Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-06-18

lions OF colorado anu IuaHOi from
Utah, Pettigrew from South Dakota,
Hartman from Montana, Cleveland
and Strother from Nevada. The Utah
men were Cannon, Kearns and Allen
None of the delegates from the terri
tories went out.
SILVER MEMS PROTEST.
While Senator Cannon. of Utah Reads IL
the Convention Becomes Unruly.
ST. LOUIS, June 10-After the adop-
ton of the platform by the convention
Senator Teller asked that Senator
Cannon be allowed to read a personal
statement prepared by the silver men,
which was granted, The statement
was as follows:
To the Republican National Convention OF
the United States; In announcing the purpose
asserted in this paper, 1t is due to our const!t-
ucnts and to ourselves that there Shall be a
public showing Of vindicatng facts The sole
authorized expression of national republican
faith from June g. 1899, until the present date
has been the platform adopted In the national
convention mt Minneapolis, Neither the utter
anCes of state conventions nor the attitude OF
individuals could change the tenor of that
platform, or abnte the activity of its binding
force. Every delegate to this convention was
elected rs its adherent and its advocate. True
one of its most important paragraphs has been
subjected to such divergence Of construction
as to make its language unsatisfactory during
/ the Intervening time, and dangerous If con-
tinued in the future, but Of the intention con-
tanned within that language there has never
been u doubt.
1t is the rightful province Of this convention
to revise the party tenets and to announce
anew the party purpose The majority Of this
convention in the exercise Of such authority
has This day made official annunci0tion of re-
| publican law and gospel VITA much OF the
| platform we agree, believing that in many eS-
scntiul particulars it compaSsoS the needs Of
| humanity, ullrms the maintenance OF right and
proposes the just remedy for wrong. But it
/ declares one elemental principle not only in
direct contraveuton Of the expression Of party
| faith in 1892, but in radical opposition TO our
| solemn conviction
We recognize that IN all matters Of mere
method it is but just and helpful that the mi =
nority shall yield to the will Of the majority
lest we have chaos in parties and in govern
ment But as no pronouncement by MAORI
ties can change opposing knowledge or belief
noritics to abandon or disavow their princi-
PIES Assurcdly, as it is requisite for peace
I and progress that mnoritics shall yield to mas
iorites in matters of mere method, just so
surely is it necessary for the same peace ana
progress that mihortios shall not yield in
matters OF fundamental truth
The republican platform Of 1892 affirmed that
the American people from tradition and inter-
] est favored bimetallism and demanded the use
of both gold and silver as standard money,
This was accepted by us asa declaration in be-
half Of the principle upon which rests the IN
tercSt OF every citizen and the safety Of the
United States, In such terms the platform
was then satisfactory TO the believers in BIZ
metalism within our party, Only because Of
cquvocal construction and evasion, has it
since been demonstrated to be insufficient
AS the declaration of 1892 has been by n ma.
ority of the party construed to justify a single
poid standard for our monetary basis, and u,
the recent trend Of the official power Of the
party has been in that direction, we can bu,
assume that the money plank of the new plat
form being much more favorable to perpetuate
gold monometallism, will be determnedy used
in behalf of that idea The republican party
has won its power and renoWn by pursuing It,
purposes cuuraseopSly and relentleSNly, 1t /,
therefore only in accordance with the party,
history to assume that II it shall come tC
present authority in the United States it viii
crystalline into law and administration under
mis- tempting platform the perpetual single
gold standard in our finances, This, II lonl
continued, will mean the absolute ruin of thl
producers Of the country and finally Of the ma
tlon itself
Tho American people not only favor btmetal
lsm from tradition and interest but from tina
wise instinct which has ALWAYS bppn manifest