The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-06-16
THEY WANT GOLD.
DELEGATES FROM SEVERAL STATES,
HOLD A CONFERENCE.

They VIII Submit Plank Declar-
ing for Gold and Opposing Free
Silver Except by international
Agrccncnt-Delega From Five
Silver states Will Walk Ont of
the Convention
st. Louis, June 15.--There was confer
ence to-day at the Southern hotel at which
the following states were represented:
Maine, Vermont New Hampshire, Connect
icut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New
York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Illinois,
Minnesota and Wisconsin. The question of
~ financial plank in the platform was
discussed and the following was agreed
upon as satisfactory and will be presented
to tho committee resolutions:
"We favor the maintenance of the eX-
listing gold standard and are opposed to the
free coinage of silver except by interna-
tional agreement for bimetallism with the
leading commercial countries of the world
The men in the conference were those
who will probably represent their states on
the comittee on resolutions
Senator Dubois of Idaho and Representa-
tive Hartman of Montana, Joined Senator
Teller of Colorado here to-day There is
no longer doubt of the purpose of these
radical silver men to belt the convention
unless they can have their way about the
financial plank. They realize that they
In a hopeless minority and they have care
fully laid their plans to walk out of the
convention The programme they have ar
ranged will probably furnish the most
dramatic and sensational incident of the
convention They intend as a preliminary,
to marshall all the strength they can in the
committee on resolutions for silver. They
know they will fail, but instead of their
attempting to secure a compromise, 1t will
be their plan to so throw their strength in
"a &C IN
adoption of a straight-out gold plank, be-
lfeving that an emphatic gold declaration
will put them in more advantageous posi-
tion for what is to follow. AS one of them
said: IF the Republican convention can
not be right we will force it to be honest"
Better a gold declaration for all concerned
than equivocal plank that wears gold"
The fight will be carried to the floor Of
the convention under the leadership Of
Senator Teller. The Colorado senator, as
the head and spirit of the silver strength
in the Republican party, will make
speech which his friends say will be the
effort of his life 1t will be his valedictory
to the Republican party. 1t will be fol-
lowed, after the convention has voted
down the minority report which he will
offer, by the formal announcement of the
severance of the ties which bind him and
his associates to the party. This will eth
err be done in the formof a statement to
the convention or an address to the peo-
pie probably the former. The climax will
certainly be dramatic.
1t is probable that Senator Teller will
go at once to Colorado and the Republican
silver men who go out with him will re-
main here and issue an address to the silver
voters of the country of all parties, cal
ling upon them to support Senator Teller
as the Dre-emnent representative or the
issue for president The silver men eX-
pect to carry at least five states out of the
convention with them,-Colorado. Idaho
Nevada, Montana and Utah-and they are
very hopeful that the Democratic conven-
ton at Chicago Will nominate the man who
leads the bolt here.
The committee on platform may nave
to wrestle with an important question
when Abraham Gruber of New York pre-
Sents this plank:
1.-The Republican party demands that pub
lie officials be thoroughly qualified to per-
form the services required OF them; tnat
civil service examinations be conducted
only by men, who, from e. perience, know
the duties to be performed by, or the WORK
required of, the person holding the once,
and that the questions asked or applicants
be only such as directly concern the service
to be performed.
If is SUSPECTED that this plank is a shrewd
move to draw the convention into the civil
service controversy now on In New orK
state and which involves state const1tu-
tional points and the appointment or Sixty
or more OttlClalS TO carry out lHe PROVISIONS
of the new law. The convention will I'M
doubtedly refuse to have any part in the
matter and decline to express itself on the
question.
New York still intends also to interfere
in the platform making by insisting that
not only shall the word gold be used but
that The declaration shall be for the pay
ment of national obligations in gold of the
same standard of fineness that is now In
use.
Mr. Lauterbach will propose this In the
committee A New York delegate close to
the we'll spring of information said to-day:
'.Mr. Lauterbach will introduce this SIM
ply to please the Wall Street men, He
will when pressed, withdraw it, and then
claim that he has made concession.
Mrs Lily DevereauX Blake of New York.
of the legislative committee of the National
Woman's Suffrage association, accom-
nanied by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Cadd,
chairman of the national committee on or
ganization arrived to-day from New York
They will ask for a hearing before the COM
mittee on resolutions and will urge for the
recognition of woman suffrage in the plat
form and for some more definite under
standing than has been given in any other
platform They contidentaly expect the
support of the delegation from eight states
in accordance with pledges received to that
effect.
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