Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-18

the Teller amendment strongly. He in
sisted that with the majority report as
the declaration of the party, the plural
ity of 10000 would no only be wiped
out, but that the masses would become
alienated from the party indefinitely.
He knew there would be
NO HOPE FOR THEM
in the pending canvass or the coast.
While Messrs. Mott and Lennon
were as vigorous as could be in protest
ing "the pressure" of the gold standard.
they did not state in their speeches that
they would go out of the convention
with Senator Teller. They did, now
ever, to members Of the committee af-
forwards that they would all stand by
Senator Teller, ard if they were de-
feated In the convention they would
declare themselves out of the party and
do the best they could for their people
hereafter.
Members of the committee who came
out of the rooms said they had never
witnessed such touching scenes in pol
tics. Some of the silver men shed tears
while speaking. Senator Cannon wept,
crying aloud as he plead for Utah. No
funeral could be so sad to him. They
loved the party that was about to
smite them and cast them out. Senator
Dubois was the most vehement in his
utterances as to the result. He show
ed no emotion. but was firmly defiant.
Senator Teller was cool throughout the
debate.
Senator Cannon's speech was pro-
nounced most impressive and effect
ing He pictured in very fine language
the hope which had been raised in the
breasts of the people of Utah and of
theintermountain West by the promises
of the Republican party, tod how the
State had been redeemed from the DEM
ocratic rank and an overwhelming ma
jority overcome. and all for what?
Merely to have al the promises made in
behalf OF the Republicans ruthlessly
trodden in the mire and ignored at the
time of their greatest need for a sus-
tanning hand. Their course was to
them the subject of amazement and the
deepest sorrow. He had hoped up to
the latest moment that this catastrophe
could be averted. but if 1t could not be-
he. too. deeply as the course panied
him. must discontinue TO act with the
party. His conscience and the inter-
est and convictions of his people de-
manded this course. In the dilemma no
other course was open
AFTER THE VOTE
on the Teller amendment was defeated
by vote of 10 ayes to Al nays, the fin
nancial plank of the majority was taken
up and the discussion was resumed.
the gold men having the floor The
silver members said they felt that they
were in the sad hours of partisan dis
solution, but that they would proceed
as courteously and regularly as posi-
BILE and not formally leave the party
till they had appealed to the court of
last resOrt-the convention. They JUS
titled their course by saying the party
had left them and that they were not
leaving the party. They said that Sec
rotary Carlisle, representing the Cleve-
land administration. in his Nashville
speech. was the first to come out for
the single gold standard and that the
Republican party had come to the
Democratic administration in its new
departure. Messrs. Cannon and Du-
bois severely criticised the inconsist-
ency of the Indictment against Presi-
dent Cleveland while aropting the car
dinal principles OF the Cleveland adj
ministration.
THE TEN STATES
voting for the Teller amendment were
as follows:
California, Allen B. Lennon.
Colorado, II. NJ. Teller.
Idaho, Fred T. Dubois.
Montana, Charles Hartman.
Nevada, A. C. Cleveland.
North Carolina. NJ. L. Mott.
Utah, F. B. Cannon.
Wyoming, B. F. Fowler.
Also the members from Arizona and
New Mexico.
In one of his speeches Senator Teller
said he wanted it understood there was
nothing personal in his action against
the nominee or Major McKinley's
friends. but that it was a matter Of
principle alone with him.
Congressman Hartman, of Montana,
was emphatic on that point. He stated
that he regarded Mckinley as an hon
est man, who would faithfully carry out
any platform on which he ran. The
Republicans of his State, he said, can
not support a presidential candidate on
the single gold platform.
There was slight furry over res
olution offered by delegate Catron, of
New Mexico, pledging the party to sup
port policy looking to the admission
into the Union as States of the territor-
les of Arizona, New Mexico and Okla