People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-06-27
AGREE TO DISAGREE.
Prefer Peace to a Declaration on the
Silver QueStiOn-Referred to the
National Convention.

Silver QueStiOn-Referred to the
National Convention.
Cleveland, O., June 2O.-The nation
al convention of Republican clubs
had an evertful day. Its committee
on resolution consisted Of fifteen sill
yer men and thirty-One anti-silyer
men. The subcommittee Of eleven
to draft resolutions to submit to the
full committee had only two silver
men-DuB0iS of Idaho and Allen OF
Utah. After this subcommittee had
worked all night on ian address to the
people with the word resolved" omit
ted therefrOm, a committee Of three
on revision was selected and the silver
men claim that they were not repre-
sented at all on the revision commit
tee. The subcommittee adopted the
report of the committee on revision
this afternoon and the full committee
met at , pm. to.cOnsider the address
to the people, that had taken two
days and one night for its preparation.
The feature Of the address was that it
covered every question except that of
silver, which was entirely ignored.
This was done to prevent a minority
report 90 the silver question and a
fight on the floor Of the convention.
When the full committee considered
the address the anti-silyer men OPP
posed it. They said there had been
more agitation here all the week on
the silver question than on all the
other things combined, and for the re-
port to be silent on that question only
would be coEardly and inconsistent.
The silver men were satisfied with
the address and agreed to make no
minority report and not to open the
question On the floor Of the cOnyen-
tsOn in the event that the address
was adopted Their opponents, how
ever, held that it was enough to con-
cede everything to the west for the
sake of harmony without rubbing it
in" Some of the most ultra OppOn-
ents of free silver in the committee
finally insisted, if the silver question
was ignored entirely, that all other
questions should be ignored. This
plan pleased the western Silverites
better than the address to the peo-
pie"
After iEdulging in the most bitter
speeches for hours, a new departure
was taken by Senator Patton Of Mich.
igan, Offering the following as a sub
stitute for the report Of the sub-cOm.
mittee: ~
Whereas, Section Is of the cOnSti
tuition of the Republican league Of the
United States says: This league
shall not in any manner endeavOr to
influence any national, state, county
or municipal convention, that dele.
gates Of the Republican league Of the
United States in convention assem-
bled do hereby renew their allegiance
to the principles of the Republican
party and pledge their best efforts tC
the success of the candidates of that
party, and believing that this COnyen
ton has no instructions from the Re
publicanS of the United States or jur'
isdiCtion under our constitution tC
frame party platforms, we hereby re
fer all resolutions in relation to public
questions TO the Republican natiOna
convention Of 1896, with the entire con
fldence that its action will rebound tt
the prosperity of our people and the
continued glory and advancement O
the country
1t was urged against the Patton
substitute that the national league a
its last convention at Denver, and tn
previous year at Louisville, and a
other national conventions, hat
adopted recOmmendatOry resolution
without the constitutional objection
ever being raised, and that the adOp
tion of the substitute would che &C
copied as a confession of this conyen
tion's inability to meet the silver is
sue. Although these argument
poured in hot and fast and Chairma
Robinson of Pennsylvania left tn
chair to oppose it, yet, the plan of is
noring everything if the silver que,
tion was ignored, gained such hea(
way that the Patton substitute wa
adopted at $50 p, M, without a di
senting vote.
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