Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-03
q. M. Putney Of New Hampshire
On the Concord Convention.
REPLY TO Mr.. CHANDELIERS CRITICISMS
Senator Lindsay on Secretary Car
Isles Intentions.
GOV. MATTHEW'S PROSPECTS

Henry NJ. Putney, chairman Of the COM
mittee on resolutions of the New Hamp-
shire state convention. has replied to the
critic SINS of Senator William E. Chandler,
contained in a letter to Senator Henry Ca
bot Lodge of Massachusetts. In his letter
Mr.. Putney says:
Hon. William f. Chandler:
My Dear Senator-I have read your letter
to Senator Lodge. in which you explain
why you do not carry back to Washington
the sheaves you came to reap. 1 am too
we'll satisfied with the outcome of the state
convention to wish to fight the battle over
again You say, in effect:
l. The Mckinley movement was organized
at Manchester by me, the pretext for the
outbreak being your denunciation of Mr..
NJ kinley's friends, which was represented
as an attack upon him personally.
4 Spontaneous Movement.
The Mckinley movement grew sponta-
neously all over the state. The credit for
letting it loose and giving it sweep in the
convention belongs to William Z. Chandler,
not to me.
. When I called on you at Concord and
read the platform l had prepared you did
say the delegates should not be instructed.
You did not say that the names OF candi-
oates should not be mentioned. l neither
essented nor dissented.
- In your words: This forenoon, just be-
fore starting for the convention. 1 heard ac-
cidentally that the committee resolu-
tons the night before had decided to add
to the platform which had been shown to
me resolution declaring that MIR. Reed
was noble and illustriGuS, and that Mr.. Nc
kinley was pure and able. 1 also learned
that 1t had been arranged to keep the de-
cision a secret.
Mr.. Chandler's Charges Regulated.
iS rs
went to Concord with the feeling that the
party must not be held responsible for
what You said about Mr.. Mckinley in your
Interviews and letters. During the after
noon and evening at least dozen resolu-
tons were considered, ranging from one
which Indignantly repudiated your utter
ances. calling you by name, 10 one which
instructed the delegates for Mckinley The
committee on resolutions the next morning
for the first time heard the PLATFORM and
voted at once unanimously to report it.
FIVE minutes later L gave copy TO the
foreman IN your printing office. He set it
up. anu sent IL TO you. The assertion that
1 arranged or designed to keep it from YOU
a moment is based entirely on misinforms-
ucn- i gu said the previous evening that if
an attempt was made to declare Mckinley
the second choice of the convention YOU
wCuiu leave the caair and oppose it. A
number of influential friends .oId you you
Were fortunate to get nothing worse; that
with the temper of the convention IS il
was. any attempt 10 oppose so mild a
Resolution would result N the passac. of a
much more drastic one, and they asked you
not to make light, which would be hope
les from the first You prudanlly accept
ed Their view. and sent word you would not
contend You were not a coward. You
We're not cheated. You saw the avalanche
coming, ami got as far toward the edge of
IT as possible. like the wise man YOU are
You conceded nothing. You accepted the
Inevitable. The only man really c;Dosed ro
Srar CT
1t was unanimous.
t. The cheering showed the convention
Was Tor Reed? Not bit of it. When Reed 5
name was mentioned. his frieu.Is che.red
but the Srandest demonstration of an
proval for candidate in New Hampshire
convention Tor twenty years was when L
read the resolution Endorsing Mckinley as
"a pure and able statesman" And the
equal of Reed III our favor
.. Inc moasIel PLATFORM and the dele
CATION are ludicIously homogeneous? Not
at all They correspond to a nicely They
are both for Reed and Mckinley: for Ped
until his chances disappear; 70. Mckinley
ever after.
4 Mckinley Convention,
1t was a Mckinley convention. You
snoulI be thankful that it was satisfied
with smashing the anti-McKinley combine
The platform is more expressive of the real
sentiments of New Hampshire republicans
than any other that has been written for
years 1t IS your platform. because Won as
scented 10 it. 1t is the platform of the
party IN this state. because it voices the
feelings OF nearly every republican
Ihey DO rot much expect to see Reed
nominated First. because his rival Is car
Tylns pretty much all before him. and seq
ohdIy. because they know the Platfs and
QudyS ana Clarksons, who nave seized his
candldacy iii order to hold New England
oelesates, have intended 10 betray him if
.ne time ever came When they could take
Ielr Tetalners into another camp This he
dN:tl OF our convention has been made inn
possible Whenever Reeds causa is ~
teSs' there VIII be eight good and true men
from New Hampshire to vote for Mckin-
low 9i0'4iu VIII lol-
u am glad to learn that Mr. Reed il a hi
neIaiLSt- for MIR. Lodge, to whom Won
nix report OF your stewardship. ard
,. -''tI you seem to recognize as his mama
g, mas put MIN on a Sold-nus. platform in