The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-03-06

II Senator Teller is reading his home
newspapers carefully he is getting some
valuable light on the situation. Out
side of Denver the Colorado Republican
newspapers are deprecisting the stand
taken by Teller. Carter and the other
silver senators. They are serving notice
that with them protection comes first,
silver afterwards, and that they are
Republicans before they are silver adj
vooates. Here is what the Colorado
Springs Telegram says:
We think that both Senators Carter and
Teller are not BY any menas prepared 70
leave the Republican party whether Il
favors free coinage in It's national plat.
form or not. They know very well that
they cannot compel the members OF the
party from eastern states TO accept the
View OF the small western minority. ana
Il Is Just as well for us westernerS 20 look
that fact souarely in the face, While we
are very much In favor Of free coinage
and would spare no enort TO bring thls
the tail cannot wag tho dog In politics any
more than anything else: And the news
papers in the Rocky Mountain region
which are advising their representatives!
10 hold out and not ntfow my tnrin bill
10 be passed unless there can be free
coinnEe measure with 1t are giving advice
which Is calculated to tnture the cause OF
silver and to put our reprcSemttttVeS III
= very foolish and ridiculous plight.
The Colorado Springs Gazette, in a
well considered. temperate article. takes
broad and solid ground The article
Is SO good and SO instructive as showing
a line of thought in Colorado that we
take literally from It:
IL nj
party: that is why II Is so strong to-day.
When we get the policy OF bi-metauism
established us the policy Of our govern
ment It will be on n1tlonal line5, because
Il 10 the best policy for tho whole nation:
The creates hIndrance to tho growth OF
tho doctrines or hI-metAllium thus FAR has
bocn the fact that eastern people gen
orally have got the impression that BIZ
inetriHsrn iS q sectional doctrine, good for
fiie Rocky Mountain states alone, and
not good for the rest OF tho republic The
action Of some Of our senators aud rep
resehtatIves in Congress has rather in:
tenBl6ed than oblIteT1tcd this view. II
NO demand bl-rnctailism rs a SOP to the
west, VIC do It ayowedly on sectional
demands It casts only ~ many, electoral
votes Us single ordlnary.Sizcd state OF
the eastern section. tina: view cannot De
inposed on tho party at the demand OF
The only way In which bl-metalIsm can
be made the policy OF the government
IS by convincing i majority OF tho Re
publican party, east RS well AZ west, that
bi-metalliAm Is the trnr doctrine for tho
whole country: that i is az vital TO tho
interests OF New England as TO the inter
eSts OF Colorado; that. like profession,
Il Is n doctrine applicable throughout the
length and breadth Of tho land. II VIC
are incapable OF tnkinE this view; u We
innIst on recognition" for our ''Bection;"
n we foster the notion that free silver
coinage Is wanted only because II VIII
help the mine-owners OF the west-then
wo shall not get II, and We shall not de-
serve TO get Il.
The teaching OF all this is that Denver
fl not Colorado. and that II men get into
the ST. LouIg convention from Colorado
for the pleasure OF boiling the conven-
tion, they will be unable to lead the
masses Of the party, However much
we may differ with our friends In Colo
rado on the silver question. we must re-
spect men who hold the sentiments ex-
pressed by the newspapers here quoted.
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since Mr.. Plat broke out In fine
tenor tones II hna been discovered that
President Cleveland has rich baritone
voice. Well. why doesn't he raise It for
Free Cuba?