Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 27, 1896, Page 3

TELLER THEIR MAN, MaY NOMINATE HDI (OR PRESIDENT. SILY They Hold a Conference After Leav- img the Convention and Decide to Issue a Statement Advising VYretcr's Nomination — Congress- man Towne, oft Minnesota, Leaves the Republican Party. St. Louts, June 18.—Tho silver delegates played a star engagement. It was brief, but dramatic In the extreme, and easily di- vided public attention with the presidential nomination. The men who walked out held a miniature convention of their own and ag eed to spring Senator Teller of Colorado, who has been their leader in the independ- ent movement. as a candidate for presi- dent. This plan will be consummated at a meeting to be held to-morrow, when an address will be issued over the signatures of the disaffected delegates who turned their backs on the convention and probably Some others. A canvas for signatures was made among the silver men and the can- Yassers expressed satisfaction at the suc- cess with which they had met. They do not expect to secure the names of all the delegates whe voted against the gold plank, but they say they have received words of encouragement from a majority of them. This address will simply suggest Senator Teller’s availability as a presidential can- didate, upon whom the entire silver voto can be concentrated, and calling upon the voters of all parties who believe in bimetal- lism to unite upon him. The delegates who walked out of the con- vention were: Colorado—Henry M. Teller, W. F. Goudy, J. W. Rockafeller, J. M. Dowling, A. M. Stevenson, J. S. Vivian, O. J. Hart and ©. H. Breitenstein. Idaho— T. Dubois, W. S. Sweet, Price Halet, A. B. Campbell, B. BE. Rich and Alexander Robinson. Nevada—A,. C. Cleveland, N. C. Strouth- er, J. B. Overton and W. D. Phillips, leav- ing C. H. Sproule and G. F. Turritt in their seats. Utah—G. F. Cannon, Clarence BE. Allen and homas Kearns. Montana—Charles S. Hartman. Scutk Dakota—R. F. Pettigrew. The others were from scattering states ard territories. TELLER’S FAREWELL. Spech of the Colorado Senator With- drawing From the Party. Senator Teller, as he stood on the plat- form to make his final proposition to the Republican party against the adoption of a gold standard policy, was a striking figure. Tall, gaunt, he wore the old-fash- joned frock coat of the old time states- man. His face is dgep furrowed with lines of thought, and no one who beheld him as he stood and surrendered all his old associations for a deep conviction on a single topic, doubted his honesty of pur- pose. His face is thin, his eye grey and his forehead high. His beard and hair are iron grey, the hair brushed straight back from his forehead and falling back- ward like a cataract. He was evidently deeply aroused by the emotions that stirred him, and his gestures at times were almost fierce. But his general tone was one of sadness and regret. He was given a most respectful hearing by the delegates, but except for those sympathizing, there was no demonstration on the floor in the early part of his address. The galleries, however, were at times vociferous, and when he asserted the power of the United States to control their own affairs without dictation from Europe in the matter of finance or anything else, many of the dele- gates were drawn Into the display of en- thusiasm hy the wild tumult about them, but the Colorado senator made no effort at dramatic effect. He spoke in clear, ringing tones, which have so often re- sounded through the halls of the United States senate. It was not until toward the close of bis speech that he became beth impressive and pathetic. His review of his long service in the party visibly affected him. As he realized the step he was about to take, he drew himself to- gether for a final appeal, and declared, with an ‘earnestness that impressed those who heard him, that in his opinion the morality, the religion and the salvation of the country were at stake. He spoke as follows: I will not attempt to infilet upon you a discussion of the great financial question which is dividing 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 do more than state {n the briefest possible manner our objec- tions to the financial plank proposed for our consideration. I am a practical man and I recognize the conditions existing in this convention, foreshadowed as they were by the action of the committee selected by the renresentatives assembled from the dif- ferent states. This plank or the proposi- tion was presented to the whole committee and by it rejected. Loyalty to my own opinion and consideration for the great in- terest that is felt in this country compels me in the face of unusual difficulties to pre- sent this plank for your 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 is alone my excuse for the few words that I shall say to you. I represent a state that produces silver, but I want to say to you here and now that my advocacy is not in the slightest degree influenced by that fact. I contend for it because I believe there can be no sound financial system in the coun- try or the world that does not recognize this principle. I contend for it because since 1873, when it was ruthlessly stricken from our statutes, there has been a con- tinued depreciation of all products of hu- man labor and human energy. I contend for it because in this year of ’96 the Amer- fean people are in greater distress than they ever were in their history. I contend for it because this is In my judgment the great weight, the great iucubus that has weighed down enterprises and destroyed prices in this favored land of ours. I con- tend for it because I believe the welfare of my country is dependent on it. I con- tend for it because I believe the civilization of the world is to be determined by the rightful or the wrongful solution of this financial question. I am tolenant of those who differ from me. 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 judgment the American people in been called upon to settle a question of greater importance to them than this. The great contest in which many of you partiel- pated. whether we should have two flags or one, was not more important to the Amer- ican people tha. the question of a proper solution of what shall be the money sys- tem of this land. I tried to show.that this was not a question of politics, but a question of prin- elples. It is not a mere idle thi bat one on ‘which hangs the happiness, the prosperity, the morality and the inde- pendence of American labor and Atmerican producers. (Applause.) Confronted for the first time in the history of this glorious party of ours, confronted for the first time with a danger of a financial question, that in my judgment will be destructive of all the great interests of this land, we are called upou to give to this provision of aur platform our adhesion or rejection. Mr. President, I do not like to say un- kind or unfriendly things, and I will touch for a moment and only a moment upon the object of this provision of our plut- the whole line of their history have never fy, 42 88¢r, form. ‘he Kepublican party has never been the party of a single standard. (Applause.) It was a bimetatlic party in its orgin, in all its history. In 1888 it declared for bimetallism, in 1992 it declared for bimet- allism. 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 platform. We carried it with a majority that equalled, considering our vote, that of any state in the Union. It has been a Republican state from the hour of its ad- mission. It has kept in the senate Repub- lican senators, and in the house Republi- can niembers. Do you believe that the American people are too weak to actually maintain a finan- cial system commensurate with the busi- ness of the country or their own fruition? Gentlemen of the convention, you will have no bDiinetallic agreement with all the great commercial nations of the world and jit cannot be obtained. So this means a declaration, that this country is to be put upon the gold standard for all time. Do you believe that Great Britain, that great commercial nation of the world, our powerfal competitor in commerce end trade, will ever agree to open her mints to the coinage of silver, or that we shall open ours? We are the greatest nation of the world. Great-Britain !s the great creditor. We pay every year milliéns and hundreds of millions of dollars as income on her investments in this country on her loans. The gold standard, iu my judgment, lowers prices and decreases values. And she buys of us millions and millious more than she sells us. She buys upon a gold standard, a lower and depreciating stand- ard. How long do you think it will be before she will agree to a system of values that raises the price of the products of our mines in this country? It is a solemn dec- laration that the Republican party intends to maintain low prices and stagnated busi- ness for all time to come. There is a beautiful provision in this plat- form about the tariff. I subseribe to that. (Applause and cheers from ail over the house). I believe in a protective tariff. (More applause.) I have advocated it for forty years (applause), but it is my solemn conviction that a protective tariff cannot be maintained on a gold standard. Under existing conditions, we undoubtedly have the gold standagd. I do not deny that, but what I have sought for twenty years is to change it to the bimetallic system. I have believed and yet do believe that when the almighty created these twin metals, he in- tended that the world should use them for the purposes for which they were created (applause from the silver men), and when he blessed this land with more gold and silver than any other country in the world he meant that we should use them for the purposes for which they were intended, to wit: the use of them as standard money. We to-dzy reverse the traditions of our country and declare we will use only one. If the American people are in favor of that I have nothing to say. I must submit to the majority vote and the majority voice in this country of ours. I do not be- Neve this party of ours, if it could be polled, is in favor of the gold standard. I believe that fifty per cent of the people are in favor of bimetallism of the old- fashioned systém that existed in this coun- try up to 1873. My friends, I am sustained in my view of the danger that ls coming to us and coming to the world by the adoption of the gold standard, by the intelNgence of the world. Let me tell you that the best part of the world Is Avith the advocates of bimetallism All the great political teachers of Europe, with the exception of five or six, are the pronoun¢ged advocates of bimetallism, un- restralnéd bimetallism. All of the great teachers of political economy in the Euro- pean colleges, without exception, are in favor of bimetallism. My own judgment, based, as I have said to you, on careful preparation and careful study for twenty years, bears me out and puts me in accord with them, and I would be truant to my trust if I failed to protest here and if I faifed when the Republican party makes this one of the tenets of its faith, to sever my connection with that pasty (applause and cries of no). Mr. President, I ask your permigson to say a few things personal to myself, and when I have said them, having told you what my conscience demands that I should do, I will leave this question for your consideration. Do you suppose that myse:* or any of my associates who act with me and take the same view of this ques- ton that I do; do you suppose that we can take this step without distress? Do you suppose that we could take it for any per- sona’ advantage or any honor that could be conferred upon us? We say it is a ques- tion of duty. You may nominate in this convention any man you choose; if you nominate on the right kind of a platform I will yote for him. You may take uny meth- ods to nominate him that you see proper. I will defer to your judgment and support him, if the platférm is a right one; but when you ask me to surrender to you my principles, as an honest man, I cannot do that. I realize what it will cost us. I realize that the contumely that will be heaped upon us; but, my fellow citizens, I have been through this before,—before the political party to which you belong had a being. I have advocated a cause more un- popular than the silver cause. I have stood for the doctrine of free homes and free speech. I am used to detraction; I am used to abuse and I have had it heaped up- on me, without stint. When the Republi- can party was organized I was there. With its distinguished leaders, its distinguished men of forty years, have been in close communion and close friendship. I have shared in its honors, and in its few defeats. and disasters. Do you think that we can sever our connection with a party like this unless it be a matter of duty—a duty to all people of this great land? (applause). Mr. President, there are few men in a political party that have'been honored more than I have by the people in the state in which I live. There are few men in this convention or any where else who have been connected with this organization long- er than I. There are few men who have been more active and none in It, no, not one, who has been more attached to the great principles of this party than I have een, and and you cannot go out of it without heart- burnings and a feeling that no man can appreciate who has not en- dured it; yet I cannet before my country and my God agree to that provision that shall put upon this country a gold stand- ard and I will not. (Great applause.) (More.} And I do not care what may be the result. If it takes me out of political life, I will go out with a feeling that at least I main- tain my consistency and my manhood and that my conscience is clear and that my country will have no right to find fault with me. (Cheers.) I beg your pardon for saying things so personal, but yet, if a personal act -that to some implies perfidy and dishonor is about to be taken, I think it but just to myself and my associates that 1 should proclaim to you that we take this step mot in pique, not because oidislike the nominee prospectively or vinerwise, but because that our consciences require, as honest men, that we should make this sacrifice, for sacrifice we feel that It is. Thanking you, gentlemen, for your kind attention, retiring from you as I do, per- haps never again to have an opportunity of addressing a Republican convention, I cannot do it without saying that after all I have in my heart a hope—nay, I have an expectation—that if you should be foolish enough to adopt this platform and force us te leave you, better counsel will some time prevail, and ultimately, on a true Republican platform, sustaining Re- publican principles, I will have the privi- lege of again addressing you. Sudden Death of a Bishop. Winnjpeg, Man., Special, June 18.—News ed the city to-day of the sudden death, at ’Appelle, Bishop Burns, bishop of the "Appelle’ diecese, from heart failure. The came a8 a great shock to members of the He iif session here. Tue meeting was eat ort after passage of a resolu: R } Se See “DARVILLE, SOLE PROPRIETOR.” A Tale of the Ideal and the Real. Next to ibe African porter, the most annoying thing about American rail- read travel {is the washout.” ‘The other day I found myself the victim of the washout. It was ahead some- where—a cloud-burst, probably—and the train would lie for two hours at Waterside. I walked down the long street which led fiom the station. It would not take two hours to exhaust Waterside; I must make the most of it. A boy came round the corner with a roll of hand bills on his arm. For years I have studied to avoid this kind of a boy, but I now walked to- ward this one with intrest and took his bill eagerly. He went on while I leaned ‘against the fence and read. “Snakes, Snakes, Snakes!” the bill opened in startling capitals. “See the Wonderful Exhibition of Snak:s now being given in your midst,” ft con- tinued. “A Marvelous, Stupendous, ard Awe-Compelling Display of the Clammy Monsters of Mountin, Plain aud Seo. 100—Deadly Serpents—-100. Handled by a Child four years of age as a Motber handles her Babe! ‘The greatest sight now before the Aemri- ean people. Admission, ten cents.” Then followed this line, evidently the proudest effort of the author: “Note the Ambiguosity and Tautologiness of our Tentatorial Display.” The Dill started to flutter from my nedveless fingerss, when my eye caught the name at the bottom—Darville, Sole Proprietor. I dropped the bilk and became oblivious to my sutroundings. The name of ~Darville, though at- tached to a snake charmer’s bill, awakened memories. I dismissed the snake man, and let my mind wander back to the days of childhood when the same name had been familiar to me. Little Dicky Darville. I had not thought of him for a long time, but he came back to me, with his curly head and blue yes, now as if wehad just left the game of marbles in response to the school-bell which for five years summoned us to study. Dicky had been my closest early school-day friend. Then his parents had moved away and I-had lost sight of him, I had begun to fear forever. Dicky and I had been like brothers—more, we hayl quarreled less than brothrs. 1 loved to quarrel, but Dicky did not seem to care for it. I remembered that his mother and his own inclina- tions had destined him for the minis- try. Personally at that time I had de- cided for piracy—black, unyielding, Loquarter, cut-and-slash, walk-the plank, long low and rakish freeboot- ery—and I sighed as I thought of how rudely I often repelled Dick’s entreat- ies to give over my wicked intentions and join him in the ministry. I had not yet found my way clear to take up piracy, but I had never doubted that Dicky had been more fortunate in his ambitions. I had often let my eye wander over the column of relig- ious intelligence for a reference to the | Rey. Richard Darville, Rector of St. Chrysostom’s; but so far had been un- rewarded. I had wandered down the street and turned the corner. My eye was caught by a small round tent on a yacant lot opposite. A great canvas banner fiap- ped beside the door, on which was pictured a snake standing up like a gi- gantic corkscrew. There was some glowing language on the banner wheih I did not read, but at the bot- tom I again saw the words, Darville, Sole Proprietor. There was a very blond woman, somewhat the worse for the insidious hand of time, sitting by the door of the tent. She looked at me encouraging- ly. I am but a human man. 1 paus- ed. She leaned a little forward in her chair, and there was a touch of smile —a shadowy, fleeting, roseleaf sug- gestion of smile—upon her lips. I went across the street. I put down a dime on a little table in front of the woman. Insatiate Time! will not man suffice, that you must strike at lovely Woman, too? She handed me a ticket. I started in the tent. She took my ticket with her left hand. “I'll speak to the fellow at least,” I thought. “about the name.”’ I was inside now. There was a dozen cases with glass fronts, around the outside. I got a confused but sufficient impression of snakes inside; I am afraid of a snake. On a chair at the left sat a girl some seven or eight years old, also with choppy yellow hair, chewing gam, and working at a wooden puzzle. She wore a pink dress, trimmed with tin- sel, and black stockings with yellow clocks. A man stepped from behind some of the cases and came toward Dicky: 2 other! Dicky with a parish of snakes! “Better be a little careful, sir,” (Dicky’s voice, an octave lower); “that rattler seems to think he’s hungry. He’s a-reaching for your ear.” I straightened up. “Get up, Zenobia, and let the gentleman sit down.” I took the chair. He brought another ond sat down near me. “It's a warm day,” I said, firmly. “Yes,” answered the ‘companion of my boyhood—“yes, but the snakes like it.” “How’s business?’ I continued, in the tone of a man demanding the yeas and rays. “Pretty poor to-day; toc warm. ‘The srakes like it better than we do.” “Snakes like warm weather, then, hey?” I went on, still speaking as if 1 headed a grievance committee address- ing congress assembled. “Yes, they’re very fond of it, espec- ially the rattlers.” “Are you Darville, sole proprietor?’ asked I. “Richard Darville?’ “Yes, sir.” Not to weary the reader, I will omit the further details of the introduction te the friend of my youth. ;, “Remember you, of course,” he said, ‘warmly, at last. “Why, you're the fel- Yow that coaxed me down to old Pfaff’s to steal watermelons.” ‘here was a reminiscent flavor in Dicky’s blue eyes which I sonceived it best to crush out. It suddenly b2- gan to dawn. on me that there might be other forgotten incidents of my youth which it were as well not to drag forth. I would turn the subject. ‘By the way,” I said, ‘is this girl, Zenobia, your daughter?” “Er—why—no, not exactly,” he re- : . I I “Not my own daughter, you know.” He hitched his chair a little nearer. “She’s my wife's daughter, you see.” “Indeed? The lady at the door?” “Precisely. She was a widow when I married her, you understand.” He brought his chair still nearer. “Most remarkable woman,” he said, solemn ly. “I konw that she is a handsome woman, if you will allow an old friend to say so,” I answered, looking him straight in the eye without a tremor, the old pirate blood stirring in my veins. “I think so, and others have said the same.” He rubbed his hands and gazed introspectively at the sawdust. “And remarkable in other ways; fact is, I'm her third husband. She was married young the first time. Man named Hooker. They couldn’t get along at all. Hoker was a lunkhead; didn’t appreciate a. woman with brains. Run a grocery store, and wanted her to tend the counter while he went to dinner. Objected ‘cause she wanted to take banjo lessons. Found fault when she cue off her front hair for frizzles. Hooker was a darned fool. He knew less than a bullsnake. They couldn’t get along at all. She— he—er—there was a divorce, and then she married Senor Pablo Mareto, a Spaniard from Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was doing the horizontal bars with Jenks Brothers’ allied shows. After- wards he took up trapeze work. She began with the trained goats, and then tried bareback. Then’ he learnt her the trapeze, and they worked togeth- er. They were the first in America to do the double dive.” He paused and looked at me. “By ginger!” I exclaimed; “you don’t mean it?” “Why, there ain’t any question about it. You can ask old Jenks himself; he’s in the legit now; plays Uncle ‘'om in Barker's All Star Company. Good actor, too; double in brass and does a pies in the last act after he es.” “Jenks doubles in brass?” “Yes; plays in the band in the street parade,, you know. As_ I said, the Spaniard and my wife were the orig- ators of the double dive. Afterwards she done the slack wire, and he took to balooning and went up two hun- dred times.,The next thing he took to “Introduce any new dives?’ I asked. “Well, I guess he was one of the first rion to drink all the time; con- tiuous performance, like a dime mus- eum. Fell out of his chair at break- fast one morning and broke his neck. After this my wife quit the circus and tried the dime museums, mostly with snakes, though she was an Albino for 2 while, and the head without any body off and on. I believe, too, she was a cannibal for one season. I for-, got to say that Moreto was more or less in the snake line from the first; handled them at the evncert imme- diately after the close of the grand performance. He learnt ’em to her, She helped him, and, after he took to whisky, he didn’t seem to take to the stakes; said he knew when he'd got enough, and so she handled ’em alove. I was getting into the profession a little at that time myself. Was work- ing the country fairs with a two-head- ed calf. She asked for tickets to the calf on account of belonging to the profesh, ond of course I gave ’em to her, and so we got to know each oth- er. Seys she: “Sell your calf for veal and get into snakes.” Well I finally proposed, and we were married. 1 sold my calf and bought snakes, and we started out. She acts as press agent and writes all the bills. We'll have a museum of our own sume day. I tell you I didn’t overstate it when I sgid she is a remarkable woman. you must get acquainted with her. Come outside.” As we rose, a man and his wife and six children filed in. “Hold on,” cried Dicky to me; “we must give a performance first; it won't do to disappoint the public.” He drew himself up and said: “Ladies and gentlemen, if you will give us your close and undivided at- tention, we will now show you that our pround claiin of an ambiguosity of tentatorial wonders bordering on tke tautologous is no idle boast uttered in a halcyon moment of exuberant and vociferous verbosity. Immediate- ly after this great and startling per- formance, I will give a grand scienti- fic lecture, rich in its loquaosity of Demosthenean oratorical pyrotech- nics, on snakes, their habits, history, and general treatment, with full di- rections for curing snake-bites. This lecture will be five cents extra, child- ren free when accompanied by pa> rents or guardians. We love to culti- vate, improve, and expand the plastic and impressionable mind of the little child. Allow me now, ladies and gen- tlemen, to introduce Senorita Zenobia Enriqueta Moreto, four years old, the youngest and greatest snake-charmer known to the modern world.” The girl appeared at one end of the of the tent with a :ittle bound, turned around twice, and began waving her bere arms above her head. I saw that I must act. I dragged my watch from my pocket, tore open the case, found it stopped—it always stops when I travel—forced it back into my pocket, and seized Dick’s hand fever- ishly. “I’ve only ten minutes to catch my train!” I eried. “I can’t wait for the performance. Good-bye; see you again!” I rushed from the tent. I walked away up the sidewalk to my train. ‘Dey wos goin’ ter leave yo’ boss,” said the porter as he helped me up the steps; “but I told de cainductor he gotter wait five minutes longer fer yo’. Specks I'll git inter trouble .fer it; though.” I slipped another quarter into his waiting palm and sank into my seat. One hour later the traip started.—Harper’s Weekly. Logic. Naming a horse is sometimes fully as difficult as naming a baby, although the groom of a well known New Yorker did not find it so the other day. Mr. Johnson had a valuable horse which he had called Ajax, and only recently was able to buy an excellent mate for it. What to call it was the problem, and in his anxiety to discover just the right name several days went by. At last he went to the stable one day and dis- covered -that his groom had solved the difficulty for him. The word “Ajax’ x ss painted over the stall of the older horse, and over that of the new-comer appeared, in large chalk letters, “Bjax.” —From the ‘Editor's Drawer,” in Har per’s Magazine. Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair, - MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant, 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. 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