St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-07

taking his seat as chairman. Senator
Teller made speech, in the course Of
which he said that while the primary
object of the meeting was to cons lder
certain questions Of special interest to
the people of the states represented, he
thought the most iInpOrtont question
by far was the selection of a candidate
who could carry those states for the Re-
publican party. No matter what the
platform, the Republicans could never
carry Colorado, Idaho. Montana and
Nevada with Benjamin Harrison as
their candidate,
DR.. E. V. Spencer, of California, at
this point made it very evident that Hi r
rison had at least one friend in the
assemb' age. lie objected strenuOusly
to the character of Senator Teller's re-
marks, and said that the president had
never been accused of disregarding any
part of the platform on which he was
elected. He thought it ought to be
taken for granted that if reelected he
would continue to obey the will of those
who placed him III office. The important
thing, therefore, was to formulate a
platform that would be satisfactory to
the people. and it would then be time
to nominate candidate who could be
trusted to carry it Olt If electad.
Senator Teller, then continued his
remarks, contining them to a discussion
of the silver question. Several other dele
gates spoke for their respective states.
Idaho demanded the retention of the
duty on lead, California and Nevada
asked for irrigation and California also
for harbor improvements and hydraulic
mines. Washington put in a I'D for
coast defenseS and government aid for
the Nicaragua canal,
Finally DR.. Spencer gained the floor
again and offered a resolution fayoring
legislation such as would provide for the
free coinage of all American silver and
placing a duty on imported silver. No
action was taken on this, but upon mo-
tion of NJ. II. De Young, of California,
it was decided to appoint a committee
composed of one delegate from each of
the states represented to formulate the
ideas that had been advanced, and pre-
sent them to the attention of the COM
mittee on resolutions OF the national
convention.
The conference then resolved itself
into Blaine campaign meeting. SEN
ator Teller called upon Representative
BOutelle. of Maine. who had been sit
ting unObServed In corner during the
previous deliberations, and that gentle
men made a speech Which woke up
the Blaine enthusiasm of the Western
men. He extended the thanks of the
people of Maine to the states of the far
West for the steadfaStnesS with which
they had supported Mr.. Blaine in ma
tiOnal questions.
Senator Jones, of Nevada. after re-
marking that il he thought the free
coinage of silver would not be advan-
tageous to the whole country he would
not advocate it, turned his atten ton to
the presidential situation. Among
other things he said: 1--WE don't need
any man in the White house to protect
the American people against their own
representatives in congress. L am for
James q. Blaine. Perhaps my reasons
are not the same as those of some other
people. He is a many-sided man, that
different people can have hosts of diff
ferent reasons for supporting, but l am
. for him because / do not believe he
would consider it his duty to veto a free
siver bill if one should be passed after
fair consideration by the congress-"