The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-18
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A PATHETIC SCENE.
 St. Louis June 17,-It was 10;S0 when Chairman Foraker called the full com mittee on resolutions together, The platform was read by paragraphs, the agreement being that each paragraph should be voted upon separately. The preamble was objected to and the phra seology was ordered to be changed so that the wording of the paragraph should be less obscure.
 Mr. Teller of Colorado arose and stat cd that he prepared a minority report on the financial plank, which he would present when that subject was reach ed, The remainder of the platform, he added, was entirely satisfactory to him.
 The tariff plank was agreed to unaui- mously.
 The sugar plank was adopted pre- cisely In the words sent out by the United Press this morning. A strong declaration was made for a protective duty on wools and Woolens. The pro lection of American shipbuilding and the development of American comm rec were also demanded.
 All of MT Teller's amendments to the financial plank were voted down.
 There was a pathetic scene in the committee room when the financial plank was reached and Senator Teller presented his minority report It took the form of a substitute and declared in general terms for the free and un- limited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. Senator Teller spoke for thirty FAIl r.NI with deep interest, for all present real ized that the hour had arrived when one of the founders of the republican party, a man who has been conspicuous in republican councils for third of century, was taking a step which would separate him from his party friends. MT. Teller spoke with deep emotion and the sincerity of his purpose was so manifest that his words produced deep impression.
 He spoke of his long connection with the republican party. It was the party of his young manhood; the party of his choice It was the party with which he had affiliated for thirty-five years. It was party that had given him great honors, and he had served it Loyalty.
 put, llt thNltilliitCIb III tb N'lNS 'A deep earnestness, the time has come when l shall be obliged to leave it if it declares for the single gold standard.
 MT. Teller explained in conclusion that he had not originally intended to speak at such length, but that he was carried away by the importance of his subject It was purely a matter of conscience and principle. There was no question of personal ambition in volved. lie might be wrong; he be- lieved not. Time alone could tell whether he or the framers of this plank were right.
 Senator Lodge of Massachusetts eX- plained that no choice was left to the committee but to adopt the plank in question. He expressed his high ap preciation of MT, Teller, and stated his belief that he was acting from consci- entious motives, but that the republi cans had come to the parting of the ways and that in separating from MT. Teller and his associates he wished to announce that they carried with them the full respect of the committee.
 MT. Cleveland of Nevada asserted that with such a plank his state could not be kept in the republican column. MT. Lennon of California said that the western men had come here under the belief that the committee would be friendly to silver. He explained his connection with the three last republi can campaigns in California; that they had done what they could to keep the state in line, but the effect of this action would be to wipe out a republican ma jority of 40 900 and make the state dem ocratic.
 MT Cannon of Utah, like MT. Teller, created a profound sensation by the earnestness of his remarks. His voice was choked with emotional several times and he proceeded with great diff ficulty. He pointed out that Utah had been converted from a democratic ter ritory into a republican state, but that it would be irretrievably lost if the par ty were committed to the gold stand- ard. He bitterly deplored the necessi- ty which compelled him to leave the party of his choice, but existing cir cumstanCes left him no alternative.
 MT. Mott of North Carolina asserted that he had gone into this campaign for Mckinley believing that gentleman was friendly to silver, He had failed to find any utterance of McKinley's to the contrary. If Mir. Mckinley was un- favorable to silver there was nothing in his record to show it.
 Before a vote was taken on MT. Tell CTS Is to l substitute MT. Darlington of Pennsylvania arose and replied spe- officially to Senator Teller's declaration that the republican party had fallen Wall streets.
 MT. Dubois of Idaho also announced that he would follow his associates, Messrs. Teller and Cannon, in leaving the party, although he regretted that necessity compelled him to take this step lie spoke at some length of the loyalty of the states to the party. He showed that New York was represent ed in the senate by two democrats. that Indiana had two and Ohio and Illinois one each. If this gold plank was adopt ed the republican party would, he said lose control of the senate and not re- gain it in a quarter of a century MT Brewer of Michigan expressed his re- gret that the silver men should feel compelled to take the course they had indicated However. he for one, felt that the parting of the roads between Senator Dubois, his associates and the constituents on the one hand and the republican party on the other had been reached when the five republican silver senators took the ground in the United