Evening star., 1896-07-02

side influences are going to have some
thing to do with the final salection.' The
democrats are forced to consider what the
populists and silver republicans are going
to do. The silver democrats started out
with the assumption that the out
side silver contingent could be de-
Tended on to support any free coinage man
who might be nominated. They are grad
ualy becoming convinced that this is a
mistake.
AS this conviction spreads the Teller
movement expands. The situation was
talked over very plainly in conferences be-
tween the republicans and populists. and
the democrats last night and this MORN
Ing. Without any reservation and without
dissenting voice the populists declared
that they could not support any old-line
democrat if nominated that If Teller were
nominated. both they and the republican
silver men would indorse him, and that
he would get the full silver vote. Other
wise, they said, they would be compelled
to put up a candidate of their own. They
said that they would have to do this be-
cause they could not hold their voters to
the support of any other nomination ade
by the democratic convention and their
organization would go 20 pieces If they
attempted it,
The republican silver men based their in
sistence that Teller should be nominated
upon the grounds that he could carry
more electoral votes than anyone else, and
was the only one sure of election. They
declared that they had sacrificed every
thing to a principle when they left the re-
publican party, and that they could not
follow the democratic party into certain
defeat and death to the silver cause, any
more than they could follow the republican
party into tine gold camp.
They said that they would have to con-
tinue the fight for silver. and If the demo-
Gratis regarded partisanship as more i'm
portant than the success Of the silver cause
the Independent silver men would have to
stand alone and strive for an organization
which would not sacrifice the cause to any
selfish interest or narrow party spirit. They
said that if there were any democrats who
could put up any reasonable claim to the
strength that Teller would have at the polls
they would support him, but they insisted
that the success of the cause should lie the
first thing considered.
Some of the democrats stubbornly insist
that this declaration of independence Is not
sincere. and that both the republican silver
men and the populists will be compelled to
Suppoft IL utuOCTdlC silver CdIluluaCe.
The Gold Men.
The gold men apparently appreciate the
possibility of a failure of the detached sil-
yer forces to get together, and are count
ing on that to enable them to accomplish
something. There seems to be no ether OPEN
ing to them, and this is so very small that
1T takes keen eye to see it. The silver men
have decided on no compromise.
The gold forces are proceeding as if they
still had hopes. though to all appearances
they might as well not be in the convention
for all they can do toward shaping policy
or naming the candidate. What they have
in mind is a mystery. They are assembling
for conference and mapping out a pro-
gram. Mr.. Eckels, who was the first gold
man on the field. says it Is protest they
intend to make. but protest amounts to
rothing under such circumstances and is
waste of energy.
Hugh Wallace Of Washington state. a
gold man, elected by a silver convention,
and who, next to Mr.. Eckels. is tie most
active gold man on the scene, smiles and
intimates that they will probably do some
thing more dramatic than to protest. A
bolt is probable, though it Is not regarded
as likely that all the gold men could be in
duced TO leave this convention any mere
than it was possible to get dll the silver
men to leave the st. Louis convention
There would be more men involved in a
gold bolt than there we're in the St Louis
silver bolt.
1t IS the plan Of the gold men to keen their
opponents in Goubt as to their plans, so as
to make their action, when taken, more
impressive and effective
If there is one thing that approaches in
intensity the silver sentiment among the
assembled democrats it is the unDopu,arity
of President Cleveland His picture does
not appear in any of the political head
quarters, and it would destroy the pros
poets of any candidate to have one hung in
his room. The name Is not mentioned, ex-
cept in criticism. and there is no prospect
that the administration will be indorsed
or mentioned at all in the platform, unless
1t Is to repudiate some features of Mr.. Cleye-
lands policy.
Mclean Arrives.
John X. Mclean and his staff arrived here
this morning and took up headquarters at
the Auditorium. The Mclean boom start
ed at once, the takers getting in their
work IN the hotel corridors.
Altseld has gone to Springfield, and since
his departure the Bland people claim that
he has committed himself to their can
didate.
Ihey are using all their eloluence and
influence to get Matthews and Stevenson
off the track. feeling that their chief dam
ger is in a multiplicity of candidates. The
leaders who are attached to any favori.e
candidate are generally favorable to the
Teller idea and most of them will promote
it il the opportunity is offered.
1t is proposed by those silver democrats
who say they will never consent to nomina-
tlOn of but democrat that thew SnI,-
init a list of ten democrats to the republi-
cans and populist, and let them pick out
their candidate, or that they will nominate
any good democrat that the republicans
and populists will name. j. p NJ
VARIOUS STORIES DENIED,
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