Evening star., 1895-06-27
SILVER AT CLEVELAND
What Senator Dubois Says of the Action
of the Convention.
What the Advocates of the White
Metai Insisted On-The Compro-
mise Was Acceptable.

Senator Dubois of Idaho has returned
from the convention of the Republicsn
League Clubs at Cleveland He was one
OF the leaders of the fight made there for
declaration in favor of silver and having
acted as member of the committee ON
resolutions is competent to speak on the
purport of the action of the convention.
he takes exception to some of the reports
sent out from the convention as to the
effect of the course pursued with reference
to the silver question, and In discussing
the matter today said: 1T is very anus
lng to read some of the press reports of
the convention. Take, for instance, the rep
resentaton that the silver men were in
favor of the address to the neonla, of
Wnich SO much has been said, and that the
gold men were opposed to it. In this rem
resehtation IL is claimed that the gold ad-
Hocates Insisted on a declaratio reya riding
the currency question il the league should
pronounce upon any subject and that the
silver men did not want any declaration
regarding the currency
What the silver Men Insisted On.
Every one who was at Cleveland knows
that this is an utter perversion Of the
Facts. The silver men met before the COM
mittee on resolutions was appointed and
instructed Col. Trumbo of Utah to offer
straight silver resolution. and agreed
ana uhequivocal definition from the con-
Nentlon as to its position on the currency
question. They insisted that the question
should not be ignored. In accordance with
these instructions Col Trumbo presented
tree silver resolution in the convention
ana 1t was referred to the committee ON
resolutions. The subcommittee of eleven
atter many hours of wraugling by a vote
OF y TO = agreed to report the address TO
the people The silver men on the suh
committee, of whom i was one Mr. Allen
OF Utah being the other, brought in a
minority report against the address, and
the SILVER men unanimously and with great
ylSor fought the adoption of the report be-
iere the whole committee. finally defeating
II by Unanimous vote and substituting
the Patton resolution declaring against any
declaration on the subject
Inc silver men wanted and insisted on
a declaration in regard to silver, and took
the position in the beginning and main
tanned 1t to the end that the convention
should take position either for or against
silver. They stated repeatedly that if anv
publlc questions were touched upon in the
platform: If the platform of 90 were in
dorsed, If the leaders of the party were in
dorsed, or If anything of any political ma
ture was attempted, they would take their
fight to the floor of the convention, ani
there demand full debate and clear expres-
sion on the financial question.
The Compromise Agreed On,
'"fhe opponents Of silver finally agreed to
NNitiPi oiti@S ~ dtteiiy iShorinS every thlng
which looked like politics. and by declaring
that under the constitution of the league
they We're debarred from giving expression
to any views. The silver men made no OBJ
lection to this course, as they were en-
tirely willing TO leave the matter open un-
til the meeting of the national convention,
where Of course, the issue must be squarely
met
Concluding, Senator Dubois said:
'Ihere Were strong free coinage silver
men in almost every delegation present
and the silver men generally were well
pleased with the manifest growth of senti-
ment for the restoration of silver shown by
the number of silver advocates who were
there as delegates from every section of the
country