Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-09-04
INTERVIEWS WITH DELEGATES
Kootenai Free silver Men Denounce
Crane.

A number of the delegates from the
Boise convention came in on the after
noon train yesterday Those who went
down to attend the silver convention
said that the method of the people of
Occur d'Alene was not an unpopular
expression of indignation at the action
of Crane.
Monroe Daggett, one of the delegates
from Kootenai county, who lives at st.
Marie's, had no hesitation in expressing
his feelings on the subject.
II heard of the hanging of Crane in
effigy this evening"" said he, when
asked about the Occur d'Alene affair
Without cause or provocation, he left
the convention that he was sent to at
tend and went into the camp of the
gold men, When he left Spokane he
took seat in the Pullman car of Mark
Hanna and accepted the Inequalities
of that crowd. He was supposed to be
supporter of Dubois, but I always
had grave doubts about it, Two years
ago he and five others who were sent
to support Sweet bolted the instruc-
tions given them by the county convan-
ton and caused the defeat of Sweet.
Acting in this manner, directly con-
trary to the wish of the people who
sent him as a delegate, 1 have natural
~ had no confidence in him since. He
was nominated at the late county con-
yention for state senator as a Dubois
man, and with the direct and distinct
understanding that he would support
Dubois If elected. Had he not been
pledged this way, he could not have
been nominated With the same I'M
derstanding, he went to Boise as a del
egate. He was party to the ironclad
instructions passed by our county con-
vention, that the delegates who went
to Boise were to support Fred Dubois.
A person who was not SO pledged and
outspoken, could not have been sent by
that convention as a delegate. | was
not at all surprised at his actions. We
reached there ahead of the southern
delegates. and when they arrived both
the silver and gold delegates, with a
band in the lead, went to the train and
marched back in two columns: the gold
men going to the Overland hotel, their
headquarters, and the silver men to
the Capital hotel, our headquarters.
Crane did not march down with either
column, but put up at the Overland,
and was with the gold men all the
time. Crane did not come into our con-
vention. He had six proxies, and when
the credentials committee of the gold
convention admitted him, and permit
ted him, with Major Barnes, Sheriff
Ryan and Glen King, to vote the Il
votes of Kootenai county in that con-
yention, he very graciously and most
literally came and gave over his prox-
ies.'
''Were you asked to ride in the Nc.
Kinley car and have your expenses
paid?"
1T was suggested to me that If ]
was going down to attend the gold con-
vention l could ride in the Hanna cal
free, otherwise could not When the
proposition was made l replied that ]
considered my manhood worth more
than s2l.75."
In justification of Crane.
A. Crane was not in the city last
evening. He came up on the same train
with the other delegates, but left al
Tekoa to go to his home at Harrison
1t is said that the reception he received
there was a cold one.
The friends of Crane justify his ac-
ton in this way. They say that when