Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-07-07
SENATOR FRED T. DUBOIS, IDAHO.

SENATOR FRED T. DUBOIS, IDAHO.
called upon Senators Jones and cockrell
at the Sherman house to urge the nomina-
ton of Senator Teller as the one man who
would soldify the forces of silver and
make the victory of that metal absolutely
certain at the coming election. So far
as the expressions of the gentlemen yis-
tied We're concerned, it is said, the inter-
view was not very satisfactory. Senator
Dubois, of Idaho; Pettigrew, of North Da-
kota: and Mantle, of Montana and Repre-
sentative Hartman, Of Montana, the bolt
Ing delegates from the st. Louis conven-
ton. have headquarters at the Great North
ern hotel, whence they are directing very
active canvass in behalf of Senator Teller.
Senator Carter, of Montana, is expected to
arrive to-day. The report that Senator
Teller had issued a letter to the effect that
he would not accept the nomination If it
were rendered him was denied at these
headquarters during the afternoon, and Is
conclusively disproved by the letter from
the senator published Friday.
Garland for President.
The name Of A. H. Garland, Of Arkansas.
attorney general under Mr.. Cleveland's
first administration, has been added to the
list of candidates for the democratic sill
yer presidential nomination. The Garland
boom is not Of the instructed sort, but In
the Arkansas delegation, which is In
structed for Bland; the Kentucky delega-
ton, which is instructed for Blackburn:
in the Tennessee delegation, and in
other delegations, 1t is claimed that
he has personal friends who arc
putting IN quiet but effective work
in his behalf. His supporters only intend
to name him as u candidate In the event
that the leading men become so deadlocked
that it may be deemed the part of wis.,
dom to cast them all aside and take UP some
new man with no antagonisms or adverse
record to contend against. They claim
that ex-senator Garland was an original
silver man with clear record on that SUBJ
5ect in the United States senate, and that
he gained wide acquaintance with pub
lie men and affairs during his service In
Washington, which fully qualities him for
the nomination.
Bland or Teller.
Chicago, July 4-The situation Friday
morning was apparently clearer than it has
ton. The talk Ia now confined chiefly to
been in relation to the presidential nomina-
Bland and Teller, though Gov. Boies has
many strong supporters. The forces are
arrayed along the lines of axpediency on
the ono side and on the other side desire
70 confine the entries for the nomination
10 old members of the democratic party.
me advocates of cXpediency, that is those
VINO favor Senator Teller's nomination, are
working with great energy and apparent
confidence. TO the argument that this is
democratic convention and that a demo-
crat must and will be nominated the reply
Is returned that an 18-hour democrat is
good enough for the country and ought to
be Tor the convention.
New Declaration of Independence.
Among the ardent advocates of free coin
age of silver and incidentally of the nomi-
nation by this convention of Senator Tel
Ter. besides the boiling st. Louis delegates,
who are at work in Chicago, are George c..
Gorhan. of California, eX-secretary of the
United States senate, and Hallet Kill
bourne, OF the District of Columbia The
latter has prepared what he calls a new
declaration of independence, addressed to
the independent voters of the country,
which, after reciting at length certain un-
contested statements regarding the finan-
cial policy and monetary system of the
country, concludes: That the people of
the United States are, and of right ought
to be, free and independent of all entang-
ling alliances; that they are absolved from
all allegiance to the British gold standard
policy, and that all political connection be-
tween them is, and ought to be, dissolved;
and as free and independent people they
have full power, through the ballot boz. 10