El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-05
The Kan:as City Convention
Is No Place For the
Conservatives.
SIXTEEN TO ONE GOES
And 1t Looks As If the Fight
Will Be Between ToWne,
Stevenson and
Hill.

KANSAS CITY, July 4.-By clever
thirty the great couven tion hall wa
flied. Twenty thousand people look et
down or up at Jones, the Prophet o
Democracy, when he raped for ordel
at two minutes after twelve.
After the Invocation Mayor Reed o
Kansas City delivered an address O.
welcome, which may have been bril-
liant but which made the audience very
impatient. Governor Thomas's speech
as temporary chairman was loudly
cheered, but every body seemed to be
looking for som ething exciting.
This came when the declaration of
Independence was read. At the be-
ginning of the reading a large bust of
Bryan, draped in the American flag,
was carried to the platform and un-
yelled amid tumultuous applause.
At the conclusion Of the reading q
young woman from New York sang
the Star Spanelsd Banner and Amer
lea, while the audience joined in the
song with a vast yell that fairly shook
the building.
About one O'Clock some one yelled
"Hill," and the magic word was taken
up and carried around as Bryan's was
in 1896. "Hill, ," "Hill," as the cry,
and the uprosr seemed to grow in In
tensity. For ten minutes or more the
demonstration continued, but Hill, in
his place with tine New York delega-
tion, refused TO take putli, notice Of it.
The Croker Murphy crowd did not
take any notice of it either, and the
multitude might as we'll have been call
ing "Csb" so far as the Tammany
braves were concerned. They wsLto ON
with ii cir Gig ars as if their Waterloo
were yet long way off. Il may be
that the New Workers knew something
they did not care to tell just yet.
At last Hill tried to say something !
from his seat. bu. the noise drowned |
his voice and he sat down.
AS soon se the resolutions commit
tee was named the convention adj urn
ed until four o'clock. Hill was the
center of the demonstr atoms after the
adjournment, and Croker turned up his
nose.
When the convention came together
a. four, the committees we're not ready
to report, and another adjournment
was taken until tonight.
Jones has been making valiant
fight to have Bryan nominated tonight.
Hills friends want to stampede the
convention for him as soon as Bryan lie
The conservative element Is fast
falling into line On the silver plank.
FREE SILVER ON TOP AGAIN.
KANSAS CITY, July 5.-The fight In
the platform COMMITTEES was very
warm one. Senator Jones was chosen
chairman, and Editor Metcslf, of the
0nsLa w orld Herald secretary. There
we're three drafts of platforms submit
led, all agreeing in everything except
The silver plank.
Metcalf's platform not only reaffirm-
I'D the Chicago platform but speci6cally
declared for the free coinage of silver
It the ratio of 16 to 1. The others
eft out the fetch.
The committee continued in session
Ill night, and it was not until half -.
past three this morning that q vote
vas taken. The vote was 26 to "a in
avor of an explicit declaration for .
6 tol.
The states that voted for the specific
declaration were: Maine, New Hamp-
hire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Delaware, Alabama, South Carolina,
kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Iowa,
<ansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado,
daho, North Dakota, Wyoming, Wash \
ngton, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, New O
dexico, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, t
Hawaii. f
The states tha: voted against specific fl
eclaratiOn for Is to l were: Rhode Fl
sl4nd, Connecticut, New York, New "
ersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Il
irgtnia, West Virginia, North Car d