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Alignment Made For the Strug-
gle In the Windy City.

TEE BATTLE OF THE METALS

Final Maneuvering Before the Meet-
ing of Democratic Hosts.

A FORECAST OF THE PLATFORM.

Important Features of That Impor-
, taut ' Pronunciamento.

‘Free and Independent Coinage of Silver
at the Ratio of 16 to 1, a Strong Tarifl
Plank. a Plea For State Banks, Sympa-
thy For Cuba and Many Other Subjects
to Be Touched Upon—Senator Daniel of
Virginia For Temporary Chairman.
Progress of the Booms of the Various
Caudidates— A Significant Dispatch
From Vice President Stevenson. Who

' Declares That He Was Elected to Con-
gress'In the Long Ago Because of His
Adirocacy of the' Remouetization of Sil-
ver—Table of the Strength of the White
Metal Men Prepared by a Prominent
Silverite—Misoell'aneous Preconveution
Facts, Rumors and Gossip.

CHICAGO, July 7.—-Only a few hours re-
main before the Democratic national con-
vention will be called to order, and there
is the tense strain, the bounding enthusi-
asm, the surging of crowds and the hur-
ried arrangement of details which mark

‘ the near approach of the crisis. Conven-
tion week opened suspiciously in point of
weather, and the veterans of national
gatherings do not recall a time when clear
sky and cool breezes contributed more to
the creature comforts of the convention
hosts. A ten mile breeze comes from the
lake, keeping the flags snapping, and the
mercury keeps wall within the eighties.
There is just enough haze in the air to
keep off the torrid rays of the sun.

Early in the day the full strength of the
convention crowd began to assert itself.
Every train brought political organiza-
tions, uniformed clubs, bands of music
and fife and drum corps. They came in
the full regalia of the conventions, with
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[Choice of the silver delegates for temporary

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ment has given to its advocates. Some of
the clubs were uniformed in light crash
suite with tall gray hats. Others bore
flambeaus. Many carried horns and other
instruments of discord, and all seemed
bent on noise and demonstration. The
third section of the Dick Bland Marching
club put in an appearance at 7 o’clock, re-
enforcing the 2, 500 already here. They
ade an early attack on the hotels and
roused the occupants from their slumbers.
The Nebraska silver train arrived with a
blaze of hunting and unloaded a thousand
enthusiastic silver shouters. The Boies‘
people were cheered by the coming of a big
delegation from the heart of Iowa. Louis-
ville contributed theastylish Blackburn
club, and later in the day the Duckworth
club of Cincinnati arrived. All the streets
near the political centers are practically
surrendered to the marchers and onlookers.
The same confusion and excitement reign
in the hotel corridors, where the crowds
are so closely wedged that passage through
them is impossible. At the Palmer House
the main lobby is crowded with shouting,
gesticulating men, who overflow into the
entrances, and to this is added at intervals
the arrival of some club with *its band, the
drum ‘and brasses serving to drown the
din of the shouters. At the Auditorium,
Sherman ,House and other rendezvouses
there are the same scenes of noisy demon-
stratiol.
The Real \Vork Begun.

The real work of the convention began
in earnest with the meeting of the national
committee at 10 o’clock in the committee
parlors at the Palmer House. There was
intense interest in the result of the meet-
ing, as the selection of a temporary presid-
ing officer promised to develop the first
conflict between the gold and the silver
form Chairman Harrity had divided the
commttee work so that the formal matter
of distributing tickets and badges would
be done first, and at 12 o’clock the impor-
tant work of choosing the convention ofli-
oers and hearing contests was taken up.
The general impression prevailed that the
committee would name Senator Hill as
temporary chairman, but there was wide
range for speculation and doubt, owing to
the determined attitude of the silver men
not to accept a temporary chairman op-

' posed to their views. The doubt was in-
creased by the fact that Senator Hill‘had
at last broken silence, and in statements
which were widely read during the morn-
ing had taken a decided stand against the
silver men. The statement attributed to
him over his signature that the New York
delegation would walk out of 'the conven-
tion it the Michigan delegation was count-
ed out, was taken as particularly ominous
of trouble ahead. The silver leaders were
to meet, too, to determine whether the tem-
porary chairman named by the commitm
is acceptable The committee will in any
event make it's recommendation to the
convention, and the fight of the silver men
will be made as soon as the convention
assembles on the question of accepting the
presiding officer presented by the national
committee. Aside from this question, the
national committee heard such contests as
are presented. The only ones were those

‘ 'of Michigan, South Dakota, Nebraska and

Nevada.
The battle among the candidates is
reaching its critical stage. Today appears

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to be one of dark horses. 'A telegram from
Vice President Stevenson, stating that his
election to' congress in 1878 was the result
of his advocacy of the remcnetization of-
silver, is attracting much attention. It
came last night- in response to an inquiry
from ex-Congressmn T. W. McNeely and
is regarded as having special significance
at this juncture. FIE—Congressman Sibley
of Pennsylvania arrived today, and a re-
vival of his presidential candidacy fol-
lowed. He announced himself some months
ago, but of late has not urged his candi-
dacy. It is said that he came at the sug-
gestion of some of the Pennsylvania dele-
gation, who believe none of the candidates
now‘in the field has demonstrated an abil-
ity to win. Senator Tillman of South
Carolina is also. enjoying a dark horse
boom as a result of the arrival of the South
Carolina delegation, which is instructed to
vote for him.

The Bland followers put on a front of
great elation over the caucus of the forces
and are making the extreme claim that
their candidate will be nominated by ac-
clamation. This is having the counter
effect of concentrating the opposition to
Bland, and all other candidates are just
now interested in offsetting the Bland
movement There appears, also, to be con-
siderable doubt as to whether several states
represented at the Bland caucus can be de-
livered to him as bodies. California and
Louisiana are holding out, although stren-
uous efi'orts are being made to bring them
into the Bland line. The Indiana men say
the Matthews candidacy is in healthy con-
dition, but they are giving no figures and
making no claims. They deny emphatic-
ally the report, which gained currency
around the Bland headquarters, that Gov-
ernor Matthews’ name would be with-
drawn. Early in the day there was talk
that Senator Turpie might be another
dark horse and inherit the Matthews
strength when it was found the nomina-
tion could not be delivered to the governor.
The Boies managers are confident Bland
cannot win on the first ballot. They are
making upsome lost ground by reconcil-
ing dlfl‘erences among their leaders.

Everything In Readiness.

As the convention hall all is in readi-
ness for the big gathering. The last chair
has been put in place and every detail per-
fected. Sergeant-storms Martin and his
500 assistants, pages, etc, drilled through-
out the morning. He expresses himself as
well satisfied with the outlook for an
effective handling of the throngs which
will besiege the building. ,

The various state delegations are centers
of activity and most of them are holding
caucuses for organization. With many of
them the question of observing the unit
rule is a burning issue, and much depends
on the observance of this time honored
custom. Even now the state organizations
are so far advanced that the personnel of
the convention, committees on platform,
credentials, etc, is practically completed.

. Senator Teller has taken pains not only
to deny that he is out of the race, but to
make every one understand that he is very
muchln it. Even that tactful suggestion
that he'should abjure a place on the ticket
and allow the convention by resolution to
name him as its choice for secretary of the
treasury in the new silver cabinet has not
availed. The defection of the Illinois dele:
gation has been a serious blow to the hopes
of his managers, but they refuse to see in
it anything but a political play of Altgeld
for the purpose of pretending to swingthe
conventionwhichever way it goes. They
admit that Bland will lead at the opening,
and say that Altgcld’s ambition to be the
Mark Hanna of this convention has caused
him to take up Bland again when the
strength of the undercurrent sentiment for
Teller shOWs itself plainly. Meanwhile
they are moving about among the dele-
gates and capturing as large a second
choice as possible for their man. But
there is little prospect now that they will
be called upon to show their full strength,
for the chances are that the second choice
candidates will not be reached. A break,
when it comes, seems to be more likely to
go to some one who has not beficonspicu-
one in too recent active rivalry for places
on the ticket.

The Indiana men here are trembling
over a threatened blow to the hopes of
their favorite. It has been suggested that
in following the policy of voting for the
least objectionable of the silver men. as is
freely advocated by many of the gold peo-
ple, the eastern delegates could do no bet-
ter than to vote for Matthews. This pro-
spective support has brought alarm to the
Hoosiers. One of Matthews’ lieutenants
said to your correspondent today: “Should
Connecticut, which comes first of the gold

states, announce its vote for Matthews, he

might as well never have been mentioned.
All our work and all our hopes would be
undone in an instant.”

Talk of a Gold Convention.

As new men from the east get in on late
trains the talk of a new convention to be
called by the gold stande Democrats for
the purpose of nominating an independent
candidate upon a platform of their own
making is revived here and there. An ar-
gument put forward in its favor is that
the eastern and middle states are reason-
ably safe for the Republican ticket any-
way and that the Democratic party in the
middle west, the Pacific coast and the
south may be so split between two Demo-
cratic candidates as to insure the election
of the Republican ticket there also. The
more conservative men, however, think
that every demand of party loyalty will be
met by willing and vigorous protest, put-
ting the responsibility where it belongs
and than letting the silver men go, the
gold men taking no further part in the
convention, taking no part in this cam.
paign and voting quietly the Republican
ticket in November.

What probably keeps the bolting theory

' faintly alive through everything is the fact

that the sound money men have made a
careful register of all the names of all the
delegates they knowvthey can depend upon
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dent which made the theory plausible.
Senator Cockrell called. upon Senator Hill
in behalf of the silver leaders to warn him
as a friend that he must not allow himself
to be nominated for temporary chairman,
as the convention would only humiliate
him by voting him down.

“Well," answered Hill, “as afriend also
I would advise you and your friends not
to attempt to unseat the Michigan delega-
tion, as, I understand you propose to do,
for the New York delegation, for one,
would accept that act as a challenge and
walk out of the convention in a body. It
would‘be a perversion of the state rights
principle, which is fundamental with the

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Democratic party, and we should not be
called upon to wait, for any more revolu-
tionary proceedings.”

A similar threat has been reported to
have been uttered by William 0. Whitney.
Hill’s Denial.

SenhtorHill was credited in some papers
as making a signed radical statement that
the gold standard men would be advised
by him to bolt the convention if Michi-
gan’s gold delegation was unseated. The
statement came as a surprise, because Sen-
ator'I-Iill has been very conservative in the
matter of statements. When visited by a
representative of the press, he said: “The
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anything to give any person the idea that
I would counsel a bolt. In fact, I have
steadfastly refrained from making any
statements of what action we would take
in the convention.”

Members of'the Delaware delegation de-
clare very positively that there will be no
bolter in their camp on account of the
adoption of a free silver platform and the
selection of a free silver candidate. Even
Senator Gray, one of the most radical gold
men in the convention or the party, they
declare, will not desert the party nominees.
There is some feeling in the delegation
against Senator Gray because of his speech
at the gold meeting Saturday night. One
of his colleagues complains that the gold
men are injuring the chances of the party

in the campaign by fighting the inevitable

with arguments of such a nature that they
will furnish campaign'material to the Re-
publicans. . ' "
John F. Salisbury, who is a free silver
Delaware delegate, has devoted consider-
able eflort to endeavoring to persuade the
more radical silver leaders to accept splat-
form which will be in the nature of a re-
aflirmation of previous r'r-clarations on the
financial question by Lemocratic conven-
tions and will not be offensive to the east-
ern gold men, but does not think that his
efforts have been particularly successful. ‘
The Michigan Huddle.

In regard to the Michigan contest George
P. Hummer of Holland issued this state-
ment: .

,f‘I wish to most emphatically deny on

behalf «5 the silver delegates from the
state of Zuichigan the base falsehood that
is being; so assiduously circulated by'some
of the fi'sudulently elected gold delegates
from the.- state, to the efl’ect that seem-
promise had been arranged with the silver
delegates of the state by which the present
delegates were‘to retain their seats under
the agreement that they were to vote only
for silver men for presidential candidates.
No compromise of any nature has been
suggested by either party.
: “The silver men of Michigan will neVer
compromise with fraud, nor will they en-
ter into any negotiations whatever with
the men who are responsible for‘ that
fraud. 'We demand full justice for Michi~
gun and have confidence that we shall re-
ceive it at the hands of the convention."

Senators J. C. S. Blackburn and Wil-
liam Lindsay, who have been on opposite
sides of the currency question and be-
tween whom considerable bitterness has
existed, were brought together by Phil
German, the Ellis island immigrant in-
spector and a close friend of Secretary Car-
lisle. Senator Lindsay announced that he
could not afford to leave the Democratic
party on account of the currency question,
and the two senators then went in to
breakfast together at the Auditorium an-
1181:.

Plans of Boies Followers.

Ex-Governor Boies is expected to return
to Chicago sometime during the day. The
gold men of Iowa are perfecting on organ-
ization for the support of Boies. The lead-
ers are Richardson, member of the na-
tional committee; Cato Sells, Judge Kin-
ney and T. M. Gobble. The latter is one
of the four gold delegates from Iowa. The
other three gold delegates refuse to partici-
pate in the movement for the nomination
of Boies and have already given not-ice
that they intend to belt a silver nomina-
tion whether it is Boies or any other man.
The organization of the Iowa gold men
has for its purpose the holding for Boies all
silver delegates pessible, and when he has
secured enough to efl‘ect a nomination, ii
supported by the gold delegates from east-
ern states, these delegates are to vote for
him. Of course it is necessary to secure
pledges from the eastern delegates to bring
about his nomination. It is not known
how any eastern delegates can be secured.

Under this arrangement it is not intend-
ed that the eastern gold delegates shall
vote for Boies until he has enough silver
votes to nominate him, because it is feared
that the support of any gold delegation
might drive the silver forces away from
him. ‘

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