The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-18

they will be unable to support Major Nc
KinIey or any one else not standing on
such platform.
This is exactly what the geld men wish.
They want the issue drawn as plainly as
possible.
Senator Teller left the subcommittee on
resolutions Immediately after the money
question was settled. He explained to a
reporter, who asked him if he had bolted,
that he was tired and needed rest, and,
the money question being the only one in
which he was interested, be had left as
soon as it was settled. AS to the money
plank adopted, Senator Teller was asked
what he would do.
ooh, suppose l will bring the matter
up again IN the whole committee, when
the subcommittee reports. 1t is rather
useless, however. The whole committee
is packed, just as the subcommittee was
packed, and there is no hope of getting
any other result"
will you then take it TO the floor OF the
convention2"
Eyes, 1 presume / shall make a fight
there, but there is practically no chance of
orr winning it. The whole thing is agreed
upon. We shall be allowed only five min
utes each for debate, and man can't
make much of an argument in five
minutes"
Returning to the subject of the money
plank agreed upon by the subcommittee,
Senator Teller said:
81 offered several substitute planks: one
was for the free and unlimited coinage of
silver at the ratio of Is to l. Another sug-
tod Nv, ~ oeT fl,-
the free coinage of American silver with a
duty on foreign. All of them, however,
were beaten by the same vote of to 1, by
which the plank was adopted as passed"
1t is believed that the little impromptu
silver convention, to be held at the Idaho
headquarters to-day or Thursday, will
nominate Henry NJ. Teller for President
of the United States. prepare a brief
platform declaring in favor of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of Is
to 1, and then issue an address to the
American people asking the support and
cooperation of all VINO believe that way.
A committee will be appointed to confer
with the leaders of the Democratic and
Populist parties with a view to inducing
them to accept Mr.. Teller and that plat
form. The Populists, who meet in st.
Louis on the 22d OF July, they claim, are
certain to do it.
The mails and telegraph wires brought
hundred of messages from Colorado, Utah,
Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, Ari-
IONA, South Dakota, Southern Illinois,
Kansas and Nebraska and other States
urging the free-silver men to walk out of
the convention, and w. ]. Bryan of Ne
oraska, Thomas Patterson of Colorado and
a score of other prominent silver men were
in conference with the silver delegates
constantly.
Last evening the Reed men began max
ing overtures TO the free-silver delegates,
seeking to bring them into the anti-Mc-
Kinley camp; but their overtures were
not received with enthusiasm, and they
were told that the silver men did not in
tend to vote on the nominations. Colo
RADIO, Utah and Idaho will not elect Ma
tional Committeeman. As soon as SEN
ator Teller is out of the Republican party
he will be put forward as the choice of the
Western free silver men for President.
Plans are being made to bring large
number of Colorado free-silver Repub-
hcans to Chicago when the National Demo-
cratic Convention meets, and every one
will wear Teller button.