Senator Cockrell. in discussing
the Michigan case with Senator Hill,
declared every gold egate-at-1arge
was to be thrown out and the state
voted solid for silver.
The explanation of the Michigan case
and the alleged determination of the
silver men to throw out the gold dele
gates on general principles alone. and
not as a matter Of pretended Irregular
ity, caused a great deal of Indignation
among the men in the conference. The
proposed course was declared to be
revolutionary, and if carried out would
justify the gold men in any step they
might deem advisable. It was said the
gold men could not submit to any such
course.
AS no such action can be taken by
the silver men until the credentials
committee acts, no plan was proposed
tonight.
1t was decided to- be unnecessary to
hold a conference tomorrow night, but
another conference will be held on
Tuesday night after the convention
mas held ono session