San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-23
LOUISIANA FOR MKINLEY.
Yarmouth Talks Freely and Says
Put Down the Sugar State at
IN 600 for Protection


New Orleans, La, June 23.-EX-
Governor Yarmouth has returned
home and to reporter said:
You can say that Louisiana
will give Mckinley $4,000 majority,
and New Orleans tribute will be
about 10000 for the Apostle of Pro
lection"
The result of the convention was
such a foregone conclusion, said the
master of Magnolia, that number of
delegates who had engaged quarters
at the hotels paid for them right
along, but never put in an APP
pearance. No fight was anticipated,
therefore an army was not necessary.
Fully 5000 people who would have
come to st. Louis had there been any
prospect of fight, stayed away be-
cause they were certain the ultima
tum would be "McKinleyad."
The bolt of the Teller faction was
not an event of such magnitude as
had been made of it. In the commit
tee, the day before the platform was
finally presented, that touching APP
peal which had been so deliberately
promulgated, was made by the free
silverites and, while the tears flowed
and the oratory did likewise, the
sound money plank was nailed down
strong. But there was every evil
dence to lead one to see that the
turned down faction would stray
from the fold. So when the hour came
the force of the blow was considerably
leSSened.
And what did the bolt amount to?
Senator Teller claimed that Colorado,
Nevada, Idaho and part of Montana
would declare for free silver. Well,
he Governor Yarmouth believed that
Teller's own state, Colorado, would go
for Mckinley and sound money. Why,
there was large quantities of gold
mined in that state and the people
would naturally look after their inter-
ests.
Discussing the turning down of the
Lily Whites by the committee Gov
ernOr Yarmouth said it was not 4
question of prejudice or faroritism
which had actuated this action, but
there We're so many similar contests
filed that the committee decided to re-
cognize the regular organization, the
Kellogg and Cage crowd, on prima
facia evidence, which was that they
had been the ACCREDITED delegation in
former conventions. No discourtesy
had been meant: but time was pre-
cious and if the 'kicks" by self ,cOnsti-
tuted delegates had been entertained
and arbitrated it would have taken |
FIJI; two weeks to complete these Ia
bors.
Never since the time when Blaine |
was nominated for president had Gov
ernor Yarmouth witnessed such en-
thusiasm as prevailed for fully thirty
minutes in the vast convention hall
when McKinley's nomination was an
nOunced. People cheered, threw their
hats in the air, waved their handker-
chiefs, stood on chairs, the bands
played all the patriotic airs on the cal
endar and it looked as if the demon
stratiOn would never end. Mckinley
was bound to sweep the country and
his election was an assured fact. Ho-
bart, his side partner" was "a splen-
did felloW," to use the governors own
words, and was fully capable of dis
charging the duties devOlving upon
him.
Discussing Teller further, the noted
Southern Republican stated he had
learned a movement was on foot
among the free silver Democrats to
tender the Colorado senator the pres
idential nomination. This question
was being actively agitated and it
would have been no surprise if he
were chosen.
In such an event New York would
give the Republican ticket 100000 ma
iOrity, and the entire east, which was
solid for sound money, would help
swell the majority still more.
SO far as Boies' chances were COLI
cerned he did not believe they were
very favorable, and came back to his
original belief that Teller would be
the nominee of the Democrats on a
free silver basis.
Governor Yarmouth spoke with that
pOStiveness which is so characteristic
of the man and which has brought
him so prominently to the fore and
made him leader among the Repub-
lioonS Of Tnt1iaiana