The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-24
TELLER IS THEIR CHOICE.
THE SILVER PARTY FAVORS HIM
FOR THEIR PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE.
DENCE OF HIS GREAT
POWER.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-The politicians
are now discussing the probabilities of
new political alignments on the financial
question and speculating about the
chances of the new silver party. VIII the
Southern Democrats part company with
their Eastern allies and the Western Re-
publicans with their party and join hands
in the next Presidential campaign? is the
question asked on all sides One of the
prominent leaders of the silver movement
discussed this matter with the CALL repre-
sentative to-day. 1t seems to be agreed
that if this new combina ton is effected
the head of the ticket to represent it will
come from the West and the second man
from the South. Memories of the war are
not, it appears, to be banished. Southern
men of such caliber as would entitle them
to consideration in connection with the
Presidency all participated in the Con
federacy.
Morgan of Alabama, Jones of Arkansas
and Bland of Missouri all saw service under
the Southern flag, and the fear is that this
record might prove injurious to the ticket
in the West. But for the second place the
South would be expected to compete for
the nomination, and would probably be
accorded that. without very great diff
Guilty.
For first place Teller easily has the call
in popular speculation. The silver men
regard him as their ablest champion in
Congress. They refer to his speeches as
evidence of his thorough mastery of the
subject and to his tactics in the Senate as
a recognized silver leader as proof of his
skill and discretion.
His presence in general politics has been
wide and this has given him standing
among the foremost men in public life.
He is regarded as being invincible in the
West. His friends declare that he has on
every score the greatest individual force in
politics in all the country between the
Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean.
The South also, it is claimed, regards him
with marked favor. He is more to her than
an eminent advocate of silver. He was the
Randall of the second force bill contest.
He left his party on that issue and voted
and acted with Democrats in the fight in
the Fifty-frst Congress that resulted in
the shelving of the Lodge bill in the Senate.
This, it is asserted, would make Mr..
Teller Presidential candidate on a silver
platform exceedingly popular throughout
the whole of the South, and certain, if
associated with popular Southern man,
of an overwhelming vote in that section.
The gathering here at this time of Senator's
elect Butler and Tiliman, General Warner
of the Bimetallic League, Editor Howell OF
Atlanta and other prominent friends OF
silver gives to this matter increased inter-
est. One hears it on every hand
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gress, are very confident. They believe
that everything is going their way, and it
is for this reason that they are urging the
more conservative of their friends to go in
for bold movement, with silver put above
every other consideration. The battle, they
contend cannot be won without the ranks
of either of the old parties so long as both
are so much under the dominion of the
Eastern money power. The cause of silver
alone, they hold is worthy of a party.