The Nebraska independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1896-1902, June 25, 1896, Page 3, Image 3
June 35, '896. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. A SENATOR'S REASONS TELLER'S TALK TO THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION. For Silver, Not Alone Because Hia Constit uents Demand it. But Believe It will be of the Greatest Cood to the Greatest Number. Mr. Foraker approachB the financial plank Mr. Teller left his Beat with tha Colorado delegation and moved up to the platrorm, where ha seated .himself at the end of the BeoonU row of seats to the right of the chair man. With the opening sentence, "The republican party 1b unreservedly, for sound money," which Mr. Ferakfer read Blowly and very emphatically, a burst of oheerlng occurred, and the applause was repeated with redoubled volume when the pledge to promote Interna tional agreement for free coinage was read. Th cheering at this point was BO prolonged that It interrupted the proceedings for some timq and com pelled the chairman to rap for order. The demand for American control of the Hawaiian Islands received appro val, but the porposed building of the Nicaragua canal by the United States and the purchase of the Danish islands for a naval Station fell flat. There was surprisingly little enthusiasm over the Menroe plank, but the Cuban para graph was greeted with loud cheers, though the. convention missed - the phrase demanding the Intervention of the armed forces of the United States la Cuba which had appeared In unau thoritad guesses at the platform. "In fluence and good offices" appeared in s place of, "armed Intervention." Civil service indorsement iwas re ceived in blank silence, but 'the de mands for a free ballot and the; con demnation ef lynching elicited the en thusiastic approval of the colored dele gates. The reading of the platform as & whole was listened to with marked at tention and at the close it was greatly cheered. The reading occupied twenty five minutes. Mr. T oraker moved th adoption of the report as the republican national platform for 1896. BEGINNING OF THE BOLT. Then the chair, amid the ' breathless attention of the convention recognized Senator Teller, who sent to the secre tary's desk and had read the follow ing minority report: "We, the undersigned members of the committee on' resolutions, being un able to agree with that portion of the majority report which treats of the subjects of coinage and finance, respect fully submit the foll"V:ng paragraph as a substitute therefor: The republi can party favors the use of both gold and silver as equal standard money and pledges Its power to secure the free, unrestricted and Independent oainage of gold and silver at our mints at the ratio of 16 parts of silver to 1 of gold." Mr. Teller then advanced to the front and In earnest tones addressed the con vention in explanation of his course. He said: "Gentlemen of the Convention: I will not attempt to Inflict upon you a discussion of the great financial ques . tlon-whlch is dividing not only the peo ple of this country, but of the whole world. The few moments allotted to me will not enable me to do more- than state In the briefest possible manner our objection to the financial plank proposed for your consideration. I am a practical man and I recognize the eon Ottlons existing In this convention, fore shadowed as they have been by the ac tion of the committee on resolutions to whom this proposition was presented, and by whom it was rejected. "Loyalty to my own opinion compels me, In the face of unusual difficulties, to present this substitute for Vour con sideration, not with that abiding hope, nor with that courage with which I have presented the same views In other bodies with a greater measure of buc oess than I have hoped for here. The great and supreme importance of this question is alone my excuse for the few words which I have to say to you. I have dealt with this subject In a public capacity for now twenty years. I repre sent a state which produces silver, but I want to say to you here and now that my advocacy of the proposition Is not In the slightest degree influenced by that fact. (Applause.) "I contend for it because I believe there can be no sound financial system la any country In the world that dees not recognize this principle. I contend for It because since 1873, when it was ruthlessly stricken from our statutes, there has been continued depreciation ef all the products of human nature and human energy. I contend for It because ln this year 1896, the American people fare In greater distress than they ever were In their history. I contend for It because this, in my judgment, is the great weight, the great incubus which has weighed down enterprise and de stroyed progress in this favored land ef ours. I contend for it because I be lieve that the progress of my country is dependent upon it. "I contend for it because I believe that the civilization of the world is to be de termined by the rightful or wrongful solution of this financial question. 1 am tolerant of those who differ with me. I act from my judgment, enlightened as well as I have been enabled to enlighten It by many years of study and many years of thought. In my judgment the American people in the whole line of their history have never been called upon to settleaquestlon so great to them as this. The great contest in which many of you participated, whether we Should have two flags or one, was not more Important to the American peo ple than the question of a proper solu tion of what shall be the money system of this land. I have said enough to Bhow rou that I think this is not a question pf politics, but a question of principles. It Is not a mere idle thing, but one on winoh hangs Vie happiness, the pros perity, the morality and the Independ ence of American laborers and Ameri can labor and American producers. SIGHTS DANGER AHEAD. "For the first time In the history of this great country we are confronted iwlth a danger of a financial system, which, in my judgment, will be destruct ive of all the great Interests of this land. We are called upon to give to this pro vision of our platform our adhesion or to reject it. Mr. President. I do not desire to say any iklnd or unfriendlv thine, hut t will state in a moment why I object to this provision of the platform. The re- j publican party has never been the ' party of a single standard. (Applause.) ' It was a bimetallic party In Its origin ! and In all Its history. In 1888 It declared for bimetallism. In 1896 It declares for the single gold platform. Mr. President, ' In 1888 we carried the state which I here represent for the republican nominee. We carried It on a blmetanlo platform. We carried It wltn a majority which was equal, considering our vote, to that of any state la the union. "Colorado ha been a republican state from the hour of its admission. It has kept In the senate republican senators and In the house republican members. But I promised not to discuss the silver question and I will not, except to say that this platform la such a distinct de parture from everything heretofore held to by this party that It challenges our republicanism to accept It. The plat form contains some platitudes about an International conference. It provides that we will maintain the gold standard in this country until the principal na tions of the world shall agree that we may do otherwise. Mr. President, this is the first great gathering of republl cans since the party was organized that has declared the Inability of the Ameri can people to control their own affairs, and to my horror this declaration comes from the great political party of Abra ham Lincoln and Ulysses 6. Grant. (Cheers.) "Do you believe that the American people are either too weak or too cow ardly to maintain their financial system commensurate with the greatness of the country, and to do that of their own will? "Gentlemen of the convention, you will have no bimetallic agreement with all the great commercial nations of the world It cannot be obtained. And so this is a declaration that the gold stan dard is to be put upon this country and to be kept here for all time. Do you be lieve that Great Britain, the prinolpal commercial nation of the world, our powerful competitor in trade and com merce, will ever agree to open her mints to the free coinage of silver or consent that we shall open ours so long as she gets the advantage of the low prices and of the decreasing values brought about by the adoption of the gold stan dard In 1873? But In a partial degree only we are the great debtor nation of the world. BOWING TO GREAT BRITAIN. "Great Britain is the great creditor nation. We pay her every year millions and hundreds of millions, as income upon her Investments in this country, or upon her loans. The gold standard, In my Judgment, lowers prices and de creases values, and she buys of us mil lions and millions more than she sells. Sl buys upon the gold standard, which is a lowering and depreciating standard. How long do you think It will be before she will agree to a system of finanee that raises the prices of our foreign pro ducts or the products of our mines? "This proposed financial plank is a declaration that the republican party intends to maintain low prices and stag nate business for all time to come. "Mr. President, there Is a beautiful provision In this platform about the tariff." I subscribe to it. I believe In a protective tariff and have advocated It for forty years. "But It Is my solemn conviction that a protective tariff cannot be maintained upon a gold standard. The tariff pro tection principle is for raising of the price of human toil; It Is to give our pro ducers ample compensation for their la bor. The gold standard of the country, everywhere it is In force, is for the pur pose of reducing values. "Gentlemen of the convention, I am going to make this simple objection, as the protective system is, I think, In dan ger by the proposed platform and I will simply call your attention to It and leave the matter to your Judgment as to whether this platform should be adopted or whether It shall be rejected. Under existing conditions we undoubt edly have the gold standard. I do not deny that. What you have sought for twenty years is to change It Into a bi metallic system. I have believed and I now believe that when the 'Almighty created these two twin metals of coin, He Intended that the world should use them for the purposes for which they were ereated. And when He blessed thia land of ours with more gold and more silver than any other country In the world, He meant that we should use them for the purposes for which they were Intended, to-wlt: As money for the people. We today reverse the traditions of our country and declare that we will use only the one of these two metals. If the American people are In favor of that, I have nothing to say, I must sub mit to the majority vote and majority voice In this country of ours." THE FIGHT BEGINS. Mr. Foraker of Ohid, chairman ol the committee on resolution, moved to lay Teller's substitute on the table. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts sec onded the motion. The yeas and nays were demanded by the states of Colorado, Montana and Idaho, and the vot was taken. The calling of the roll was often greeted with applause when on a poll of states being demanded Bome well known delegate recorded his vote. This was particularly the case when U. S. Grant, in the California delegation, fol lowing after L. A. Sheldon (Garfield's chum) and J. D. Spreckles, voted in favor of silver by recording a "nay" on the motion to lay Mr. Teller's sub stitute on the table. As states, usually classed as silver states, such as Ne braska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, cast their votes irk favor of tabling the resolution and added to the rapidly growing majority In favor of that motion, there werei demonstra tions of delight from the exulting gold standard men. When Alaska was reached one of the delegates from that territory asked if under new rules as adopted yesterday Alaska was not entitled to four voteB instead of two. The chair replying In the affirmative, Alaska then voted four aye. The District of Columbia being called Col. Perry Carson, the gigantic colored delegate, who constitutes with Andrew Gleason (white) the representation of the! national capital, supplied one of the most humorous incidents of the day. Raising his towering form to Its full height he said with his peculiar negro; dialect: "Mr. Chairman, ayes so and so; noes so and so. I want to know: what it all means." Being informed, he said: "Then we'o have voted right." The result of the roll call was an nouncedyeas 818Vi, nays 105. So the motion to lay Senator Teller's substitute free silver plank on the table was carried. Mr. Foraker was recognized to move the previous question on the passage of the resolutions. DEMANDED A SEPARATE VOTE. Senator Dubois of Idaho, rising In the body of the hall, asked that a sepa rate vote be taken on the financial plank. Cries of "No." The previous question was ordered with only a few feeble noes. Mr. Dubois demanded a roll call of states on the passage of the flnanctal plank, and Colorado and Montana sec onded the call. The chairman Bald the question to be voted on was: "Shall the financial plank be adapted as the sense of this convention T" On this the roll of states was called. The roll call proceeded amid so rnuah confusion that the chairman had to suspend it until order was restored, Meantime the two secretaries were puszling over the result uf the vote announced on the previous motion, which footed up apparently more dele gates than there were In the conven tton. The result of the roll call on the question of the adoptton of the financial plank was announced: Ayes $12, nays 110. "And the ftnanelal plank Is adopted," added the chairman amid cheers. The rest of the platform was adopted with a ringing ehorus er ayes, there be- tnr but one solitary "no." The chair announced that It was re fluesteVl as a personal privilege that a statement erepared by certain mem bera of this convention be read. "Is there objection V he asked. Waiting a few seconds and receiving no response, he announced: "As matter of personal privilege the chair man will permit Senator Cannon to read the statement and the chair re quests respectful attention and per- feet quiet." THE SILVER PROTEST. Mr. Frank Cannon, the youthful Sena tor from Utah, advanced to the plat form and with Senator Teller sitting by his side, read in ringing tones and with many gestures, the following pro test: On announcing the purpose asserted In this taper. It is due to our constitu ents and to ourselves that there shall be a public showing of vindicating facts. . The sole authorized expression of national republican faith from June, 1S2, until the present date has been the platform adopted In national con vention at Minneapolis. Neither the Utterances of state conventions nor the attitude of individuals could change the tenor of that plaform or abate the sanctity of its binding force. Every delegate to this convention was elected as Its adherent and its advocate. True, one of its most important paragraphs has been subjected to such a diver gence of construction as to make its language unsatisfactory in the inter vening time, and dangerous if con tinued In the future; but of the Intent contained within that language there has never been a doubt. It is the rightful province of this convention , to revise the party tenets and to announce anew the party pur pose. The majority of this convention in the exercise of such authority has this day made official enunciation of republican law and gospel. With much of the platform we agree, believing that In many essential particulars it compasses the humanity of the affairs, maintenance of right and proposes the Just remedy for wrong. But it de clares one elementary principle, not only in direct contravention QI the ex. pression of party faith in 1892, but In radical opposition to our solemn con viotionv We recognize that in all mat ters of mere method it is but Just and helpful that the minority shall yield to the will of the majority lest they have chaos in parties and In govern ment. But, as no pronouncement by majorities can change opposing knowl edge or belief sincerely entertained, so it cannot oblige minorities to abandon or disavow their principles. As sure ly as It is requisite for peace and prog ress that minorities shall yield to ma- jorities In matter of mere method, just so surely Is it necessary for that same peace and progress that minorities shall not yield in matters of funda mental truth. The republican platform of 1892 af firmed that the American people from tradition and interest favored bi metalllsm and demanded the use of both gold and silver as money. This was accepted by us as a declaration in behalf of the principle upon which rests the interest of every citizen and the safety of the United States. In such terms the platform was not satis factory to the believers in bimetallism within our party; once because of equi vocal construction and evasion, and since it has been demonstrated to be insufficient. The platform this day adopted in the national republican convention at St. Louis, says: "The republican party Is unreserved ly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payment In 1879; sinoe then every dollar has been as good as gold. "We are unalterably opposed to every move to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are, therefore, opposed to the free coinage except by international agree ment with the leading nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and unless an agreement can be arranged, the existing gold stan-j Oard must be preserved. "All our silver and paper currency now In circulation must be maintained at a parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to maintain invio lably these obligations of the United States and all our money, either coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened na tions of the earth." As the declaration of 1892 has been by a majority of the party construed to justify a single gold standard for our monetary basis, and as the recent trend of the official power of the party has been in that direction, we can but assume that the money plank of the new platform, being much more favor able to perpetual gold monometallism, will be determinedly used in behalf of that Idea. The republican party has won its power and renown by pursu ing its purpose courageously and re lentlessly. It Is therefore only In ac cordance with the party's history to assume that if It shall come to put au thority in the United States It will crystalize into law and administration and this tempting platform, the per petual single gold standard In our finances. This, if long continued, will mean the absolute ruin of the produ cers of the country, and finally of the nation itself. The American people not only favor bimetallism from tradition and Interest, but from that wise in stinct which has always been manifest In the affairs of a people destined for the world's leadership. Under the operation of our great demand for ad vancement we have become to other nations the greatest debtor nation of the world. We pay the vast charges which every year accumulate against us in the olearing houses of the world, with the money of the world procured by the disposal of our commodities In the markets of the world. Accepting the flat of this convention as the present purpose of the party, we withdraw from this convention to return to our constituents the authori ty with which they Invested us, believ ing that we have better discharged their trust by this action, which re stores to them the authority unsullied, than by giving cowardly and insincere Indorsement to the greatest wrong ever wilfully attempted within the re publican party once redeemer of the people, but now about to become thele oppressor, unless providentially re strained by the votes of free men. H. M. TELLER, Colorado. F. T. DUBOIS, Idaho. R. F. PETTIGREW. South Dakota, FRANK J. CANNON, Utah. C. 8. HARTMAN, Montana. A. C. CLEVELAND. Nevada. FOR TELLER AND SILVER. BATTLE CRY OF THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION BOLTERS. ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE. The Country Appealed To to Indorse Their Action Bimetallism Declared the Great Political Panacea and the Colorado Senator Lnded a Its Best Champion Fusion Proposed. St. Louis, Mo., June 20. United (States Senators Fred T Dubois ol Idaho, R. F. Pettigrew of South Da kota, Frank J. Cannon of Utah, Con gressman Charles . II. Hartman ol Montana and lien E. Rich, Clarence E. Allen, A. S. Robertson, A. C. Cleve land, Willis Sweet, Amasa'll. Camp bell, Archie M. Stevenson, Enoch Strother, James M. Downing, Charles II. Brickenstein, Thomas Eearns, C. J. Hart, Littleton Price, Jacob J. Elliott, O. J. Salisbury, J. B. Overton, Frank C Goudy, John F. Vivian, J. W. Rocke fellow, Robert W. Boyuge, John M. Williams and L. M. Earl, the free sil ver delegates who walked out ot the national convention, signed this morn ing a declaration of independence which set forth their principles and recommended that all parlies and organizations opposed to the gold standard unite in supporting Senator Teller for President. A strong effort is being made to get delegates from silver states who did not withdrow from the convention to sign this declaration. It is the joint belief of all who have been consulted from the far West that there will not be a successful Repub lican elector in the West outside of Iowa and possibly Minnesota.' They further believe that there will not be a Republican elected South of the Potomac and the Ohio rivers. A mem ber of the Montana delegation sug gested that the ibattle ground would be in Illinois and Indiana, and that Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and Connecti cut were doubtful states and the Re publican party would have to carry all of them in order to succeed. GENERAL FUSION FIGURE! ON. There have been conferences with leading representatives of the Popu lists and of the Bimetallic leaeue to induce them to work for the indorse ment of Teller, and have such a strong fusion against the gold standard as to induce the Democratic national con vention also to indorse Teller as the fusion candidate for President, They also conferred with ex-Governor Fran cis of Missouri and Democratic free silver advocates, and were invited to send representatives to the Demo cratic national convention at Chicago next month to confer with the party. The silver men say that Senator Teller is the man in their opinion on whom all the anti-gold men could unite, but that they are willing to co operate wherever they can consist ently do so to defeat the gold stand ard, and they are not seeking to press Senator Teller so much as they are to secure relief from the power of the gold men. They have issued the following ad dress: PLEA TO THE PEOPLE. "To the People of the United States: Obeying the call of duty and justified by the common citizenship of this re public, we address this communica tion to the people and the forthcom ing conventions of the United States. In doing so we claim no authority or right other than that which belongs to every man to express personal con victions; but we respectfully solicit the co-operation of all who believe that the time has come for a return to the simpler and moVe direct method of naming men for national service than has obtained in recent years. "Political party organization is necessary, because without it the indi vidual voter is dumb, but the party is only the means, not the end. It is the voice and not the sense. As the world advances in this wonderful epoch of intellectual development and physical improvement, there is constant re quirement for better things. The in dividual i feels that requirement and heeds it, or fails in life's endeavors. Parties must also obey the same law. It follows, therefore, that the moment a party shall choose to stand still or retrogress, it is also inefficient to achieve the end to which the people are necessarily destined. There is no sanctity in mere party name, and the mark of decay is set on individual strength in a nation when the absolute rule of political organization coerces men from the truth for the sake of ex pediency and establishes insincere submission to partisan rule for the sake of power. INDEPENDENTS IN POLITICS. "Recognizing the value and the splendid achievements of political par ties in this country, as elsewhere, we are yet constrained to believe that for more than twenty years no one of them has been entirely sufficient for the needs of the people. The great trend to better things resting in the heart and purpose of all men, has been stayed during the latter part of tnis generation ty tne iaiiure of par ties to express in their achievements the highest hope and aspiration of the mass of the people who constitute the parties. And there has been growing in this country swelling with each recurrence of national election a great mass of independent thinkers and voters, which failing within itself to control, has gravitated between the two great parties. Since (except ing possibly the election of 186), the pendulum has swung from side to side w'ith each four years. .In 1873 the Re publican party elected the President; in 1876 the Democracy claimed the election; in I880 the Republican party elected; in loot the Democrats elected; in 1S88 the Republicans elected; in .1892 the Democrats elected; in 1890 (until within a few weeks) It has been con ceded that the Republicans would elect "What has been the ciuse of this mighty oscillation of a mass which this year has probably obtained con trolling proportions? livery man can answer to himself. If l.e hsbeen an observer, if he has had interests that were affected; if he has felt hope to see greater justice done and has seen that hope blasted; if he knows that the general dissatisfaction has arisen from the fact that party promises made were broken to the people by party performances, he knows that soon as the election was over and suc cessful candidates installed they be came the servitors of the party and the advocates of a narrow and non progressive policy within which alone there seemed to be an assurance of selfish safety and partisan approval GREAT TBUTUS NOTADLT LACKING. "During all this period we have lacked a great constructive adminis tration. No new social truth has been put forward in an effective way. While in all the departments of physi cal life there have been developments and achievements of ease and comfort to the favored of mankind, in the still greater and more important domain of social reform, we have stood still or retrogressed. It is not that the people have not felt the stirrings of determination, that this inaction has endured, but because of the rule of the party which has largely controlled men in and out of office. It has be come a source of reproach to any man that he should dare to renounce al legiance to organization. Men have been expected to submit their views to the dictation of conventions, al though it is common knowledge that conventions have been swayed to views and declarations not the most approved by the mass of the people nor progressive for their welfare. "If the voices which have sounded to us from every state in this Union are an indication of the real feeling, this year is the appointed time for the people to assert themselves, through such mediums as may give best prom ise of the achievement of justice. But whether we are mistaken' or not con cerning the general sentiment in the United States, we have not mistaken our own duty in withdrawing from the Republican convention, feeling that it is better to be right and with the minority in apparent defeat than to be wrong with the majority In ap parent triumph. MONETARY REFORM THE GREATEST. "We hold that in the great work of social evolution in this country mon etary reform stands as the first requis ite. No policy, however promising of good results, can take its place. Con tinuation during the next four years upon the present financial system will bring down upon the American peo ple that cloud of impending evil, to avei t which should be the first thought of statesmen and the fir's t prayer of patriots. Our very institutions are at stake. To-day, with a rapidly in creasing population, with widely swelling demands, the basis of our money is relatively contracting and the people are passing into a servl tude all the more dangerous because it is not physically apparent The nation itself, as to other nations, is losing the sturdy courage which could make it defiant in the face of in justice and internal wrong. From the farmer and the tradesman to the gov ernment there is apparent the same shrinkage from giving offense, lest the vengeance of some offended financial power should descend The business man submits some portion of his judg ment and bis will, and the nation sub mits some portion of its' international right, lest some mighty foreign cred itor shall make destructive demands. Where will all this end if the people shall decline to assert themselves? Where will it end if the older parties in their determination to maintain themselves in power for power's sake alone shall refuse to recognize the right and the hope of humanity. CREDITOR NATIONS ATTACKED. "This country cannot much longer exist free and independent against all the rest of the world, nor can its peo ple much longer be free in the noblest sense of the term if the United States, a debtor nation, shall follow a policy dictated by creditor nations. We pro duce all of the necessaries of life. Other nations consume our products. In the race for existence it is a con stant struggle between producer and consumer. Our present system of money deliberately submits to the de sire and the profit of creditor nations, leaving us in the mass and as individ uals, a prey to the money-gathering and the deadly cheapening of the old world. As the debt to creditors abroad increases on the masses of the nation, the price of human production on the farm and in the workshop is decreased with appalling rapidity, exacting more and more from our citi zens to meet the given demand and holding over their heads a threat of the day when confiscation to meet their obligations will leave them bare and defenseless. "The only remedy is to stop falling prices, the deadliest curse of national life. Prices will never cease falling under the single gold standard." The restoration of bimetallism by this country will double the basis of our money system In time it wiil double the stock of primary money of the world will stop falling prices and will steadily elevate them until they will regain their normal relation to the volume of debts and credits in the world. Bimetallism will help to bring about the great hope of every social reformer, every believer in the advancement of the race who realizes that the instability of prices has been his deadly foe of our toilers and the servant of the foreign interest gath erer. Bimetallism will help to brihg about the time when a certain ex penditure of human toil will procure a certain financial result UNION OF ALL MEN INVITED. Who among the great masses of oar people in the United States but feels that his lot would be better, his aspir tion take new wings if he could know in the performance of his labor wha' would bt the price of his product? L not this purpose worth the attention of the people as individuals, aud worth the attention of political con ventions yet to be held in this year 1896? Is not this so great an end that all who believe in the possibility of at taining it by the means proposed an yield something of their partisanship both in conventions and at the polls? It is in the hope that the masses and the remaining conventions will have the courage and the generosity to unite for this purpose that we have dared to offer our views to the people of the United States, and because in the past there has lacked a rallying point for the masses who hold as we do to this belief, we venture to act, trusting that it will be received in the same spirit of conciliation, concession and hope with which we put it forth. "We have endeavored in a plain way to set the matter before the eyes of our fellow citizens. We invoke the union of all men and all parties who believe that the time has come for the triumph of justice. It is an hour when the people may speak for themselves as individuals and through conventions yet to be held. It is the right of every citizen to indicate his pre rence. SENATOR TELLER'S NAME PRESENTED. "With this in view, we offer to the forthcoming conventions and to the people the name of a man for the presidency of the United States whose life in public aud iu private repre sents those distinguished virtues which adorned the days and the deeds of the earlier time of this republic, a return to which virtues is requisite for the prosperity and contentment of the people and the perpetu ity and commanding example of free institutions. That name is Henry M. Teller, a man of the people and for. the people. lie is of no sec tion. Ills experience and service, his devotion to the common justice and the common cause of his fellow citi zens has been as wide as the country. We believe that the people of the United States have him in their hearts as he has had their interests in his purpose through all the work of an exalted life. "It is not merely as the exponent of monetary reform that we present this man to the people. It is true that he has waged a mighty war for the restorrtion of the money of the con stitution, and his name has been iden tified as that of no other living man with this great cause. But had his ser vices been less demanded and less no ticed in this direction, the people would still have recognized in him for other labors a statesman of the purest type. II is only poverty has been that of purse. In all things else in the gen erosities of man to man, in kindliness of deeds for his fellows and in the study and the doings of a mighty career, he has been one of the most opulent American citizens of any age. APPLAUDED IN COLORADO AU Fart of the State Celebrate the Bolt Laudations for Teller. Denver, Colo., June 20. The news of the action of Senator Teller and the Colorado and Idaho delegations in withdrawing from the national Re publican convention has been re ceived throughout the State with the greatest enthusiasm. In Denver there will be a demonstration when Senator Teller returns, which will be by Thursday, and Senator Cannon of Utah will oe the feature of another demonstration when he passes through. The mining camps are especially jubilant At Aspen last night the hills were reverberating with the boom of improvised cannon and at Cripple Creek the streets were thronged by enthusiastic crowds all night At Pueblo the company of the national guard fired a salute ot forty five guns when the news of the bolt was received, and in Northern and Southern Colorado towns the enthus iasm was uncoafined. A large and enthusiastic meeting was held at the chamber of commerce last night by people of all classes, without regard to party, to arrange for a public reception to Senator Teller upon his return. PETTIGREW'S SURPRISE- The South Dakota Senator s Disaffection Canted a Sensation. St. Louis, Mo., June 20. The fact that Senator' Pettigrew of South Dakota joined the silver Republicans in their bolt of the convention proved the surprise of the day. He said after' leaving the hall that he had formed the determination to join this move ment several weeks ago, and as soon as it became apparent that a gold standard plank would be adopted He, however, kept his intentions so well to himself that not even his fellow-delegates from South Dakota were aware 0 them and looked as much surprised as did others when the Senator's name as one of the com mittee who signed the protest read in the convention was announced, MAKING READY TO FIGHT. x-Secretary Whitney Appeals to Michael Doraa Mot to Go Abroad. Washington, June 20. Michael Doran, Minnesota's member of the Democratic national committee, who is here, received the following tele gram from ex-Secretary Whitney to day: "When will you be in New York? I want to ree you. You must not desert at this time." The telegram had reference to Do ran's intention to sail for Europe in a few days for the benefit of his health. He says that while he will not decide certainly until after he meets Mr. Whitney, it is likely that he will post pone his foreign trip and attend the Chicago convention in an effort to stem the free silver tide. To Compel Him -to Marry Her, St. Joseph, Ma, June 20. Miss Maude Eades has filed suit in the cir cuit court asking that Henry Switzer who, she says, promised three years ago to marry her, be compelled to do . so. Several times the day has been set, but Switzer has had it postponed each time, and, while holding the girl to her promise, keeps up his course of procrastination. Bill Raldler Sent to Prison. Perry, Ok., June 20. United States Marshal Colcord, of Perry left for Columbus, Ohio, this morning with the notorious Bill Raidler, a member of the Dalton gang, who has been sent to prison for twenty years for robbing a Rock Island train at Dover two years ago.