Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-18

DELEGA TES FROM SEVERAL STATES
HOLD A CONFERENCE.

III - n oVpOSth@ HTee
silver Except by international
ACCOMPLISHMENTS From Five
silver States VIII Walk Out of
the Convention
ence to-day at the Southern hotel at which
the following states were represented:
Maine, Vermont. New Hampshire, Connect
lieut.. Massachusetts, Rhode Island. New
York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Illinois.
Minnesota and Wisconsin. The question OF
a financial plank in the platform Was
discussed. and the following was agreed
upon as satisfactory and will be presented
TO tLs committee on resolutions:
favor the maintenance Of the eY-
listing gold standard aai are opposed 10 the
free COINAGE of silver except by Internal
tional agreement for timetalliSm with the
leading commercial countries OF the world"
The men In the conference Were those
who VIII probably represent their states Oh
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 bolt the convention
unless they can have their way about the
financial plank. They realize that they are
In a hopeless minority and they have care
tdts i1h NBfIt IlulN Win u Vi Iut
convention. The programme they have ar
ranged viii probably furnish the most
dramatic and sensational incident OF the
convention. They intend as a preliminary,
10 marshall nil the strength they can In the
committee on resolutions for silver. They
know they viii fail. but instead OF their
attempting TO secure a compromise. II will
be their plan to so throw their strength In
the committee as TO force. IL possible. the
adoption of a straight-out gold plank. be-
lieving that an emphatic gold declaration
will put them in a more advantageous posi-
ton for what Is to follow. As one Of them
said: III the Republican convention can
not be right W. will force 1t to be honest"
Better n gold declaration for all concerned
than an 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 a
speech which his friends say will be the
effort OF his life. 1t will be his valedictory
10 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 viii eth
er 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
so at once 10 Colorado and the Republican
silver men who go out with him viii 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 pre-eminent representative of the
issue for president. The silver men ex-
pect to carry at least five states out of the
convention with t~hem.-Colorado. Idaho.
Nevada, Montana and Utah-and tEey are
very hopeful that the Democratic conyen-
ton at Chicago will nominate the man who
leads the bolt here.
The committee on platform may have
to wrestle with an important question
when Abraham Gruber Of New York pre-
sents this plank:
..The Republican party demands that pub
lie officials be thoroughly qualified to per-
form the services required of them: that
civil service examinations be conducted
only by men, who. from G. perience, know
the duties to be performed by, or the work
required Of. the person holding the office,
and that the questions asked OF applicants
be only such as directly concern the service
TO be performed"
Ii is suspected that this plank Is a shrewd
move to draw the convention into the evil
service controversy nov on In New YORK
state. and which involves state coRatitu-
tional points and the appointment of sixty
or more officials TO carry out the provisions
of the new law. The convention Will un-
doubtediy refuse to have any part in the
matter and decline 10 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 flneness that Is now In
use.
Mr.. Lauterbach will propose this In the
committee. A New York delegate close TO
the well spring of information said to-day:
"Mr. Lanterbach will introduce this sim
ply to please the Wall Street men. He
will. when pressed. withdraw it, and then
claim that he has made a concession"
Mrs. Lily Devereaux Blake of New York,
OF the legislative committee of the National
Woman's Suffrage association, accom-
panied 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 confdentally expect the
support of the delegation from eight states
in accordance with pledges received TO that
affs.f