Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-23
Mckinley and the nspuolican Platform.


lican candidate in 1896 will be nomina,
ted upon a safe and unequivocal Iilnan.
ciall platform, and that IL McKinley
should be the nominee for President be
will be found "in perfect harmony with
his party" II adds. eve have nc
fears of McKinley's course should the
people decide to make him President.
II he was wrong nineteen or twenty
years ago il is no Indication that he
would be wrong at this time. !"
There is no doubt in the world that
Mckinley was wrong nineteen OF
twenty years ago" on the question Of
national finances and the indications
are numerous that he is wrong to-day.
As recently as 1850 he advocated in
Congress the passage of the mischiev.
GUS Sherman Silver Purchase act,
claiming that it was the only means
by which free silver coinage could be
secured. And this was only six years
ago.
Even more recently Mckinley has
shown how shifty and evasive he is
upon the money question, and how
much he lacks of being an exponent of
a sound system of national finances.
He is bimetallist without reserva-
tion, and this is satisfactory to the
advocates of FREQ silver coinage. Here
is his attitude, as explained by him
self in tho financial plank which he
wrote for tho Ohio Republicans, and
which the Ohio Republican State con-
vention incorporated in the platform:
We contend for honest money; for a
currency Of gold, silver and paper with
which to measure our exchanges that
shall be az sound as the government
and as untarnished as its honor; and
TO that end we favor bimetallism and
demand the use of both gold ard silver
as standard money, either in accordance
with ratio to be fixed BY an inter
national agreement, II that can be OBJ.
tanned, or under such restrictions and
such provisions TO be determined by
legislation as will secure the mainten-
ance of the PARTIES of value of the two
metals, SO that tho purchasing aud
debt-paylng power OF the dollar,
whether OF silver, gold or paper, shall
be at all times equal.
This Is McKinley's financial plat.
form, and II he is nominated for Presi-
dent by tho Republican national con.
vention, his platform goes with him.
After this declaration, he could not
stand upon sound money declaration.
And even should he bc willing to stand
uron any kind Of platform, the free
silver coinage Republicans who are
backing him, and TO whom his nomina-
tion will be due, would not give him
any other than the one he has already
promulgated, and which is satisfactory
to them.
There ia encouragement for the
friends of sound money in the result
of The recent election for Congressman
to iill vacancy in tho Eleventh dis
trict Of Texas. The district is rather
close ona, and the silverites were con.
tident of success. But The Democrats
nominated stalwart sound money man
on platform declaring specifically
against free coinage, and he vigorously
fought this heresy on the stump, the re-
suit being bis triumphant election over
q l6 to ]" man, The Galveston News
says that the principal force Of the free
silver movement in Texas is the impe.
tus given it by the cliques and com.
binations that are hunting office, .
and the same thing is true Of many
other States. These cheap politicians,
says the New York Evening Post who
arc ready to wreck a great party for
their personal advantage can be beaten
elsewhere as they were beaten the other
day in Texas. They must be beaten
unless the rarty wants another canvass
as humiliating and disastrous as the
peace campaign of 1861.
1t is said that more liquor was sold
in New York City, last Sunday, than on
any Sunday ever before known even in
the palmy tit.es when everything
went" ard the saloon doors were wide
open all day long. One paper declares
IN bold type, that rum ruled the citv. -
Tho result was due to tho peculiar pro.
vision Of the Ranes Liquor bill that
permits hotels to sell liquor on Sunday
to guests with meals, or in their
rooms or apartments. Every saloon
that could, even by tho commonest
courtesy call itself a hotel, took out
hotel license last week. Uf course they
did not insist that 'meals'S should be
either elaborate or costly, the main OBJ
iect being to facilitate tho sale of liquor
And go, after many "dry" Sundays in
succession, New York lad one yester.
day wet enough 20 suit the most
bibulous. Evidently. the Raines bill
Is Hat failure, as far as preventing
the sale OF liquor on Sunday is CON
cerped
A Waterbury watch factory has cur
tailed its output and reduced its work.
ing force because of tho great heat and
drouth in Australia, the Jameson raid
and the Matabele uprising in South
ern Africa and the unsettled condition
OF Egypt. In each of these disturbed
districts the company was doing a pro-
fitable and rapidly increasing business
which has now been much reduced.
The incident shows, says the New York
World, how close are the trade relations
between widely separated territories of
the earth. 1t illustrates the interde-
pendence Of districts which trade with
each other 1t also shows how greatly
the prosperity of any branch of bust
ness depends on the prosperity of it's