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cratic Ticket
HVE BALLOTS TAKEN
Platform Declares for Free Sil
ver at I 6 to J
Great Democratic Gathering at Chi
cago Indulges in a Battle Royal
Pour Michigan Gold Delegates Un
seated aiojorita and Minority Plat
forms Presented Debate by Party
Leaders Hot and Noisy Niht Ses
sionWild Throng in the Coliseum
Convention Scenes and Incidents
William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska
was nominated for the Presidency by the
Democratic national convention amid
scenes of the wildest enthusiasm The
rcsyilt was re iclied Friday afternoon on
the fifth ballot When the result of the
JLceiding ballot was announced the vast
concourse that filled the Coliseum burst
into a storm of cheering and applause
that made the great girders of the build
ing tremble Standing on chairs and
climbing on one anothers shoulders the
people yelled and shrieked and waved
hats canes and handkerchiefs Swept
away by such enthusiasm nearly all the
delegates joined in the wonderful demon
stration whether they had voted for the
boy orator of the Platte or not
There were but few demonstrations be
fore the convention was rapped to order
Friday morning The leaders came in
quietly At 1057 Chairman White of
California called the convention to order
llev Dr Green offered prayer Chair
man White then announced that the con
Teution was still on the call of States for
nominations Thereupon Mr Harrity of
Pennsylvania placed in nomination ex
Gov Robert E Pattisou This evidence
that Pennsylvania would stand by the
platform and participate in the nomina
tion drew a cry of delight from the silver
anen and Pattisons name got a swinging
Tound of applause from the galleries Mr
jSIattingly of the District of Columbia
seconded the nomination of John R Mc
Lean of Ohio Delegate Miller of Ore
gon added to the list of nominations the
name of Sylvester Pennoyer of Oregon
Such a family of favorite sons as the
-convention showed up after the first bal
lot has rarely been equaled in a national
convention Until the roll was nearly fin
ished there were thirteen of them and
somebody put in an extra vote for Hill
That made fourteen and their relative
seniority in point of strength was as fol
lows Bland Bryan Pattison Boies
Blackburn McLean Tillman Pennoyer
Teller Stevenson Russell Campbell and
Hill The convention proceeded to ballot
with the following result
FIRST BALLOT
Bland 223 Pennoyer 10
Bryan 105 Tillman 17
Pattison 93 Russell 2
Boles 86 Campbell 2
Matthews 37 Hill 1
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THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION IN SESSION
iel called the convention to order and di
rected that the aisles be cleared Rev Dr
Green of Cedar Rapids Iowa offered
prayer at the conclusion of which Chair
man Daniel called for the report of the
committee on credentials The commit
tee was not ready with its recommenda
tions and by unanimous consent no busi
ness was transacted until the report was
received
The convention tired of inactivity and
shouted for speeches Ex Gov Hogg of
Texas was called and spoke for half an
hour He urged harmony and raked the
Republicans fore and aft
Senator White of California who had
been selected for permanent chairman by
the silver men then -relieved Mr Daniel
of the gavel and asked the further pleas
ure of the convention The galleries shouted
for Blackburn Hill Bryan and Altgeld
Kentucky Joe made a vigorous speech
for free silver Senator Hill and Mr
Bryan were not present The crowd
shouted vociferously for Gov Altgeld
The Governor spoke for nearly half an
hour and from start to finish his address
was a bitter denunciation of the capital
ists far and near J F Williams of
Massachusetts followed with a free silver
speech He too attacked the railroads
the corporations and Wal street
Five minutes later the committee on
credentials filed into the hall Delegate
Atwood of Kansas chairman of the com
mittee read tho report It confirmed the
action of the national committee in every
detail except Nebraska atid Michigan In
the former case the action of the national
committee was reversed thus seating the
Bryan delegates In regard to Michigan
the committee decided to leave the matter
open for future action Chairman White
put the motion to adopt and declared it
carried by a viva voce vote The seating
of the Bryan delegates was received with
tremendous cheers by the convention and
the Nebraskans with Wm J Bryan on
their shoulders marched into the hall
mid a remarkable reception The gold
delegates from Nebraska retired to seats
in the audience On motion of Gov Alt
geld the convention then adjourned until
5 oclock
Wednesday Evening Session
The delegates reassembled for the even
ing session a little before G oclock and
although the sunshine falling through the
western windows gave the convention hall
an air of beautiful peace it did not ex
tend its soothing influence to the hearts
of the Democrats on the floor They were
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FIRST DAY
The convention hall doors were opened
at 11 oclock and those entitled to admis
sion permitted to enter At 12 oclock
the Seventh logimcnt band took its sta
tion in the balcony oviv the chairmans
desk and discoursed sweet harmony till
he arrived to call the convention to order
At 1250 oclock Chairman Harrity of
the National Democratic Committee
with the convention iravel in hand rap
ped loudly for order and introduced Rev
E M Stires who raised his hands to
heaven in an invocation for wisdom
peace and good will among the assem
bled Democracy of the nation The vast
assemblage numbering over twelve thou
sand people rose and remained standing
during the devotions
At the conclusion of the prayer the
chairman announced that the National
Committee had reported Hon David B
Hill of New York for temporary presiding
officer of the convention Then he was
interrupted and the silver men had their
chance
Gold cracked the whip that started the
convention and then silver eager for con
trol climbed into the front seat and grab
bed the reins If there was one fact ap
parent from the moment when the first
sharp Western cheers went echoing
WILLIAM JEKNLtfGS BRYAN
McLean 53Teller 8
Blackburn S3 Not voting 1S5
Stevenson 3
SECOND BALLOT
Bland 2SI
Bryan 107
Pattison 100
Black 41
Boles S7
McLean 53
THIRD BALLOT
Bland 291
Bryan 219
uiacKDurn i
Pattison 97
Boies 36
Matthews 34
Pennoyer 8
Stevenson 10
Teller S
Hill 1
FOURTH BALLOT
Bland 241
Boies 3S
Bryan 275
Matthews 35
Pattison 96
McLenn 54
Matthews 34
Stevenson 9
Hill 1
1fV
Blackburn 27
McLean 4i
Stevenson S
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Not voting 161
On the fifth ballot Bryan received 500
votes 4S more than the required two
thirds
among the high arches of the Coliseum
it was that this Democratic convention
was to be for free silver emphatically
combatively noisily Usually the open
ing day of a convention is a mere pre
liminary nothing more than the lining
up before the battle If there is any fight
ing it is only a skirmish But the Demo
cratic skirmish developed into a big bat
tle The heaviest artillery of the gold
standard East thundered and volleyed
Big guns of the South and West answer
ed with might and main The flags wav
ed A great black swarm of spectators
cheered on the contending factions For
two hours the battle raged all because
the silver men said that the gold-standard
men should not have even the scant
satisfaction of naming a temporary chair
man Silver won It carried the day by
the mere sweep of numbers When the
rhetorical smoke had cleared away after
two hours of arguments appeals threats
cheers and some hisses there sat Senator
Daniel of Virginia in the place of honor
and David B Hill had been defeated in
the camp of his friends The vote upon
the motion that the name of John W
Daniel of Virginia be substituted for that
of David B Hill of New York for the
position of temporary chairman of the
convention resulted Yeas 55G nays 349
not voting 1
Escorted by the committee the tem
porary chairman John W Daniel of Vir
ginia passed up to the platform where
when he appeared he was received with
an immense eruption of cheers and yells
While the delegates and everybody else
in the house were yelling and cheering
Chairman Harrity passed the gavel over
to Mr Daniel who took it and then ad
dressed the convention
When Mr Daniel had concluded the
secretary called the roll of States and
territories for the appointment of com
mittees after which the convention ad
journed until 10 oclock Wednesday
morning
SECOND DAT
The crowds began pouring into the
Coliseum shortly after 9 oclock Wednes
day morning but the heavy eyed dele
gates many of whom had had an aH
night vigil were late in arriving At
1044 oclock Temporary Chairman Dan-
tired and many of them were hungry
The issue was precipitated when the
committee reported in favor of seating
four contesting delegates in Michigan
This change gave the silver men a major
ity and under the unit rule they could
cast the vote of the entire delegation for
the white metal A minority report was
presented and followed by speeches from
Gov McLaurin of Mississippi Saulsbury
of Delaware Stevenson of Michigan and
others Stevenson scored the committee
and the contestants in vitriolic arguments
Blake of Texas declared the contested
seats were tainted with fraud of which
the committee had evidence and Mc
Knight of Michigan refuted the accusa
tions
Amid much confusion the roll was call
ed upon the substitute The excitement
grew as the vote proceeded Seven dele
gates from Alabama put themselves on
record as opposed to unseating the Dick
inson delegates and eleven Californians
led by Senator White did the same thing
The silver men sent up a wild cheer
when A S Trade announced the vote of
Illinois as 48 against the substitute Sen
ator Hill rose when New York was called
and announced Seventy two votes aye
The announcement inspired a great dem
onstration in the galleries The gold men
rose from their seats with flying hats and
handkerchiefs and cheered continuously
for over five minutes The gold delegates
got up on their chairs New York and
Massachusetts leading But only one
third of the convention rose The other
two thirds sat silent and stern The
demonstration which succeeded the an
nouncement of the vote was in marked
contrast In one case the gallery led in
the other the delegates The galleries
shouted for gold but the delegates voted
for silver When the chairman declared
the amendment lost by a vote of 558 to
3G8 the silver delegates leaped to their
chairs in demonstration turning defiantly
toward the audience as they cheered
The silverMnen had won battle number
two and the non contentious business of
electing permanent officers followed Sen
ator Stephen M White of California
was escorted to the chair The crowd
knew him from his appearance at the
morning session where he had
nnd buoyant step The faces of
the gold leaders were grim grave
and defiant The managers of the
several candidates were marshaling their
forces Chairman White was so hoarse
he could scarcely speak and he handed
the gavel over to Congressman Richard
son of Tennc osee who announced that
the committee on resolutions was ready
to report and called to the platform Sen
ator Jones of Arkansas to make the com
mittee report
The platform as reported by the com
mittee declares for the free and unlimit
ed coinage of silver at the ratio of 1G to 1
The issue of bonds in time of peace is
denounced National banks to be de
prived of the power of issuing notes A
tariff for revenue only is demanded and
the declaration made that a revival of
the McKinley law would be disastrous
to the country An income tax law is
declared for to be effected by constitu
tional amendment Sympathy for the
Cubans is expressed It is demanded that
pauper immigrants be excluded Liberal
pension appropriations are favored Sen
ator Hills bill prohibiting punishment
in contempt cases is approved The Pa
cific railroad refunding bill is denounced
The third term idea is opposed and the
declared extravagance of the last Repub
lican Congress is denounced
The platform concluded the report
for the minority was read by J H Wade
of Ohio and the gold people rose nnd
cheered but their efforts were faint The
indorsement cf the Democratic adminis
tration which Senator Hill had made a
losing fight for in the committee on reso
lutions brought down a yell from the gal
leries New York delegates stood and
waved their hats The issue was drawn
Senator Tillman of South Carolina open
ed the great debate in behalf of free coin
age On on lapel of his coat he wore
age
Senator Jones followed Tillman Then
-came Senator Hill who began by saying
I am a Democrat and South Carolina
with all her power cannot drive me ont
of the party We are here to unite not
to divide Democracy but we cannot
safely ignore the monetary systems of
other nations I know indeed that it is
the way of the majority that we care not
what other countries may do but I say
to you that you might as well do away
with all international agreements
A recess was then declared until 8
oclock
ThurHday Night Session
At the night session in the presence
of fully 25000 people the nominating
speches were made and there wasi
repetition of the exciting scenes of the
afternoon The Bryan enthusiasm con
tinued The galleries went frantic nt
every mention of his name and the wild
demonstration of the afternoon was du
plicated when he was placed in nomina
tion by H T Lewis of Georgia and sec-
t Jib
PERMANENT CHAIRMAN WHITE
onded by W C Klutz of North Carolina
George Fred Williams of Massachusetts
and Thomas J Kernan of Louisiana
Senator Vest placed the Missourian in
nomination and Gov Overmeyer of Kan
sas seconded the nomination The name
of Gov Claude Matthews of Indiana was
presented by Senator Turpie of Indiana
and seconded by Delegate Trippett of
Colorado Fred White of Iowa placed
Boies in nomination and the Waterloo
statesman owed a magnificent ovation
to the enthusiasm of Miss Winnie Mur
ray a young woman from Nashua Iowa
who led the Boies demonstration as Mrs
SCENE WHEN BRYANS NOMINATION WAS ANNOUNCED
ly relieved Chairman Daniel and they
listened intently to his very short speech
The convention adjourned for the night
after scenes of wildest confusion
THIRD DAY
Shortly before 11 oclock Thursday
morning the convention came to order
Rebellion hung like a pall above the great
body and 20000 people ranged the slop
ing hills that overlooked the arena to
watch the battle of the wrestling giants
The silver leaders entered with light
Carson Lake did the Blaine demonstra
tion at Minneapolis four years ago Sen
ator Joe Blackburn of Kentucky was
placed in nomination by John S Rhea a
brilliant Kentucky orator and seconded
by Gen St Clair of West Virginia and
W W Foote of California and McLean
of Ohio was nominated by Delegate Pat
rick of the Buckeye State
At the adjournment half an hour after
midnight all arrangements had been
completed for the balloting to begin at 10
oclock the following morning
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CHAIRMAN DANIELS SPEECH
Virginia Senator States His Position
to the Convention
Temporary Chairman Daniel upon tak
ing the chair spoke in enlogistic ternls of
Senator Hill of New York and expressed
satisfaction that the majority in the
convention was not sectional Upon pointa
at issue he said
Do not forget gentlemen that for thirty
ycarg we of the South have supported tho
men that you have named for President Do
not forget at the lust National Convention
of the Democratic party In 1892 you pro
claimed yoursolves to he In favor of the uso
of both gold and silver as a standard money
of the country Do not forget that Just four
years ago In a Democratic convention in this
city the New York delegation stood here sol
idly and immovably for a candidate commit
ted to tho free and unlimited coinage of sil
ver and gold at a ratio of 10 to 1 And If w
are still for It let It not be forgotten that
-we owe It In some measure to their teachings
That we owe you much gentlemen of the
East Is readily acknowledged and will be
ever most gratefully remembered But if
you gentlemen have helped to save the
South It also has helped to save you In the
East The majority of Democrats Is not sec
tional neither does It stand for any privil
eged or class legislation The active busi
ness men of this country Its manufacturers
Its merchants its farmers Its sons of toll
know that a contraction of currency sweeps
away the annual profits of their enterprises
They know too that the gold standard
means contraction Do not the people know
that it was legislation dictated by the advo
cates of the gold standard that has caused
and now continues the financial depression
Do they not know that when their demands
upon Democracy were compiled with In 1803
and the Sherman law repealed without a
substitute that the very States of the East
that demanded It turned against the Democ
racy who granted It and swept away their
majorities In a torrent of ballots Had the
silver men had their way then Instead of
the gold monometalllsts what storms of
abuse would here to day be emptied upon
their heads Democracy In 1893 Inherited
from Its Republican predecessor the tax sys
tem and the currency system of which the
McKinley law and the Sherman law wero
the culminating atrocities It came to power
amid a panic which fitly followed upon their
enactment with strikes lockouts riots and
civic commotions while the scenes of peace
ful Industry la Pennsylvania had become
military camps Besides manifold oppresslvo
eatures the McKinley law had thrown away
oO000000 of revenue derived from sugar
under the spectral plea of a free breakfast
table and had substituted bounties to sugar
planters thus decreasing revenue and In
creasing expenditure
inwHiS Jolat oration of the McKinley
law and Sherman law an adverse balance of
trade was forced against us In 1803 a sur
plus of 1000000000 in the treasury was
converted Into a deficit of 70000000 in 1SJM
and engraved bonds prepared by a Republi
ean secretary to borrow money to support
the Government were the III omens of tho
reorganized ruin that awaited the Incoming
Democracy and a depleted treasury More
significant still the very authors of the Ill
starred Sherman law makeshift were already
at confessional upon the stool of penitence
and were begging Democrats to help them
to put out the conflagration of disaster that
they themselves had kindled So far as rev
enili t0 support the Government Is concern
ed the Democratic party with but a slender
majority in the Senate was not long provid
ing It and had not the Supreme Court of
the United States reversed its settled doc
trines of 100 years the Income tax incorpor
ated In the tariff bill would long since have
abundantly supplied It
Respecting finance the Republicans
upon
In declaring for the restoration otouif7rfi
lean system of bimetallism The Republican
party has now renounced the creed of Its
platform and of our national pledges and
presented to the country the Issue of higher -taxes
more bonds and less money It haa
proclaimed at last throwing away the dis
guises the British gold standard
Then consider gentlemen The Federal
State and municipal taxes In this country
are assessed and paid by the standard of
the whole mass of money in circulation The
specie resumption of 1873 gave the surplus
revenue In the treasury not gold only the
money of redemption Some 5350000090 or
standard sliver money or paper based upon
it Is sustained at parity with gold by nothing
but the silver In It and the legal tender func
tions Imparted to It by law We have no
outstanding obligations In the United State3
except the small sum of 44000000 of gold
certificates which are specifically payable
In gold and they of course should be so
uald There 13 more silver and paper based
pon silver In circulation to day than there
i of gold or paper based on gold and that
the gold dollar Is not the unit of value Is
uemonfjtrated by the fact that no gold dol
lar pieces can now under our laws be mint
ed If we should go upon the gold standard
we must change the existing bimetallic
standard of payment of all debts taxes and
appropriations saving alone those specifical
ly payable In gofd
As we have 20000000000 of public and
private debt it would take more than three
times all the gold In this country to pay even
one years Interest upon It We should be
compelled to contract the currency by pay
ing off 500000000 of greenbacks and Sher
man notes ia gold which would nearly ex
haust the entire American stock In and out
of the treasury and the same policy would
require the 344000000 of sliver certificates
should be paid In gold also as foreshadowed
by the present draft upon the countrys
Btock of gold This means an Increase of the
public debt ly 344000000 more The only
alternative suggested to fight for before tho
people is the free coinage of silver at the
ratio of 10 to 1 and the complete restoration
of our hereditary and constitutional system
of American money
We pray you no more makeshifts and
straddles Vex not the country with the
prophecies of smooth things to come from
the British Republican propaganda The fact
that the European nations are going to the
gold standard renders It all the more im
practical that we should do so for the lim
ited stock of gold in the world would have
longer division and a smaller share for each
nation
Previous predictions have been punctually
refuted when prosperity was prophesied to
come upon the unconditional repeal of the
Sherman law
Instead of protecting the treasury reserve
as was prophesied it would do an unprece
dented raid was promptly made upon It and
262000000 of borrowed gold have been la
sufficient to guarantee Its security
The public revenues have fallen wages of
labor have fallen and everything on the face
of the earth has fallen but taxes and debts
which have grown In burden while on the
other hand the means of their liquidation
has been diminished In the meantime gen
tlemen commercial lanures nave progressed
with devastating effect North South East
and We3t in this nation The dividends on
bank stocks have shrunken Three fourths
of the railway mileage of the United States
Is now In the hands of receivers and the
country has received a shock from which it
will take many years to recover
Yet in this distressed and contracted con
dition the new fledged monometalllsts ask
us to declare for a gold standard and to
wait for relief upon some ghostly dream of
international agreement
But the people do now we3 know that th
conspiracy of European monarchs led by
Great Britain has purposes of aggrandize
ment to subserve In the war upon American
silver money and stands in the way of seen
agreement With their credit they seek to
enhance the purchasing power of thousands
of millions which I3 owed to them all over
the world and which you owe to them They
draw upon the United States of America for
their food supplies aa3 raw material
corn oil cotton iroa lead and the- other
like staples and they seek to get it for the
least money
No nation calls Itself free and Independent
that is not great enough to establish and
maintain a financial- policy of its own To
pretend that ibis the foremost richest and
most powerful nation of the world cannot
coin It3 own money without suing for an in
ternational agreement at the eourts of Euro
pean autocrats who have none but primary
Interests to Subserve has for many years
been heist cit at every Presidential election
They cATejnade use of such an agreement and
have oJild It afterward and we have never
In ai ur history had an International agree
m upon a money system and none of the
founders of this republic ever dreamed that
ueh an agreement was essenuai
The majority of this convention maintains
that this great American nation with a natu
ral base of fixed empire Is fully capable of
restoring thl3 constitutions money syBtem of
gold and Uver at equnHtj TCttk each otherv
