Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-22
A UNION TICKET
Efforts Of the Silver Leaders to Com
bine the West and South.
SILVER REPUBLICANS INSIST ON TELLER
Some Good Southern Man to Go
Along With Him.
A PROB LEM AT CHICAGO

The silver problem as 1T exists today is
precisely as was forecast a year ago. Then
1T was that the free coinage leaders pub
licly declared that the fate of silver de-
pended on union of the republican west
and democratic south, with such results in
the middle states as would follow such a
| union. Firm in that conviction, they went
at orce to work, and the present situation
is of their making. Their appeal is to the
two sections mentioned If union is effect
ed, the silver men Will feel assured of VIC
tory, if union is not effected, the western
| men, for their part, will confess defeat IN
advance. VIII union be effected?
That Means Teller for First Place.
A union of effort means a union ticket
a man from the west and man from the
south The republican west claims the
right to name the man for first place. She
puts forward Mr.. Teller. And, more than
that, she insists that he must be taken.
She has no words of dsparagemeHt for the
southern leaders, but Mr.. Teller, she
believes is the one man in the whole coun-
try who by his aggressive services stands
the mCst eminently and distinctly for sill
Vers cause and therefore the man to rep
resent 1t this year. Mr.. Teller himself is
silent, but available. He knows what is
going on in his interests, and he is not OBJ
JectinS. Mr.. Dubois, his protege and bo-
som friend. and now also his fellow bolter
and representative, puts the case with en-
tire ffankness. Effective union is impos-
sible without Mr.. Teller as the candidate.
This comes pretty near to laying down the
law to the south, and this is what the
southern men will have TO consider at Chi
cago.
Two Prominent SOutherners.
For second place several strong and al
tr;ctive men are mentioned. They are. Of
course. southern men, and thoroughly rep
resentative of their section. Any one of
them would be entirely acceptable to the
western men.
Mr.. Daniel of Virginia is one of these. He
is a typical southern man, suave, eloque 1T
and plucky. He has always stood for sill
yer. He in the company of those who
resisted with all their might the repeal of
the purchasing clause of the Sherman act.
Being a speaker of high repute, he is puI
forward in the debates, and tackles the
biggest Of the gold bugs
Cap. Evan Howell of the Atlanta Con-
s'itution is mentioned Capt. Howell has
never held office, but with his pen has done
a good deal for silver. Georgia's position
in the silver line is accredited much to
his influence as to that exerted by Mr..
Crisp. The two men have worked together
in perfect accord. Capt. Howell was among
the first TO urge that the west and south
should unite to restore silver to it's former
place as money of redemption in this coun-
try.
Mr.. EUstfs of Louisiana.
A third, and very interesting, man men
toned is Mr.. Eu;tis Of Louisiana. And
an interesting announcement just now is
that Mr.. Eustis is on the ocean on his
way home for visit. He VIII land in New
York next Saturday. Although in office
Under this ton, he is a silver
man. His most notable speech while he
was In the Senate was in advocacy of free
coinage, and it was regarded the most
lotable speech of that session on that sub
Ject. 1t Is likewise urged in support of
Mr.. Eustis that he is thorough Ameri-
can, and in his London speech last year led
an those members of his party who have
since Insisted on stiff assertion Of Amer
lean rights and American obligations He
fcund his voice on that subject eight
months before his chief in the White House
did.
The list is a pretty full one. Mr. Walthall
OF Mississippi, Mr.. Morgan of Alabama
Mr.. Bland of Missouri, Mr.. Culberson of
Texas are all on it, and each with a string
OF excellencfes attached to his name
Some Tariff Differences.
The proposition recognizes only silver.
With the single exception of Capt Howell,
who has always been a moderate protec-
zionist. supporting Mr.. Randall against Mr..
Carlisle for Speaker when the tariff issue
was brought up in the organization of the
Forty-eighth Congress, the men on the list
from which it is proposed to select a yoke
mate for Mr.. Teller are all low tariff men,
Some Of them are almost free traders. Mr.
Teller Is a protectionist, outspoken. How
a combination would work, therefore,
which, after the silver question was dis
posed of, would be confronted with ques-
tions about which no agro ement would ap-
pear to be possible. is one of the problems
the democrats at Chicago next month will
have to WreStle with prayerfully and ener-
geticaly.
Meanwhile the campaigns of western
democrats like Bland and Boies are pro-
crossing steadily, on the theory that while
the presidential nominee must be a west
ern silver man, it is not necessary that he
should be a republican, and that the silver
republicans will follow democratic nomi-
nee at Chicago with the understanding
that Teller is to be made Secretary Of the
Treasury.