Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-18

l created a profound impression by the [ earnestness of his remarks. His voice l was choked with emotion several times and he proceeded with great difficulty. | He pointed out that Utah had been con- verted from a democratic territory into a republican state, but that it would be l irretrievably lost if the party were com mitted to the gold standard. He bitterly | deplored the necessity which compelled 1 him to leave the party of his choice. but existing circumstances left him no alter | native.
 l Mr. Mott of North Carolina asserted l that he had gone into this campaign Tor l Mckinley believing that gentleman was l friendly to silver He had failed to find any utterance of McKinley's to the con l trary. If MT. Mckinley was unfavorable
 to silver there was nothing in his record 1 to show it.
 Before the vote was taken on MT. Tell | CTS 16 to 1 substitute MT. Darlington of | Pennsylvania arose and replied specif1- cally to Senator Teller's declaration that l the republican party had fallen under 1 the domination of Lombard and Wall streets.
 l of Idaho also announced that he would l follow his associates, Messrs. Teller and 1 Cannon, in leaving the party, although l he regretted that necessity compelled | him to take this step. He spoke at some | length of the loyalty of the extreme west
 
 l has now two republicans in the senatep l but the same could not be said of many | of the eastern states, whose representa- l tives were adopting course that was 1 driving the silver men from their party associates. He showed that New York l was represented in the senate by two I democrats, that Indiana has two, and | Ohio and Illinois each one. If this gold | plank was adopted the republican party | would, he said, lose control of the senate and not regain 1t in a quarter of a cen 1 tury.
 Mr Brewer of Michigan followed MT. | Dubois expressing his regret that the | silver men should feel compelled to take l the course they had indicated. However, 1 he, for one, felt that the parting of the | roads between Senator Dubois, his as- l sociates and their constituents on the one | hand and the republican party on the | other had been reached when the five re- publican silver senators took the ground l in the United States senate that no meas | ures for the relief of the revenues of | the government and the protection of our l industries should be permitted to be con- l sidered and passed while they were mem- | bers of the senate unless such measures | carried with it a provision for the free and unlimited coinage of silver. If there was any one thing the American people demanded it was sufficient revenue upon which to support the government The government COulQ not De starved, no matter what party was in power If there was any one principle that the re- publican party maintained must be held inviolate it was the principle upon which protective tariff was founded, and when republican senators refused to in- dorse that principle it mattered little whether the states were represented in the senate by republicans or democrats. At the same time MT. Brewer expressed his sympathy with MT. Dubois and his colleagues, and he regretted deeply the line of action upon which they had agreed. MT. Brewer intended to have offered an amendment striking cut the word gold" but in view of what the silver men had said, 1t was useless to offer it.
 Mr. Hartman of Montana boldly announced that he could not and would not support candidate standing on this platform. The republican plat form of 1892 had declared for gold and sill yer as the standard money This plat form contained a declaration for gold only, and the silver men demanded both. The silver men stood by the party princi- pies and until such time as the party might return to the double standard they
 could not support its candidate. McKin- ley was an honest man, and would hon. estly interpret the platform. The silver
 men were not antagonizing men, but prin- ciples in this struggle and in the cam pdlSn Mchluley WOu1u SldIlu TUT SOlu MT. Fessenden of Connecticut explain ed why 1t was necessary to adopt gold plank, and expressed his regret at this
 difference of opinion within the party. The vote was then taken on the Teller substitute, and 1t was defeated-ayes 10, nays Al. Those voting in the affirmative were the delegates from Colorado, Cali fornia, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and New Mexico.
 |. taken on the gold plank MT. La Folette of Wisconsin rose for personal expla- nation. He directed attention to a state ment made by MT. Teller that himself and MT. Gear of Iowa had performed the prin- cipal work in the preparation of the tar if law of 1890, which had been popularly credited to MT. Mckinley, and said that while the members of the committee dis charged the duties entrusted to them faithfully, it was not true that any one man on earth had prepared as much of the measure as Mir. Mckinley, but that his ideas and spirits dominated every thing in connection with the bill when the sub-committees were preparing the schedules and before they were submit | ted to MT. Mcinley, who led in all the discussions with the same rare ability which enabled him also when the bill was | taken into the house to pass through that | body without amendment
 An Injustice to Mckinley. Such statements as Senator Teller
 made MT. LaFolette continued, were an injustice to MT. Mckinley. They had | been continually repeated and it was | time now that the country should be | acquainted with the real facts connected with the formulation of the bill which bore McKinley's name. LaFolette then | addressing himself specifically to the money plank moved to amend the last section by striking out the words "now l in circulation" so that it should read | that "all our silver and paper currency
 must be maintained at parity with | gold" etc.
 MT LaFolette argued in support of his amendment that a wrong construc- ton might be placed upon the plank as | 1t stood He feared that it might be con- strued as a pledge to contract the cir culating medium so that no more silver should be coined or paper currency be issued. It would hurt the republican party in states where 1t would be hard pressed, although it would make no diff ference in his own state of Wisconsin. Mr Lodge of Massachusetts opposed the amendment. He did not wish to be placed in the position of encouraging any further coinage of silver by the gov