Salt Lake Tribune, The (Newspaper) - June 18, 1896, Salt Lake City, Utah Think Ahead But flont trust to luck yor advertisement Insist on knowing you are for VOL NO 34 Rave You Noticed that thf contain of men SALT LAKE CITY UTAH THURSDAY G IS PRICE FIVE PARTING OF THE WAYS Silver Delegates Their Pathetic Pleas WANT TO STAY IN THE PARTY But with the Adoption of ft Gold Standard Plank They Must Take Their Departure from the Republican Resolutions Committee Overrides Them by a Voto of to 10 and the will Now be Carried 9 the Convention Hall St Louis The on in continuous today from 10 thin morning until afternoon had in during ihc night and th HH given in liKt night This report ho full Jitter an alon with only minor changes in of expression out tiro of the of course was UK nl Teller and of on the plank Sena tor Teller his opposition to tho by I IIIM for f ifi and flt a ratio uf Ifi to 1 ho nor had any hopf that Mr would prevail and the Colorado Senator took floor to formally announce could no long er act with Ih party U the gold was placed in the plat form iris must si Tooting COVH and all the members ol the committee supporting the majority report in saying hoy never a Mene Hut it lelt to the other and Cannon in more than uoro tears which wore not shod for drama tie effect Among the was A C Olovo Iho mm Nevada his for Mr Kin ley He said ho would op pof him wirh all his might as lio won Id not only stand on tho hut that he would also carry It out to the Mr of I ho from who had a of tho on Uays and Moans when was chairman tho of Sena tor Tel lor that had In framing the than In a ho Know ro hf tho author of the tariff of and that lio only on to of In with thorn if ho himself to tho rat of all tho warIn ses sion all day No visitor woro ted and I h adjoining halls mid corridors ivoro no hearing to who o ho on tho issues Tho sil vor mon all to tho of their an was to proven t from transcribing PROMPT AT WORK nil on Hand and the Trouble Begins Kt Louis funo full commit ton took up tho platform promptly nf ter bring called at A f tor reading It as n whole tho chairman Mr stated tho had given tho different mnr tho consideration during tho night and had tho of the thought of tho party not only In culins cm tho of tho party hut also forms for th on this and such f Ray now fhj mv this is Ih srna I rn that has I to th people In many Night or I have my arid f have don that nnt from a partisan nH j because rf Colorado luit a most and painstaking H j j hart only my own judgment to 1 upon I ho a f raid to a to an intelligent liko this hut I have hack f and with and advocating ln as against standard j tu t tin world 1C vory i political of Europe with liv ir Hx exceptions who is I a economist is a pio open of i ism is no of political j economy in any of UK great institutions thai does not declare for and condemn that which i vun have put hi your platform and which you today wiy you mean t i mak thf cardinal feature faith of i lie party That is a gold standard The of New I a man who commands more j than any other teacher in this country or in tho only Amori ran textbooks have become textbooks of colleges has declared tlie of international is a OF CIVILIZATION Chairman I believe this and this as I do I say it is not the prosperity of today or tomorrow thai depends upon it but this Is a concerns ami which concerns not the peo ple States alone but the the entire world and on a rightful solution of which their happi ness and depend Having tbus formed my conclusions after yenrs of service and In can I look any man in the tell him I this and then my vote a candidate who stands on a platform pledged to sup port a sold Would you ex me to do Would you not de spise me if J did ItV And what Is more should I not despise myself If 1 am nnd course I may the truth will some day Inknown If 1 am yon are entering upon a nurse that will some day and that too speedily bring tnis country great disaster and dire distress If a partial of this system has this country to If now in what shall be its condi tion when you have in laws the construction that you are putting In platform that sold and gold only shall be the standard money of this I do not intend to ques tion I am speaking now in tion of my conduct when 1 shall de elare publicly as I shall when the plat form i adopted that I can take no further part In this convention and can no longer act with the Republican party Mr is not a smalt a man o break from his po ll lea I associations No man would be instilled In doing this except upon prin ciple No man would be just Hied in so doing of dissatisfaction with mere methods or candidates but when you adopt H and ask me to sustain it make It one of the cardi nal tenets of a great political organisa tion thai I believe to oE Interests of the whole country then honesty calls for a pro test from me I have been In this parly from Its organisation doubt whether today in body or in the convention there is a man who has served mor years in il than I and I deny that there is any man who served more devotedly with more I have When the party to I and in I had been reared became a th States or deserving of more careful thought and careful attention thm the financial which is pressed for our MR SPEECH I f said Congressman Hart man nf Montana boon a of I rho Republican party I was of ago Coming from a Democratic family I obtained my Republican in spiral ions from tho character and of Amer ican James G MV farth in the principles of the Republican parly as i boy existed at that lime and as they have existed up to tho time this con vention shall have adopted the report of th committee on resolutions which HOI on yonder table is today as sin erio us honest as as it has boon at any moment since i es th cause of Republicanism It is matter of supreme regret a matter of almost sadness with me to be compelled to say to this commit too that if tho now in shall adopt the report of the as reported to this com mi t the j cannot and uill under any circumstances sup port the nominee of this convention upon such a platform Up to the time tin adopts this platform Tho preamble in which tho indictment of President ad ministration was strongly There was some of opinion f nsx to tho of tho of thff indict it vory and it was Ad op tod without any Tho plank on tho tariff was adopted a reported including the clause There was no opposition oven to the language in any sections until thf sugar bounty section was reached j when there was some t the fotin of this resolution and brief were made in support of varlI propositions One of these was to the resolution by declaring for j n specific duty on sugar and another i for a declaration for tariff pro of these was accepted and tho resolution as sent out last night by the Associated Press was adopted The also adopted the resolutions declaring specifically for adequate protection to wool and woolens am still another for en of American shipping FIGHT ON THK PLANK At 1 1 he taken up Senator Teller opened tlis by offering the various he had presented in sub commit toe TELLERS SPEECH Ait Eloquent Farewell by a Veteran of the Party Mr Teller having presented to thr committee a proposition for free coin age of silver as a Substitute for the financial plank proposed by the sub committee spoke in part as follows Mr The importance of this question must be my excuse for de the committee a few moments I have given this financial question the most careful attention that any could give it T have given it great study and the best thought of my ma ture years I have been engaged all iny life In service which I think tits me to judge rightly and correctly and draw proper conclusions Under such cir I have formed my tions of the importance and character of this controversy My convictions are of such character that upon me they force conclusions which amount almost to verity J admit I may be wrong In every proposition touching tills ques tion that I may submit here today hut I have said I have formed my own Judgment and have tried to reach an PARTY Hid an advocate of a system of servi tude that was destructive in my not to thf black man but to the while man I wont out of that party and into a new party did nnt oven party that weak arid small and out T which this Re publican parly But I did not then break ties of more than forty years I was then a voting man full of and hope My life was bfore me Now it is behind me As a member of Republican party 1 have shared in its and I have shared in its defeat 1 took port by voice and vote in and in tho cam since that it has made either in the States west or east of Rocky Mountains I have been an par I wa one of the first men in Hio Rocky who advocated the Republican of protection and V have advocated U in every cam pan the party has made i believe in it now hut I do not believe you can protection and a gMd blandard A gold standard means low wages and low prices of products and that is by tho conditions In ev country of the world where It nas been I believe the adoption of i sold standard will in the end be de of the interests for which the Republican party has pro stood during all the years ot its FEELING OF Chairman 1 shall break from the party of my youth and the party of my choice and the party of my ser the party that has given me honors as few men have been given honors feeling ns though I were going to my grave as though I were burying tuy best friends and nothing but a supreme conviction of the clanger of the maintenance of this gold standard could induce me to make such a sacri a conviction is upon me that il is a duty not to my people alone not to the people of Colorado alone but a duty which t owe to ymi and the whole world as well that me to this step I came to this Convention little fear ing this would be the result of your and that 1 should have to co away having performed what is to me one of the most disagreeable actions of my whole life And I repent 1 would despise myself believing as I do in the supreme importance of this question if I failed make any sacri fice this cause demands if 1 failed be cause of fear of taunts that will surely come to me when t shall have done my as my tells me to do it I vim going to fight for this principle but I ean no longer tight for it in the Republican ranks with hopes of I had hoped the which had done so much for the race and for whose future so much was hoped would come to the right view upon this question and I stil have a lingering hope that some day will reach a condition when it shall not take its declaration from Wall street or street but from the honest sentiment of the great heart of the American people When lhat is done the Republican party will abandon the platform that is now about to be adopt ed declaring for the gold standard I beg the pardon of this committee for having spoken so long I did not intend o detain you except with a sim ple statement of my earnest belief in the paramount importance of the prin ciples for which T have contended so long in public and private life It is earnest belief that no question is of so importance to the people of J senator Henry M Teller I fader of the Forces under consideration party creed upon the question was in the Minneapolis platform declared in favor nf gold and silver as standard money If the con vention adopts your report U will re the declared faith of the party upon this question and declare for gold standard money I admit the right of majority oT the convention to change the partys creed if it so de sires I also freely admit the right at the nuijority to control and the duty of tho minority to submit to the will of the in the matter of the per of the candidate No man would be justified no minority would be jus in refusing to accede to the will of the majority in tho mere matter of the nomination or of a can but f utterly deny and ate the right nf the majority to con trol or roprce the conscience or indi vidual opinion upon questions of principle entertained by any individual hy the plank contained in the platform you arc to adopt concede that it is to be adopted and that no one can change the edict which gone forth Von propose to commit the Republican ly to L which is in tended r find does depreciate the value of of human toil and you expect to prove and you must prove lo the American people if yoi succeed in receiving support I hat it is to tho Interest of a tion to reduce the value of everything it produces You must also prove thai it is to the interests of a debtor nation whop debts are in its the value of those I argument that can bp advanced will in the slight est degree influence or change the ver dict which is already entered feel ITUS as though I were trying a before a jury who cared nothing for th evidence and whose verdict already pinned against my client Tt is for me to say it is with reelings of the greatest regret that I mn compelled lo take the course I am about to take Init T say to you in all candor and sincerity that I oonld not obtain the consent of my own conscience to stay in the conven tion and passively acquiesce in fasten ing upon people of this country by adopting this platform a system of finance my humble judgment will result in theimpoverishment of classes in defeating the rights and opportunities of labor to receive continuous remunerative employment and to extent deny in to the citizens of this country the rights which they as free men under laws of a free government ought to have Therefore with full knowledge of the importance of my act thorough ly appreciating its magnitude I say here and now that 1 prefer to follow the lend of that splendid combination of heart brain conscience and cour who Pits at your loft Henry M Teller than to follow the leadership or John Sherman and the modern leaders of Republican into the goldstan dard camp of Grover Senators Dubois of and Can non of Utah and Messrs Myers and Mott of North Carolina followed in a similar strain also announcing their determination to bolt the convention in case the o them obnoxious gold standard plank was adopted DEFENDING THE COMMITTEE Darlington of Pennsylvania replied briefly to Teller challenging the Sena tors allusion to the dictation of Lom bard street and saying this was a poor return for the to many millions of had been invested in the West by the men of the East in building railroads and other enterprises We have given you our money he said and are surprised you should now want to pay us in money worth only cents on the responded Mr Teller has always paid her debts and will continue to pay we object to is paying two for one dollar Lodge spoke briefly in a way personal to Teller He spoke of the esteem in which the Colorado Senator was held and the respect for him but said notwithstanding this im possible a finan cial policy To do so would be ruinous to the great commercial interests of the country That the Colorado Senator was honest in his convictions noman could doubt but that he right did not follow He regretted they had come to the parting of the ways but the parting was not the seeking of the men and if it could not be prevented it would have to be en dured Senator Cannon of Utah said there was no use in the party making an effort in his State this year under the millstone of a single gold standard platform He in his charges against the money power and i ts dominance over this conven tion He described the depressed con dition of the country especially his State and gave notice that he and others would stand by Teller who them Cannons speech was impressive nd Tie pic tured the raised in Ui of the people of and of u West by the nf tlv Republican party told how the Stale had been redeemed from tho ic ranks and xn overwhelming majority overcome and all Merely to have all the promises made in behalf of the Republicans ruthlessly trodden in mire and ignored at the time of their greatest need for a sustaining hand This course was to them a sub ject of amazement and sorrow He had hoped up ts latest moment this catastrophe should be averted but if it could not be he too the course pained him must discontinue to act with his party His and interest and the convictions of his peo jile demanded this course Lemmon of California advocated the Teller amendment strongly He insist ed that with the majority report MS a of the parly their plurality of in his Plate would not only be wiped out but the masses would be come alienated from the party and were as as could be in protesting against the pressure of the Kold standard they did not state in then speeches they would go out of the con vention with Teller They did state however ttr the members of the com they would all stand by and if defeated in the con vention would declare themselves out of the party and do the best they could for their people hereafter of the committee out of the rooms said they never wit such touching scenes in poli tics Some of the TEARS while speaking Senator Cannon wept crying aloud as he pleaded lor could be so sad to him They loved the party that was about to smite them and cast them out Senator Dubois most vehement in his utterances as to the result He showed no emotion but way de fid n t After tho Teller amendment was de by a vote of 10 the tinan plank of the majority was taken up the discussion resumed the gold men having the floor The silver mem bers said they would proceed as cour and regularly as possible and not leave the party until they had ap pealed to the court of last resort They justified their course by saying the par ty had left them and they were not leaving the principles of the party said Secretary Carlisle represent Cleveland Administration in his Nashville speech was the first to come out for a standard The Republican party had come to the Democratic Administration in its new departure Cannon and Dubois severe ly criticised the inconsistency of the indictment against president Cleveland while adopting the cardinal principles of Clevelands Administration DECLARATION Dubois dwelt especially upon the ser vice the West hnd been to the lican party showing that that section the hour of the partys need had been found untrue to the party call He dwelt especially upon the strength of the West inthe Senate and showed that to the votes of that section in the Senate the Republican party owed the maintenance of its pro policy and all other policies often when their own sectional were not involved Me asserted the Stages had been regular in supplying support for these lines of policy while New York with not one Republican Senator and Illinois with only one and the Southern Stales with almost none Wisconsin and other Northern which had not been for years represented in the Senate by a lican nve inaugurating a contest which is not only ruinous to the West but as he believed the entire only ruinous hut unpatriotic and con trary to of the party TIT view of these facts he too felt con strained to announce of convention in case of the adoption of a gold OF NORTH CAROLINA Mott of North Carolina much the same strain as the silver Sen ators but touched upon the effects of of a gold standard upon the country at large He declared however McKinley was not a gold standard advocate and if the proposed gold standard war adopted it would be done contrary the Governors wishes and convictions He referred to the is suance of bonds by the Cleveland Ad ministration which he said aroused the indignation but he the Republican party was in such a position it would be ble for it to take this the Democratic party He did not say in so many words he would leave the convention but he left the impression that Senator Carter came out of the com and conferred with the silver delegates in waiting He would say nothing but left his friends for conference The States voting for the Teller amendment were California Allen B Lemmon Colorado H M Teller Idaho Fred T Dubois Montana Charles Hartman Nevada A C Cleveland North M Mott Utah F J Cannon B F Fowler Also the members from Arizona and New Mexico At the full committee adopted the platform as a whole and decided to re port it to the convention at S oclock tonight The silver members hadi re tired for conference and the platform was therefore adopted as a on a vote COLORADO Unanimous Determination to Bolt the Convention St Louis June Colorado del held a meeting tonight and de in positive terms to leave the convention in a body upon the adoption of the platform containing a declara tion for a gold has been frequently announced that they pursue this course but there has really been more or less doubt up that they would one of the delegation being in doubt as to the wisdom of the course Senator Teller was present and told members of tho he appreciated to the utmost the gravity ot step and that their tions to be governed by his opinion he felt that the occasion was one in which every man should be guided largely by his own opinion The decision to go out of the conven tion was unanimous The Idaho delegation as a body a majority of the Utah and dele gations and a part ot the Montana and North Carolina delegations will go out with the Colorado men Will Nominate Teller St Louis June the silver delegates walk out of the convention tomorrow it is their purpose toehold a meeting of their own at which they will probably place Senator Teller in the field as a candidate for the dency on a platform A number of Populist leaders includ ing Chairman Taubeneck and Hon T M Patterson of Denver are in the city and itis understood they will indorse the selection on behalf of in a public address The only obstacle INDEX AND BULLETIN ENTHUSIASM THE SILVER PARTING OF THE A O TELEGRAPH P ASSESSMENT PROBLEMS PAGE x EDITORIAL BUNKER HILL BANQUET p IT 6 MAMMOTH ORK ASSAYS WIDENING THE IE SILVER A BAY THE s OPPOSED TO THE PLANK SAYS HE WAS A LOCAL SUMMARY The Programme to Walk Cm of the Convention UTAHS DELEGATION DIVIDED Inter cst in the Fight in Real estate transfers Gen speaks u tlie G Ore and bullion transactions The Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias elects officers Republicans hostile to the tinan clal plunk of the St Lou IP platform Stato Auditor Richards files his answer in the Whiting history suit fraud Tho Utah Society ot the Sons ol American holds us annual TELEGRAPH SUMMARY Florida Democrats for gold California Democrats for free silver Republican convention will probably finish its work today British ship Castle sunic with heavy loss of life Two men killed and another wounded by thieves near Liberty N M Half of the Utah delegation will walk out of the convention Brown and Trumbo will stay in the way of this course is the Tact that Mr Teller has not yet given his assent UTAH DELEGATION Cannon Allen and Kearns will go Others will Stay In St Louis June a meeting of the Utah delegation tonight Delegates Cannon Alien and Kearns announced that they go out ot the convention with Senator Teller The other three dele Brown and Messrs Mc and Trumbo announced that they would remain in the convention Alternates Rogers Green and Smith were present at the meeting and an that they would take the va cant seats and abido the results of the convention so that the Utah delegation fully represented in any event National Committeeman Salisbury and Judges Miner and Bartch of the Utah Supreme court were present and strongly advised against any bolt THE PARADE it Was Lessened by the Bain but Not Prevented June Wednesday night of convention week was some time ago the programme of the Mc for a pa the popularity of his candidacy Unfortunately for the plans of the Buckeye enthusiasts a sharp thunder shower swept across the city about the dinner and then resolved itself into a drenching rain which kept up throughout the evening and made marching an exceedingly dis agreeable and slippery experiment The elements were discouraging but nevertheless the managers of the af fair determined to carry out their pro gramme and they did so although sev eral organizations which had been billed for the affair declined at the last moment to imperil their uniforms by the rain and those which did march went into line with reduced numbers Despite these drawbacks the display was an unique one Barrels of red fire were burned along the line of march and skyrockets were The feature of the march however the face of Maj McKin ley Portraits of the candidate blos over the marchers and were ele from carriages through the whole length of the line There were hun dreds of them of all sizes and all de grees of likeness to their subject The turnout was twenty minutes passing the Planters hotel and a rough esti mate would put the number of march ers at 4000 or 5000 The cant and of popular enthusiasm was provoked by the Cu ban flag which had a place all to itself in a line bearing the watchword Cu ba and was followed by a wave of cheers peculiar in their intensity FUTURE System Based on the Republican Vote St Louis June subcommit tee of seven appointed at last nights meeting nf the committee on rules met tonight to consider the resolutions of at the general meeting last night by Gen Powell Clayton providing that some better method of selecting dele gates should be adopted by the conven tion and also to take up the matter of the basis of representation in future National conventions It was decided to recommend to the general committee on rules for recommendation to the convention the following resolutions Resolved That district representa tion in future National Republican conventions shall be based upon the vote cast in each district for the Re publican electoral tickets Provided that the district shall have at least one delegate and shall have four The ratio for district representation in the conven tion of 1900 shall be one delegate for each votes polled this year for the an additional delegate for a fraction ex a half thereof In case any State entitled to more one mem ber of Congress has not been divided into Congressional districts its repre shall be ascertained by di viding the electoral vote for State by 7000 Hereafter each National convention the ratio of repre forthe succeeding National The Clayton resolutions did not get beyond a general discussion but the feeling was that the best method would beto allow the National committee to put on the rolls the delegates in by the State convention Work Today St Louis June convention will be a close tomorrow if the plans of the leaders be carried out The programme which was arranged today contemplates reports from the various committees at the morning session Then a recess will be taken until 2 oclock when the report from committee on resolutions includes the financial be acted the nomination of President will be and after that the h Presidency s Louis Tnr bins fair so marked th 1 light although Plaits nd claim hi it Morton wants no can it is that ihoy ILV Mr ho if his consent tho race were The New forsey delegation with their candidate A Hobart are campaigning actively for him and have obtained support of the Miller el inent nor are the latter at riau claim of victory for his can It is by them i ivill combination thai will Should be to the destroy chances Before Definite Action is Taken The Evans adherents nre not out of Convention Wrought Up to a High Pitch Half will go Out and Half will Bs main Brown McCornick Trumbo Wont Brown Repudiates the Platform and the Says the Matter but Doesnt Say TRIBUNE St Louis June marked lio ac and a portion of tho Ohio del that are adverse to Plan and Norton are 10 The tho Plait tonight is however a trille to he others because it thor well known that Mr never stand a second and not put Mr Morton in the race for Vice is positive that ho the beginning of the end of the lo ofthe Western Republicans to u President unless h t ls votes to elect him tain their connection r still maintains his as to which the dramatic severance of tne i of Stale tics by the men of Colorado btan py will thai until Idaho Montana and Ne his candidate nomination of ii would be both unwise ami impolitic and by I o for him lo do RIU the South Dakota The scene inthe 100 of the committee on resolutions when Ug of winning in a earnest speech the an of the inevitable made is described as at once dramatic and pathetic SENATOR CANNONS APPEAL to the committee not to drive from the s bright MORTON Louis Juno New York State MeKinley crowd worked to night and in Cornelius room the leaders of it least twothirds of tle and party those who had tought foi it ami j At a tho loved it was made with said Mr Morton cannot be nominated for idem He is beaten now and Mr Platt cannot suc ceed in his Ji out of votes of Indiana and nearly all of Illinois We will not give out figures but we have the eyes a voice trembling with emu men boa At the Platt headquarters it learned that this vote was claimed as absolutely pledged for Morton for Vice President if ho is beaten in the rave for President Alabama 10 California 12 Connecticut TJ Florida 2 Georgia ii Illinois 0 Indiana 12 Iowa 26 Ken tucky fi Louisiana 10 Maine 12 Mich igan 10 Minnesota 10 Mississippi ii Missouri M New Hampshire S New York Carolina i Ohio 20 S Pennsylvania nO Texas 1 Vermont Virginia 2 Washington 2 New Mexico 5 Oklahoma ii Alaska 1 Maryland IS Total At the McKinley headquarters Manna would not say whom he would voie for for Tt was re however that he would oast his vote for Hobart There was a straw ballot shown around at MeKinley head quarters as follows U chart Evans 200 the rest being divided between Buckley of Conn and Brown of Rhode Island Ti was that tho Evans voie would go fc in lie evmt of New a stam pede for Morton and that the Hobart vote would gn to Evans in the event of vote exceeding that of Ho is Serene June about his lintel thrnnph out and read the of the early proceeding at Ft Loni Besides thepe friends of Mr Reed kept him pretty of surface Hf main usual quite his as with the developments of con vertion The Speaker reticent and will not as to the outcome of the convention A Western Congressman wss in behalf of received a dis patch today saying there wa undercurrent in behalf of and not yet fre from vrin tion Senator Dubois gave clearly but with deliberation the reasons which made a bolt certain and Senator Teller made the announcement which every one anticipated Even those who stood in opposition to the silver Senators on the commit tcs recognized the unselfish motives based on honest convictions which die their course Tomorrows on adopting tho majority report of the resolutions com will WITNESS THE DEPARTURE of the delegates who will follow Sena tor Tellers lead Senator Teller will be his statement of the reasons which compel him and his as to sever their connection with the party He will be followed in all probability by the entire Colorado del by delegation with the Senator Brown Mr McCornick and Lsaac Trumbo by the entire Idaho delegation and by at Hartman of the Montana with Senators Carter and still wavering but who will accompany them The of relations will be open and the face of the pub lic The announcement of what the Re publican must be done was received the greatest consideration by in the resolutions Senator Lodge of Massachusetts declaring that had a plank he and his associates would taken the samo course and following his statement effect with a warm eulogy on the honesty integrity of the State Senator Brown Mr Isaac Trumbo will remain in the con vention Lindsay Rogers and Joseph A Smith will take the va places as alternates L M as alternate for Thomas Kearns will de cline to use it and Utah will there fore be represented in the convention after the departure of the delegation by Brown McCornick Trumbo Rogers and Smith IDAHO UNANIMOUS The entire Idaho leave As they have nominated no National Committeeman it will remain for the convention to The scene attending the withdrawal of the free coinage Republicans prom ises to be as dramatic as the scene in the committee on resolutions today when their intention was announced It to the lot of Senators Teller Cannon and Dubois to make the state the reasons for their severance the Republican party upon the platform which will bs adopted SENATOR TELLER of the men of National repute in the convention Teller is ori terms of intimate relationship His great ability his long experience in National councils and his high sense of integrity are by of them con ceded Senator Dubois has shown himself career in both House be one of the ablest of the younger Western members and Senator Cannon during the short time in which he has public life has made friends in the Republican party by the score There is nothing but UNIVERSAL REGRET expressed even by those opposed on the financial question to these gentlemen nc over tho attitude which they feel by emphatically tie selves compelled to order cares for the the gold that they may represent their constitui and against coinage en act in consistency with i at any ratio They are supported the course which they have this declaration by ot oer pursued in advocacy of free coinage and what they consider to to the in of country A WRITTEN STATEMENT The members of the Committee on resolutions from the Western States who read their declaration today in the committee will present over their signatures a statement in the conven tion of their reasons for their with from the parts THEY WILL CONSULT Immediately after the silver dele gates leave they will assemble in the rooms the Idaho delegation at the St Nicholas hotel for immediate future course Representative Town of a delegate to the convention and other Republicans of National prominence favorable to the free coinage will join in the conference DELEGATION MEET a meeting of the Utah tonight in the room of National Committeeman O J Salis bury the situation AS a trie indications point to Senator Brown Mr McCornick and bo in the convention Sena tor Brown while repudiating the platform arid candidate the mat ter should be Deferred as he the people before final action FIRST TEST OF STRENGTH McKinley Forces Vote Down with a Hundred Votes to Spare the Combined Forces of the Opposition and Refuse to Consider Morton Slated for Run ning Probability that the Convention will Finish its Work and Evening St Louis June Republican National convention cleared the for action today Two sessions wens held one of an hour in the and one of three hours in the after noon Permanent organisation was effected and the permanent chairman Senator John M Thurston of Nebraska assumed the duties ot officer in a ringing speech it the morning ses sion and the report of the committee on credentials was received and adopt ed at the afternoon session This leaves the battle royal over the platform and the nomination ot candidates tomor row It is probable the platform would have boon disposed of tonight had it not been that a night session would have interfered with the mammoth Mc Kinley parade of marching clubs pro the outcome was doubt This information was tik some allowance a fU war influenced by for Reed Mr Reeds here regard tion in favor of a gold plank ns intro a new phase in the contest and which might operate 3 an important factor in Vn ii a days more intervened before the ballot Morton Says Nothing Rhinecliff N Tune Gav Alor lon is course ef events at St Louis with demeanor showing no anxiety whatever The j QJ has had a telegraph wire run into bis house over which be receives e Associated Press from Louis which as his private w hut the expression delight which lit n face instantly told that the n Pt views exactly As regards ac of the nom he had nothing to say German Americans for Gold St Louis June 1 was received inthis city fcr distribution among the delegates to the convention The Sound Money declares irrespective of poll that he repudiates the candidate but that they will support the American newspapers throughout country and by of the voters in the doubt ram is signed by Oswald William Steinway Carl hurz Louis Windmuller Gustav H Schwab Edward John Friedrich Charles C Louis EwaM Fleitman John F Jacob H Schiff George Fred Fearful Earthquake in Japan Yokohama June by Associated of a involving the osr earthquake a thousand lives has reached here from the Island of which Sains the provinces of San including ri HItaka Tokachi Ishikari Kir SSS and ail of the island seem to be All The lasted about twenty during that period the an terror prevailed The ground Slings are described as resembling ff distant cannons Marquis de Mores Reported Killed Tune Tt dispatch received here L thIs that here that rT la i well known in New and In of the country has been sou th of Tripoli with his party of arranged Nothing couM have king contract th session of yt brilliant animated anj of tho con vent i hall wnp packed v keyed to thp asm and responding with word or with hoarse mar of as it camo down to pi from the of people on all by tin ins of handkerchief hats and flags all making a lion that made pulse beat a faster time The but of th chairman whose warm ready in tha concourse of Republicans t Ashake the from its lethargy and their SPIRITS THUS AROUSED incident evoked cheers As ho tho fact that h had presided convention nom the last victorious ticket of the and predicted that he was now over a vould nominate the next president ot the United States the enthusiasm broke bounds For several minutes tne convention cheered ano yelled and should Yesterday the appearance or of the names of the great of the evoked no Today it was like applying a match to magazine to men tion a distinguished name and several times when there was no occasion the applauded with a chorus of shouts for At the Fission there was the brief contest over the question of pro with the election of permanent officers before the report of the com on credentials had been acted Senator Wellington and Con gressman Mudd of Maryland and Dele late of Maine protested that it was irregular that there was no convention until the credentials of passed upon but their protests were swept chaff before the wind The convention brimming over with enthusiasm was in no temper to be delayed At afternoon session the FIRST TEST OF STRENGTH between the McKinley followers those of Reed Allison Quay and Mor ton came and although the issue pre sented was not as strong as McKin lev it demonstrated to the satisfaction of the candidate has a clear majority of over a hundred in the con The question was th adop tion of the report of the committee on credentials which ratified the action of the National committee in giving al most all the 158 to the and decided the contest m favor of the Grant delegates and that in Dels n favor of the Kiggins delegation presentation of the report was adopted a violent minority report de nouncing the committee on for presuming to accept the findings of the National committee of the issue fanned into a flame all the bitter animosities of the convention Messrs Fort of New Jersey and Grosvenor of Ohio put forward to champion the re port and Mr Hepburn of Iowa led the opposition The lines drawn absolutely as quite of dele gates who are to voted with the opposition notably Maryland delegation but It opposition greeted the announcement of V4 every vote in their favor that they were marshaling vote command They tn 4f thirtyfive men
