Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-06-24
SENATOR TELLER LEADS TWENTY.
THREE Delegates OUT.
WAS A DRAMATIC SCENE
one-seventh of the Republican Strength
In the Senate Now Antagonistlc to
tho Financial Policy of the
St Louis Platform-salutes
Fired in Colorado In
Honor of Boilers

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June lo.-The silver
delegates played star engagement
yesterday. 1t was brief, but dramatic
In the extreme, and easily divided the
public attention with the presidential
nomination. The proceedings in con-
vention were of an impressive nature,
and all thinking men present felt the
gravity of the situation. There were
only twenty-three of the silver men
who left the hall, but there was a
feeling that the hearts of a hundred
and more followed the departing del
egations down the long aisle as thev
STROBE along. Nevertheless the band
played, the convention joined in sing
ing 1.-The Red, White and Blue" and
the business of the great gathering
was proceeded With as if no unusual
event had occurred.
The men who had walked out held
a miniature convention of their own
and agreed to spring Senator Teller
OF Colorado, who has been their
leader in the independent movement,
as candidate for President.
1t was well understood among the
boiling delegation that while only
one delegate from Montana, Con-
gresham Hartman, went out on the
bolt. the full delegation was in per-
feet sympat thy with the movement.
including Senators Carter and Mantle.
1t is confidently expected that the en-
tire Montana delegation will be found
working in perfect harmony with
their boiling colleagues
Counting Senators Carter and
Mantle, and the four senators, Teller,
Dubois, Cannon and Pettigrew, who
went out, there are six senators who
11aFtlrinQfn6 in ha
gold plank They constitute almost
one-seventh of the Republican
strength in the senate
Their detection reduces the Repub-
1lcan representation in the Senate to
thirty-eight, and makes the Repub-
lican vote one less than that of the
Democrats. All this, of course, de-
pends upon the extent to which Carter
and Mantle join in the independent
movement. The silver men regard
this as one of the strongest grounds
of vantage occupied by them
When Senator Teller was asked
about the movement to place him in
the field as an independent candidate
for the Presidency, he declined to dis
cuss it, or to say whether he would ac-
cept or decline. at is" he said, "a
movement with which I have had
nothing to do, and which have not
encouraged. do not, therefore, feel
called upon to discuss it and shall not
do so at the present time"
The Senator received over a hun.
dred kilograms during the afternoon.
Most of them were from the Western
states, but there were some from
Pennsylvania and two or three from
New York and New England each. A
large majority of them Endorsed the
fol h,,f-
One message from Ohio said: 81 do
not regard you as a representative
Republican"
Upon reading this aloud to his
friends, the Senator remarked: IT
agree with him, but don't see why
he should go to the expense of a tele-
gram to tell me what already know"
He received the following telegram
from Governor McIntire Of Colorado:
"a national salute with eight guns
to follow, being fred at the state cap
1tol in honor Of yourself and the
other Colorado delegates for your
brave and patriotic stand and loyalty
to the people you represent We are
proud of the delegation, and de-
lighted"
Salutes were also fred in Pueblo,
Leadville and Aspen.
Senator's Mantle, Carter aud Hon.
T. C. Marshall Of the Montana dele
CATION jointly stated after the
convention that their refusal
to walk out OF the convention
should not be construed as in
any manner constituting an accept
ance of the terms of the platform ON
the financial question. They further
stated that the entire delegation was
united in unalterable and unqualified
opposition to the platform adopted
insofar as the financial question is
concerned.