The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-19
TELLER's COOL PROTEST.

Silver Mems Reasons for Bolting the
 -. Party.
 St. Louis, June 1S.--The following is the protest of Senators Teller, Dubois and Cannon and Representative Hart man, which was offered to be read in the convention immediately after the adoption of the platform:
 In announcing the purpose asserted in this paper it is due to our constitu- ents and to ourselves that there shall be a public showing of vindicating facts
 The sole authorized expression of Ma tional republican faith from June 9,1S92, until the present date has been the platform adopted in national cOnven ton at Minneapolis. Neither the ut terances Of state conventions nor the attitude Of individuals could change the tenor of that platform or abate the sanctity of it's binding force. Every delegate to this convention was elected as an adherent and an advocate. True, one of it's most important paragraphs has been subjected to such a divergence of construction as to make it's language unsatisfactory during the intervening time and dangerous if continued in the future but of the intent contained within that language there has never been a doubt.
 It is the rightful province of this convention to revise the party tenets and to announce anew the party pur- | pose The majority of this convention in the exercise of such authority has this day made official enunciation of republican law and gosnal. With much of the platform we agree, believing that in many essential particulars it compasses the needs of humanity, af- l firms the maintenance of right and pro poses the just remedy for wrong, but it declares one elemental principle not only in direct contravention of the ex- | pression of party faith in 1892 but fhl radical opposition to our solemn con- 1 viction We recognize that in all mat ! ters of mere method it is but just and helpful that the minority shall yield to the will of the majority, lest we have l chaos in parties and in government. 1 But as no pronouncement by majorities can change opposing knowledge or be- l lief sincerely entertained, so it cannot l oblige minorities to abandon or dis avow their principles. As surely as it is requisite for peace and progress that that minorities shall yield to majorities l in matter of mere method, just so sure | ly Is 1t necessary for that same peace and progress that minorities shall not | yield in matters of fundamental truth.
 The 1892 Platform.
 | The republican platform of 1892 affir- ed that the American people from tradi- tion and interest favored bimetallism and demanded use of both gold and sill yer as standard money. This was ac- cepted by us as a declaration in behalf of the principle upon which rests the in- terests of every citizen and the safety of the United States. In such terms the platform was then satisfactory to the believers in bi-metalism within our party: only because of equivocal construction and evasion has it since been demonstrated to be insufficient. The platform this day adopted in the national republican convention at St. Louis says:
 "The republican party is unreserved- | ly for sound money. It caused the en- actment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payment in 1S79 Since then every dollar has been as good as gold.
 We are unalterably opposed to ev- cry measure calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country We are, therefore, opposed to the free coinage of silver except by in- ternational agreement With the lead l ing commercial nations of the world, ,,Ir, and until such an agreement can be obtained the existing gold standard must be preserved.
 "All our silver and paper currency Continued on Third Page)