Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-06-10
SILVER OR A BOLT
is the Talk Among Free Coin.
age Men at St. Louis.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES THE OUTLOOK.

Mooted Prospect of Teller Being the Stand
Refusal by tho Republicans to Adopt .
Satisfactory Declaration Likely to Re
suit in n waIk-Out-McKinley Has Half
Dozen Pianks, All Sound Money" Says
Kerens-The Color Line Difficulty
Mound City Full Of Politicians.
ST. LOUIS, June 1O.-Politicians great
and small, black and white and all the in
sermediate shades of complexion from all
over the Union are swarming into this big
town. For the last week they have been
dropping in at odd intervals by ones and
twos But now they are coming by the
carload, and it will be n week before they
will all have arrived. Although it is al
most q week until the convention will be
called to order there is. a vast amount of
preliminary work to be done. There are
scores Of contests to be argued before the
national committee which meets today,
snd in addition to this there is vast
deal of routine work to be done. The bulk
Of the contests are, as usual, from the
southern states, hardly any of those states
being without contest
Talk About the Financial Plank.
There is already considerable discussion
among the delegates and other party lead
ers who have arrived as to the probable
course that will DO pursued on the finan-
cial question, and it is becoming evident
that this question will receive more atten-
ton than any other in the committee on
resolutions and from the delegates gener-
ally. The possibility of bolt by the free
silver advocates in case of the incorporation
of q plank in the platform which they will
construe as unfriendly to silver is dis
cussed freely in the hotel Hobbies, and by
none more SO than by the silver men them
selves of whom there are already several
in the city. There has been no general
conference among them. however, and
will not be until the arrival of Senators
Teller, Dubois, Cannon and Others, who
are not expected until the latter part of
this week or the first of next
Only n Few Inclined to Bolt.
1t is gathered from those who are al
ready here that the disposition to bolt the
convention is confined to but very few
One of the most prominent of the silver
delegates said last night that the men
from the west felt that they had been
elected by Republican constituencies to
meet In convention to secure all they
could for silver, but they were not author
lied to bolt if they found themselves in q
| minority, and the more they conferred the
more general was the opinion that they
| should stand by the Republican organiza-
ton. Among the representatives from
the west the name of Colonel NJ. H. De
Young, member of the national commit
A,,x
of free silver, is already being urged in
connection with the nomination for the
vice presidency.
Opinion OF Editor DeYoung.
When DeYoung was asked for an ex-
preston of his views rs to the course Of
the silver men he said: "The delegates
from the silver states are very determined
in their desire to advance the interests of
silver. They want the right to have free
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1.
Some of them are very radical and talk
about leaving the convention in case they
fail to have their views adopted. This ac-
ton will not be general. 1t is generally
known that Colorado, under the leader
| ship of Teller, proposes to walk out of the
convention. The California delegation
has been instructed to vote for Mckinley,
. and the convention adopted resolution
in favor of the free coinage of silver But
| our delegation does not intend to leave the
party nor the convention in case of the
failure of that issue.
II Teller Should Get a Nomination.
1.-THE silver men, especially of Colorado,
Montana and other states where silver is
an important factor, think that if Teller
should be nominated by the Democratic
party ut Chicago there would be no ques-
| ton of his Endorsement by the two con-
ventiOns that meet in St. Louis on July
Ss-that is the silver party convention and
the Populist party. In fact it is an IN
derstanding already made and agreed to
that both of these convention will indorsc
the nomination of Teller. If Teller is
nominated by these three parties my
private opinion is that he will come very
near being elected"
but WILL THE DEMOCRACY DO 1T /?