The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-19
His Conduct and Utterances in
Marked Contrast with Those of
the Colorado Senator.
KISSES. H00TS AND JEERs
AS THE LITTLE BAND OF SILVER.
TIES LEFT THE HALL.
PettiGrew's Action q Surprise to Many
Republicans The Dakota
Mans Explanation.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ST. LOUIS, June 1s-Arranged as It was.
purely for spectacular effect, the bolt of
the handful of free silver men in the Re-
publican national convention to-day was
painful scene. The little group of malcon-
tents were Kissed by the convention
There was nothing of dignity or honor I'm
it. The responsibility for the humiliation
which the convention by every method put
on its seeding colleagues, lies at the door
of Senator Cannon. Truth compels the ad-
mission that Mr. Teller acted with grace
and dignity. AS he stepped on the platform
his appearance showed him to be a very
sick man. and there is every ground for the
apprehension which his friends express.
His manner showed that he realized far
more than all the others the far-reaching
Importance of the step he was about to
take. His voice-wa pitched in It's most
mournful cadence, and though he was at
first heard with ill-concealed impatience
he won the sympathy of his hearers when
he told them that he understood that to-
days action was probably the writing of
his political death warrant. But it was an
evil moment for Mr.. Teller and his follow
ers that brought Frank Cannon to the
stand. His intemperate statements, his de-
words and gestures. his manifest contempt
for those who had differed from him
promptly crushed any federation that Mr..
Teller's manly course had aroused. Mr.
Cannon reached the climax when he de-
nounced the party at whose convention
and by whose courtesy he was being heard
as oppressor, and angrily added that he
would leave
bolt and be damnedv' cried out a man
in the gallery. and every other man in the
convention agreed with him.
Mr.. Thurston administered crushing re-
buke to the Utah Senator when he begged
the indulgence of the convention for a few
moments longer hearing for Mr.. Cannon,
saying that "the Republican party need not
fear such statements" Mr.. Cannon con-
tinued his coarse virulence until whatever
his last words may have been, he only
really knows, for he was hisSed off the
stage.
Mr.. Teller rose and several OF his friends
shook hands heartily with him. He walked
down from the platform. followed by Cam
non and as they passed along the aisle
toward the door they were joined by Sem
ator Dubois. Messrs. Hartman. Pettigrew
and the others. There were men In the
convention who remembered seeing the
bolt at Baltimore in 1861, but they agreed
that the scene was tame compared to what
followed. The whole convention, delegates,
alternates and audience, rose with one ac-
cord to hoot The departing seceders. The
air was choked with howls and shouts and
imprecations. Mr.. Teilers pale face flushed
pitifully. To him. one of the founders of
the party; to him, who had been power
in politics before many of the men who
drove him out in scorn and contumely to-
day were in swaddling clothes; to him, who
felt that he was walking out of all asso-
citation and friendship to-day with the men
who have been his life companions, the
walk from the platform to the door of the
convention was more bitter than has ever
been any walk to any Canossa. The band
struck up Hail Columbia" The audience,
with one accord, took UP the refrain. but
in its temper ii would rather have heard
the band play the "Rogue's March"
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