The Ravalli Republican. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1894-1899, 1896-06-24
timcnts Of the great heart Of the
American people,"
Hartman f,f NTnpt,no r,,,l-n l1o

timcnts OF the great heart Of the
American people,"
Hartman, Of Montana, spoke be-
fore the committee in part rs follows:
81 have" said Congressman Hart
man, "bccn Il member Of the rcpub-
lican party ever since was of age.
Coming from democratic family
obtained republican inspiration from
the life, character and services Of that
distinguished American. James G..
Blaine. My faith in the principles
Of the republican party as they cx-
listed at that time and as they have
existed up to the time of this con
vention shall have adopted the re-
port of the committee on resolutions
which lies on yondcr table, is today
as sincere, as honest, as deep seated
as it has been at any moment since
cspoused the cause Of republicans
ism. 1t il therefore @ matter of
supreme regret with nae to be com
PEELED to say to this committee that
il the convention tllall adopt the re.
port of the committee as reported by
the subcommittee, l cannot and
will not under any circumstances
or conditions support the nominee Of
this convention upon such a platform.
Up to the time the convention adopts
this platform now under considcra-
tion the party creed upon the tinan.
cial question was embodied in the
Minneapolis platform, which declared
in favor of gold and silver as standard
money.
"1 the convention adopt YOUR re-
port it will rcpudiatc the declared
faith Of the party and declare for
gold as the standard money. No man
would be justified, no minority would
be justified in refusing ITO aseesae to
the will of the majority in the mere
matter Of nomination or personality
Of Il aand idate, but I utterly deny
and rcpudiatc the right Of the ma
jority to control or coercc the con-
science or individual opinion upon
great questions Of principle enter
tained by any individual citizen by
the plank contained in the platform
which you about to adopt, and that
no one can change the cdict which
has already gone forth.
"You propose to commit the re-
publican party to Il Rnaneial system
which is intended to deErcciatc the
val'Ae ef every product of human
toll, expect to proae, and yo,
and you must prove, to the American
nhnN1n If cI,rrnnf1
their support thai it is the interest
of producing nation to reduce the
value of everything which it pro-
duccs. You must also prove that it
is to the interests Of a debtor nation
whose debts are paid in it's products,
to dcprcciatc the value Of these pro-
ducts.
81 feel now as though we're try
ing case before a jury who cared
nothing for the evidence and whose
verdict was already signed against my
client. 1t is unnecessary for me tt
say to you that it is witt, feelings Of
the greatest regret that I am com.
PEELED to take the course walich am
about to take, but say to you in all
candor and sincerity, thut L could
not obtain tAc consent Of my own
conscience to stay in the convention
and passivcly acquicscc in fastening
upon the people Of this country by
adopting this platform a system Of
finance wlsich in nay 'hurnblc judg-
mcnt will result in the jmpovcrish-
mcnt Of the producing classes, in
defeating the rights and opportuni.
ties of labor to receive continuous
rcnumcratiyc employment and tc
that extent denying the citizens OF
this country the rights which as
frccmcn, under the laws Of a free
government, ought to huvc.
''Thcrcforc, with full kn6Wtcd &c
of the Importance OF my act,
thoroughly appreciating it's magni.
tuuc, | say here and now that l pre-
fer to follow the lead of that splcn-
did combination Of heart, brain, con-
science and courage, who sits at your
left, Henry NJ. Teller, than follow
the leadership OF John Sherman and
other modern leaders of Republican
faith into the gold standard camp OF
Grover Cleveland"
Dubois dwclt especially upon the
service the west had been to the re-
publican party, showing that that
section never in the hour Of the pur.
ty's need had been untrue to party
call. He dwclt especially upon the
strength Of the west in the senate,
and showed that that through the
votes of that section in the senate
the republican party owed the main
tcnancc Of it's protective policy and
Ill other party policies. Often when
their own section interests were in
no wise involved, he asserted, the
inter mountain states had been rcgu-
lar in supplying two senators for the
support Of these lines Ct policy, while
New York, with not one republican
senator, and Illinois with only one;
and the southern states, to SLY iiotlt-
ing Of Indiana, Wisconsin and other
northern states, which had not for
years been represented in the senate,
ire inaugurating u contest which is
not only ruinolls to the west, but, he
believed, to the entire country-not
)nly ruinous but unpatrioJic andrcons
jrary to the principles Of the party.
In view Of these facts, he, too, felt
to announce his intcn-
lion Of leaving the convention in case
If the adoption Of the gold plank.