Show MR CLEVELAND OF NEVADA Is for Silver to the Very Last Ditch Hon A C Cleveland one of tile Nevada delegation who joined the silver sil-ver bolters and who accompanied Messrs Cannon and Allen to Salt Lake is one of the Republican warhorses war-horses of his state and helped to organize the party there He wes a gubernatorial candidate in the last campaign and was defeated by the late Governor Jones He said yesterday yester-day in conversation with a Herald reporter re-porter It was a serious step to take walking walk-ing out of a convention of the party to which I had been attached all my life but I felt there was no other course left to me I have maintained all along that protection was not the issue at this time and have always been a consistent and steadfast advocate advo-cate of silver That was the issue in I the last campaign and on the stump I I endeavored to hold the Republican party together on a silver issue I j urged them to stand by the party saying that I believed the party would give us free silver this year and It was on that plea alone that I polled as big a vote as I did In many of the meetings at which I spoke I had the questiQn put to me when I would make that statement What will you do if you are in the next Republican convention and it declares for gold I replied on every such occasion and they were numerous that I would getup get-up and walk out When that time came and the crisis was at hand I simply kept my word and Id have done it if I had gone alone I Concerning the likelihood that the Democratic convention would endorse Mr Teller Mr Cleveland said > he hoped that would be the course of the Democrats as he did not think the Populists would endorse a Democrat and the Republicans would not give up their protection views and the result would be two silver tickets which in his opinion meant defeat for the white metal Asked why the Democrats should be expected to nominate a Republican when the silver men In their party outnumber out-number these of both of the other parties par-ties Mr Cleveland was up a stump for I a reasonable reply and attempted to make further than to doubt that it was a fact that he > silver Democrats Demo-crats were in so great a majority among silver men As to his own state Mr Cleveland said that there was no hope for the Republicans this year and as to himself him-self he would support the ticket upon whom all the silver men could unite I might let it come from whatever party it I S |