Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-06-25
SENATOR TELLER LEADS TWENTY
THREE DELEGATES OUT.
WAS A DRAMATIC SCENE
One-SeVenth Of the Republican Strength
in the Senate Now AntagOnIstlo to
the Financial Policy of the
st. Louis PlatfOrm-saIutes
Fired In Colorado In
Honor of BOlterS.

delegates played a star engagement
yesterday. 1t was brief, but dramatic
In the extreme, and easily divided the
public attention with the presidential
nomination. The proceedings in con.
vention were of an impressive nature,
and oil thinking men present felt the
| gravity of the situation. There were
only twenty-three of the silver men
who left the hall, but there was q
| feeling that the hearts of a hundred
and more followed the departing del
egations down the long aisle as they
strobe along. Nevertheless the band
! played, the convention Joined in sing
ing 1.-The Red, White and Blue" and
the business of the great gathering
was proceeded With as if no unusual
event had occurred.
The men who had walked out held
a miniature convention of their own
and agreed to spring Senator Teller
of Colorado, who has been their
leader in the independent movement,
as candidate for President.
1t was we'll understood among the
boiling delegation that while only
one delegate from Montana, Con.
gresham Hartman, went out on the
bolt, the full delegation was in per-
feet sympathy with the movement,
including Senators Carter and Mantle.
1t is confidently expected shat the en-
tire Montana delegation will be found
working in perfect harmony with
their boiling colleagues.
Counting Senators Carter and
Mantle, and the four senators, Teller,
Dubois, Cannon and Pettigrew, who
went out, there are six senators who
participated in the protest against the
gold plank, They constitute almost
one-seventh of the Republican
strength in the senate.
Their detection reduces the Repub-
lican representation in the Senate to
thirty-eight, and makes the Repub.
lican vote one less than that Of the
Democrats. All this, of course, de-
ponds upon the extent to which Carter
and Mantle join in the independent
movement. The silver men regard
this as one of the strongest grounds
of vantage occupied by them.
When Senator Teller was asked
about the movement to place him in
the field as an independent candidate
for the Presidency, he declined to dis
cuss it, or tosay whether he would ac-
cept or decline. at u.s." he said, "a
movement with which 1 have had
nothing to do, and which have not
encouraged. do not, therefore, feel
called upon to discuss it and shall not
do so at the present time"
The Senator received over hun.
dred kilograms during the afternoon.
Most of them were from the Western
states, but there were some from
Pennsylvania and two or three from
New York and New England each. A
large majority of them Endorsed the
course taken, but some condemned it.
One message from Ohio said: 81 do
not regard you as representative
Republican"
Upon reading this aloud to his
friends, the Senator remarked: II
agree with him, but don't see why
he should go to the expense of tele-
gram to tell me what already know"
lie received the following telegram
from Governor McIntire of Colorado:
"a national salute with eight guns
to follow, being fred at the state cap
itol in honor OF yourself and the
other Colorado delegates for your
brave and patriotic stand and loyalty
to the people you represent We are
proud of the delegation, and de-
lighted"
Statutes were also fred in Pueblo,
LeRdville and Aspen.
Senator'S Mantle, Carter aud Hop,
T. C. Marshall of the Montana dele
CATION jointly stated after the
convention that their refusal
to walk out OF the convention
should not DO construed as in
any manner constituting an accept.
nnce Of the terms of the platform on
the financial question. They further
stated that the entire delegation was
united in unalterable and unqualified
opposition to the platform adopted
insofar as the financial questionois
concerned.