The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-19
A RESUME.
Brief Account of One of the Most
Interesting of Conventions.


ST. LOUIS, June 1S-The Republi-
can national convention nailed their
principles to the masthead today and
placed in command of the ship which
is to bear them on to fortune or dis
aster in November, their popular idol,
William Mckinley of Ohio. and Gar
rett A Hobart of New Jersey
But there was mutiny aboard, and at
the last moment before the lines were
cast off some of the members of the
crew who had shipped in many a
voyage refused to subscribe TO the
new shipping articles and walked down
the gang plank.
The convention was held in session
for ten hours to accomplish the work
cut out for it today. and the scenes
at different times were
TRAGIC, DRAMATIC AND IN
SPRING.
Fully 1900 people were in the vast
auditorium to hiss or cheer by turns.
The bolt of the silver men from the
west fully discounted, but it neverthe-
dent of the day.
Led by Senator Teller, they had yes
terday declared their intention of re-
fusing to subscribe to the gold plank in
the platform, but today, after Senator
Teller had made his final appeal to the
convention rot to take the step which
would drive him and his colleagues out
of the ranks Of the party which in the
past honored them and they had de-
lighted to serve. and the convention
had voted S1S12 to 1862 to stand by the
gold declaration in the platform, no
one who witnessed the scene will for
get to his dying day the picture of
Senator Frank Cannon, of Utah, facing
from the platform 10000 irate, kissing,
jeering people, as he read the valedic-
tory of the silver men. He stood erect
and defiant. his pale face set in grim
determination, as those before him
tried to cry him down until
THE VERY COURAGE HE DISPLAY
won for him the admiration which COM
PEELED silence. When he had finished
the reading. the crowds in the galleries
burst out again with their jeers ana
cries of disapprovas, but in the most
oourtly fashion he turned and shook
hands with Sena tor-elect Foraker, the
chairman of the committee on resolu-
tons Permanent Chairman Thurston
and other friends on the platform.
Then, locking arms with Senator Tel
Ter, the two men left the stand and
moved down between the walls of
yelling delegates to where the standard
of the Idaho delegation stood. There
they were Joined by the handsome.
staiwart Dubois and the three men
continued their march to the main
door, their followers falling in behind
them as they moved along.
IT WAS A SMALL BAND,
several of the delegates from the states
of Utah and Montana, notably SEN
ators Carter and Mantle of the latter
state preferring to subscribe to the
platform than to sever their allegiance
to the Republican party, and the dele
gates, only a few of whom displayed
any bitterness toward what they be-
lieved to be the misguided course of
their colleagues, breathed a. sigh of
relief when it was over. Never before
has there been a bolt from the Re-
publican party. although Wendell
Phillips and some of the more radical
Republicans held convention at
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1864, and placed in
the field a ticket in opposition to Lin
coin and Johnson. The radicals on
that occasion. however, withdrew their
ticket and returned to the fold before
the election in November. The silver
men who bolted today Immediately
perfected plans to place Senator Teller
in nomination as an independent sill
yer candidate for president, in the hope
that the Democrats at Chicago, if
controlled by silver men, would place
his name at the head of their ticket.
After this sensational incident the
convention turned with evident pleas
ure 10 the work of selecting the stand
ard bearers. 1t was a
FoREGoNE CONCLUSION
that Mckinley would be nominated.
but the pent-up enthusiasm of the
friends of tine Ohio candidate found
full vent. The speeches of Baldwin,
Of Council Bluffs. nominating Allison,
of Senator Lodge of Massachusetts,
nominating Reed. OF Hastings, nomi-
mating Quay, and of Depew. nomirrat-
ing Morton. We're manly efforts. and
were received with the greatest en-
tbusiasm by their respective support
ers, bur ii was the nomination of Nc
Kinley by Foraker which turned the
convention into bedlam. Save for the
wild tumult that followed Senator VOL
colts speech, placing Blaine in nonli-
nation at Minneapolis four years ago.
the demonstration that occurred today
has had no parallel in a Republican
national convention. at least in length.
The Minneapolis demonstration con-
tinued for twenty-seven minutes: that
of today fell short Of that record by
thirty seconds. OF course il lacked
the zest that comes after a long and
UNCERTAIN CONTEST OF GIANTS.