The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-06-12
TELLER is THE NOMINEE
McKinley's Financial Views
Are Conflicting.

walls by ones and twos, but now they are
coming by the carload, and 1t will be o
week before all have arrived. Although
tits almost week until the convention
will be called to order, there is vast
amount OF preliminary work to be done.
There are scores OF centcsts to be decided
before the national committee, which
| meets tomorrow, and there is much
routine work to be done.
There is already considerable discus
sion among delegates and party leaders
who have arrived as TO the probable
course to be pursued on the financial
question, and it is believed this question
will receive more attention than any
other in the committees and among dele
gates generally.
The possibility Of bolt by the free
silver delegates in case of the incorpora.
ton of plank in the platform which
they will conetrue as unfriendly to silver
is discussed freely in the hotel Hobbies,
and by none more SO than by the silver
men themselves, Of whom there are
already several in the city. There has
been no general conference among them,
however, and will not be until the arrival
OF Senators Teller, Dubois, Cannon and
others, who are not expected till the
latter part OF this week or the first OF
next. It is gathered from those who are
already here that the disposition to bolt
the convention is confined to but very
few.
One of the most prominent of the sill.
yer delegates said tonight that the men
from the West felt that they had been
elected by republican Constituencies to
meet in convention and do all they could
for silver, but that they were not auth
orized to bolt If they found themselves in
a minority, and the more they conferred
the more general was the opinion that
they should stand by the republican
organization.
Among the republicans of the West
the name of Nj. FL. DeYoung, mem Der of
the national committee from California,
and an advocate Of free silver, is men.
toned for the vice-presidency. When
Mr. DeYoung was asked for an expires.
sion OF his views as to the course of the
silver men, he said:
"The delegates from the silver states
are very determined in their desire to
advance the interests of silver. They
want the right to have free coinage OF
silver at 16 to |. Some OF them are very
radical, and talk about leaving the con-
vention in case their views are not
adopted. This action will not be general.
IT is generally known that Colorado,
under the leadership Of Teller, proposes
to walk out Of the convention. The Cali
fornia delegation has been instructed for
Mckinley, and the convention adopted
resolution for the free coinage of silver,
But our delegation does not intend to
leave the party or convention in case of a
failure of that nature. The men, espec-
tally of Colorado, Montana and other
states, think that, IL Teller would be
nominated by the democratic party in
Chicago, there would be no question of
his endorsement by the two conventions
that meet in ST. Louis July 22-that is,
the silver party convention and the pop
Mist convention. In fact, it is an under
standing already made and agreed that
both conventions will indorse the nomln
alton of Teller. II Teller is nominated
by these three parties my private opin-
ion is that be will come very near being
elected.
There is one serious question,
though, TO the whole OF this proposition !:
Will the democratic party take a man
out of the republican national conven.
ton and make him the standard bearer
of the democratic partyY The impress
sion among leading democrats is that
they will not do it. l think il Teller
leaves the convention, Montana and
Idaho will follow. Utah, as a whole
will not. There may be one OF their
delegates that will. Nevada is Just as
anxious for free silver as any of the
other states. While ! do not know what
their delegates propose to do, they can
be depended upon TO do everything that
lies in their power to advance the inter-
ests Of silvern
"What will be the probable programme
in the national convention OF The silver
men2" was asked, to which Mr.. De-
Young replied:
''The members Ct the platform COM
mittee will offer an unlimited silver
coinage plank, and if rejected By that
committee. when the committee makes
their report to the convention, Senator
Teller will prcbsbly be the one TO offer
in the open convention substitute for
the plank reported by the committee, in
the shape of one favoring the unlimited
coinage Of silver. They then will insist
on rollcall on the substitute, and If de-
feated they will walk out Of the conyen-
ton"
Colonel Isaac Trumbo, one OF the free.
silver delegates from Utah, eaid, when
asked if silver men would bolt;
This is matter for farther consider
alton Thus far we have believed We
could fight the matter within our party
lines. but if we fail We may be compelled
to adopt some other course nut of self
protection"