The Ravalli Republican. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1894-1899, 1895-07-10
II WAS ALI. RlGi!Tss
Senator Dubois Says silver Men Got the
T Best Of 1t at Cleveland.

Dubois of Idaho has returned from
the convention Of Republican league
clubs at Cleveland He was one of
the leaders OF the fight for Il dcclara-
| tion in favor Of silver and having
acted as q member of the committee
on resolutions. is competent to speak
on the action Of the convention. lie |
said today:
'sIt is very amusing to read some
Of the press reports Of the convention.
Take. for instance. tho representa-
| tion that the silver men were in /
favor Of the address to the people,
! Of which 50 much has been said, and |
that the gold men were opposed to IT,
In this representation it is claimed |
that the gold advocates insisted on a
declaration regarding the currency
question, il the league should pro
nounce upon any subject, and that
the siycrmen did not want any de-
claration regarding the currency.
Every one who was at Cleveland
knows this is an utter pcrVerslon Oh
facts.
sl'hc silver men ret before the
committee on resolutions was ap-
pointed and instructed Col. IrumDo
of Utah to offer Il straight silver reso-
luton, and agreed unanimously that
they would demand u plain and I'M
couivucal definition from the convcn-
tion as to its position on the currency
question. In accordance with THESE
Instructions Col. lrumbo presented
a free silver resolution in the conVcn-
tion and it was referred to the COM
mit1ec on resolutions. The subcom-
mittcc, after many hours Wrangling,
bv vote OF nine to two, agreed to
report the address to the people,,
The silver men in the subcommittee,
Of whom | was one, Mr.. Allen OF
Utah being the other, brought in u
minority report against the address
and the silver men unanimously and
with great yigor fought the adoption
of the report before the whole com
mittcc, finally defeating it by
unanimous vote and substituting the
Patton resolution declaring against
any declaration in the subject. The
silver men wanted and insisted on a
declaration in regard to silver, and
took the position and maintained IL
to the end that the convention should
take Il position either for or against
silver. They stated repeatedly that
if any public questions were touched
upon in the platform, ii the platform
of 1892 were endorsed, if the leaders
Of the party were endorsed, or II any
thing of any political nature were
attempted, they would take the ghC
to the floor Of the convention and dc
many full debate and q c(car express
SIGN on the financial! question.
'The opponents Of silver finally
- agreed to q compromise by utterly
ignoring everything which looked
like politics and by declaring tlat
under the constitution Of the league
they were dcbarred from giving cx-
preston to any views. The silver
men made no objection to this course
as they were willing to leave the
matter open until the meeting OF the
national convention, when the issue
must be sluaicly met"
Concluding, Senator Dubois said:
II "A tiEIt NNit wi p!l-, lltS oil W nv
in almost every delegation present
aud the SILVER men generally were
we'll pleased with the manifest groWtl
Of the sentiment tor the rcstOratlo!
Of silver shown by the number OF sill
yer advocates, who were there as dc!
cgatcs from almost every section 0
the country"
New York, June 27.-lianry We!
cott Of Colorado, one Of the hcavics
mine operators in the west, is in thu
city. Speaking Of the feeling in Col
orado and the west generally upoi
the silver question. he says:
\ ,.hc people Of Colorado and ncarl,
a eyc;y state west Of the Mississippi
! river have the same idca-that thci
interests would be enhanced by tn
free coinage Of silver and Will q
cv.2vthing in their power to secure II
| 90 not think that there is any PROB
ability of Il third party. The peopl
;. in tile west have had too severe
lesson taught them by populist theo
:. ries to 20 branching Off on the thir'
party ideas. Part. lines, however
tie light in the west. The people
irrespective of par, are gong |
vote for the candidate who they DC
licve will be the best for tho interests
II The general feeling is toward tn
4 republican party. If the nation;
II republican convention nominate5
1s man, no matter what 'his record Q
the money question may have bcc1
who the people believe will sign
free coinage bill il it passes congress
that candidate will draw the vote
If the republicans do not 90 lllls an
the democratic party does, then tt
; democratic candidate will bc SUI
r. ported in the west.
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