The record-union., 1896-06-19

nlodifieS in the markets of the WOrDu.
We are a nation of producers. Our
creditors are nations Of consumers. Any
system of international or national
finance which elevateS the price or
human product makes our burden
lighter and gives promise of that day
when it shall be entirely lifted and our
country freed financially as 1T is po-
litically, from the domination Of mon
archy and foreign autocracy. Any sys-
tenn of finance which tends to depre-
ciate the price of human products,
which We must sell abroad. but In SO
far adds to the burden of our debt and
conveys a threat of the perpetual ser
vitude of the producers of our debtor
nation to the consumers of creditor ma
tions.
ITO us 1t is a folly without a paral-
lei that this country or any political
party should deliberately accept a
money system which enriches others
at our cost. History, philosophy NOR
ais, all join with the commonest instinct
of preservation in demanding that
the United States shall have a just and
substantially unvarying standard COM
posed of all available gold and silver,
and with 1T our country will progress
20 financial enfran chisement But with
single gold standard the country will
go ON to worse destruction, to contin-
ued falling pric0l, until our people
would become the hewers of wood and
the drawers of water for the consum-
e,s in creditor nations of the earth
ITO such an unholy end we will not
lend ourselves. Dear as has been the
Republican name to it's adherents,
that name is not so dear as the faith
itself, and We don't sacrifice one jot
or little Of the mighty principles by
which Republicanism has uplifted the
world when we say that at this parting
OF the ways we cling to the faith, let
the name go where it will. We hold
that this convention has seeded from
the truth; that the triumph of such
secession would be the eventual de-
struction Of our freedom and our civil
ization. To that end the people will not
knowingly follow any political party,
and we choose to take our place In the
ranks OF the great mass of citizens
who believe that the hour has come
Tor justice.
Did we deem this issue less import
ant to humanity we would yield, since
the associations of all our political
lives have been intertwined with the
men and the measures of this party
and the past mighty achievements.
But the people cry aloud for relief.
They are bending beneath a burden
growing heavier with the passing
hours; endeavor no longer brings it's
just reward. FeaTfulness takes the
place of courage and despair usurps
the throne of hope, and unless the laws
Of the country and unless the policies
Of political parties shall be convert
ed into mediums of redress, the effect
Of human desperation may some time
he witnessed here as in other lands and
in other ages.
Accepting the fiat Of this conven-
ton as the present purpose Of the
party, we withdraw from this conven-
ton, to return to our constituents the
authority with which they vested us,
believing that we have better dis
charged their trust by this action,
which restores to them authority un-
sullied, than by giving cowardly and
insincere Endorsement to the greatest
wrong ever willfully attempted within
the Republican party-once redeemer
of the people, but now about to become
their oppressor, unless proyidentially
restrained by the votes of free men,"
When Cannon had nearly finished the
reading of the document, cries of
''Time!" and counter cries Of Let him
finish," were raised.
The Chair again appealed for re-
spectful attention to the protest, which,
he said, was nearly finished.
AT his closing words, declaring that
the Republican party, once the redeem
er of the people, was now about to be-
come it's oppressor, storm of Kisses
and groans was raised from all parts
of the house, and cries of "Down!" were
raised.
The Chair, with his resonant voice,
said: THE Chair suggests to this con-
vention that the Republican party in
convention assembled need not fear
any declaration" Here an outburst
of cheers which lasted several seconds
interrupted the Chair.
When they had subsided, he contin-
ued: And the Chair further suggests
in the interest of the Republican party
that whatever is to be said within rea-
sonable limits by those who cannot
longer remain in our organization ought
to be listened to with respectful at
tention, believing that full answer to
all such declarations will be made by
the great majority of the American peo-
pie at the polls next November" CAP
plause)
The names Of the signers to the pro-
test as read was greeted with Kisses,
and a voice in the rear called out,
"Good-by, all my lovers, good-by,o as
Senator Teller and his associates then
filed out of the hall, marching down
the main aisle. The whole convention
rose and yelled and waved flags, hats
and fans, while the band played pa
triotic airs, the assemblage singing the
chorus. Three Cheers for the Red,
White and Blue" to the accompaniment
Of the band, and shouting till they were
hoarse.
MANTLE DOES NOT BOLT.
The Chair, when the tumult had in
some measure subsided, said: Cen
tlemen of the Convention: There seems
TO be enough delegates left to do busi-
ness. Great cheers) The Chair now
asks that the gentleman from Montana
who did not go out" Here an out
burst Of cheering drowned the rest of
the sentence, and cries were made for
Lee Mantle. He was asked to come to
the platform. but declined to do so.
Senator Mantle stood on his chair in
the rear of the hall facing the Chair,
and spoke as follows:
L desire to say that majority of the
delegation from the State of Montana
has not felt that, under all the cir
cumstances surrounding this occasion,
they We're justified in actually going
cut of the convention Applause) But,
Sir. Chairman, / am bound to say, in
ceference to the wishes of the majority