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4 ees and their submission for adoption
4 Presentation of the names of candidates
| or president.
4 BallOting.
Presentation of the names of candi-
I Iates for vice president.
Balloting.
call of the roll of states for the names
: IF persons to serve respectively on COM
|. mittecs to notify the nominees of presi-
isn't and vice president.
Today's session of the Monetary league
i also attracted some attention, mainly
through Mr. Towne's speech, severely ar
raigning his old associates of the Repub-
lican party, and declaring that the record
IN Cuba and the Philippines was one of
the most disgraceful pages of American
history.
PLATFORM SENTIMENT.
But far more interesting than the for
NAL business of the day has been the
growing intensity of feeling over the
Dlatform and the vice presidential can
dfdate The most remarkable feature Of
the situation is the sudden shift of SEN
timent since yesterday, when the in
,Nssence Of Mr.. Bryan was everywhere
. manifest today many delegations
look for a formal manifestation of an
expression against a specific declaration
for 16 to l, which is looked upon as Mr..
Bryan's sine qua non. This movement
was taken up by some leaders of the
party not in a spirit of opposition to
Mr.. Bryan, but because they believed
the overwhelming sense of the delegates
was favorable to a simple reaf1rmation
Of the Chicago platform, without a spe-
ciffc declaration for 16 to l. That is,
conservative instead Of a radical financial
platform. AS explained by one Of these
leaders a man foremost in the counsels
Of the party:
I'VE have nothing authoritative before
us showing that Mr.. Bryan insists upon
the l6 to ! declaration. To be sure, there
are reports and rumOrs. and the Ne
braska delegates may or may not rep
resent his views. The platform commit
tee would doubtless yield to the express
ed wishes of Mr.. Bryan, but when the
time comes the question will be asked:
Who says Mr.. Bryan insists upon this'
and show US the insistence? In all prob
ability it will not be forthcoming ana
the platform committee will follow us
own dictates as to the proper course 10
pursue. There is no doubt the personal
convictions of the members of the plat
form committee will be for a conservative
platform, a simple reaffirmation of the
Chicago platform, emitting specific ref
erence to 16 to !. 1 have no doubt Mr..
BRYAN would accept such a platform II
It went before him as the will of the
convention The fact is, we think 1t
rather unjust to place Mr.. Bryan In the
attitude of a dictator, making demands
and we are proceeding on tha theory mat
these so-called demands are not in real
lty being made by him.
CONSERVATIVE ADVOCATES.
The force Of the movement began to
make itself apparent as the day ad-
RANGED. Ohio led off, and after a snort
fight overwhelmingly instructed its rep
resentative on the platform committee
Judge Chapman, to work for simple
reafirmation of the Chicago platform
without a specific 16 to 1 declaration.
This decision was made in the face or
protest by Tom Johnson that 1t was OPP
posed to Mr.. Bryans we'll known wishes.
The Florida caucus followed suit soon
after, by instructing its platform mem
Der. Mr.. Gibbons, to oppose a SPECIFIC
plank of 16 to !, and to work for re-
affirmation of the Chicago platform.
At the West Virginia caucus the same
sentiment was manifested on the ground
that that would give them fighting
chance in West Virginia. The Georgia
and Rhode Island delegations expressed
like tendency. The Wisconsin delega-s
ton in caucus discussed similar action,
but hesitated and finally postponed their
determinations The Michigan delegation
also came out for simple reafhrma-
ton. -
And aside from these formal proceed
ings against the 16 to 1 specific declara-
ton it is understood that Pennsylvania,
Indiana. Illinois, part of North Carolina
and other influential delegations share
the sentiment for conservative" as
against a "radicaP3 platform.