Evening star., 1896-06-11
That and the Vice Presidential
Nominee to Be Settled.
HANNAS WISH TEE Law AT ST. LOUIS
Southern Men Coming Out for
Gold.
TALKS WITH THE DELEG ATES
pecial From a staff Correspondent.

people have not put up even a moderate
show of fight. The wish Of Hanna is the
law CT the convention in most things. The
vice presidency and the financial plank OF
the platform are all that have to be ar
ranged. The preference Of the Mckinley
managers for Hobart on the ticket makes
the New Jersey man the leading candidat te
Many other candidates are named but I'm
less Mckinley finds reason to turn to some
other, Hobart will be chosen. The McKin-
ley managers give this tip.
Mckinley is wavering on the platform
In the selection Of the financial plank is
the only thing where there is any idea tha
his advice will not be followed. This Is
chiefly because he is not dogmatic on that
question. 1t is known by all the republi-
can managers, those who have opposed
him as we'll as those who support him.
that the Ohio man is in favor of the gold
standard. 1t Is only his disposition to be
conciliatory, to offend no one, to have har-
mony and to hold the republican party to-
gether, that leads Linn to advise a course
of moderation
Since everybody agrees as to what the
platform will mean, no matter how worded.
1t Is difficult to take a stand for some par
ticular form Of phrases and to resis. a
strong demand that the convention should
be plain spoken. Mckinley cannot well
take firm stand and unyieldngly demand
that the platform shall not. in SO MANY
words, declare for the gold standard. He
and his managers can only advise and
argue, but they are very ins!stent that the
words gold standard shall not be made
use of. For them to be too dogmatfc in the
matter would cause their being put in the
false position of opposing sound money"
Since Mr.. Mckinley has Informed his
friends from the silver states that the plat
form Will mean gold, no matter what Il
says. it is difficult to answer, except with
a plea of expediency, the demand of the
radical gold men, Say what you mean"
If Mr.. Mckinley were situated so that he
could take a firm position against gold
platform, he would probably carry his
point through at once, as he has every
other. AS 1t is. his managers are trying
can by persuasion. Don't offend any one
if you can help 1t, be toleran, and accom-
modating,' is the motto.
Gold Standard Plank Probable.
The impression now is that the radical
gold men are strong enough to write q
gold standard plank in the platform The
question is can they be prevailed upon not
to do SO. A great number of financial
planks have been written and submitted to
the radicals on both sides. Four or five
different forms of phraseciogy emanated
from Mr. Hanna's headquarters last night
They were submitted to the gold standard
men and to the extreme silve.ites, and
none Of them got approval from either
side.
Many suggestions to this plan have
come from the outside. Nearly every
politician here is trying his hand at it,
and many suggestions have been received
by telegraph from various parts of the
country. But with all the twisting and
turning Of phrases 1t comes down to the
one proposition of whether the financial
issue shall be sharply drawn or whether
1t shall be avoided The last proposition
which Mr.. Hanna has been struggling
with is one which dove-tails Sound
money" plank and a protection plank to-
gether, declaring for the highest standard
of money and the highest standard of pro-
lection.
Nothing yet is satisfactory to McKin-
ley as the Indiana plank, proof slips Of
which the Mckinley workers carry around
in their pockets and circulate when op-
portunity is offered.
The thing that has increased the pros
poets Of the gold standard faction is that
the southern delegates are bobbing up for
gold. II the percentage holds the gold
men will be able to write the plank. One
of the most active and influential compro-
mise advocates said to me this morning
that the gold men would nave ;he power
to write the financial plank, with the aid
of the southern delegates anI nine free
silver delegates, on whom they could
count. He was in hopes however, that
they would stop to consider how greatly
a gold standard plank would embarrass
the republicans in the middle western
states and would rot go 10 extremes.
So few delegates are here however that
all speculation is based on the opinion OF
a few leaders:
What the Silver Men Want,
Mr.. Hanna, after submitting several sug-
gestions, asked one of the silver delegates
at-large last night what his folks would
agree to. The delegate wrote down: 1.-THE
restoration Of silver to its position prior
to 1873"
Hanna waved his hand and turned away
Ex-senator Carey of Wyoming, who was
earnestly advocating the adoption of a
single gold standard plank. He does not
do this as some of the silver men do, sim
ply because he wants one extreme or the
other. He says that If the issue is sharp
ly drawn, If the republicans declare for
the gold standard and the democrats de-
clare for silver, sixteen to one, the repub-
licans twill carry all the so-called silver
states. He says that the silver sentiment
is artificial and exaggerated, and that if
the question is once squarely presented
there will be an end of silver talk
with a single gold standard plank" he
said, "the republicans can carry Colorado
Teller cannot hold the people. His power
will be gone il we but take bold stand
and make the fight. These silver leaders
keep the people in a state of agitation and
play upon them for political capital We
can carry every one of the so-called silver
states on a gold platform
Representative Hilborne, who stopped
over to the convention on his way to Cali
fornia, took a different view of the situa.
ton. He said to me that If the democrat
put up strong silver man on a straigh.
sixteen-to-one platform and the republi.