The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-24
SILVER REPUBLICANS,
HAVE OUTLINED A NATIONAL
PLAN FOR NEXT YEAR.
They Propose to Bolt Unless They
Get Silver Candidate for
president,
POLITICIANS ARE FRIGHTENED

Washington telegram.-Western silver
Republicans have outlined an interesting
program to be pursued in the next ma
tional Republican convention. Today a
Western Republican of national promi-
nence who arrived in Washington two
days ago disclosed the program of the
silver men in all it's details, and it is so
audacious as to startle the political
managers here. The plan, he says, was
agreed upon at a conference of western
senators held last month. The senators
and other Western Republican leaders,
who participated in the compact, repre-
sent ten Western silver states and pro-
fess to be able to control the delegates
to the next national Republican conven-
tion from those states
These states are Montana, Idaho, Wy
| oming, Washington, Oregon, Colorado,
Nevada, Utah, California and South Da-
kota. These ten states are claimed
solidly for the agreement, and the states
of North Dakota and Nebraska may yet
of the Western silver Republicans to
meet and choose delegates to the ma
tional Republican convention in the reg
ular form, and when the convention
meets to present the name of Senator
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, for president
If Cameron is not acceptable to the
Republicans. the convention will be
asked to agree upon some other repre-
sentative free-silver Republican. If it
refuse to act upon the suggestion, the
delegates from these ten Western states
say they Will march out of the conven-
tion in body, carrying with them as
many other free-silver delegates from
other states as they can command. They
will wait upon the Democratic conven-
tion, not as delegates, because they can
not be admitted as such, but as a COM
mission knocking at the doors and ask
ing for the nomination of a free-silver
Democrat Senator Morgan, of Alabama,
preferred.
If the Democratic convention fails to
act upon the demand, the silver men
will abandon both old parties. It is not
now the intention of the managers Of
this Independent political movement to
nominate a standard bearer for 1885, on
an Independent silver platform, but their
efforts will be directed toward choosing
electors pledged to the election of free
silver president, regardless of personal
preferences. The idea of nominating an
independent, free-silver candidate pre-
vailed until quite recently, but was
abandoned as a piece of bad political
policy, and, failing to secure recognition
from either of the national conventions,
the silver men say they will seek to hold
the balance of power in the next cleo
parties to bring forward a silver man, in
order to secure the election.
The movement outlined is at present
confined to the Republican party.The
Democratic declare that they fear that
similar insurrection may break out in
their own party, led by Southern Demo-
Gratis, allied with Western men, on the
money question. This is considered as
very likely to happen should the Demo-
Gratis call their national convention first,
and for that reason there was much
talk today of postponng. the Demo-
cratic convention until very late, in or
der to give the free-silver men an oppor-
tunity to work in the national Republican
convention first.
Prominent Republican leaders today
assert that if it be shown conclusively
in the next national Republican conven
ton that the Western Republicans have
arranged any such program for boiling
the convention as that disclosed today,
the committee on credentials will refuse
to seat the delegates until they pledge
themselves to abide by the work of the
convention