The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-04-11
10 Mr.. CHANDLER
Henry N. Putney Has Fun With
the Fiery Senator.
Chairman of CO Amittee OF Resolu!
5aions of the New Hampshire
Stnte Convention Explains
the Instructions Given.

aions of the New Hampshire
Stnte Convention Explains
the Instructions Given.
Manchester, N. H., April 4.-Henry N.
Putney, chairman of the committee on
resolutions Of the New Hampshire state
convention, has replicd to the criticisms
of Senator w. E. Chandler, contained in
a letter to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
of Massachusetts, in a letter. In this
letter Mr.. Putney says:
Hon. William e. Chandler: My Dear
;%enator--T have read your letter to Sen
tor Lodge, in which You explain why
;ou do no. carry back = Washington
he sheaves you catne =, re'p. l am
90 we'll satisfied with the outcome OF
he state convention to wish to fight tae
attic over again. You say. in effect:
II. The Mckinley movement was or
nized at Manchester by me, he pre-
XII for the outbreak being your de-
anciation of Mr.. McKinley's friends.
hich was represented as an attac"
on him personally. The Mckinley
..ovement grew spontaneously al! over
The state. The credit for letting 1t loose
and giving it sweep in he convention
belongs to William e. Chandler, not to
me.
'2. When / called OF you at Concord
and read the platform l had prepared,
you did say the delegates should not be
Instructed. You did not say that n
names of candidates should not be
mentioned. / neither assented nor dis
scented.
"s. In your words: This forenoon,
just before starting for the convention,
I heard accidentally. that the commits
tee on resolutions the night before had
decided to add to the platform which
had been shown to me a resolution de-
clarIng that Mr.. Reed vas noble and IL
lustrious and that Mr. Mckinley was
pure and able. l also learned hat 1t
had been arranged to keep the decision
a secret
This is wrong. Nearly every dele
gate went to Concord with the feeling
the party must not be held respon-
sible for what you had aid about Mr..
Mckinley in you interviews n let
ters. During the afternoon and even
ing, at least q dozen RESOLUTIONS We're
considered, ranging from one which In
dignantly repudiated our utterancesl
calling you by name, to n which In
structed the delegates for Mckinley
The committee on resolutions the next
morning, for the first time, heard the
platform, and voted at once unanimous
ly to report II. Five minutes later l
gave a copy to the foreman In your
printing office. He set 1t up and sent
1t to you The assertion that ! arranged
or designed to keep 1t from you a mo-
men Is based entirely on misinforma-
ton. =
"You said the previous evening that
If an attempt was made to declare Nc
kinley the second choice of the convent
ton you would leave the chair and op-
pose 1t. A number of influential friends
told you you were fortunate to get moth
Ing worse; that with h temper of the
convention as 1t was, any attempt to
oppose so mild a resolution would result
In the passage of a much more drastic
one. and they asked you not to make n
fight which would be hopeless from the
first. You p%rudently accepted their
view and sent word you would not con-
tend. You We're not a coward. You
were not cheated. You saw the ava
lanche coming and got as far towards
the edge of 1t as possible, like the wise.
man wv oAS. No1ASSNNN
You accepted the Inevitable. The only
man really opposed to 1t was yourself.
When o stepped aside, 1T was unani-
nous.
~. The cheering. showed the conven-
ttion was for Reed? Not a bit of it.
When Reeds name was mentioned, his
friends cheered. but the grandest dem
onstratlon of approval for a candidate
In a New Hampshire convention fol-
twenty years was when 1 read the reso-
luton indorsing Mckinley as "a pure
and able statesman and the equal OF
Reed in our favor.
rs. The 'mongrel platform and the
delegation are ludicrously incongrous!
Not at all. They correspond to a nicely
They are both for Reed and Mckinley
for Reed until his chances disappear
for Mckinley ever after. 1t was q Nc
Kinley convention. You should be
thankful hat it was satisfied with
smashing the anti-McKinley
comhine. The platform is more
expressive of the real sen.
timents of New Hampshire repub.
licans that any other hat has been writ
ten for years. 1t is your platform be-
cause you assented to 1t. 1t Is the plat
form of the party in this state. because
1t voices the feelings of nearly every re-
publican. They do not much expect to
see Reed nominated; first, because his
rival is carrying pretty much all before
him, and secondly, because they know
the Platts and Quays and Clarksons,
who have seized upon his candidacy
in order to hold New England delegates,
have intended TO betray him If the time
ever came when they could take their
retainers into another camp. This be-
trayal our convention has made mpossi-
Bile. Whenever Reeds cause is hope
less there will be eight good and true
men from New Hampshire to vote for
Mckinley, and the rest Of New England
will follow. l am glad to learn that Mr..
Reed is a ~bimetallist, for Mr.. Lodge.
to whom you maker report of your stew
ardship, n whom you seem to recog-
nize as his manager, has put him on a
gold-bug platform In Massachusetts.
yours truly. Henry NJ. Putney.
Manchester. N. H., April 2, 1885,,
Deaths From Black Plague.
Yokohama, April 1.-Two deaths
from black plague have occurred in this
city and the authorities have knowledge
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