The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-10

ST. LOUIS, June s.--Politicians,
great and small. black and white. and
all the intermediate shades of COM
plexion, from all over the Union, are
swarming into this city tonight.
For the last week they have been
dropping in at odd intervals by ones
and twos. but now they are coming by
the car load, and it will be week be-
fore all have arrived. Although it is
almost a week until the convention
viii be called to order, there is a vast
amount of preliminary work to be dor,e.
There are
SCORES OF CONTESTS
to be ordered before the national COM
I1ittee which meets tomorrow, and
there is much routine work 10 be done.
There is already considerable discus
sion among the delegates and other
party leaders who have arrived as TO
the probable course that Will be pur-
sued on the financial question, and it is
becoming evident that this question
will receive more attention than any
other in the committees ana delegates
generally. The possibility of bolt by
the free silver delegates, in case Of
the Incorporation of a plank in the
platform which they viii construe as
unfriendly to silver, is discussed freely
in the MOTEL Hobbies, and by none more
SO than by the silver men themselves.
of whom there are already several in
the city. There has been no general
conference among them, however, and
will not be until the arrival of Seua-
tors Teller. Dubois, Cannon and Others
who are not expected until the latter
part of this week or the first of next.
It is gathered from those who are al
ready here that
THE DISPOSITION TO BOLT
the convention is confined to but very
few. One of the most prominent of the
silver delegates said tonight that the
men from the west felt they had been
elected by Republican constituencies to
meet IN convention to secure all they
could for silver, but that they were
MOI authorized TO bolt if they found
themselves in q minority, and that the
more they conferred the more general
was the opinion they should stand by
the Republican organization Among
the Republicans of the west the name
Of Colonel NJ H. De Young, member
of the national committee from Cali
fornia, and a strong advocate of free
silver. is already being urged in con-
nectfon with the nomination for the
vice presidency. When Mr.. De Young
was asked for an expression of his
views as to the course Of the silver
men he said:
THE delegates from the silver states
are very determined in their desire to
advance the interests of silver. They
want the right to have the free coinage
Of silver at 16 TO /. Some of them are
very radical and talk about leaving
the convention 10 case their views are
not adopted. This action will not be
general It is generally known that
Colorado, under the leadership of Tel
ier,
PROPOSES TO WALK OUT
of the convention. The California dale
cation has been instructed to vote for
Mckinley and the convention adopted
a resolution in favor of the free coin
age CT silver. But our delegation does
not intend to leave tie party Or con-
vention in case of a failure of that re-
ture The men, especially of Colorado.
Montana and other states, think t. q.
if Teller would be nominated by the
Democratic party in Chicago. there
would be no question of his endorse
ment by the two conventions that NEST
in ST. Louis on July %. That IS the sill
yer party convention and the Populist
convention In fact it is an under
standing already made and agreed that
both conventions will endorse the NOM
ination of Teller. If Teller IS nonlinat-
cd by these three parties my private
opinion is that ne viii come very near
being elected.
There is one serious question.
though. TO the whole Of this PROPOSE
ton VIII the Democratic party take
q. man out of the Republican national
convention and make him the standard
bearer of the Democratic party? The
general impression among the leading
Democrats is that they Will not do
IT. ] think if Mr.. Teller leaves the
convention Montana and Idaho will
follow.
UTAH, AS A WHOLE.
will not. There may be one OF their
delegates that will. Nevada is just as
anxious for free silver as any of the
other states While I do not know
what their delegates propose to do, they
can be depended upon to do everything
that lies in their power to advance
the interests of silver
what will be the probable pro-
gramne in the national convention of
the silver menu was asked, to which
Mr. De Young replied:
The members of the platform COM
1nittee will offer an unlimited silver
coinage plank. and if rejected by that
committee, when the committee make
their report to the convention, Sena-
tor Teller will be the one that will
probably offer in the open convention a
substitute for the plank reported by
the committee, in the shape of one
favOring the unlimited coinage of sill
YER They then will insist ON discuss