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VOL. XIX.—NO. 168.
BULLETIN OF
THE ST. PflrUL GLOBE
TUESDAY, June IG.
Weather for Today-
Fair and Warmer.
FAGE 1.
St. Louis' Big: ■Qhrowd Arrives.
Morton Will Take Second Place.
Plntt Hi-stN Warner Miller.
Men Who are There.
PAGE 2.
On the Ere ot the Battle.
Mlnnexota Delegates for Gold.
Hubbard for Committeeman.
PAGF 8.
Depew not After fscond Place.
Sound Money Plank Agreed On,
News of Minneapolis.
PAGE 4.
Editorial. i
W. C. T. U. Convention.
Bohemian Slavonic Elections.
PAGE 5.
Blues Easily pefeat Apostles.
Millers Contuse to Win.
Use of WaHn for Cyclints.
Opinion of F'arty Leaders.
PAGE 6.
Bar Silver G8 3-4e.
Cash Wheat ln Chicago 50 l-2c.
Buoyant Movement in Stocks.
PAGE 7.
The Globe's Popular Wants.
PAGE 8.
School Board is Not Resigning.
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'As to the vice-presidency, he who
runs may (not be) Reed.
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Mr. Reed continues to be watching
for the Maine chance.
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Delegates at large find they greatly
over-estimate their largeness.
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We have not yet heard McKinley
called a "Napoleon of Finance."
Quay's boom needn't worry him. The
convention will help him to let go of it.
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It's derby week in St. Louis, so the
dark horse may have a chance after
all.
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Silverites are not pleased with the
16 to 1 mixture &f gold and silver rien
at St. Louis.
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McKinley evidently cares little what
the standard Is as leng as he Is the
standard bearer.
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The Congressional Record keeps on
coming, a sort of distribution of the
funeral baked meats.
-^B.
There is a well founded rumor that
Morton has called in Dr. Depew to
head off Undertaker Piatt.
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It is ominous for Mr. Piatt that there
is a Kruger among the McKinleyites
that were seated from New York.
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Senator Davis is the only favorite
son entitled to receive congratulations
to-day. This is his birthday anniver
sary.
McKinleyites shew the Republican
spirit which dominated the late con
gress. They propose to take every thing
in sight.
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Sleeping accommodations don't worry
the colored delegate as long as he can
get a soft cushion in the McKinley
band wagon.
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The average delegate to St. Louis
can't understand why the cutting off
cf the water supply at Havana should
cause any distress.
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When streams of burning whisky
flow through the streets of Louisville
it is a wonder that not more than one
Kentuckian is drowned.
It Is not true, as rumored, that the
silverites while in Chicago tcok the
measure of the Ferris wheel as a pat
tern for a new silver dollar.
The St. Paul team resumed accepting
the short end of the sore yesterday.
It doesn't seem to have energy enough
to win over one game a week.
The Honorable Straddler McKinley
will please note that I shall still be
speaker of the house after the Novem
ber election. —Tom Brackett Reed.
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Amid the crash of worlds at St. Louis
Senator Gallinger bobs up with a pen
sion resolution. Doesn't Gallinger know
that there are no more presidencies in
the late war?
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The government has just completed
an immense steel vault in which to
store away the $50,000,000 free coinage
dollars that can't be forced Into cir
culation.
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Sound money is sure to win. The
colored delegates have declared for
gold. Hotel keepers are after gold.
Everybody in St. Louis, in fact, is out
for gold.
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Charles A. Towne is at St. Louis and
Infuriated over the adoption of a geld
resolution by the Minnesota delega
tion. Pray tell us, Mr. Towne, what
ycu expected?
Gathering antiquities is quite a fad
among rich New Yorkers, but antiq
uity in a bride is the one thing on
which the relatives of the young Mr.
Vawderbilt draw the line.
The late Lucius F. Hubbard becomes
Republican national committeeman
from Minnesota. Mr. Hubbard is a
quiet, respectable bit of political after
math who will not set any rivers on
fire.
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Ex-Gov. Boies is emphatic that Mr. i
Teller is an unsuitable Chicago nomi
nee, because he is "outside the Demo
cratic party." Correct. Mr. Teller
should wait as long as Mr. Boies has
"Inside" the party before he declared
an eligible.
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Mr. Boies, of lowa, is having his
troubles now. Certain Democrats want
to name him for president because
"he is a silver man." The Populists,
on the other hand, have turned him
down because "he is not a sliver man."
Mr. Boies, you have the floor.
THE SAINT PAUL GLOBE
BIG CROWDS flrftlVE
PLAINLY ST. LOUIS OX THE. EVE
' OP A MONSTER CON
VENTION.
HANNA IS THE DICTATOR.
HIS WORD IS LAW TO WIRE
PULLERS OP ALL DEGREES
OP PROMINENCE.
MATTERS TOO MONOTONOUS.
It is McKinley Everywhere, "With
Reed Men Making Rut Little
Showing.
Special to the Globe.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 15.—1t begins
to look considerable like a big conven
tion to-day. Clubs are coming in with
their bands of music and the crowd
generally is increasing every hour.
Just why so many should come when
the nominee for president is practi
cally decided upon, I do not pretend
to explain, but a national convention
of a great party always proves to be a
drawing card. There are more people
here new than there were at Minne
apolis four years ago. This is of
course quite largely due to the fact
that St. Louis is near the center of
a larger population than Minneapolis.
The streets are lined with fakers in
the neighborhood of the principal ho
tels, but their wares are almost exclu
sively confined to those of the McKin
ley stamp. It is monotonous to have
McKinley dinned into your ears all
the time as you walk the streets and it
would be a pleasing variety if there
was a little fight on hand, so you could
hear some other name mentioned. They
do net seem to do much business for
the various clubs furnish all the para
phernalia needed and the fakers have
overdone the McKinley boom. I often
wonder what in the world so many
people come to national conventions
for. The Southern.hotel, which is the
'great attraction because Boss Hanna
reigns within its walls, is thronged
constantly with a seething, surging
mass of humanity. Men perspire,
smoke, swear and drink and argue as
if the destiny of the nation depended
upon them, while as a matter of fact
scarcely one of them has the slightest
weight or influence in what is being
done. The politicians who really do
the flne work do not come to their de
cisions according to the yells of the
multitude or in the hotel corridors, but
they calculate in the quiet of their
parlors what scheme will catch the
most votes at the polls cr what plan
-will win In the convention, or defeat a
competitor. The swearing, boisterous
multitude have no more to do with re
sults than a pack of Indians on a
prairie. But they are always on hand,
for a national political convention is
more attractive even than a fight or
a funeral. I wonder whose money they
are spending, and whether it is of gold
or silver standard and also whether
in view of Cleveland having gotten
■w. m. Mcdonald.
(Col-ired Delegate from Texas, Who Was
Compelled to Ride on the Freight Elevator
at the Southern Hotel.)
eighty thousand officers under the civil
service it will pay them in the end for
their expenditure of funds and physi
cal strength. It is probably well for
the country that so much interest is
taken in politics for I think if there
was nothing to divert the minds it
might all go mad in some other direc
tion which would be more harmful.
Talking about bosses I've never seen
anything equal to
None of the McKinley forces are able
s^* **M '^si W*s&
SOME OLD REPUBLICAN \MJ\R HORSES,
to say that their soul is their own. If
by any accident they should go wrong
Hanna would sit on them and flatten
them out flatter than pancakes. It is
Hanna here, Hanna there, Hanna
everywhere. "Have you seen Hanna?"
"I must go and consult Hanna." "This
matter ought to be submitted to Hanna
before we decide." "What does Hanna
think about it." "John told me Hanna
said so and so." "Where's Hanna
gone?" "When will Hanna return?"
"I dont think Hanna would like this."
"Hanna thinks so and so" these and
kindred expressions without end are
what one hears through the corridors
and in the rooms of the various dele
gations.
The headquarters of the other candi
dates attract but little attention ah
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1896..
compared with those of McKinley. Dele
gates and visitors drop in out of
curiosity and almost everybody seems
to be collector of badges. They accept
the proffered buttons and badges to
take home to wife and children and not
because there is any interest in the
candidate. In this respect matters are
very monotonous. When It comes to
putting "gold" in the platform, and the
vice-presidency, there is a little more
interest. I have the best authority for
saying that Hanna, and that means Mc-
Kinley does not want the word "gold"
to appear in the platform. He is really
between the devil and the deep sea, and
there is sure to be a fight of some kind
on the platform in open convention.
"Sound money" Is what the Hanna
crowd want to declare for, but if the
committee on platform should report
those words and omit "gold" Henry
Cabot Lodge will submit a minority re
port insisting on "gold" while Senator
Teller will come in with still another re
port, favorable to silver. Beyond ques
tion the Hanna push can make it
"sound money" instead of "gold" if the
latter is objectionable to the boss. It
it is only a question of the safest policy.
If Hanna concludes that It is safer to
exclude "gold" than to put it in, "gold"
will be excluded, and if otherwise,
otherwise, consequently I do not think
it worth while to waste space or tele
graph tol's in figuring what the plat
form will declare, because if I should
tell you how the platform stands to-
REPUBLICAN POSSIBILITIES FOR THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION.
GARRETT A. HOBART.
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REDFIELD PROCTOR.
day, Hanna may change his mind be
fore my message reached St. Paul, and
in that case, the platform would change.
From what I can learn, I believe he is
a good deal worried on the subject. The
eastern men are vociferous for gold
and Minnesota is quite conspicuous in
the west on the same platform, while
such old politicans as Richard Thomp
son, of Indiana, who with all due re
spect to the Minnesota delegation,
knows more of practical politics in
minute than our whole delegation do
in a year, says that if "gold" is inserted
in the platform, McKinley will be de
feated. So the opinions see-saw and
Hanna scratches his head and thinks.
When he decides the country will know
what kind of a platform McKinley is
to stand upon. It is quite sure that the
effort will be made to make protection
exceedingly prominent in any event.
Pettigrew is making trouble ln the
South Dakota delegation. When he
was selected as delegate it was thought
he was tied hand and foot but he seems
to have gotten at least one hand loose
and is threatening to make trouble if
silver is not recognized. Teller, Dubois
and Mantle are talking in the same
way but they might as well leave the
convention before they go in, for silver
will not be recognized in the sense they
mean. The most they can possibly hope
for is to keep the word "gold" out of
the platform and have it read "sound
money," leaving them to claim that sil
ver is sound money as well as gold.
That is what McKinley wants and
what Hanna will do if he dares.
The giving out semi-cfficially that Joe
Manley of Maine is to be secretary
of the convention campaign committee
simply confirms what I previously
wired, that he went over to the Mc-
Kinley camp for a price, when he gave
that celebrated interview announcing
the hopelessness of Reed's cause.
There seems to be more trouble for
the colored troops. It was discovered
today that the street fakirs were selling
McKinley badges which the Ohio crowd
had prepared to give out gratuitously,
and investigation showed that a colored
man In charge of one of the Ohio rooms
had stolen a thousand McKinley badg
es and put them on the market. It
seems to me that he ought to have been
given some high official position for his
zeal in circulating the glad tidings,
but instead of that, he was discharged
in disgrace. I'm not sure that he will
even be allowed to enter the chartered
colored hotel.
Who and what in h is D. Russell
Brown? This question, which I heard
today, gave me more relief than any
thing that has occurred since I reached
St. Louis, because it brought informa
tion I long have sought and mourned
because I found it not. The gentleman
who was thus profanely addressed in
formed his questioner that D. Russell
Brown is an ex-governor of Rhode Is
land and candidate for vice president.
His pictures have been staring me in
the face everywhere I go. In the ho
tels, on the dead walls ln the unrented
buildings, the portrait of D. Russell
f Continued on Fifth Pace.
pto will m
HAS BEEN INDUCER TO ACCEPT
SECOND PLACE OX THE
TICKET.
NEW YORK FOR HIM.
ALL DIFFERENCES WILL BE FOR
GOTTEN TO IRGE ON HIS
CAMPAIGN.
CONSENT FORCED FROM HIM.
Mnch Telegraphing Between St.
Lonls and Albany Necessary
to Bring Result About.
St. Louis, June 15.—As a result of
much telegraphic negotiation between
St. Louis and Albany, it Is definitely
stated on what is believed to be good
CHARLES P. MANDERSON.
LLOYD LOWNDES.
STEVE ELKINS.
WILLIAM O. BRADLEY.
authority, that Gov. Morton has final
ly yielded to the solicitations of his
friends and has agr^el to accept the
vice-presidential nomination. Despite
the split in the New York delegation,
he is now to be vigorously pressed for
the nomination.
MANLEY TO STICK.
Maine "Will Keep Him on the Na
tional Committee.
St. Louis, Mo., June 15. —The man
agers of the Reed campaign held a
TIMOTHY E. BYRNES OF MINNESOTA.
conference to-night tc balance their ac
count of votes. When they finished at
midnight Congressman J. F. Aldrich,
of Chicago, said: "The Reed men are
greatly encouraged by the day's de
velopements. We calculate that Mr.
Read will poll 145 votes at the start.
We have telegraphed for a lot of Reed
supporters whe had Intended to stay at
home, asking them to come here at
once. If we had another week and the
Reed sentiment continued to grow- as it
has to-day, we could win on the first
ballet."
Mr. Littlefield, the chairman of the
Maine delegation, said: "There Is no
truth in the reports which have been
circulated that Mr. Manley will not be
re-elected to the national committee.
We believe him tg oe the best man in
the state for the position, and we have
not suggested his retirement, nor
thought of it. We will all vote for
him."
RAIDERS HELD.
Prime Movers in the Transvaal
Affair Must Stand Trial.
LONDON, June 15.—At Bow street police
court this morning Dr. J. S. Jameson,
Major Sir John Willoughby, Colonel R. Grey,
Major R. "White, Colonel H. P. White and
Hon. Henry F. Coventry, the prime movers
in the Transvaal raid, were commited for
trial. The other accused persons were dis-
WAR TO THE IWE
MEETING OF THE NEW YORK
DELEGATES THE SENSATION
OF THE DAY.
THOMAS PLATT WON OUT.
MILLER WAS AFTER HIS SCALP
BIT FAILED IN HIS GREAT
DESIRE.
COAXED INTO A CLEVER TRAP.
Deserted By Depew, Miller Was
Just Where the Boss Wanted
to Have Him,
ST. LOUIS, June 15.—The gossip of
the corridors to-night is the dramatic
and exciting meeting of the New York
state delegation, the result of which
succinctly stated, was the throwing
THOMAS 3. REED.
BENJAMIN* F. TRACY.
down of the gauntlet of the anti-organ
ization Republicans who are numbered
among the friends of McKinley. The
result has proved Interesting because
in the bitterness of the battle which has
been going on in that state delega
tion, it was apprehended that, perhaps,
if McKinley was the choice of the con
vention, he would suffer at the polls,
but to-night while the dramatic scenes
are discussed with interest, the McKin
ley people point to the open pledges
made by Mr. Piatt's adherents that Mr.
McKinley or any other candidate will
receive the vote of New York.
As a result of the meeting it is found
that 17 of the 70 New York delegates
will cast their votes, not for the state
convention's choice, tut for McKinley.
It is believed that the vote is sur
prising even to Mr. Piatt. This leavea
just 55 votes for Mr. Morton and it is
believed this will be his entire strength
in the convention.
But the main topic of conversation
to-night is the breach that undoubt
edly exists between three well known
leaders, Chauncey M. Depew, Thomas
C. Piatt and Warner Miller. To the
observant locker-on this afternoon,
it was appraent that Mr. Piatt had
laid a
TRAP FOR MILLER
Into which he was tumbled by his own
friends who sought to pit him against
Piatt, The result was that Piatt's
friends, who stood for their chief,
lashed and buffeted Mr. Miller; Mr.
Miller denounced Mr. Piatt; Mr. Depew
simply told Mr. Miller that he had mis
taken him (Depew's) attitude and Mil
ler told Depew as politely as he could
that he was a prevaricator and had
purposely misled him.
The trouble began as soon as the
delegation met this morning. It had
been arranged that Depew was to pre
side at the caucus and that Piatt was
to be made chairman. Mr. Miller ex
ploded his boom at once by nominating
Depew for chairman. Before action
was taken the caucus adjourned till
afternoon. When the New York men
reassembled Mr. Depew withdrew his
name saying his position had been mis
understood.
Mr. Miller arose and stated "I did
ask Mr. Depew whether he would ac
cept this nomination and he answered
yes and since the meeting this morning
he again assured me that he would ac
cept. I stand here to repudiate the
leadership of the man who has declared
that McKinley Is unfit for the office of
president. I cannot stand under such
a banner, I cannot go forward with the
world pointing its finger at me and
saying: "How can you vote for a man
whose ability you have questioned." "I
regret, Mr. Chairman, that you will
not accept the office, I for one will not
follow the leadership of Piatt."
The arena for the afternoon battle
had been arrarnged with the greatest
care. When Mr. Depew stepped to the
chair he faced a small circle of dele-
PRICE TWO CENTS— { F^JKSS
gates. Right In the center sat Thurlow
Weed, Barnes and Edward Lauterbach.
To the right sat Warner Miller, sur
rounded by about 10 of the fifteen Mc-
Kinley adherents. In the second row
on the right sat Piatt and just in front
of him John Raines of excise fame sat
leaning forward, awaiting the time
when he could attack Mr. Miller.
The latter seemed to apprehend
trouble but was evidently not pre
pared for the Withdrawal of Depew
from the race with Piatt for chairman
ship of the delegation. The prelimin
ary sparring over, Mr. Depew stated
that he had misunderstood Mr. Miller's
request about the chairmanship and
that he had decided to withdraw. The
suddenness of this gave Mr. Miller's
adherents such a shock that they at
once fell into the trap laid for them.
Without a candidate they naturally
thought of Miller and before the latter,
perceiving the trap, could stop it, Gen.
McCook had proposed his name. The
Piatt men were jubilant. They laughed
aloud. "Ha, Ha now we have him."
"That's the issue, Miller against
Piatt."
"Now we'll fix him." Stepping out of
the circle, tall, gaunt, Thurlow Weed
Barnes turned and faced Miller who
had given Depew the lie about his ac
ceptance of the office of chairman.
Towering over the man like an aveng
ing angel, he gave him a lashing of
bitter words that made even the Piatt
GOVERNOR I.IPPITT.
GEORGE C. PERKINS.
JOSEPH R. HAWLEY.
adherents, who surrounded the dele
gate?, look on with amazement.
"Sneak, coward, crawler, traitor, jay
hawker and backslider" were a few of
the expressions used and Miller sank
back in the seat, his face white with
anger, but his lips sealed.
Following Barnes came John Raines
and he was even more personal in his
remarks. "Destroyer of trust," "liar,''
"kicker." and "serpent in the camp"
were some of Raines expressions and
PERRY A. HEATH.
(Chief of the McKinley Literary Bureau.)
he would stride across the floor and put
his finger almost under Miller's nose.
Mr. Miller made no answer to the at
tack and the vote elected Mr. Piatt by
a tally of 53 to 17.
After seme debate the following ex
pression on the currency question was
adopted:
The New York delegation favors and
heartily supports the strongest state
ment that can be devised, recognizing
the imperative necessity of maintaining
the present gold standard of value and
condemning the free coinage of sil
ver..
NEW YORK FOR GOLD.
"We favor the maintenance of the
present gold standard and are opposed
to the free coinage of silver except by
International agreement for bimetal
lism with the leading commercial na
tions of the world."
Frederick S. Gibbs was selected for
national committeeman; Edward Lau
terbach for resolutions. John Raines
for rules; W. R. Procter for perma
nent organization; W. A. Sutherland
for credentials. Archer Baxter as sec
retary and John A. Mott for vice
president.
A motion to relndorse and support
Levi P. Morton for the presidency was
carried ayes 56; nays 13. Mr. Miller vot
ed an aye and Thomas W. Bradley re
fused to vote. Gen. McCook voted aye.
After the sensational meeting had
ended Mr. Miller said:
"I fail to understand how Mr. Depew
could possibly have misconstrued my
meaning. After the meeting this morn
ing when everybody understood the
situation thoroughly, Mr. Depew
talked with me and made no move to
withdraw. His excuse at this time it
seems to me Is therefore flimsy. I am
not disturbed at Mr. Depew going back
on his word to me, but," he added sig
nificantly, "the fight Is on in New York
and we now know who our friends
are."
Mr. Depew tonight reiterated his
statement that he had entirely misun
derstood Mr. Miller's preposition. In
some quarters tonight it is said that
the Piatt contingent has agreed to sup
port Mr. Depew for vice presidency in
the convention. A rumor is also cur
rent that the New York delegation may
present the name of Frederick D. Grant
of New York for that office. There is
a meeting of the delegation early to
morrow «aornlng. *
TO WgO ARE THERE
FRANK CARPENTER GIVES INTER
ESTING CHAT ABOI'T THE*
PROMINEAT REPUBLICANS.
TELLER REALLY IN EARNEST.
FIGHTING FOR HIS CONVICTIONS
IN SILVER'S CAI SE—DI HOIS.
AN ABLE AIDE.
ALLISON'S BOOM ABANDONED.
Robert P. Porter on Japan and tin
Tariff—Uncle Dick Thompson
Recalls Old Times.
Special to the Globe.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 15.—T saw Sen
ator Teller this morning. He was ln
close consultation with the Colorado
delegation and was arguing the ques-
HEXRV CI.AY EVANS.
W. G. BULKELEY.
tion as to what they will do in the con
vention. It may lie that Colorado,
Idaho, Montana and rtah will go out.
At any rate Teller will make a ..lg
fight for silver. He will not hope to
win here, but he will leave the party
rather than support a gold platform.
There is no more honest m<'ii in the
United States than Teller. His ances
tors were honest Dutchmen, who came
to this country in 1639 and buttled in
New York. Teller was the sen of a
farmer In Western New York. Ills
father had some money- and he gave
young Teller a good education. !!•
had studied law before he went Weal
to Denver In 1858 and he soon made a
reputation as the brightest and brav
est lawyer of Colorado. He dabbled
some in mines at this time and one of
the biggest mines at Cripple Creek to
day is owned by parties who are Tel
ler's friends and who in the past of
fered to go into a mining deal out of
which he might have made $1.000,000
by the investment of $40,000. He did
not have the $40,000 at the time and
could not see where he would he rble
to get It in case he lost. He therefore
refused to enter the deal though one
of the parties offered to lend him the
money. Another man was taken ln
and he made within six months 1800,
--000 clear out of it. Senator Teller was
one of Colorado's first senators. He
was elected twenty years ago and ln
1883 Arthur took him into his "cabinet.
Teller did not want to accept the sec
retaryship of the interior and his
friend, A. B. Chaffee, was one of the
candidate for the position. Teller
was a great friend of Chaffee's and he
was pushing his candidacy, when one
day he got a note from Arthur asking
him to call at the White House. When
he arrived and met President Arthur,
he was at once offered the secretary
ship. He Immediately refused it say
ing he could not afford It, and besides
he had another candidate. Arthur
said his other candidate could net suc
ceed and It was Teller, not Chaffee,
that he wanted. A day or so after
this Chaffee asked him to accept Ar
thur's offer and the pressure became
so great that he could not refuse. He
made an honest secretary of the inte
rior and he is thoroughly honest ln his
silver views. He does not believe that
McKinley and sound money will bring
prosperity, and just before he left
Washington, he said, he looked with
fear and trembling upon the result of
this convention at St. Louis, at this
time he practically stated that he
would leave his party when it ceased
to represent his sentiments and that
Is what he will probably do at the
close of this convention.
Senator Teller Is a curious looking
man. He is an honest faceed man of
medium height. He has a full beard
of Iron gray, but no mustache, and his
Iron gray hair stands up all over his
head as though every Inch of his scalp
was a cowlick. He combs his hair
back In a pompadore style. His face Is
dark. His mouth is strong and he has
a clear ringing voice. He will proba
bly make a great speech on the con
vention floor and if so his utterances
may become classic for the silver peo
ple. He has, you know, the strength
of his convictions, and he is one of the
great men of the time. During the past
two months I have been ln Colorado.
There Is no stronger man In the stato
than Teller and he will remain ln the
United States Benate as long as he
wishes to whatever may be his posi
tion or party. Senator Teller is not
rich, though he has a great deal of
property which may make him
wealthy ln the future. He has a large
gold and silver mine. He Is not a
money grabber and he cares more for
character than money. Ha Is a good
Method-it, and yesterday kept Buuday
KDUIN* A. M'AI.PIN.
