The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-15
They Will Not Be Misled by a
Guarded Declaration in
Favor of Gold.
PLANS NOT YET PERFECTED.
Procedure of the White Metal Wing
Will Be Decided Upon This
Morning.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-. June Ex-senator
Henry M. Teller of Colorado. the leader OF
the silver forces at the Republican conven-
residence of friend in the suburbs OF the
city. He will not come into town until
tomorrow morning, by which time the
Colorado delegation will have arrived and
the Senator will have a conference with
them at their headquarters in the South
ern Hotel. The only instructions given
by the Colorado convention to its dele
gates-at-large were simply to actin accord
ance with the views of Senator Teller.
For that reason it is very desirable that
this conference should be held at the
earliest practical moment, and after 1T is
all over Senator Teller will meet and dis
cuss the situation with the silver dele
gates from all the States. Until that Is
done he does not care to talk for publlca-
ton, except in the most general manner.
ut would be presumptuous on my part,
said Mr.. Teller, ''to make any statement
as to what l, or those who believe as do,
would do in the event of the convention
not declaring for that which we believe to
be right and absolutely essential for the
best interests of this country. l have al
ways endeavored to act when the situation
arose and not to discuss it beforehand. l
stand where 1 did when / wrote my letter
to the chairman of our State Committee,
and upon the same ground taken in my
speeches in the United States Senate.
Beyond that l have said nothing TO any
one.
IL see by the morning papers that the
indications point strongly to the adoption
of a platform in favor of the existing
standard. The general opinion appears to
be that the word gold is to be omitted. L
hardly thought that the men who are en-
gagged in the business of constructing tinan-
cial planks would be so foolish as to be-
leve that they could omit the word gold
and declare for the existing standard,
thereby making people believe that it was
anything else than declaration for the
gold standard.
ut is mere juggling with words and the
silver men would have very much more
respect for the gold men if they came out
for gold instead of meaning that and re-
fusing to say so. The silver men in the
convention will not be misled by this con-
strucIion of financial plank nor will
the people at large misinterpret its true in
tent or purpose. Nothing will satisfy the
silver men but clear-cut declaration for
the free coinage of silver at ratio of 16 to
1. Until the situation has thoroughly
crystallized and the silver men know what
they may expect, l, for one, do not care
to say anything further on the subject"
Delegates from the various silver-pro-
duclng States are beginning to arrive
Among them are Senators Cannon and
Brown of Utah. Senator Dubois of Idaho
arrived this evening. Senator Mantle OF
Montana has been here for two days. With
the exception of Senator Brown the four
Senators named, together with Chairman
Carter, comprise the five free silver SEN
ators who refused to vote to take up the
tariff bill in the last session of Congress.
All of these gentlemen will meet Teller at
an early hour tomorrow morning, when
the programme of the silver wing will be
formulated.