The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-21
HOW THEY LIKE IT
Some Views From Topeka Men About the
Gold Standard.

Gold Standard.
| Kansas City, June ga special from
/ Topeka 10 the Kansas City Journal siz-
/ es up the situation there as follows:
! The correspondent OF the Journal to
J day interviewed g large number Of Re
/ pubIlcans upon the financial plank OF
/ the national platform. A number o.
! free silver advocates were found VINO
were disposed 70 take a dismal view OF
the outlook for the state and national
ticket IN Kansas, but not one could be
found who was ready 10 say that he in
| tended 70 bolt the ticket. Some OF the
most radical free silver advocates in the
town seemed 70 forget that if anybody
might be expected 10 bolt il would be
themselves and predicted that others
would go astray while protesting the
utmost loyalty upon their own part
a few were disa appointed because the
| financial plank did not bluntIy declare
| for the gold standard without any verb
| iage, but, taken as a whole, the people
Interviewed were content with the plat
| FORM and, without a single exception.
| the free silver fellows announced that
they would abide by the decision OF the
majority as gracefully as possible.
Proba bly, the most ultra free silver Re
publican in Kansas is Ex-Governor
Thomas A Osborne. He said today:
You know have been SORT OF a party
by myself on the question OF a financial
PLATFORM 1t is not as I would have
written Il, and I DOUBT II any burt few
Kansas Republicans would have agreed
with me, but I believe the financial
plank adopted expresses the average
sentiment OF Republicans, and am will
ling TO accept IL as the united wisdom
OF the party. which should be superior
10 any one mans opinions. can afford
to concede something for the good of
the party, and cheerfuuy do it,
Governor Morrill, expressed the views
OF nearly all OF the state house couin-
gent in the following statement: Il
don't see how the financial plank could
have been better put II IS moderate,
conservative and thought uI, and its
meaning cannot be mistaken I believe
Mckinley can be elected on that sort
OF platform without the slightest qUes-
ton. Il Is q common error 20 suppose
that bankers and brokers are IN favor
OF sound money or stable currency BE-
cause Il is so easy for them 10 manipu-
late It in their private interests A
banker. broker or money dealer can
take advantage OF a deprecated or
ductuating currency much more readily
and II Is the farmer and laboring man
who viii be principally injured by
cheap and fluctuaCing money"
State Treasurer AthertOn represents
a class who had hoped the convention
would edge in a plank providing for the
American output OF silver. and this Is
his verdict upon the platform as Il now
stands: 1T isn't woried as I would
have worded II. but the Republican par
" IS a great deal bigger than am. and
7 an ready TO consent that II is all
right"
NJ A Low. the Kansas head OF the
Rock Island railroad - a fair sample
OF the Republican who wanted a fat
expression for the gold standard He
SAYS: '@The language is plain enough
@ express what S meant, and il $ all
right but II had worded the financial
plank I would have made II briefer and
more 70 the point As platforms are
usually written, where words are insert
ed here and thera after a general draft
has been made, 100 much verbiage gen
orally results. but this is E. god plank
in meaning. and the Republican party
can win with IL"
Banker p. I. Bonsorake, who has had
financial system al his own. says:
The plank = not extreme one way or
the other, and IS therefore wise Il
had my way about Il. though. 7 would
make provision for using silver for all
coins under SO. which would practically
provide for the American output. but
presume that IS q question for lAEisla-
ton and not for platforms. The Repub-
Iican party can win On the platform
TIE most enthusiastic man IN town
Is Judge John Guthrie, who asserts that
the ST. Louis platform Is a second dec
Is-a1ion Of independence
Major J. X. Hudson. the man whom
rSsa, as chairman OF the committee on
rssolu lions IN the Republican state con-
van ton. reported a platform il favor
% the free coinage OF silver. which vas
adopted. says ID * q splendid plat
form au the way through. excsllentiy |
wor5ei- Every true Republican can
sand upon T. On the financial qr,es- |
ton * i plain ard definite and there Is |
40 uiscaknig what il means"
SAFE SeEa tor S-erne = az the opinion /
that al Soreness among the free silver /
% Kansas VIII pass ewzy.
he says: Sore % he bows az dis |
pod 70 take The gloomy view % rhe sit |
uatiou IN Kansas I have not heart /
bat number have shaken taefr heads |
ard predicted trouble Wax until tha 4
opposition ticket lines Up win Bland /
and Teller. o. Teller azd Bland. az is /
,ead. travelling On a platform, whica |
means free trade as wei as free silver ;
ana you wiI find mighty Few Rspubis- /
ans w5o can stomach l. TIE boys /
ziu compare the two and stand fast II /
Mckinley and prosper ~
Ex-Sec-eta-y BIZ Higgins and Repre-
;zs1 tative Sherman are tao -3lo ssns /
song OF woe. They predict several /
Kinds OF disaster - Ihe safe ard aatss-
lal cicsec n Kansas. but neither %
Ee-n IS a bolrer on his oE-l account
= ~ reduced % great extre1isies sgzin.
signed the funny nan. as Re tossed CT al
1ther loke or two involving t-e Chicago
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