The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-03
Caustic Reply to the Charge that
Have Been Instructed for Reed.
ANOTHER JOINT DEBATE
HOkB SMITH AND Ex.sPEAKER
CRISP SPEAK AT ATLANTA AGAIN.
More Praise for the Adminfstration's =
Financial Policy and a Vigorous
RejOinder by the Silverite.

MANCHESTER, N. H., April 2.-Henry Nj.
Putney. chairman of the committee on res
olutions of the New Hampshire State con-
vention. has replied to the criticisms of
Senator William E. Chandler, contained in
a letter to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Of
Massachusetts,, in a letter to-day. In this
letter Mr.. Putney says:
my Dear Senator-I have read your
letter to Senator Lodge In which you ex-
plain why you do not carry back to Wash
lngton the sheaves you came to reap. | am
State convention to wish to fight the battle
over again: You say, in effect:
"F'irst-The Mckinley movement was
ganized at Manchester by me, the pretext
for the outbreak being your denunciation of
McKinley's friends, which was represented
as an attack on him personally. The Nc
KiEey meyement grew spontaneously all
belongs to William E. Chandler, not to me.
"Second-When I called on you at Con-
cord and read the platform had prepared,
you did say the delegates should not be
Instructed. You did not say that the names
neither assented nor dissented.
"Third-In your words: This forenoon,
just before, starting for the convention,
resolutions the night before had decided to
add to the platform which had been shown
to me resolution declaring that Mr.. Reed
was noble and illustrious and that Mr.. Nc
Kinley pure and able. also learned
that it had been arranged to keep the de-
cision secret This is wrong Nearly
every delegate went to Concord with the
feeling that the party must not be held re-
sponsible for what you had said about Mr..
Mckinley in your interviews and letters.
During the afternoon and evening at least
a dozen resolutions were considered, ranging
from one which Indignantly repudiated your
utterances, calling you by name, to one
which instructed the delegates for Mckinley.
The committee on resolutions the next morn
ing for the first time heard the platform
and voted at once unanimously to report it.
Five minutes later gave copy TO the
foreman in your printing office. He set it
up, and sent 1t to you. The assertion that
l arranged or designed to- keep 1t from you
q moment Is based entirely on msinforma-
tion You said the previous evening that
II an attempt was made to- declare Nc
Kinley the second choice of the convention
you would leave the chair and oppose 1t.
A number Of influential friends told you
you We're fortunate to get nothing worse;
that with the temper OF the convention, as
1t was, any attempt to oppose so mild a
resolution would result in the passage Of
much more drastic one. and they asked you
not to make a fight which would be hope,
less from the first. You prudently accepted
their view and sent word you would not
contend. You were not a coward. You were
not cheated. You saw the avalanche COM
ing and got as far towards the edge of 1t
as possible. like the wise man you are. You
conceded nothing. You accepted the inevit-
ne Gpy hsn an ye eas aside 10 II
was unanimous.
''Fourth-The cheering showed the con-
vention was for Reed Not bit of it.
When Reeds name was mentioned his
friends cheered. but the grandest demon
stration of approval for a candidate in
New Hampshire convention for twenty years
was when I read the resolution indorsing
Mckinley as "a pure and able statesman
and the the equal of Reed in our favor.
"Fifth-'The mongrel platform and the
delegation are 'ludicrously incongruous.' Not
at all They correspond to a nicely. They
are both for Reed and Mckinley; for Reed
until his chances disappear; for Mckinley
TT was a Mckinley convention. You
should be thankful 1t was satisfied with
smashing the anti-McKinley combine. The
ments of New Hampshire Republicans than
any other that has been written for years
1t is your platform, because you assented
to it. 1t is the platform Of the party in
this State, because Ii voices the feelings
OF nearly every Republican. They do not
much expect to see Reed nominated. First,
because his rival Is carrying pretty much
all before him, and secondly, because they
know the Platts and Quays and Clarksons
who have seized his candidacy in order to
hold New England delegates, have intended
TO betray him if the time ever came when
they could take their retainers into another
camp. This betrayal our convention has
made impossible. Whenever Reeds cause
Is hopeless there will be eight good and
true men from New Hampshire to vote for
Mckinley, and the rest of New England
will follow.
bimetallist, for Mr.. Lodge, to whom you
you seem to recognize his manager, has
put him on gold bug platform in Mal5sa-
HENRY NJ. PUTNEY."