Omination of William McKinley and Garret A. Hobart followed with very
little opposition. There was nothing cut and dried about the Democratic
convention which assembled three weeks later in Chicago. The
Northeastern States and a few others sent delegations in favor of the
gold standard, but free silver and the West were in the saddle. This was
demonstrated when, in the face of all precedent, the nominee of the
national committee for temporary chairman was rejected in favor of
Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia, a strong silver man. The second day
of the convention saw the advantage pushed further: each Territory had
its representation increased threefold; of contesting delegations those
who represented the gold element in their respective States were
unseated to make way for silverites; and Stephen M. White, one of the
California senators, was made permanent chairman. On the third day of
the convention the platform, devoted largely to the money question, was
the subject of bitter debate. "We are unalterably opposed to
monometallism, which has locked fast the prosperity of an industrial
people in the paralysis of hard times," proclaimed the report of the
committee on resolutions. "Gold monometallism is a British policy, and
its adoption has brought other nations into financial servitude to
London.... We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and
silver at the present legal ratio of sixteen to one without waiting for
the aid or consent of any other nation." A minority of the committee on
resolutions proposed two amendments to the report, one pronouncing in
favor of a gold standard, and the other commending the record of Grover
Cleveland, a courtesy always extended to a presidential incumbent of the
same party. At the name of Cleveland, Senator Tillman leaped to his feet
and delivered himself of characteristic invective against the President,
the "tool of Wall Street," the abject slave of gold. Senator David B.
Hill of New York, who had been rejected for temporary chairman, defended
the gold plank in a logical analysis of monetary principles. But logical
analysis c
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