Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1896, Page 2

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1896-SIXTEEN PAGES. erous recognition. Whenever practicable they should be given the preference in the matter of employment, and they are enti- tled to the enactment of such laws as are best calculated to secure the fulfillment of the pledges mad. to them in the dark days of the country’s peril. We denounce the practice in the pension bureau, so reckless- ly and unjustly carried on by the present administration, of reducing pensions and ar- bitrarily dropping rames from the rolls, as deserving the severest condemnation of the American people. Foreign Relations. Our foreign policy should be at all times firm, vigorous and dignified, and all our in- terests in the westerr. hemisphere carefully watched and guarded. The Hawaiian Is: lands should be centrolled by the United States ard no foreign power should be per- n S. Draper. the Nica- owned and with the: b Danish Isiands we should proper and much-needed naval 1 the West In jan Masser os. ia have aroused indignation of le, and we believe that shoul exercise all the perly exert to bring an end. In Turkey have Leen exposed to gers and American property sre and ywhere Ameri- nd American property must ed at all hazards and eve! Monroe Doctrine. rt the Monroe doctrine in its and we reaffirm the right of the to give the doctrine effect by appeals of any American nily intervention in case of achment. We have not in- all not interfere, with the of any European power vut those possessions text be extended. We orward to the eventual 1 powers from this nd to the ultimate union of ng parts of the continent nt of its inhabitants. Cuba. achieving their own in- e people of the United States | sympathy the stru n peoples to free} ropean domination. We i abiding interest the Cuban patriots against ion, and our best hopes success of their deter- ontest for Mberty. ament of Spain, having lost ba, and being unable to pro- erty or lives of resident Amer- or to comply with its treaty believe that the govern- United States should actively and good offices to restore independence to the island. The Navy. we i security of the republic tenance of its rightful in- among the nations of the earth de- 2 naval power commensurate with on and responsibility. We there- the continued enlargement of ths navy and a complete system of harbor and seacoast defenses. ma: pos Foreign Immigration. For the protection of the quality of our American citizenship and of the wages of our workingmen against the fatal competi- tion of low-priced labor, we demand that laws thoroughly en- extended as to exclude to the United States those ther read nor write. Civil Service. nigration be so n entrance The statute vil service ¢ was placed on the Edwin C. Burleigh. has always sustained it, and we renew our repeated declarations that it shall be thor- oughly and honestly enforced and extend- ed wherever practicable Free Ballot. We demand that every citizen of the United States shall be allowed to cast one free and wi restricted ballot, and that such ballot shall be counted and returned as cast. Lynchings. We proclaim our unqualified condemna- tion of the uncivilized and barbarous prac- tee, well known as lynching, or killing of human beings suspected or charged with erime, without precess of law. ™ Arbitration. We favor the creation of a national board of arbitration to settle and adjust differ- ences which may arise between employers and employes engaged in interstate com- merce. fonal Homesteads. We believe in an immediate return to the free homestead policy of the republican party, and urge the passage by Congress of satisfactory free homestead measures, such as has slready passed the House and is now ponding in the Senate. ‘Territories, - We favor the admission of the' remaining territories at the earlest practicable date, having due regard to the interests of the people of the territories and of the Untted States. All the federal’ officers“ appointed for the territories should be elected from bona fide residents thereof, and the right of self-government should be accorded as far as practicable. Alaska. We telieve the citizens of Alaska should | have representation in the Congress of the United States, to the end that needful leg- islation may be intelligertly enacted. Temperance. We sympathize with ail wise and legiti- mate efforts to lessen and prevent the evils of intemperance and promote morality. Rights of Women. The republican party is mindful of the rights and interests of women. Protection of American industries includes equal op- portunities, equal pay for equal work and protection to the home. We favor the ad- mission of women to wider spheres of use- fulness, and welcome their co-operation in rescuing the courtry from democratic and populist mismanagement and misrule. Such are the principles and policies of the republican party. By these principles we will atde aud these policies we will put into execution. We esk for them the con- siderate jucgment of the American people. Confident alike in the history of our great party and in the justice of our cause, we present our platform and cur candidates, in the full assurance that the election wil! bring y to the republican party and prospe to the people of the United State: Many Expressions Cheered ‘The audience and delegates followed the reading with intense interest. 3 The reference to the administration. of Benjamin Harrison evoked the first demonstration, but louder still came the rear when words of the platform pledged the party again to the doctrine of pro- tection in the interest of American laber and American industry. The reference to the restoration uf “the W. J. Sewell. policy of reciprocity as the twin brother of protection” also came in for a round of applause. Protection to the sugar in- dustry arcused the southern delegates to cheers, and the merchant marine plank brought the Maine, Maryland and Massa- chusetts delegations to their feet with three cheers. The first sentence of the platform pl-dg- ing the party to “sound money” started a great uproar among the delegates on the ficor, but the galleries did not participate until unalterable opposition to the free coinage of silver was read. Then the delegates, ‘ed by Senator Lodge and-Colonel W. A. Stone of Penn- en masse. Fans, canes, waved wildly until the pit looked a hurricane-tossed sea, and the gal- roaréd thelr approval. For two minutes the tumult continued. The mention of the “gold standard,” while received enthasidstieally’ .by the Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York delegations, did not arouse such great enthusiasm. Hawaii and the Monroe doctrine were ap- plauded, but the enthusiasm over the Cuban plank was a general disappoint ment. Fred. frant’s Demonstration. A very interesting incident cecurred, As the plank Colonel Fred. Grant, who sat the platform with the distinguished however, in this connection. was read or N. W. Caney. 3, arose and wildly waved about his head the flag of the Cuban revolutiontsts, the flag that was presented by the Cuban junta to James Creelman, the American corresponde: when he was exiled by General Weyler. There was something particularly appropriate in Colonel Grant's action, as it was largely owing to the ef- forts of his father, General Grant, that Spain was compeiled to make peace with the reyolutionists in the ten-years’ war. ‘The invitation to the women of the coun- try to help the republican party to re- deem it from democracy and populism was given a good-natured cheer, and the mo- ticn which Senator Foraker made to adopt the platform was also ed. Cheers for Teller. One of the crucical moments of the con- vention was at-hand. Tne chairman an- rounced that he would recognize to move a sttstitute for the majority report the gen- tleman from Colorado, Mr. Teller. The name of Teller set the westerners wild. In little scattering squads the handfuls of delegations who had been sitting under the banners of Colorado, of Idaho, of Utah, of Nevada, Cahfornia and Montana and some of those from Tennessee and other western and southern states were on their feet, waving hats, flags, umbrellas, fans and handkerchiefs, and shrieking like mad- men. The fire spread to the galleries and swept across them until they seemed to be almost unanimousiy carrying the cheer. It was an unusual division of enthusiasm. Down in the arena were little patches of vocal fires blazing in small spots here and there from a broad, dead-level, calm field of si- Our Advertising Columns. Read the advertising columns of The Star carefully. They are an invaluable guide to the buyer. You will find the an- nouncements of all the success- ful business houses and will miss the fake concerns and habitual bankrupts. You won’t find the latter. Reputable advertisers dislike being found ~in their company. | NU b *e SCENE IN lence. For two or three minutes the uproar continued. Minutes are long at such crises, and each second beats slowly, so that the outburst seemed to be a protracted one. Finally the western delegates, “‘se- cessionists” they perhaps might soon be called, tired of their work and sank back to thelr seats. Then there fell over the house a deep, profound calm, for history was to be made. The political allegiance of half a dozen states hung on the moment, and the whole assembly recognized it. The people listened to a man, while the clerk pro- ceeded to read the substitute platform, as follows: “We, the undersigned, members of the committee on resolutions, being unable to agree with that portion of the majority report which treats of the subjects of coinage and finance, respectfully submit the following paragraph as a substitute therefor: Chas. W. Lippitt. “The republican party favors the use of both gold and silver as equal standard money, and pledges its power to secure the free, unrestricted and independent coin- age of gold and silver at United States mints at the ratio of sixteen parts of sil- ver to one of gold.’ ” Senator Teller, as he stood on the plat- form to make his final protest to the re. publican party against the adoption of a geld standard policy, was a striking fig- ure. ‘fall, gaunt, he wore the old-fashioned frock coat of the old-time statesman. His fece is deep furrowed with lines of thought, and no one who beheld him as he stood surrendering all his associations for a deep conviction on a single topic, doubted his horesty of purpose. His face is thin, his eye gray and his forehead high. He was evidently deeply aroused by the emo- tions that stirred him, and his gestures at times were almost fierce. But his gentle tone was one of sadness and regret. He was given a most Tespect- ful hearing by the delegates, but except for those in sympathy there was no dem- orstration on the floor in the early part of his address. ‘The galleries, however, were at times vociferous, and when he asserted the pow- er of the United States to control their own affairs without dictation from Europe in the matter of finance or anything else Gov. Asa S. Bushnell. many of the delegates were drawn into the display of enthusiasm by the wild tumult about them, but the Colorado Senator made ro effort at dramatic effect. He spoke in the clear ringing tones which have so often re-echoed through the chamber of the United States Senate. It was not un- til toward the close of his speech that he became both impressive and pathetic. His review of his long service in the party vis- ibly affected him. As he realized the step he was about to take he drew himself together for a final appeal, and declared with an earnestness that impressed all who heard him that in his opinion the morality, the religion and the salvation of the country were at stake. Senator Teller’s speech in full was as fol- lows: Senator Teller’s Protest. “Gentlemen of the convention: I will not attempt to inflict upon you a discussion of the great financial question which is divid- ing the people, not only of this country, but of the world. The few moments allotted to me by the convention will not enable me to more than state in the briefest possible manner our objections to the financial plank proposed for our consideration. I am a practical man, and I recognize the con- ditions existing in this convention, fore- shadowed as they were by the action of the committee selected by the representa- tives assembled from different states. “This plank and the proposition was pre- sented to the whole committee and by it rejected. Loyalty to my own opinion com- pels me in the face of unusual difficulties to present this for our consideration, not with that bounding-hope or with that cour- age that I have. presented this in other bodies with greater measure of success than I can hope for here. The great and supreme importance of this question 1s alone my excuseyfok the few words that I shall say to you. “In conjunction with this subject in a public capacity I have dealt with it, how- ever, twenty that produce silver, but I want to say to you here and nj that my advocacy is not in the slightest degree influenced by that fact. (Applause, angla voice, ‘Good!’) “I am for it because I believe that there Zan be no svund financial system in any country in the world that does not recog- nize this principle. I contend-for it be ause, 1873, was ruthlessly stricken from 0 , there has been @ continued ieee pti i fall products of human labor aw@ higmae energy. nce when it I contend for it bear ear. of. 1896 the American people i Sreater distress than ‘they @ver*ere Ii ‘their history. I contend for it because this is, in my judg- ment, the great weight, the great incubus that has weighed down enterprises and de- stroyed prices in this favored land of ours. I contend for it because I believe the prog- ress of my country is dependent on it. I contend for it because I believe the civili- zation of the world is to be determined by the rightful or the wrongful solution of this financial question. I am tolerant of those who differ with ine. I act from my Judgment, enlightened as best I have been able to enlighten it, by my years of study and my years of thought. In my judg- ment the American people in the whole line of their history have never been called upon to settle a question of greater im- portance to them than this. Importance of the Money Question. “The great contest, in which many of you participated, for whether we should have two flags or one, was not more important to the American people than the question of a proper solution of what shall be the money system of this land, “I have said enough to show that I think that this is not a question of policy, but a question of principle. It {s not a mere idle thing, but one on which hangs the happi- ness, the prosperity, the morality and the independence of American labor and Ameri- can producers. (Applause.) “Confronted for the first time in the his- tory of this glorious party of ours, con- fronted, I say, for the first time with the danger of a financial system that in my judgment will pe destructive of all the great interests of this land, we are called upon to give to this provision of our plat- form our adhesion or rejection. Republicans and Monetary Standards “Mr. President, I do not desire to say un- kind or unfriendly things, and I will touch for a moment, and only for a moment, upon why I object to this provision of the platform. The republican party has never been the party of a single standard. (Ap- plause.) “It was a bimetallic party in its origin, in all its history. In 1888 it declared for bimetallism., In 1892 it declared for bi- metallism. In 1896 it declared for a single gold standard. In 1888 we carried the state that I here represent for the republican nominee; we carried it on a bimetallic plat- form. We carried it with a majority that is equal, considering: our vote, to that of any other state in the Union. (Faint ap- plause.) It hag,béen a republican state from the hour of its admission. 1t has .kept in the Senate republican Senators and in the House reptblican members. “Mr. President,’ I promised you that I would not discuss the silver question, and I will not, except to say that this platform is such a distinet departure from ev thing heretofore done by the party that it challenges our republican name to accept it. International Conferences, “The platform°contains some platitudes about internatiohal ecnferences. It pro- vides that we wiff. maintain the gold stand- ard in this country until the principal na- ticns of the world shall agree that we may do otherwise. This is the first gathering of republicans since this party was organized that has declared the inability of the American people to control their own af- fairs. (All the silver delegates arose in a body at this and howled their approval of the sentiment.) To my horror, this decla- ration comes from the great political party of Abraham Lincoln and U. S. Grant. Do you believe that the Aierican people are too weak to actually maintain a finanelal system commensurate with the business of the country of their own fruition? Gentle- men of the convention, you will have no bimetallic agreement with all the great commercial nations of the world, and it cannot be obtained. . “So this is a declaration that the gold standard is to be put upon this country THE CONVENTION HALL. and kept here for all time? Do you be- lieve that Great Britain, that great com- mercial nation of the world, our powerful competitor in commerce and trade, will ever agree to open her mints to the coinage of silver? or that we shall open ours? We are the great debtor nation of the world. Great Britain is the great creditor. We pay her every year millions and hundreds of millions of dollars as income on her in- vestments in this country, on her loans.” Yells and Hisses, After he said “I must sever my connec- tion with the political party which makes the gold plank one of the principal articles of its faith,” the Senator paused and swept his eyes around the hall. For an instant the full signiticance of his defiance failed to impress itself, then it sunk home, and the galleries rose with another yell, and mingled with the yell a fusillade of hisses. A momcnt after when he said that if un- v. W. D. Hoard. der such circumstances he remained in the party he would be unfaithful to his trust, enthusiastic eries of “No, no!” came from the delegates in the eastern and southern states. There was deep feeling, almost pathos, in the Senator's voice, and those nearest could detect the glimmer of tears, when he sald there were heartburnings and grief in the sacrifice which he and his colleagues were to make for their consciences. Another demonstration arose when Sena- tor Teller folded his arms across the pink rosebud on his coat and sank into his seat. ‘The cheer began this time with the silver men and spread to the galleries, and caught up in its whirl many of the gold delegates who were on their feet from admiration, not of the cause, but of the man, and, this time, the hisses were very few. The demonstration was followed by loud cries for “Foraker, Foraker” from all parts of the hall. The Senator-elect from Ohio, the chair- nm:an of the resolutions committee, arose, but not to reply to the speech of the Colo- rado Senator. Without a word he moved to lay the sub- stitute offered by Mr. Teller on the table. Richard C. Kerens. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, from his place on the floor, seconded the motion. This motion, which is not debatable, had the effect of calling off further debate, and Senator Teller demanded a roll call of states. His demand was quickly supported by Senator Mantle on behalf of Montana and Delegate Cleveland of Nevada. Chairman Thurston’s announcement of the result, 818% to 105%, was the signal for great applause. After the vote had been announced, Young Dubois, the broad- shouldered Senator from Idaho, stood in his place and repeatedly asked for recon- sideration, but the chairman said that he would recognize Senator Foraker. Foraker moved the previous question on the adoption of the financial plank, but Du- bois stood there shouting “Mr. Chairman,” and finally he made himself heard, saying: “I ask the gentleman from Ohio not to pres sthis until I can ask him a courteous question.” “Does the gentleman from Idaho have unanimous consent to propound a ques- tion?” asked the chairman. “Then,” shouted en. Henderson of Iowa, “I demand the regular order,” and shouts of disapproval followed, whereupon the chair covlly ruled, “The chair hears none,” and was applauded. Dubois wants separate vote on financial plank, A separate vote will be taken on the financial plank. Previous question on platform ordered. —Roll call asked on financial plank. Colorado and Montana second demand. Roll call ordered. Platform adopted. Senator Teller arose to a question of personal privilege. He wants to file protest and asks it be read. The Silver Men’s Farewel Senator Cannon of Utah pri test of the silver men as fi “To the republican national convention: “In announcing the purpose asserted in this paper, it is due to our constituents and to ourselves that there shall be a public showing of vindicating facts. “The sole authorized expression of na- tional republican faith from June until the present date has been the plat- form adopted in national convention at Minneapolis. Neither the utter: State conventions nor the attitude of Viduals can change the tenor of that plat- form or abate the sanctity of its binding force. Every delegate to this convention was elected as its adherent and adyo- cate. True, one of its most impor- tent paragraphs has been subjected to such a divergeme of construction as to make its language unsatisfactory during the intervening time and dangerous if con- tinued in the future, but of the intent contained within that language there has never been a doubt. nts the pro- Eas “It is the rightful province of this con- vention to revise party tenets and to an- nounce anew the party purpose. The ma- jority of this convention in the exercise of such authority has this date made fticial enunciation of republican law and gospel. With much of the platform we agree, be- Neving that in many essential. particulars it compasses the needs of humanity, af- firms the maintenance of right and pro- peses the just remedy for wrong. But it declares one elemental principle, not only in direct contravention of the expression of party faith in 1892, but in radical opposition to our solemn conviction. We recognize that in all matters of mere method it is but just and helpful that the minority shall yield to the will of the majority, lest we have chaos in party and in government. But as no pronouncement by majorities can change opposing knowledge or belief sin- cerely entertained, so it cannot oblige mi- norities to abandon or disavow their prin- | ciples. As surely as it is requisite for Peace and progress that minorities shall yield to majorities in matters of mere method, just so surely is it necessary for that same peace and progress that minori- ties shall not yield in matters of funda- mental truth. “The republican platform of 1892 affirmed that the American people from tradition and interest favored bimetallism and de- manded the use of both gold and silver as standard money. This was accepted by us as a declaration in behalf of the principle upon which rest the interests of every citit zen ard the safety of the United State: such terms the platform was then satis- factory 1o the believers in bimetallism within our party; only because of equivocal construction and evasion has it since been demonstrated to be insufficient. The plat- ferm this day adopted in the national re- publican party convention at St. Louis says: The republican party is unreservedly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payments in 1879; since then every dollar has been as good as gold. We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our currence; or impair the credit of our country. We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by international agree- ment with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can be cbtained, the existing gold standard must be preserved. All our silver and paper currency must be maintained at parity with gold, and we favor all measures de- signed to maintain inviolably the obliga- tions of the United States and all our mon- ey, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlight- ened nations 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 mon- etary 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 favorable to perpetuate gold monometallism wiil be determin- edly used by us in behalf of that idea. The republican party has won its power and renown by pursuing its purposes courageously and relentlessly. It is, therefore, only in accordance with the party’s history to assume that if it shall come to present authority in the United States It will crystallize into law and ad- ministration under this tempting platform, the perpetuai single gold etandsré in cur finances. This, if long continued, wi!l mean yma: {a just and substantially unvarying st the absolute ruin of the producers of the country and finally of the nation itself. “The American people not only favor bi- metallism from tradition and interest, but from that wise instinct 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 na- tions the greatest debtor nation of the world. We pay the vast charges which every year accumulate against us in the clearing house of the world, with the money of the world, procured by the dis- posal of our commodities in the markets of the world. “We are a nation of producers. Our cred- {tors are nations of consumers. Any sys- tem of international or national finance which clevates the prite of the human product makes our burden lighter and sives Promise of that day when it shall be en- trely lifted and our country freed finan- clally, as It is politically, from the domtna- tion of monarchy and foreign aut pracy. Any system of finance which tends to de- precjate the price of human productions which we must sell abroad adds to the burden of our ¢ but in so far t and conveys a threat of the perpetual servitude of the producers of our debtor nation to the con- sumers of creditor nations. “To us it is a folly without a parallel that this country or any political p therein should deli ely accept a money system which enriches others at our cost. History. philosophy, movals—all join with the com- monest instinct of self. tion in de- hall h ery ding that the United States ard composed of all available gold and silver, and with it our country will progress ~ to financial enfranchisement But with a single gold ‘standard the country will become the he of wood and the drawers of water for the consumers in creditor nations of the earth. “To such gan unholy end we will not Jend ourselves. Dear as has been the republican name to its adherents, that name is not so dear as the faith ftself, and we do rific not one jot or tittle of the mighty principles by which republicanism has up- lifted the world when we say that at the parting of the ways we cling to the faith, Thomas C, Platt. let the name go where it will. We hold that this convention has seceded from the truth; that the triumphs of suc ssion would be the eventual destruction of our freedom and our civilization. To that end this peo- ple will not knowingly follow any political in of cit- izens who realize that the hour has come for justice. Did we deem this issue 1 important to humanity we would yield, since the associations all our political lives have been intertwin with the men and the m of past mighty achievem: ple ery aloud for relief. beneath a burden growi) the passing hours. brings its just reward; place of courage and throne of hope, and unless the country and the policies of the political parties shall be converted into mediums of redress, the effect of human desperation may some time be witne i here as in other lands and in other ages. “Accepting the fiat of this convention as the present purpose of the party we with- draw from this convention to return to asures of this party laws of the j Our constituents the authority with which they invested us, believing that we have better discharged their trust by this action, which restores to them authority unsullled, R. W. Thompson, than by giving cowardly and insincere ins dorsement to the greatest wrong ever will- fully attempted within the republican party, once the redeemer of the p but now about to become their opp unless providentially restrained by votes of freemen.” This document was signed by Senators Teller of Colorado, Dubois of Idaho and nnon of Utah, Congressman Hartman of Montana and Mr. Cleveland of Nevada, as the rep atives of their respective states on the committee on resolutions. When Canncn reached the point that it was just that the mi 1 the majority there w Near the conclusion grew very impassioned ate shouted voice in the convention said for Chicago. op essor, the y should yie ppl the protest t one p s lou of Hisses and Cheer 1:18—There was hissing among the de gates at the conclusior of Cannon's pro- test. Cheers were heard in various parta of the hall. Cannon still occupied the stage, but the convention did not leave the » were voices trom all over the nt it,” “Get out.” republican party need ticn, and the wildest Thurston said th not fear any declar scene of the convention ensued Delegates rose to their feet, mounted chairs, waved fans atd hats and cheered lustily, while voices from far off in the hall said: “Let them go and be damned.” Thurston said whatever is to be said within reasonable limits should be listened to with respectful attention, and trust to the action of the American people at the polls. Loud cheers followed this announcement. As the name of Teller was read, and Du- bois, Cannon, Hartman, Pettigre land of Nevada, there were hiss each name. Saying Good-Ry. At the conclusion, Teller and Cannon are shaking hands with Thurston and others ard bid them good-bye. Mantle of Montana is on his chair, seek- ing ercognition. Bolters are wa king out, amid cheers of delegates. The band 1s playing “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean.” Delegates on chairs and every one in the hail on feet. The entire audience and delegates sing- ing. Waving of flags and handkerchiefs (Continued on Eleventh Page.)