The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-23

Democrats to do that, to nominate
electors under instructions to cast
Utah's electoral vote for the silver
candidate.
Mr. Brown was asked if there would
be a separate Republican organiza-
ton in such q contingency, to which
he replied that he did not wish to dis
cuss that subject until such a neces-
sity arose. He subsequently stated
that there would. however. for" said
he, there will be plenty of Republ-
cans in the state who win support Nc
Kinley and if the state convention
undertakes to put it beyond our power,
| there will of course be something done
| to enable those who believe in the
| ticket to support it." Mr.. Brown ex-
! pressed the belief that Mckinley will
! be elected by an overwhelming ma
| jority and the further one that Mr..
Teller will not be a candidate at the
head of silver ticket.
Mr.. Brown with his family has taken
rooms at the Cullen and will remain in
Salt Lake and attend to his law prac-
| tice until the next session of congress.
HOW MCCORMICK STANDS.
Hon. w. S. Mccormick was a very
busy man during the day attending to
business and entertaining political
visitors. He had heard reports of dis
! COilllIlS llOiil I4tiLShS SSAi-
corning his course at the convention
! but was very comDlacent, neverthe-
| less, and was apparently well satisfied
with what he and the other gentlemen
had done who declined to walk out.
Il am not at all disturbed said he,
''over what people may say, although
naturally I had rather my course had
met with unqualified approval as
| believe it ought TO have done The
( he
in d very trying position and l do not
think any one has a right to question
the sincerity of any member Of the
delegation, for I know /. and 1 am
satisfied the other gentlemen also, did
just what they believed TO be right.
You must remember we were sent
to the convention to represent the
whole party and without any instruc-
tons except to work for silver
NOT INSTRUCTED TO BOLT.
We were given no instructions to
leave the, convention if we did not get
| what we wanted I looked at the mat
ter in this light. I considered that to
walk out meant that we were reading
the Republicans Of Utah out of the
party, for we were representative OF
them all. I believed there were some
| ii not a. great many, who did not care
to be thus read out Of the party, and
! felt that it was my duty to remain In
the convention, reserving the right tC
personally repudiate the Platform and
to refuse to support the ticket after the
convention was over. By SO doing
| felt that / would not be compromising
the party which would. at its state
convention, decide whether the ma.
tional ticket was to be supported or
not I believed then that 1 was right
and 1 still believe it. and / cannot see
where / have done anything to justify
anyone in questioning my loyalty tC
silver.
q wish to say in this connection that
the national committeeman, Mr.. Sails
bury. took the same view of the matter
that 1 did, and worked most assidu-
ously to induce the whole delegation
TO remain, for the reasons I have
stated.
AS concerns my views of silver
wish to say that 1 defy anyone to ques
ton the sincerity of my declaration
that / am a silver man. l have pur
I'D more money to promote the silver
cause than any other man in Utah
can prove that statement, and l wan
to say that man don't generally pay
out money for anything he does no
want. l am quite willing to allow my
! reputation to rest on my past record
as tar as my loyalty to the silver caus,
is concerned
WON'T SUPPORT MCKINLEY.
Mr.. Mccormick was asked if he would
support the Democratic candidate, pro
Vided he is a silver man and the plat
form is all right He replied: Il shall
not support Mckinley and the golC
platform and, in view of my action il
the convention, l hold that l am frey
to support any man or ticket which
believe will come the mora nearly Civ
ing US that which we all desire so ar
IDENTIFY. I, of course, would like abov,
all things to be able to support Mr.
Teller, but l do not have any hone O
being able TO DO SO. for the reason tina
do not see how the Democratic party
can be expected to nominate him. anC
If they do not there is no possibility o
electine him. This being the case,
hope 20 see the Democrats nominate ;
good silver man. like Bland. or som,
one equally as strong on the silve
question. Then if all the other silve
delegates will endorse him we can wi,
the day, but hope there will not h
two silver tickets in the field. for tina
would mean positive defeat.
/ feel very confident a silver ticLet
upon which all the silver forces could
unite would be successful. In fact fht
gold men admit as much. One of theil
leaders said 10 me that if such a thing
were possibility, there would be ne
nope Tor the gold men, but said he
you cant do that: you have not eot
time to bring the silver men of all ths
pardes-the Republican, Democratic
ana Populist-together and so satisf,
them ON all the other questions at is.
sue that they will stand together ant
vote for one ticket l fear he spoke
the truth, but hope, as hope for moth.
ing else, that the silver men will SO.
the danger to the cause and come to
gether on that issue and forget the
others. II they don't we are lost anf
don't see how the country can stand
four years more of the gold standard.
HOME AFFAIRS.
Turning to home affairs and what h.
believed the best course for the Repub
licans Of Utah to adopt, Mr. Mccormick
said:
It seems 70 me if the Republican:
expect to win in Utah this year tina
they must stand together, forget al
schisms and try to maintain the party
organization within the state. Try anC
eject silver Republican to congress.
and another to the senate and hold tn,
state offices intact. and when it come.
to the election of presidential electors
eitner endorse the Democratic electora
ticket provided the Democrats declar,
for silver as ] apprehend they will. O
elect presidential electors instructed t,
cast the vote of the state for the silve
candidate If the Democrats fail to d,
Wna1. IL now seems certain they will
that is, nominate a straight out silye
man on silver platform"
CANNON EXPECTED TODAY.