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table. He is opposed to counties or sub
sidies and desires for the industry repre
sented by him the same measure of pro
tection that is afforded others. Ex-Gov
ernor Warmouth of Louisiana is'in accord
with the sentiments expressed by Mr. Ox
nard and is lending him his hearty co
operation. Under the present tariff the
duty on sugar is 40 per cent advalorem.
This Mr. Oxnard does not think is high
enough to keep out the competition of the
cheap peon labor of othercountries and he
is in favor of Jevying a specific duty ol 2
cents per pound on sugar, as it was in the
McKinley bill. This would enable Amer
ican sugar-producers to build up the in
dustry without raising the price and would
bring into cultivation in California alone
many thousands of acre: of what would
otherwise be unproductive land.
Mr. Oxnard says that the experiment in
California has proved conclusively that
beet-raising for the purpose of sujjar man
ufacture is profitable to the farmer and
under a proper system of protection wiil
be in time one of the great industries of
California.
Mr. Oxnard and his associates from
Louisiana have prepared the following to
be submitted to the committee on plat
form as a special plank for insertion there
in:
"The practicability of successfully grow
ing sugar-beets throughout the United
States having been clearly demonstrated
within the last tive years, and believing
that uni\ersal introduction of this crop
will be a material aid to our agricultural
classes in times when other staple crops
are depressed, we favor any measure which
can brine about the rapid development of
a National sugar industry, thereby keep
ing at home and distributing among our
own agricultural inhabitants the $12d.000,
-000 which we are annually sending abroad
to foreigners for sugar."
It is not expected that there will be any
opposition to the insertion of this plank in
the platform. Other special planks asking
for protection on wool and lead, which in
dustries have been paralyzed by the Demo
cratic tariff, will be urged, so that it may
become unmistakeably apparent to even
the most unreflecting voter that the Re
publican party is determined at all hazards
to restore to the afflicted laborers, me
chanics and agriculturists of the country
that prosperity which was strangled by
the Wilson bill.
The following is the proposed plank on
the lead matter:
"Th«s Republican party is in favor of the
re-enactment of the tariff schedule of 1890
providing for a duty on lead ores, without
taking notes of the value of the silver
associated with the lead in the ores im
ported."
There is but little doubt that the follow
ing wiil be made a part of the platform :
"Noting that under the tariff act of
March 2, 1867, the wool industry was more
prosperous than during any other period
in the history of the country, and observ
ing that the present free-trade policy of
the Democratic administration has ruined
that industry, the Republican party, not
Jess eager to-day than in the past to up
hold the interests of those engaged in the
raising of wool, hereby stand committed
to the reinstatement of a schedule on wool
as enacted in the tariff law of 1867."
A prominent Morton man said to-night,
speaking of McKinley's expected nomina
tion, "Dead things sometimes get up and
walk."
Nexi in importance 'to protection is the
financial issue. The silver men, headed
by Colonel Isaac Trumbo of Utah, are still
defiant and aggressive. They declare that
as they cannot get free coinage they will
insist on a clean-cut plauk in favor of
gold, so that there may be no mistake as
to the attitude of the Republican party on
the subject.
If a declaration for gold would be better
for the cause of Republicanism in the East
than an attempt to conceal the gold
otandard behind glittering generalities,
they want gold to be put into the platform.
Several conferences have been held con
cerning this matter, and up to the present
writing the leaders of the Republican
party who are for sound money and the
silver men have not been able to agree.
Nor is it likely that there will be any com
promise, for Thomas C. Platt of New York
eaid this morning:
"We are here for a gold standard. The
New York delegation is for a gold standard
and a man that fits it, and we believe that
man to be Morton of New York"
The following financial plank was pre
pared by the McKinley men this morning:
"We are firm and emphatic in our de
mand for honest money. We believe that
our money should not be inferior to the
money of the most enlightened nations of
the earth. We are unalterably opposed to
any scheme that threatens to debase or de
preciate our currency. We favor the use
of silver as currency, but to the extent
only and under such regulations that its
parity with gold can be maintained, and
in consequence are opposed to the free and
unlimited and independent coinage of sil
ver."
A copy of this was handed to Colonel
Trumbo, and he declared that it did not
Fuit him. T. C. Platt of New York has re
fused to agree to the substitution of "sound
money" for gold, the New Yorkers de
manding an outspoken and unequivocal
declaration. So that the hitcn remains.
It is estimated that there are 600 votes in
the convention opposed to a gold planic
Buch as is desired by Morton's backers,
and in favor of sound money or currency
laws that will provide a circulating medium
in gold, ailver and paper which will
always be interchangeable at its face
value.
Colonel Trumbo has prepared the fol
lowing plank on silver:
"The Republican party is in favor of
free and unlimited coinage of gold and
silver at the ratio of sixteen ounces of
silver being equivalent, in all the functions
of money, to one ounce of gold when
coined into dollars of the United States of
America."
The colonel said to the committee this
evening in support of his plank:
•'We are to-day confronted with one of
the greatest problems ever presented to a
convention requiring a solution. It is the
money question. After twenty-three years
of anti-silver legislation, ending with the
complete overflow of our system of
ttnance existing up to 1873, and the estab
lishment of the reign of gold, I inquire,
what is tne comparative condition of this
country, a country which had the energy
of 40,000,000 to 70,000,000 human beings?
"You will no doubt attribute to adverse
tariff legislation much of the woe which
besets you to-day, but let us go back to the
time when the Republican tariff schedules
stood unmoved, and if memory serves you
well you will recall the gradual decline of
prices, the yearly growth of depreciation
and the fading of prosperity. There was a
time In the history of the United States
when every child was assured a station in
life commensurate with the energies of in
tellect and body displayed, regardless of
the inheritance which the first rays of
light which greeted the tiny eyes of in
fancy might have found it in possession of.
, 'Things are different now. The strata
of society are being well defined and the
fortunes or misfortunes of birth prevail
'throughout life. I point with pride to the
nredictions of the silver men in their Na
tional utterances. They have read aright
the siirns of the times with that accuracy
which is only attributal to a correct diag
nosis of the ailments of the body politic.
They have forewritten the financial his
tory of the United States with a vision
most prophetic, and those who have the
inclination and who will review the de
bates in Congress for the past twenty years
and take note of what the champions of
bimetallism have said cannot help be as
tonished, if not convinced, by the force
of events following in the waKe of silver
sentiment.
"I realize that as a Western man hail
ing from a silver State I am open to the
charge of being unduly prejuuiced in favor
of 6ilver, but it may be somewhat of a sur
prise to many of you to know that my
greatest interests are in gold mines, where
not an ounce of silver is to be encountered.
Some of the ablest and most radical, advo
cates of silver remonetization are men
who have never seen a silver mine. In this
connection I wish to refer to the oft-re
peated statement that the silver barons
are seeking to obtain 100 cents for a 50
-cent dollar. If you will but reflect for a
moment the absurdity of the statement
will be discernible. If the spirit of the
plank which I have presented was abided
by, supposing the Republican party
1 adopted it, and through that adoption it
j became the basis of a law, the miner would
[ have his silver coined into dollars of 412%
1 grains of pure silver, and lor every 371>£
grains of pure silver deposited at the
United States mint he would receive in
exchange an American silver dollar. Now,
here you have your choice: If the dollar
thus obtained passes for 100 cents no man
| with 371}^ errains of uncoined bullion will
j part witu it for less than 100 cents, and a
I 100-cent dollar will be worth 100 cents.
Has any harm been done? If, on the
other hand, the 371>4 grains are only
passable for 50 cents when coined will the
bonanza kings, as they are spoken of,
profit by free coinage? When the silver
men state that the demonetization has re
sulted in the depreciation of farm prod
ucts proportionately to the fall of silver
by virtue of a contraction of the currency
and the advantages enjoyed by silver
standard countries, the reply is made that
improvements in farm machinery is the
true cause and not the act of 1873. If the
farmers were equally as prosperous now as
they were before the effects of demoneti
zation became felt, mechanical im
provements could be held somewhat
blamable for the present distress
among our pastoral population. If a
farmer can to-day make two blades of
grass grow where formerly one grew, and
care for his increased responsibilities by
virtue of the aid machinery affords, is it
fair to presume that that advantage and
that aid has after twenty years of trial left
the farmer a bankrupt and an owner of a
mortgage which has bereft him of the
acreage which is free from debt?"
Relative to the situation in California
the New York Tribune of yesterday, quot
ing Shortridge, says:
"The California delegates are for silver,
but they are primarily and overwhelm
ingly for a protective tariff, as shown by
the indorsement by the convention of Mr.
McKinley for President, who is looked
upon by California as the great champion
of that principle. There will be no bolt on
the part of the California delegation.
They feel too strongly the need of tariff
laws advocated by the Republican party,
and will look only to the Republican party
for help on the silver question."
John Paul Cosgravk.
PLATT DECLARES FOR
GOLD AND MORTON
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were A. T. Wimberly and Richard Sim
mons (colored), instructed fur McKinley,
and the contestants, Morris Marks and
Lucien Como (colored), instructed for Reed.
As in the other contests in this State the
disputes were based upon the regularity
or otherwise of the conventions at which
the delegates were elected. Wimberly and
Simmons were seated without debate or
opposition.
Next on the list was the Third Louisiana
district contest, where L. S. Clark and
William J. Belian, National Republicans,
challenged the credentials of Meyer Cahn
and of State Chairman Thomas A. Cage
(colored), all four McKinleyites.
Cahn and Cage- were excluded by a vote
of 19 to 18, but subsequently, on motion of
Hahn of Ohio, both delegations were
seated with a half vote each. The vote
was 27 to 11. This was the first double
delegation to be placed on the roll by the
committee, and Committeeman Botkin of
Montana expressed the fear that the pre
cedent would return to plague the body.
David S. Perris and C. C. Antoine (col
ored), both "regular Republicans" and in
structed for McKinley, were the claimants
in the Fourth district, while Benjamin
O'Neil and William Harper (colored),
both instructed for I^eed, made contest for
the seats. This was an echo of a similar
dispute which arose over the same com
peting delegations in the Minneapolis con
vention four years ago. Harper and
O'Neil, the Reed men, were seated by a
unanimous vote.
No presentation of facts was made in the
Fifth and Sixth districts and the regular
delegates from each locality, L. B. Don
nelly and S. W. Green (colored) and J. B.
Biooks and W. W. Johnson (both colored),
were seated. Ail four are instructed for
McKinley.
Delaware, New York and North Carolina
were passed for the time being, there be
ing no response when they were called by
the sergeant-at-arms.
In the Third Virginia District the con
testant failed to put in an appearance and
the regular delegates, Edmund Waddell
Jr. and C. \V. Harris, both instructed for
McKinley, wore seated.
At this juncture the repular order was
suspended and Wilson of Delaware moved
a reconsideration of the vote by which
Todd and Sapp (McKinleyites) were recog
nized yesterday as delegates from the Fifth
District of Kentucky.
The reconsideration was granted, and
then Committeeman Yerkes of that State
asked that the contestant^, Knoefer and
Reeder (Bradley first choice) be seated
with the regular delegates with a hair vote
each. Powell Ciayton entered a vigorous
objection and the metter was passed for
the present. After waiting for some time,
and the Delaware contestants failing to put
in an appearance, the committee, at 5:30
o'c lock, took a recess.
Tht* next contest heard by the commit
tee was that from Arizona, the one set of
delegates being that headed by Henry J.
Cleveland and the other by William
Christy. The claim of the latter was
stated by Isaac T. Stoddard. The claim
of the Cleveland set was stated by Charles
W. Wright. The «or.test was upon the
question of a vote of adjournment by the
convention. The decision of the commit
tee was that both delegations be admitted
with half votes.
At 11:30 o'clock the delayed contest
from the Fifth Alabama district was taken
up. Benjamin W. Walker, the solitary
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1896
PERRY HEATH, CHIEF OF MR. McKINLEY'S
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contestant, has a preference for Speaker
Reed, while the regular delegate, Douglas
Smith, is a McKinleyite. The latter was
seated by 19 to 18. At midnight a motion
to adjourn was carried.
EXPECTS TO MAKE A DEAL.
Conditions Under Which Platt Will
Run Morton for Second Place.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 12.— The arrival
of Senator Quay was the only interesting
episode of to-day. His headquarters were
soon thronged with a motley crowd of poli
ticians, newspaper men and curious ones
anxious to get a glimpse of the great Penn
sylvania politician. Senator Quay de
clines to make any statement for publica
tion to-night, but to an intimate friend tie
confided his opinion tnat Governor Mor
ton would have the Vice-Presidency if Mr.
Platt would only say the word, but Mr.
Platt will not knuckle to the McKhiley
men. He declares that inasmuch as Mr.
Morton has been indorsed for the Presi
dency by the greatest of all the States his
name shall be presented to the convention
and voted upon for President. It is be
lieved, however, that Mr. Platt expects to
make a deal whereby Governor Morton
will consent to take the Vics-Presidentinl
nomination, provided the platform is for
sound money on the basis of a single gold
standard. Of course Mr. Plati realizes
that any farther opposition to McKinley 's
nomination is hopeless.
He appreciates the iact that the McKin
ley people would rather have Morton
nominated for Vice-President than any
other candidate mentioned. It is believed,
therefore, that his efforts will now be di
rected toward securing as strong a gold
plank as he can in the platform. He
would like to have it much stronger than
the Indiana platform.
The wiseacres say that Platt will soon
have it made known that Morton will con
sent to accept the Vice-Presidential race
on a single gold standard platform. Of
course, the platform will be adopted be
fore the nominations are made, and if the
financial plank is strong enough to suit
Mr. Platt Governor Morton's name will
go before the convention for Vice-Presi
dent. In short, Mr. Piatt is ready to
enter his friend, Governor Morton, m the
Vice- Presidential race provided the fin
ancial plans of the platform declares for
the gold standard, but if the financial
resolutions are no stronger than the In
diana platform declarations Governor
Morton will not be a candidate.
The free silver men will hold a caucus
to-morrow upon the arrival of Senator
Teller of Colorado. The concensus of opin
ion is that the Gnancial plank will be
drawn on the lines of the Indiana plat
form, and, this not being altogether accept
able to Mr. Platt, Governor Morton's name
will not be presented for Vioe-Presi<ie:it,
and the ticket nominated will be McKinley
and Hobart. C. C. Carltoh.
PLATT VISITS HANNA.
Terms, However, Not P/ade With
McKinley's Manager.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 12.— Thomas C.
Platt has been to Mr. Hauna's room and
Messrs. Platt and Hanna have talked
matters over. That much is certain, and
the feverish energy with which Hanna
denies this f&ct detracts nothing from its
tiuth.
Platt's first appearance on the scene last
night, when he threatened that his men
would walK out of the convention if the
Platt delegates are turned down was not
calculated to encourage the dove of peace.
Nor is there an understanding between
the two men at present in spite of their
meeting to-day. Mr. Hanna would make
Platt no promises regarding the treatment
to be accorded to the Platt delegates by
the National Committee or by the conven
tion, nor did Mr. Platt indicate any
enthusiasm toward Mr. Hanna's tentative
suggestion of. Morton's name for the Vice-
Presidency. The truth is that Hanna be
lieves Platt is bluffing as regards the
threatened bolt and therefore he proposes
to stand pat for a time at least.
Mr. Platt has sent fur all the colored
delegates who have been rejected by the
National Committee, and has made them
fair promises of a rehearing for their cases
before the convention. He has thus gath
ered around him a possible following,
which, however, will probably melt away
before the convention meets.
All the hotel corridors bloom with ex
pensive and artistic photographs of the
Pennsylvania Senator, and handsome
Quay badges are on almost every coat
lapel. Mr. Quay has given Platt little
consolation, however, and it. remains to be
seen how much Mr. Platt can accomplish
alone. Platt, despite his defiant attitude,
is by no means irreconcilable, but the price
of his surrender is at present considered too
high by Mr. Hanna. Be?Hes the gold
standard Mr. Platt wants Hanna to notify
the Warner Miller element in New York
that the McKiuley managers regard him
as the legitimate leader of Kew York poli
tics and that all the bitter opposition to
his rule must cease.
Secretly Mr. Hanna is as anxious as
Platt for this very situation, because he
believes the bitter factional fight now rag
ing in the Empire State may jeopardize
the success of the National ticket next
fall. However he will not treat further
with Mr. Platt until that gentleman mani
fests a more amiable frame of mind than
he showed at to-day's brief meeting. Be
sides Hanna will hardly make final terms
with Mr. Platt until the arrival of Mul
holland and the anti-Platt contingent.
John Wise, Horace Porter and Edward
Brookfield, opposition leaders, came in to
night and immediately repaired to the
Hanna headquarters. The New York fight
will come up in tlie National Committee
to-morrow probably and as it progresses
events will develop which will have signi
ficant bearing on the final selection of
either Mr. Morton or Mr. Hobart as Vice-
President. C. C. Carlton.
ON INDIANA'S PATTERN.
The Platform Will Contain a Sound
Money Plank.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 12. -The cham
pions of sound money in tne Repuolican
platform gained a notable victory to-day.
A Call correspondent has the best author
ity for saying that Mr. Hanna, on behalf
of the McKinley men, will accept a plank
drawn alter the Indiana platform, but
omitting the iinal words expressing oppo
sition to the free coinage of silver at 16 to
1. The platform will oppose the free coin
age of silver, not only at 16 to 1, but at
any ratio. All day telegr^m^ have been
raining in on Mr. Hanna from bankers
and financiers in the East, demanding
that the platform shall explicitly declare
for a gold standard. To this demand Mr.
Hanna has turned a deaf ear. He insists
that the word "gold" would be obnoxious
to many Republicans. Mr. Hanna con
sented that the final words of the Indiana
platform, -'at the ratio of 16 to 1," should
be stricken out.
Meanwhile it is asserted at th« McKin
ley headquarters that the friends of
McKinley are not drafting any financial
planKs, but will leave the matter entirely
to the Certain it is that the
McKinley forces will strenuously oppose
lighting out the issue on the floor of the
convention. It is their claim, that as they
are sincere in demanding adherence to the
present financial system, the phraseology
of a plank is a mere question of verbiage
and expediency dictates that this detail be
fought out behind the closed doors of the
room of the committee on platform. It
must be remember, d that the constant at
titude of the McKinley men proclaims
that in their estimution entirely too much
prominence is being given the financial
que tion, and that in consequence the
tariff, which is at least of equal import
ance, is being neglected.
It is the wish of the McKinley men that
the tariff and the currency be indissolubly
united. They know that it is impossible
to run both subjects in one and the same
plank, but it is determined that they shall
be at least co-equal. The following state
ment prepared at the headquarters shows
plainly their purpose:
"The closeness with which so many
State conventions have linked protection
and sound money hns suggested the idea
of joining them in like manner in the Na
tional platform. It begins to dawn that
this question is so closely related to that
other great principle sure to be enunciated
in the platform — adequate protection — that
the making of the currency plank need
not, after all, be so difficult.
"Those familiar with the financial his
tory of the country recognize tne fact that
so long as we had adequate protection
and the ample revenue which resulted
there was no difficulty about currency, no
complaint as to its scarcity ana no radical
demand for the extreme addition to it by
unlimited coinage of silver. The fact that
the nomination of Major McKinley means
of itself the certainty of the adoption of a
system of protection and the assurance of
ample revenue will of itself bring about
the conditions in regard to currency which
prevailed when the country liad protec
tion and ample revenue and general pros
perity before. While it is not asbumed
that the mere adoption of a protective
tariff will settle the silver ques
tion, it is telieved that the tariff
plank which will naturally accompany
the nomination of Major McKinley will,
when in operation, bring about such a
condition in the financial affairs of the
Nation as to greatly reduce the demands
for lanre additions to the currency, and
bring back the generally satisfactory con
ditions which existed when a full treasury,
prosperity and ample employment kept at
home and in constant circulation the am
ple supply of currency which this country
has always had. This supply, it may be
remarked incidentally, is greater than that
of almost any country in the world, and
when it is not being drawn away by the
demand* from abroad, which are conse
quent upon a low tariff and insufficient
revenue, it has always proven sufficient to
meet amply the demands of the people."
Tnere is, of course, no Bcheme afoot to
gag the convention or in any way prevent
discussion. It has been suggested to-day
that the adherents of the gold standard
who demand a specific indorsement of
gold by word shall be given an oppor
tunity to test the feeling of tho conven-'
tion, and for that purpose the financial
plank as reported by tne committee Bhall
be worded as they wish. A substitute
drawn on the line already indicated —
namely, the Indiana platform, omitting
the statement of any ratio— is then to be
offered to the convention, and the dele
gates will thus be given an opportunity to
decide. It is assumed, of course, as a part
of this programme that the majority for
the revised Indiana platform will be so
great that there will be no dancer in D er *
mitting this little comedy. Should there
be any doubt of it no chances will be
taken, and the plank will come from the
committee just as it is to be adopted.
All talk of a bolt on the part of the free
silver element when its financial plank de
manding free silver shall have been re
fused by the convention has died away.
Of all the brave array of Senatorial bolters
who six weeks ago breathed fierce defiance
at every turn only Senator Teller and Sen
ator Dv Bois remain.
Chairman Carter and ail the others an
nounce that they are Republicans first and
free-silver men next. Of all the delegates
from the free-silver Slates none would fol
low Messrs. Teller and Dv Bois. Mr.
Shoup, Senator Dv Boia' colleague, states
that no delegate from Idaho will follow
Dv Bois, and every one of the alternates
to the delegates at large from Colorado
(Senator Teller's State) stands ready and
eager to avail himself of his right to oc
cupy Teller's seat the instant be rises to
leave the hall. C. C. Cablton.
QUAY ON THE SCENE.
Flurry Caused by the Arrival of the
Pennsylvanian.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 12.— The arrival
of Senator Quay of Pennsylvania late this
afternoon stirred into activity the some
what languid political gossip. The Sena
tor was accompanied by his son, Richard
Quay. A number of newspaper men called
at his apartments on the fourth floor of
the Southern Hotel when his presence
there became known. Beyond announc
ing that he was in the Presidential race
and that his name would be presented to
the convention by General Hastings Mr.
Quay declined to be interviewed. He ex
pressed entire ignorance as to what kind
of a platform the convention was likely to
adopt. He also declined to say whether it
was his purpose, as baa been stated by
some of the Pennsylvania delegation, to
transfer the vote of his State from himself
to McKinley when Pennsylvania was
reached on the rollcall, and generally he
manifested to his newspaper callers a
much greater desire to receive than to give
news.
QUAY WILL WITHDRAW.
He Believes McKinley to Be a Sure
Winner.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 12.— An impor
tant conference was held in Senator
Quay's rooms late to-nignt, at which Sen
ator Quay, Mark Hanna, Mr. Hah n % Na
tional committeeman from Ohio, Hobart
of New Jersey. Samuel Fessen
den of Connecticut and W. Andrews
of Pennsylvania were present, and
at which, it is said, it was prac
tically arranged that Mr. Quay should re
tire from the contest for the Presi
dency. He said *the contests which
were now under consideration by
the National Committee were of little
or no consequence, because it was evident
that McKinley already had over 500 un
contested votes, making it evident that
the people demanded his nomination. He
acquiesced in the suggestion that McKin
ley should be nominated by acclamation.
WHAT DUBOIS WILL DO.
An Uncompromising Fight to Be
Made for Silver.
WASHINGTON. D. C, June 12.—Sena
tor Dubois of Idaho, who is Senator
Teller's chief lieutenant in the fight for
free silver, will leave to-morrow for St.
Louis, where he will join the Colorado
Senator and the Republican silver men.
"We will make the fight for silver," said
Senator Dubois to-night, "in the commit
tee on resolutions and on the floor of the
convention. If we fail we shall go down
with our colors flying."
"Would a compromise be acceptable to
you?"' was asked.
'•The time for compromise is past."
"In theevent of the convention adopt
ing a platform satisfactory to you and the
other silver Republicans what will be your
course?"
"What we will do if the platform does
not declare for silver," responded Mr.
Dubois, "is a matter for the future to de
termine. We will battle for our convic
tions to the bitter end. If the majority is
against us we will act as our best judg
ment dictates."
SENATOR TELLER MAY BOLT
Colorado Will Not Support a Gold
Candidate.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 12.— Senator
and Mrs. Teller remained here to-night en
route from Washington to St. Louis.
They will resume their journey to-morrow.
Senator Teller was interviewed for the
leading local free-silver organ.
"What do you think the Republicans
will do at St. Louis, Senator?
"I think McKinley will be the nominee
on a gold standard platform."
"In that event, what will you do?
"I do not wish to make any statement
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further than that which is already on rec
ord. When the Republican State Conven
tion of Colorado was in session I tele
graphed home that I did not desire to
go to St. Louis, if but that my party
sent me I would not support a
gold - standard candidate for Presi
dent on a gold - standard platform or
on a platform of doubtful import, or, in
other words, a straddle. Not only did the
convention elect me, but instructed the
other delegates to be governed b/ my ac
tion. I did not like that, because it is
rather embarrassing that other men ehould
be forced to do as I might do."
"Then you will bolt the convention?"
"I did not say anything about that; but
my declaration to the Republicans of Colo
rado is on record, and you can draw what
ever conclusion you please from that."
"Will any of the other silver Senators
from the West refuse to support a gold
standard?"
"Certainly."
"You have no idea that Senator Carter
of Montana, chairman of the National
Committee, will refuse to support the
ticket under such circumstances? 1 '
"Yes, he will, and so will Dubois, Mantle
and Cannon."
SIGNS OF DISRUPTION.
Supporters of H. Clay Evans Are
Not In Harmony.
ST. LOUIS, Ho., June 12.— There are
indications of a disruption in the solid
State support of H. Clay Evans, candidate
for the nomination as Vice - President,
growing out of local friction between the
three sections of Tennessee — east, middle
and west. A meeting of the delegation
will be held to-morrow with a view to set
tling the existing difference. The friction
grows out of the contest fbr a member of
tne National Committee to succeed George
W. Hill, the incumbent. The fight is be
tween the field on one side and the Chat
tanooga candidate, Charles W. Chamber
lain, on the other. Chattanooga now has
the Vice-Presidential candidate, the dele
gate and alternate at large and the chair
man of the State Central Committee. The
friends of four other candidates for Mr.
Hill's place are threatening a bolt from
Evans unless that gentleman and Newell
Saunders, chairman of the State Commit
tee, both of whom, it is claimed, are ac
tively pushing Mr. Chamberlain for Na
tional Committeeman, do not permit the
place to go to some other part of the State.
MISSION OF HASTINGS.
Going: to St. Louis to Present the
Name of Quay.
PITTSBURG, Pa., June 12.— Governor
Hastings and party left here at 9:30 to
night for St. Louis, where the Governor
will present the name of Senator Quay to
the convention as a candidate for the
nomination for the Presidency. The Gov
ernor declared that he was not a candidate
for the Vice-Presidential nomination, but
said that it would not be proper for him
to refuse it before it was offered to him.
He will vote for the gold standard.
NO SUFFRAGE PLANK.
M. H.de Young Not Friendly to the
Women.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 12.— "There will
be no woman suffrage plank in the plat
form," said M. H. de Young of San Fran
cisco to-night. "They have been meeting
in the parlor every day and sent a com
mittee to address our committee, but we
would not see them."
SAYS MCKINLEY IS WISE.
Ex-Governor Flower Admires the
Policy of Silence.
BUFFALO, N. V., June 12.—Ex-Gov
ernor Roswell P. Flower arrived in this
city this morning on the steamer North
west and left for Watertown this aiter
noon.
"Wno is your choice for a Democratic
candidate for President?" was asked of
him by a United Prrss reporter.
"No man who would run on a free coin
age of silver platform," was the response.
"You see," continued the ex-Governor,
"Democratic chances this year are not as
glowing as they were four years ago and
candidates are scarce. In fact, there is no
Democratic candidate. It is my opinion
that the Democrats had better wait until
the Republicans finish at St. Louis, and
then when we are all assembled in Chicago
draft a good man, third term being out of
the question, of course."
"What effect will the free-silver agitation
have upon the Democracy?"
"Disastrous," answered Mr. Flower. "It
will hurt the party terribly in the East. I
know Democrais who would rather vote
the Republican ticket than vote for a man
running on a free-silver platform.' 1
"It is said that free silver men will con
trol the Chicago convention."
"If the published estimates are correct
may be they can. Of course my hoi>e and
wish is that they will not. This threaten
ing condition is the only menace *o Dem
ocratic success in New York State this fall.
On State issues the Democrats ought to
carry New York State by 100,000 and they
will, too, providing the questions raised in
the National issues can be kept out."
"What do you think of the attitude of
McKinley in refusing to express himself
on the question of finance?"
"In that respect Mr. McKinley is a very
wise man. What on eaith has he got to
talk for? He is absolutely sure cf tha
nomination. A half dozen more St. Louis
cyclones could not stop it. That being the
case, what has he to gain by talking? He
coulrt only injure himself. He is very
wise in keeping silence and allowing the
Republican platform to talk for him. Of
Course, if he was not sure of the nomina
tion and could gain anything by talking
it would be all right for him to go ahead
and talk."
BEING RE-ENFORCED.
New Yorkers Ready to Fight for
the Platt Delegates.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 12.— 8enator Quay
of Pennsylvania was one of Mr. Platt's
callers this afternoon. The two were
closeted for an hour. When Quay de
parted Platt remarked to a group of news
papermen: "Senator Quay is in the fight
with me to the end." Early 4his evening
Platt received a dispatch which he showed
with much satisfaction to several callers in
his room. It reads as follows:
Albany, X. V., June 12.
T. C. Platt, St. Louis: Five carloads of loyal
New York representatives are on their way to
St. Louis for Morton and sound money.
J. S. Kenyon.
This delegation will arrive to-morrow
afterncon and thus re-enforced the fight
to prevent the unseating of the Platt
men in the New York delegation.
Mr. Platt is quoted as sayinir that
if the National Committee unseats his
delegates he will carry the contest to th«
committee on credentials and if their de
cision be unfavorable it will be continued
on the floor of the convention.
The arrival this evening of Cornelius
Bliss and other New Yorkers gave rise to
the belief that the New York contests,
which had^ been postponed pending their
arrival, would be taken up to-morrow. At
midnight it was still a question whether
they would be reached to-morrow or go
over until Monday.
The Marquette Club of St. Louis to-day
received a reply from Governor Morton of
New York to an inquiry addressed to him
as to whether, in the event of hi 3 election
to the Presidency, he would make any dis
crimination against Roman Catholics.
Governor Morton quotes the explicit
declaration of his letter of acceptance
when nominated for Governor ijs to the
equal rights of all citizens, and adds: "I
still adhere to the views therein expressed
and can only add that if I were charged
with the duty of administering the office
President of the United States I should en
deavor to treat all classes of citizens with
out discrimination as to their religious
belie f.' :
CALL UPON McKINLEY.
Prominent Men Preparing: to Cele-
brate His Nomination.
CANTON, Ohio, June 12.— General W.
C. Fairbanks of Indianapolis, who hag
been favorably mentioned for temporary
chairman of the St. Louis convention,
called upon McKinley for several hours
this morning. He came from Cleveland.
After a consultation with the Governor
General Fairbanks returned to the Forest
City at noon. General Fairbanks said he
had nothing to say for publication. Other
callers on the Governor during the day
were Congressman Pearson of North Caro
lina, C. F. Dewey of the Borliner Lokal
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