Fight Over Silver

Pittsburg, Pa., May 26.- The delegates to the protiibition national convention began to arrive shorlly after midnigkt last night. Govemor John P. St. John, of Kansas, and Samuel Dickey, mayor of Albion, Mich., and national chairman for the past eight years, are already on the ground. The number of delegates to the convention will be 1,160. Not all the states will be fully represented. The delegates from the south and west will have some gaps. The flrst question to be settled is whether the delegates from states not fully represented will be allowed to vote the entire strength of their sections. Mr. Dickey believes that only the delegates present should be counted, and il some of the states are shy, they will lose to that extent. To this view there will be a strong opposition. A very hot time is expected in the convention. Governor St. John admits that the debates are likely to be acrimonious, while others interested in the convention believe that a strong body of police will be found necessary to prevent personal conflicts. There will be two factions in the convention - the narrowgauge, or single-idea, people, led by Chairman Dickey; and the h.rpad-gauge, under the leadership of St. John. The Kansan believes in the policy of all things unto all men in the glory of the prohibition party. He is an ardent advocate of free silver and free trade, and populistic ideas. Neither St. John nor Dickey attempts to conceal the fact that he expects trouble in the convention. Dickey is an advocate of the gold standard. He thinks that four years henee the silver question will be settled forever, and it will be in oblivion as an issue with the old greenback and other fiat money ideas. He thsrefore says that as the members of nis party cannot agree on the money question and kindred problems, the wise course is to stick to the one issue of prohibition, on which they all agree. Dickey is a firm believer in woman suffrage. He argües that the time is not far henee when the women will voce but wants this issue, with all others, subordinated to the single idea for which the party was organized.