The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-04
seAREs THE BRYAN MANAGERS.
Senator Teller Promptly Heads OF 4
Conspiracy I'm Idaho.
,ecial in Chicago Post.

Washington Special in Chicago Post.
The Bryan managers have been kept busy
paign began but the sharpest one they
have yet encountered has only just been
weathered. The inside facts relating there
to are sensational in the highest degree and
of especial interest to Chicago and the mid
die West. They relate to threatened de-
sertion of the Bryan bed and board by the
free-silver boilers and to the heroic and
successful efforts of Jones, Faulkner But
Ter and Nevada Jones to avert impending
disaster.
The origin of the trouble was in remote
and half-depopulated Idaho, and the casus
belli was the discovery that the democrats
were quietly acquiescing In scheme TO
do Senator Fred Dubois out of re-
election. The first gun was fired by Senator
Teller and the weapon was loaded with
dynamite. It was aimed at the Auditorium
in the city of Chicago and it exploded right
at the feet of Chairman Jones.
Senator Teller is n fiery, fearless old gem
tleman. whose strong point is personal 10y
atty to his chosen friends. Directness of
purpose and of action is his ruling charac--
teristic. and when he makes a bluff it is
a moral certainty that ii will be carried out
to the fullest extent of his power and abil-
ity. Therefore, when Chairman Jones heard
from Teller last week his hair stood on
end and he nearly burned out several
long-distance telephone wires communicate
ing with advisers in Washington and else
where. The exact language employed by
Senator Teller in his vitrolic message TO
Chairman Jones cannot be repeated, but
the substance was clear and to this effect:
IF the Democratic and Popustic ma
tiOnal committees DO not summary and al
once put a stop to the conspiracy between
Senator Shoup and the Democratic and
Populistic cabals in Idaho against Senator
Fred Dubois and furnish satisfactory guar
antees of a united frec-slVer support for
his reelection | will have to cancel my ar
rangements with you and rearrange my
programme so to enable to devote
my entire time, from on, 10 the Idaho
campaign i will urge Senators Mantel
Cannon and Pritchard and all my free-sil-
yer Republican friends to concentrate their
energies Idaho TO the exclusion of all
other interests when of the mountain
States left the St. Louis convention 1t was
TO rise or fall stand together. Senator
Dubois is entitled to our devoted support
and he shall have il. 1t is not too late for
the national committees to exercise their
authority and to straighten out matters in
Idaho and undo the reasonable work di-
rected by Senator Dubois $ personal enc
mics looking TO his injury 1 feel assured
that your attention needs only to be called
to the Idaho situation to appreciate its i'm
portance. Senator Dubois must not be sac
rffccd'
The further information was commune
Gated to Chairman Jones that. according to
the far western understanding of the facts
the Democratic end of the so-called con-
spiracy against Dubois was engineered by
Senator Shoup'S partner. who is chairman
of the State Democratic committee, the
Populistic leader being brought into the
deal by agencies it might be dangerous TO
specify.
Senator Jones knew what that meant. 1t
meant that il the Idaho snarl were not adj