New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-18
REVIEW OF THE SITUATION.
rBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBUNE.l

that the National Convention will finish its work
on schedule time tomorrow. Such highly salts
factory progress was made at two sessions held
to-day that the Mckinley managers readily
yielded TO the general desire to avoid night ses-
sions and proposed a recess to tomorrow morn
Ing. The prompt Endorsement in the Convention
of the Credentials Committees simple and ex-
peditious programme. and the Unexpectedly
feeble fight made in the Committee on Resolu
tions agans, the out-and-out gold plank agreed
to last night I'm subcommittee. have. in fact.
smoothed away the obstacles to almost un-
mpeded dispatch OF business. and 1t is now
easily within the power Of the Convention TO
complete its labors at single sitting OF reason
able length.
The report Of the Resolutions Committee re-
mains TO be considered. but the opposition to its
adoption is numerically SO inconseqrential that
its acceptance cannot be delayed more than an
hour or two Nothing will then remain but tho
nomination Of Presidential and Vice Pre- sidentinl
candidates. a task which can easily be accom-
plished in the afternoon.
Az UNEXPECTED TRIAL OF STRENGTH.
The only notable incident OF the day IN the
Convention was the precipitation OF an inteNst-
ing trial of strength between the th'ck-and-thin
supporters of Major McIiinley's candidacy ana
f'aff- Reed quay y Ilh'fl fTft - lbB' oPP'-
sltion on the question Of forcing "A vote on the
Credentials Committees report. The division
WAS taken under circumstances least favorable
To the ohio candidate. for many delegates VINO
are instructed or pledged to vote for him for the
Presidential nomination Joined the opposition
forces to-day IN eecklng to reject tho commit
tees report and thus prolong the inevitabl" set
tienent II the present contest. The Credentials
al Delaware and Texas
contests referred to 1t without recommendation
by the National Committee. and 1t accepted
.!,i.out moalA -aiion the temporary roll to the
regularity - which the National Committee had
already certified. The different elements IN the
pi,,t-Reod-O -Ouay-Allison-F Coinage combina-
ton. seeing that their sole hope Of embarrassing
cr d.rnonalizlng the Mckinley forces lay In In
e,s;Ing on a ro0pcning OF the contests when
,hev had manufactured IN tn, southern states.
struggled (, rocommlt all disputed titles FOR
further examination.
Representative Hepburn. % Iowa, presented
,,,norit, report cmbolylng this programme. and
with tn. support of the Red managers ana
N.ssrs Ou,v Of Pennsylvania; Plat. OF New
y,rk. E,llev = Missouri. and Wellington. OF
MARYLAND 4 quartet Of dlsgruntled bosses. un-
der,o,k :, make an open fight against the NC
tlnlev leaders The only tes vote taken came
90, tho motion Of Mr.. Fort the chairman of tho
Credentials Committee. foe the previous question
,rtuxt.ry's OVERWHELMING STRENGTH
r,,o result was victory for the Mckinley
force. by 5l5is votes. against 359%4. N~w-Ens-
Ian, exrent 1 votes In Vermont and In Massa-
cbuso,ts stood with the opposition New-fork
c,s, - OH, ~ the -. and Pennsylvania % out
- "a for delay and a reopenng ot the South
.r, contests Maryland with rs votes and
lou, on were reinforced by is anti-Mckinley
,.,,ss IN Illinois. Mr. Filleys If followers In
Missouri and the great bulk OF the free-silver
coinage forces from the Rocky Mountain and
Pacific Coas, States, the sum total, "J''a votes
represents the high-water mark or the open ana
covert anti-McKinley strength In the CohVen-
ton. a strength which 1t would be Impossible OF
course To- muster for any rival candidate or Tor
any other hostile purpose but that Of delay. The
total Mckinley vote. 5iJia. represents on the
other hand the rock bottom strength or Major
McKInley's canvass. ON Il ballot for the nomina-
tioo he would probably gain from thirty to nfty
votes: but no combination Is possible In this Con-
yention which can reduce his support below the
minimum recorded to-day. 1t Is curious to note
that the total Ji5ls. is just 14ls votes less than
the estimate OF Major McKinleys strength at ST
Louis shown by The Tribunes tables OF the com
pleted canvars published nearly FIX weeks ago.
one test vote was enough for the Anything
to-beat Mckinley combination which opposed
the adoption Of the Credentials Committees re-
mort After A spicy debate which General Gros-
venor picturesquely closed by denouncing the
claims OF that man from Delaware Addicks.
and that scOundrel from Texas" Quincy. 10
seats In the Convention. the minority report was
rejected and the majority one accepted without
even count Of noses. There was no fight left
in the opposition any of its leaders who left
the Convention hall spiritess and detected. just
in time to read in the evening newspapers harng
reproductione OF the news telegraph ed to New
York that McKinley's chances of a nomination
were fading. and that a stampede OF the dele
pates TO some other candidate was more than
probable.
THE MONEY PROBLEM SOLVED.
The ease and emphasis with which the real
sentiment of the delegates on the money ques-
ton has asserted Itself In the out-and-out gold
plank adopted to-day by the Committee on
Resolutions IL one Of the most gratifying tri-
umphs OF the Convention The fight made by the
r,ir,no-State delegates for a concession OF some
sort to free-sver coinage has been from the
start a hopeless one while the differences be-
tween the two classes OF sound-money men In
the Convention over the phraseology Of the pro-
posed platform have proved to be easily ADJUST
able basis cnInently satisfactory to poth
and to all the friend of sound and stable money %
policy The plank, as adopted to-day by the fuii
platform committee is the same as that published
yesterday when It's adoption by the subcommittee
seemed assured. 1t reads AS follows:
The Republican party is unreservedly Tor SOUND
money III caused the enactment OF the law pro-
vldng for the resumption OF specie payment IN g s,s
since then every dollar has been as goou as guy
We are terably opposed TO every measure cal,
uia ted N de our currency Impair the credit