Show ATTiTUDE RAWLINS Reported Vote on Silver I Caused Much Comment I I I DEMOCRATS WERE PJJZZLED I f t Ii I Announcement That He Voted for 1 the I I Renffirmation Plan tho Subject of Much Speculation Yesterday Some I Accounted for it on the Ground of I Wiso Party Policy While Others I I Condemned ItA H Tarbet Rs turns Homo from the Kansas City Convention The announcement that Senator Joseph L < Rawlins of Utah had voted against a resolution declaring unequivocally I unequivo-cally for 16 to 1 at the meeting p the resolutions committee of the Kansas City convention created much comment in Salt Lake yesterday There were I somo Democrats who while expressing surprise at the Senators action endeavored I en-deavored to explain the matter ITy sayIng I say-Ing that his motive was probably that he took the view of many other Western West-ern Democrats and was anxlous not to make the 16 to 1 part of the platform prominent fearing to scare away Eastern votes Some local Democrats came out Hatfooled und said he had made a bad mistake while others refused re-fused tt > make any comment on it believing be-lieving that conditions surrounding I Senator Rawlins may have been such as to justify his action One prominent I Democrat who is very cop to the Senator I I Sen-ator that Is as close as anyone can get Ito I-to Jbdey did not hesitate to Bay that IChe had been similarly hltualcd he would not have voted as the Senator did This gentleman expressed regret that the talk of opposition to 16 to 1 had over started before the convention met believing that If nothing much had been said about It a simple renfhrmation of the Chicago platform without any positive posi-tive declaration In favor of 16 to 1 would have been considered sufficient The reaMlrmatlon might have been a good thing for the party In the West I and other places where there is a strung diver sentiment the Democratic spielers could say that the platform AVIS strong for silver while in places not so much addicted to the white metal they could leprescnt that silver had been subordinated and merely mentioned in passing for old times sake Judge King said he did not understand under-stand why Senator Rawlins who has always been a most pronounced 16 to 1 advorate had voted against an unequivocal un-equivocal 16 to 1 plank in the platform but added that he did not doubt the Senator had good reasons for voting I I as he did and although Judge King vigorously insisted that he did not wish I to be understood as speaking for Senator Sen-ator Rawlins or attempting fo explain the Senators actions he felt certain I I I that the Senator assumed the attitude I referred to In the interests of harmony In the party believing that a simple I roafTlnnatfon of the Chicago platform I was a full and adequate silver plank In closing his remarks Judge King again stated that this was merely his idea of Senator Rawllnss motives the I Judge saying he had no definite Information Infor-mation upon which to base the explanation ex-planation The report of the Senators vote came as a distinct surprise to local politicians poli-ticians and some of the local Democrats Demo-crats eon went so far as to state that the Senator I had thrown the party I down as he went to Kansas City with I explicit instructions to fight for a pronounced pro-nounced 16 to 1 plank in the platform The dispatch correcting the report aid stating that the listing of Senator Rawlins with those who opposed the 16 to1 plank was un error came too late to reach the disturbed Democracy last night but most of those who criticised Rawlins yesterday will no doubt be heard today saying that they knew all the time that the report was a mistake |