Omaha daily bee., 1896-07-05

anu uue OF lno WckIcIn SllNNT mon WHO re-
Trained from boiling at St Louis, was IN
Chicago today. Senator Pettigrew and othei
boiling republicans saw Senator Carter and
urged him to remain and take a hand in the
Teller movement, This Senator Carter de
clined to do. He said that he was on his
way to the Yellowstone park TO rest for
some time and did not care to take part in
politics at present.
Senator John L. Jones Of Nevada Is amons
the recent arrivals. Ite is ranked as a pop.
ulist, but he has been circulating among
the silver democrats freely. He tells them
that il they will only nominate n silver man
upon whom all the silver forces can unite,
he will be with them for the nominee.
VIVA we want" he said, "is the uniflca.
ton of the silver forces, and that cannot be
secured except upon a candidate who will
be acceptable alike to silver democrats, sill.
Yer republicans and populists. l don't care
as to the name of the man, but he must be
such as to render 1t unnecessary for the
populists and silver men to make a nomina-
ton at st. Louis. We will make ourselves
ridiculous by having two candidates. Moth.
ing would please the gold people more thar
Tor us to be thus divided. and | hope such
a thing Will not occur. The democratic
party has an opportunity now to put itself in
condition to control affairs in this country
for forty years, but IL it fails to avail itself
Of the opportunity offered II Is doomed"
Senator Jones had a long conference with
Governor Altgeld during the afternoon.
The silver republicans who have bolted
the republican platform have been putting
forth every effort to secure the nomination
of Teller. The selection of the Colorado sen
ator Is very important to them. They dc
not feel that they can support any other
candidate, and they believe that they would
We able to adjust their affairs in their states
much more satisfactorily than with q
straight democratic candidate. The silver
republicans have determined to have Teller
in thp rarp whpthpr no 10 pn,niratal ly Al.
democrats or not. 1t is understood that
most OF the boilers of the republican con.
Vention who are now here will leave for
Denver as soon as they find that Teller
cannot be nominated. They will urge him
to accept an Independent silver nomination.
They say that with any other man than
Teller running, Mckinley will be elected,
and the chances are possible for the silver
men to lose the senate. If Teller runs in.
dependently 1t is claimed the silver men
will still be able to control the senate, and
the fight for silver can continue.
QUESTION OF A CAUCUS.
Whether there shall be a general silver
caucus Is as yet undetermined The matter
will probably not be settled before Monday
and it will then depend largely upon the
responses which may be received to the fol.
lowing note. which was sent out today by
the steering committee of five:
We would be pleased to know II your
delegation agrees with us in the convic-
ton that the best interests of the cause
we have at heart would be advanced by
having the platform and nomination prac-
tically determined by the silver men of the
convention: Please let us know at the
cation agrees in this view.
This is the first open and official avowal
the silverites have made that they mean
to agree upon a platform and a candidate,
If possible, before entering the convention,
though it has been surmised from the begin
ming that such were their plans.
1t is the intention, if the answers are
favorable, as it is believed they will be, to
next take steps to ascertain how the dele
cations stand both on the platform and the
nomination. This will be accomplished, If
possible, by a canvass of the delegations
separately by their representatives on the
general silver committee. If it is found
that this plan will not work satisfactorily
a caucus will be held. A majority of the
degelates now in the city are apparently
favorable to the caucus idea, but most of
the recognized leaders are disposed to staye
1t off as long as possible. They seem to
prefer that if a caucus is held at all it
should be postponed until at least one or
two ballots shall have been taken. Many
delegates are tied up by instructions and
would not feel free to act as they might
feel to be desirable, until after they had
had an opportunity to discharge their OBJ
legations to their constituents by voting for
the candidates covered by their instructions.
The action Of Governor Matthews sup
porters in declaring against a caucus has
had the effect of increasing the feeling in
favor of such a proceeding. The idea is
being industriously inculcated that those
who oppose a caucus are contemplating the
possibility of a union with the gold men.
There is still much discussion among the
delegates as co the time that will be con-
sumed by the convention. There is a gen
eral desire to have the time abbreviated as
much as possible, but there is no longer
much talk, as there was a few days since, of
being able to reduce the time to one day.
On the contrary, the belief is now quite
general that the convention will be in ses.
sion at least three or four days. Some of
the silver men contend that there should
be no discussion of the platform when
brought in, but that the previous question
should be moved Immediately upon the
presentation of the report. Others of the
silver leaders say that no such precipitation
as this would be necessary, and deprecate
the disposition to cut off reasonable debate.
1t appears now that this contention will
prevail, especially if the gold men prove to
be reasonable on the question of the tenn
porary organization. If the silver men fail
to have a general caucus before the begin
ming of the convention the chances are that
there will be several ballots for candidates,
and this course will have the effect of pro-
longing the time.
WAITE UOJTS THE CONVENTION.