The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-20
THE BoLr1NG sILTEE MEN.

Out of the ConVentioni Issue n statement That They Are Unalterably Opposed to the Financial Part of tho Platform Teller May he Nominated for President-- Hartman Says Mckinley Won't Garry Western State.
 St, Louis, June 19.-Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota, discussing the situa- tion last night, said: q consider the question of finance of necessity the only vital issue in the campaign. The single gold standard only means lower prices, greater distress and a further accumulation of the entire property of the world in the hands of the owners of credit, 1 believe that reciprocity, protection and silver are absolutely es- sential to each other, and l can see no sense or reason in organizing finan- cial unity with the nation against whom we wage industrial warfare, The gold-using nations of the world are the creditors, the producers of the things we produce, and it is against them we build tariff wall. My action to-day does not prevent me from voting for an increase of either ad valorem or specific tariff duties. The delegation from my state was not instructed on the financial question. We were in- Structed only for Mckinley"
 Congressman Charles Towne of Min nesota spoke very bitterly of the action of the conventions: Tt Is we'll to re- member" said he, that to-day is the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, and the action of to-day's convention starts this modern political Napoleon on the way to meet his defeat. 1 was a republican at 1:45 o'clock this after noon I have not changed my opinion. If I have not somebody else has, and that somebody else is the convention that to-day declared for the single gold standard.
 q believe I am modest when l say that at least 75 per cent of the people are against the adoption of gold stan- dard, and believe a very large percen- tage of the republican voters of the country will repudiate the platform adopted by their convention at St. Louis"
 Congressman Hartman of Montana made the positive declaration that not one of the western states could be car ried for Mckinley on the platform pro- vided for it, and he believes that Cali fornia, Oregon and Washington will all go hand in hand with the silver-pro- ducing states that lie immediately east of the Pacific coast
 "A1l.I care to say" remarked Senator Dubois of Idaho, lis that very dig nified statement was being made that neither the republican nor any other party could coerce the consciences of men, and MT. Thurston replied in a very dramatic manner that the voters in November next would show whether they could coerce our consciences or not. We could not agree to support ticket on the platform that was adopted and the only consistent thing left for us to do was to walk out That we did, and every man who walked out at once removed his badge and threw off his loyalty to the republican party un- til such time as it shall return to the principles that have been it's guide dur ing all these years.'s
 Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota said:
 Believing, as I do, that Mckinley will be elected president and that the house will have a republican majority, l am seriously concerned as to the com plexion of the senate The effect of this gold plank in several states that elect senators next winter will be to deprive us of a majority in that body This would put a stop to all tariff legisla- tion, making our victory a fruitless one. In my judgment we need financial re- form on other than gold standard lines. We also need tariff reform strictly on republican lines. In North Dakota the democrats and populists will fuse This will make our fight a hard one indeed. The action of our state convention with respect to the financial plank of the St. Louis platform will determine the fate of our state ticket and the legis- 1ature which elects my successor"
 Senators Mantle and Garter and the Hon. T. c. Marshall of the Montana delegation, jointly stated after the convention that their refusal to walk out of the convention should not be con- strued as in any manner constituting an acceptance of the terms of the plat form on the financial question
 All of the three agreed that there Mas no possibility of securing an elec- toral vote from the state of Montana approving or counterancing the gold Dlhilh III IliS IepupllCdH Dldl- form. They all expressed the belief that Henry M. Teller would be, of him. self,a candidate and platform on which the republicans and all other parties in Montana would, with scarcely a dis senting voice, agree.
 They were outspoken in the opinion that there was no hope whatever for the ticket in the west.
 'It is the joint belief of these gentle ment and all others who have been consulted from the west" said the formal statement, that there will not be a successful republican elector west of the Missouri river, outside of Iowa, and possibly Minnesota. The gentle men further believe that there will not be a republican elected south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers"
 A member of the Montana delegation suggested that the battle-ground would be in Illinois and Indiana, and that Illi- nois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Mchi- gan, West Virginia, Maryland, Dela- ware, New Jersey and Connecticut were doubtful states, and the republican party had to carry all of them in or der to succeed.
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