The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-14
VIII There BE a BoItf


/ Notwithstanding the enthusiasm for Nc
Z Kinley al S. Louis and the efforts that
I are being made 10 harmonic all interests
] it looks very much now as If there would
I be a bolt led 10y Senator Teller. II has
I been announced all along that he would
I lead the Colorado delegation out OF the
/ convention q such concessions to silver
as DE demanded were not granted. IL is
/ quite certain now that there will be no
/ concession TO silver. and that while there
may not DE a clear and explicit deciara-
ton in favor Of the gold standard. the
platform viii be so plainly for sound
money that il will mean only the existing
gold standard.
OF the nine hundred delegates only about
one hundred and fifty are for silver. More
than that number demand an explicit
declaration for gold. The majority of the
delegates, however, seem inclined to har-
monize upon some such declaration as
that contained in the Indiana platform,
which was adopted by the Indiana state
republican convention on May Z. Our
dispatches yesterday gave the impression
that the conservatives were losing ground
and that those in favor OF an out and
out declaration for the gold standard
were gaining the ascendency. That
means that the monetary declaration viii
be stronger in the direction Of gold than
is the monetary plank in the Indiana
platform.
But it makes no difference whether the
al
dictate the monetary plank of the plat
form. Senator Teller and his followers
cannot stay in the convention If he stands
by the utterances attributed to him. As
far as he is concerned. either a radical
or a conservative monetary declaration
makes it impossible for him, unless his
opinions have undergone a change, to
continue to act with the republican par
ty A bolt at st. Louis, therefore, seems
to be inevitable.
But what effect would bolt OF the
silyerites at ST. Louis have upon the
Chicago convention? A few days ago 1t
was published that the silverite leaders
proposed to have Senator Teller nominated
by the democrats and indorsed by the
popullsts, If he bolted the st. Louis con-
vention Could the sllverltes carry out
such plan as that? We do not believe
they could, because the democrats are
not likely to commit the folly of nominal
ing as their standard bearer a man who
Is a republican and a protectionist. With
Senator Teller at the head Of the ticket
and the. certainty that the populsts would
demand recognition of some sort If the
combination should be successful, tens Of
thousands of silver democrats would not
take the trouble to vote. There is no
question that the great majority of the
sound money democrats would have moth
ing to do with the ticket.
While, therefore, it is extremely prob
able that Senator Teller and his followers
will leave the St Louis convention just
as soon as a sound money platform is
adopted there is not much, If any, prob
| ability that he will receive the nomination
at Chicago.
The populists might nominate him, but
why should he accept a nomination from
them, unless he is more anxious to go
before the country as a presidential can
didate than he is for the triumph of the
cause of silver? If the democrats refused
to nominate him, he would simply divide
the silver vote by accepting the popuHst
nomination.
The expected bolt at ST. Louis will be
comparatively small affair, but we do
not believe, as some clear-headed poll
ticians predict, that Senator Teller will
become the presidential candidate of all
the silvertes of the country.