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Democratic Convention at Chi-
cago Makes a Platform. ‘
,TILLMAN AND HILL CLASH.
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_ The Two Senators Opposed In a De-
bate on Money Plank, Etc.
“PITCHFORK BEN’S” SUBSTITUTE.
A Bitter Attack Upon Several of the
Administration’s Acts.
Cheers Mingled With Kisses Greeted the
Remarks of the Fiery Senator From
South Carolina—The Crowd Dolled—"16
to 1 or Bust" Elicit- Applause—Senator
Hill’s Reply to Tillman and the Man-
ner of Its Reception—He Declared That
He Was a Democrat, but Not a Gold-
bug—He Desired to Build Up, Not to
_ Tear Down, He Said—Other Important
and Minor Details of the Third Day’s
Session of the Democratic National
Convention at Chicago.
CHICAGO, July 10.——When the third day
of the national Democratic convention
opened, it was expected that before it
closed some definite results would have
been reached. The weather was threaten-
eing and the sky cloudy, but the atmos-
phere was still comfortably cool. The
convention hall began to fill with specta-
tors long before the h'our of 10 o'clock,
fixed for the opening of the third day’s
session, had arrived. The crowds were
handled much more successfully than on
previous days. The band was in its place
early, making an earnest effort to divert
the impatient spectators.
It was understood that the aim of the
leaders would be to keep the convention
better in hand than yesterday. There was
to be a definite programme, by which 1
hour and 20 minutes on each side was to
be allowed, after the presentation of the
report of the committee on resolutions.
Senator Tillman of South Carolina had
been chosen to devote 50 minutes to the
support of the platform as reported by the
majority. The other speakers in its favor,
it was understood, were to be ex-Repre-
sentative . Bryan of Nebraska, Senator
Jones of Arkansas, and one other silver
man. The ,minority report was to be
made by, Senator Hill of New York, who
was also to make the principal speech for
the gold men. He was to be supplemented
by Senators Vilas of Wisconsin, Gray of
Delaware, err—Governor Russell of Massa-
chusetts, and perhaps others.
After this 2 hours and 40 minutes of or-
atory the plan was to proceed immediately
to vote down the minority substitute and
adopt the majority report.
Great interest centered in the action to
be taken by the gold men after the adop-
tion o‘i‘the platform. The action of the
credentials committee, sustained by the
convention at last night’s session by a
vote of 558 to 368, in unseating four of the
gold delegates from Michigan, thus throw-
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PERMANENT CHAIRMAN WHITE.
ing the entire vote of the state under the
unit rule to the silver faction and giving it
two-thirds of the convention, was. it was
contended by the gold men, revolutionary
enough to give them an excuse for the
most radical action if they saw fit to take
it, and the fact that the demonstration
with which New York’s solid vote against
the report of the committee was received,
the spectators and gold men cheering for
fully 15 minutes, was the greatest yet seen
'in the convention and could not help
strengthening them in their position. It
was not regarded as of any moment that
the silver men consented to seat the four
delegates at large for Michigan, who are
gold men, for in seating the contesting.
silver men from the Fourth and Ninth
districts they secured what they wanted—
the control of the delegation under the
unit rule.
' - The Gold Men’s Plans.
N0 definite line of action had been
agreed on, but individual members of the
New York and other eastern delegations
freely expressed the intention of either
quitting the convention ball when the sil-
ver platform was adopted, or of announc- -
ing their purpose not to support the can-
didate. It had become practically certain
that no organized bolt would take place, as
the counsels‘of Senator Hill and ex—Secre-
tary Whitney had prevailed toward con-
servative action, but General Charles Tra—
cey of Albany, who, when in the house of
representatives, was an antisilver leader
and a supporter of the Cleveland adminis-
tration, had announced his definite pur-
pose to retire as soon as a vote showed that
the silver plank was incorporated in the
platform or else to state openly in the con-
vention that he must decline to support
the prdsidential ticket. Fix-Postmaster
General Bissell of Buffalo left Chicago
last night, and Franklin Bartlett and De
Lancey N icoll of New York will also leave
the convention and let alternates fill their
seats. There were others from the New
York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania delegations of the same way
of thinking, but in each caée it was an in-
dividual sentiment. The withdrawals, if
any took place, were not expected to be of
that dramatic order witnessed when Teller
and his associates bolted the St. Louis con-
venticn. '
The programme for the nominating
speeches was considered promising. Sen-
ator Vest of Missouri, who is an exceed-
ingl energetic speaker, and despite his
sum 1 stature has a vcice that carries well,
was to nominate Bland. and the conven-
Advertise in the—Gazer”.
' face, once seen, never to be forgotten.
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tion was promised another speech from
avid Overmcvcr of Kansas, who was yes-
terday listened to with interest by some of
thedelegates and spectators. He was to
second the nomination of Bland. Senator
Turpie of Indiana was to nominate Mat—
thews, and F. E. White of Iowa was to
nominate Boles. Of these there was a fair
prospect that all except Turpie would at
least succeed in making themselves heard.
As the time for balloting approached
there was as much uncertainty as ever as
to the probable result. It was remarked as
singular and perhaps significant that the
supporters of none of the leading candi-
dates were giving out figures.
The delegates as well as the spectators
began to arrive somewhat earlier than yes-
terday. The band in the gallery kept up
cheerfully playing various airs reminiscent
of the World’s fair. Some of these were ap-
plauded; some were lost in the noise at-
SENATOR HILL
tendant upon the arrival of the Bland
band, the Boles banner, the Illinois delega-
tion headed by Altgeld, etc. It was 15
minutes after the time set for calling the
convention to order when ex-Secretary
Whitney arrived. Most of the New Yorkers
were already in their places, and ex—Gov-
ernor Flower and . Mr. Whitney shook
hands and stood consulting together.
Although a large number of delegates
Were present soon aft-er 10 o’clock, there
was no movement to call the convention
to order, chiefly because the resolutions
committee was in session and would not
be able to make its report at once, which
was the first thing in order after the open-
Ing.
At 10:52 the convention was called to
order by Senator White of California, who
was last night elected permanent chair-
man of the convention.
Just as the gavel fell Senator Hill ar-
rived and was greeted with cheers. The
New York leaders at once held an earnest
consultation. It was noticed that the
members of the Pennsylvania delegation
were all absent.
The absence of the Pennsylvania dele-
gates was explained when it became
known that they were holding a caucus to
determine their action in the convention.
The Rev. Dr. Green of Iowa again
offered the prayer, the spectatbrs and dele-
gates rising, and then the ‘chair recognized
Senator Jones of Arkansas, the chairman
of the committee on resolutions. '
Ready For Work.
Senator White handed the gavel over to
Congressman Richardson of Tennessee, a
tall, slender man with black mustache and
a scholarly stoop of the shoulders, who an-
nounced that the committee on resolutions
was ready to report and called to the plat—
form Senator Jones of Arkansas to make
the committee‘s report. Senator Jones,
who has been in the thickest of the silver
fight since the forerunners of the conven-
tion began to assemble in Chicago, is a fa-
miliar figure to this convention. He
looks like a soldier, and but for the fact
that he was a soldier of the late Confed-
eracy might be a strong presidential possi-
bility. He is a strong faced man with a
fierce silvery mustache and chin whiskers
and white hair which falls to cover all of
the top of his head. He adjusted a pair of
gold bowed. spectacles and began to read
the financial‘plank of the platform which
Colonel Charles H. Jones, a. St. Louis
journalist, had written. The efiect of the
reading would have been greater had the
southern senator controlled a stronger
voice. The silver ranks raised a cheer
when some of them heard the words, “We
demand the free and unlimited coinage of
both gold and silver,” and one enthusiast
demanded that the passage be re-read,
which was done. Senator Jones declared
that he was hoarse, and indeed his voice
broke two or three times and nearly failed
him. As the delegates could not hear
much of the platform most of its points
fell uncheered, but the denunciation 'of
government by injunction, which is taken
as an indirect approval of Governor Alt-
geld’s course during the Chicago strike,
met with recognition.
The Cuban Flag \Vaved.
When the plank expressing sympathy
with Cuba had been read, a flag of the new
republic with blue and white stripes and a
single star on a red field appeared in the
aisle in front of the delegates’ chairs and
was carried along the aisle. It did not
arouse the demonstration which the par-
tisans of Cuba had hoped for—indeed, the
applause was very moderate, and Mr.
Richardson rapped on the desk and cried,
“Put down that flag!” So it quickly sank
from sight. ,
The platform was concluded without any
marked applause. Then the report for the
minority was read by J. H. Wade of Ohio,
a former reading clerk of the house of rep-
resentatives. The gold people rose and
cheered, but after their outbreaks of yes-
terday their efforts were faint. The in—
dorsement of the Democratic administra-
tion, which Senator Hill had made a losing
fight for in the committee on resolutions,
brought down a yell, from the galleries.
Several New York delegates stood and
waved their hats, but they did not include
Hill, Whitney or Flower.
t} The issue .was drawn. Senator Ben Till-
man of South Carolina mounted the stage
to open the great debate in behalf of free
coinage. A striking figure he was as he
faced his audience. With no pretensions in
dress, shabby coated, wearing a heavy sil-
ver chain across his breast, he instantly
drew the eyes of the 20,000 people present.
They turned toward him as if he were an
antagonist. . His thick set, commanding
form was full of defiance. His head,
thrown back, was round and compact.
The features, strong and powerful, were
cast in a classical mold. The nose was
straight, the lips thin and compressed, the
jaw square and pugnacious, but the sunk-
en cavity which marked his left eye gave
to his face a sinister expression. It was a
On
one lapel of his coat he wore a Cuban flag,
on the other a pitchfork. One moment
the 20,000 people held their breathes they
gazed. 'Then they broke forth. Cheers,
mingled with hisses. rent the air. ‘ ‘
Advertise in the Gram.
Mr. Richardson, who was wielding the
gavel, with the aid of the assistant ser-
geants-at-arm, quickly suppressed the dem-
onstration. Tillman's first sentence
showed that he had a good. well modulat-
ed voice, but as he proceeded he pitched it
in a key so shrill that it grated like a file.
He was characteristic from the beginning.
He realized that so far as the galleries
were concerned he faced an audience
which he felt was largely hostile. He in-
troduced himself to them by saying that
he came before them as he was, not as
”the lying newspapers had represented
him to be.” A round of applause from
the pit greeted this announcement, but it
was drowned in the storm of hisses from
the galleries, which were increased to a
perfect whirlwind of sibilant sound as he
added, “I come from a state which was
the home of secession. ” Senator Tillman
turned defiantly and fiercely surveyed the
vast congregation which was hissing him.
Then, with a contemptuous toss of his
head, he looked down at the silver dele-
gates before him, his eye blazing, and
with a sneer, “There are only three things
that hiss,” said he, with a curl of his thin
lips, “a goose, a serpent and a man.”
Raising his head and addressing the gal-
leries, he shouted that the man who hissed
South Carolina forgot the history of the
Revolution, when that state kept alive the
fires of liberty.
This provoked a wild demonstration
from the silver men. “South Carolina in
1860,” he said, “led the fight in the Dem-
ocratic party which disrupted it. Disrup-
tion,” he continued, while the galleries
hissed, “brought about the war, and the
war emancipated the black slaves. Now,”
he added, sweeping his arms through the
air above his head, “we are leading the
fight to emancipate the white slaves.”
This time the silver men had their innings,
but they did not applaud very lustily
when he declared that, with conditions
reversed, he was willing to again see the
Democratic party disrupted. Repeatedly,
as he proceeded, the galleries hissed and
several times the sergeant-at-arms threat-
ened to clear the galleries.
“Sixteen to One or Bust.”
The silver men had a chance to shout
their approval when he declared that they
were adopting a new declaration of inde-
pendence—“16 to 1 or bust.” The storm
of hisses issued forth again when he re-
pudiated the denial that this was a sec-
tional contest. “I say it is a sectional is-
sue,” he cried, “and it will prevail.”
After a display of expressions he drifted
into statistics, to show the bondage of the
south and west to the east, and these fig-
ures gave the hostile galleries another op-
portunity to cry him down. “Time,
time!” they shouted. This aroused the
senator again to angry resentment. He
paced the platform like an enraged lion.
"1 know, I know!” he cried, with arms
aloft. “ You are against us. There is not
a paper in this city that is not in the pow-
er of the money influences. They will not
give us a fair show. They characterize us
as howling dervishes a" a silver lunatics.”
Continuing, Senator Tillman declared
that the only way to avert a revolution
would be to select a man whose record
would fit the platform. Soon the hissing
began again at some radical utterances,
and the South Carolinian took occasion to
say that “four years ago the New York’s
senator was hissed as I am now.
“Where is New York now?” he asked.
"Where a New York’s leader?” And from
the galrfiv came in the cry, “In the
soup!” '- hich brought down a wave of
cheers ir Hill, topped with a foam of
hisses.
Tillman stood waiting for the noise to
subside, and then. using his hand before
his mouth for a speaking trumpet, called
like a fog horn his defiance, “You can just
as well understand that I am going to
have my say if I stand here till sun-
down.”
He was permitted to go on with com-
parative quiet after the chairman had
pleaded with the auditors and threatened
to clear the galleries, and, then he sur-
prised his hearers anew by an attack on
Senator Hill because the senator from
New York had refused to make the first
speech on the platform and give the South
Carolina man the reply.
. Incidentally he said of Hill: “He de-
spised the president of the United States
in 1892. Since then he has had cause to
more than despise him,” and scored Hill
for assuming the role of apologist for the
administration.
“But as Grover Cleveland stands for
gold”—— he began. whereupon a hurrah for
Cleveland was shouted which drew a quite
hearty response from the galleries. The
attack on the president which followed
did not find any marked demonstration of
approval.
Cleveland Attacked.
“Now I want you all to list-en,” Till-
man shouted. and then be read the sub-
stitute resolution which follows:
“We denounce the administration of
President Cleveland as nn-Democratic and
tyrannical and as a departure from those
principles which are cherished by all lib-
erty loving Americans. The veto power
has been used to thwart the will of the
people as expressed by their representa-
tives in congress. The appointive power
has been used to subsidize the press, to
debauch congress and to overawe and con-
trol citizens in the free exercise of their
constitutional rights as voters. A pluto-
crat despotism is t ms sought to ho estab—
lished on the ruins of the. republic. We re-
pudiate the cc;'.-.r-.a'u.:*i2o:1 placed on the
financial plank of z l.....t Democratic na-
tional convention by President Cleveland
and Secretary Carlisle as contrary to the
plain meaning of English words and as
being an act of bad faith, deserving the
severest censure. The issue of bonds in
time of peace, with which to buy gold to
rgclgeni 99in obligatiop payable in silver or
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