Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-07-05
DISCUSSION OF THE PLATFORM

Many Western Delegates Urge n
Mild Plank on e pansion---Lisa
lihood OF II Specific Dcc':,,,a-
in Favor of 10 90 1.
Kansas City, July 3.-I'he ,hroh and
thrill of a great national assemblage
is beginning to take possession of this
young queen city of the southwest.
Throughout yesterday there was a
steady tramp, tramp of incoming
thousands by every train choking the
railroad stations With struggling,
travel strained and sweltering throng.
filling the streets with SLOW moving,
jostling crowds. emptying into the ho-
tel Hobbies, where, amid cigar smoke
and piles of baggage and the shout
OF badge vendors, the currents of
earnest and excited men eddy into
groups, declaiming the merits of cam
didates and issues, arguing, protest
ing, gesticulating.
Among the days arrivals We're many
ty, including the smoothfaced, minis
who will make the speech placing
York, weighted with his long con-
ference with Bryan at Lincoln, and
wearied with three days of constant
travel; Perry Belmont, of New
York, we'll groomcd and debonnair;
Teller, of Colorado, with his Jackson
like face, thin and worn; Senator
Money, of Mississippi, tall and gaunt,
with strong contingent from the far
south; a distinguished populist trio,
Senator's Allen, Heittield and Harris,
here to aid the cause of Towne; John
r. Altgeld, of Illinois, brown and
smiling under his broad brimmed pan
anna; Governor William Walter Smith,
of Maryland, the close contidant of
German; Arthur Sewall. the Maine
shipbuilder, who ran with Bryan four
years ago, and that other unique fig
ure of the senate who has lately
brought excitement and sensation to
Its deliberations, Senator William A.
Clark, of Montana, heading the dele
cation of regulars" With two brass
bands and an abundance of cnthusi-
asm.
At q meeting of the national com
mittee to consider contests and to Sc
lect temporary officers, Mayor Rose,
of Milwaukee, was decided on for tenn
porary chairman. He is German
American, reputed to be nm orator of
finc presence and effective delivery.
Kansas City. July 3.--This is really
the first busy day of the democratic
convention. Soon after 10 O'Clock the
democratic national committee assem-
hled at the Kansas City club to con-
slider the claims of the contrasting del
egations, to formally select the tenn
porary officers and transact some 9TH
Ell preliminary business. The United
States Monetary league, at the same
hour, began its first session at the
Auditorium theater. Tonight il is pro
posed to formally open the new con-
yention hall with Il promenade con-
cert
While the arrivals during the past
few days have been by scores, they
began today by hundreds. Tomorrow
they will be by thousands All early
morning trains today. especially from
the cast. We're crowded with delegates
and visitors. BY tonight the hospita-
bic people of Kansas City will begin
to realize what it means to have a
big political convention on their
hands. Streets and hotel corridors are
already thronged With strangers vet
scarcely a tenth of the crowd expect
ed is here.
Hills Visit to- lincoln.
After day and night of confer
ences, of discussion of the platform
and candidates and earnest efforts 10
bring about thorough harmony in the
convention. politicians were slow in
rising today. Hills visit to lincoln
was the topic of conversation early in
the day. While. apparently, nobody
here knows why Hill was summoned
to Lincoln. all thoroughly realize that
his visit is significant. Harmony in
the convention, for which all leaders
are striving so vigorously. NAV de
pend upon it, and it may mean that
Hill will sink his personal desires and
become the party's candidate for the
vice presidency. Much hangs upon
the conferences between the two men
at Lincoln last night. Pending def
mite information as to the result of
the conference the situation today re-
mains practically unchanged. No step
will be taken until Bryan and Hill are
heard from. That Bryan is the domi-
nant factor in this convention no one
ran doubt. As former Senator On.
bois. OF Idaho. terselv expressed it to
day: BRYAN is master of the situa.
ton. arbitrator OF all differences
Without even seeming to dictate. he
controls the convention His wishes
will be respected both as to the plat.
form and candidate for vice prcsi-
dent"
Talks OF the Platform.
Thus far the only contest worth
mentioning has been on the financial
plank of the platform. Even that
seems to be only Il difference OF
phraseology. Western men generally
insist that a specific declaration fol
the free coinage of silver at 16 to /
be incorporated in the platform;
those from the cast and many from
the south are inclined to favor sim
pie renffirmation of the financial
is TO 1 OR NO BRYAN.