| Show ABOUT instructing DELEGATES A red hot bliler silver excitement pervades this community and there are expressions on every hand that our delegates roust must go eo instructed to st louis to demand the tree free coinage of 0 silver at ft a ratio of IG 16 to 1 and it if the d demand la 14 not granted to NIth withdraw draw in a body from the convention in our judgment no gentleman who ever attended a national convention would go eo to st louis under tinder such an instruction tor for tho the reason that he would find the doors of the convention practically closed against him that to Is he would be met at the outset with the words you have come to dictate what this convention shall do and you are und under or instructions to bolt the convention if you cannot have your you r own way it Is in clear enough that after that no delegate from utah could have the least influence the convention will contain nearly 1000 delegates now ve me will suppose the pro gramme outlined above shall be carried out in utah novada nevada Ida idalio lity montana colorado arizona and new mexico lex ico that will mean that less than forty delegates will insist upon controlling it seems to us that tho the sensible thing for the convention to do would be to instruct its delegates to do their utmost to have a plank inserted in the platform calling for tho the immediate restoration of silver to its old sovereign place as primary money at the old ratio rat 10 of 16 to 1 and leave it to their delegates to do N what hat they might decide upon after consulting with the delegates of other silver striates surely it will not do to send delegates with CL a threat upon their lips from the first many eastern silver men and the sliver men in congress do not think it impossible to obtain from the convention such buell concessions as ag sliver silver men d desire 0 do be that as a it may it IF 11 a clear case that less than forty tog w will III hardly control the action of 80 from other states and by the way in those delegates will be some of the brightest men in america after a trial shall be made then the silver states delegates may de determine convene to bolt and to explain to the convention their reasons that Is a matter w atch should be left to the delegation itself after making ol a fair trial to accomplish com something against the brilliant array and overwhelming numbers that will be there from new england and the middle states it if tho the idaho montana and colorado senators are arc a at the convention as Is now expected by consulting with them and weighing c everything e a much clearer idea of what ought to be done will be obtained than can possibly be arrived at here naw ap w and that discretion should be left io to the delegates or none should be sent gent |
