The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-17
POLITICAL.
At st, Louis.
MCKINLEY TRIUMPHING.

MCKINLEY TRIUMPHING.
The anti-McKinley forces at st.
Louis are meeting with discontinue.
At the meeting of the national commit
tee on Wednesday the contests of dele
gates for seats in the convention were
taken up. Alabama was heard first, in
alphabetical order, and by a vote of
thirty-eight to seven the Mckinley
delegation was seated. This indicates
the fate of the other contestants from
the South, which rest on no broader
foundation than did those from Ala
bama. The contests from the northern
states will be more difficult to adjust,
notably those from New York and
Pennsylvania.
SILVER STATES NOT TO BOLT.
Among the delegates who have ar
rived from the Rocky Mountain and
Pacific Coast States talks of bolt in
case the convention condemns the pol
icy of the free silver coinage is very
generally discouraged, although the
free coinage delegates are entirely con-
WINGED that the platform adopted this
week will be distinctively anti-silver
one. They are indulging neither in
threats nor recrimination, but sensibly
though somewhat reluctantly prepar-
ing to accept what they see will be the
decision of an overwhelming majority
in Tho convention Of ha Io1onotoa
and national committeeman now in st.
Louis from California, Washington,
Montana, Nevada and Utah, none has
gone the length of saying that a
bolt will result from the adoption by
the convention of sound-money plat
form. All deprecate, of course, rad
ical declaration in favor of the gold
standard, yet none has yet threatened
to leave the convention on its accept
ance OF an out-and-out honest money
report from the committee on resolu-
tions. Senator Shoup of Idaho gives it
out flatfooted that while his delegation
is free silver one, pure and simple,
and would fight for white metal plank
in the platform, it would submit with
good grace TO the will of the majority
and accept with the best possible grace
the decision of the convention. Del
egates from Southern states are talking
in the same vein. Nevada's representa-
tive says that state will not bolt, but if
the republicans adopt gold plank and
the democrats silver plank, the dem
ocrats will carry the state.
"GoD ALMIGHTY HATES
A QUITTER."
The incident of the week is the dis.
patch sent out by Joseph H. Manley,
Mr.. Reeds political manager, right af-
ter the action of the national commit
tee seating the Mckinley delegates
from Alabama "a precedent which
would lead to the adding of $50 dele
gates to the Mckinley column to
the effect that Mckinley would be
nominated on the first ballot. This
statement was pronounced a fake, a
device of the enemy by Mr.. Reed him
self; but it turned out to be true, and q
torrent of wrathful denunciation has
been poured upon the head of the un-
fortunate Manley by Reed men every
where, and particularly from the Pine
Tree State. The wires have been
kept hot with demands for an explana.
ton from every part of Maine, and
with exhortations to Reed men every.
where to keep up the fight. Manley is
denounced as traitor, but the truth OF
the matter seems TO be that he became
panic-stricken by the development OF
McKinley's strength and did what a
novice might not be censured for do.
ing, but which in a seasoned veteran
was a grievous mistake. When Sam
Fessenden of Connecticut, a stalwar,
Reed man, realized the possible effect
of Manley's indiscretion, he went to
him, report says, and with clenchet
fist exclaimed: "Joe, the Almighty
God hates gutter. l have been {
soldier in the war, and am a soldier o.
Reed now but my general has de
serted" Manley has made supple
mentary statement, declaring that thu
action of the national committee in thu
matter of the contested seats rattlet
him, that he is as earnestly for Reed a.
ever, and urges his friends TO still
greater efforts in his behalf. Mamie,
is prophet without honor in his owl
country, and Maine still leans upon "'
Reed mistaken by the wind"