The record-union., 1896-05-31
M'KINLEY THE MAN.
WHITELAW REID CONFIDENT OF
HIS NOMINATION.
The Platform Will be a Thorough
Going, Honest Money
Declaration.

SAN FRANCISCO, May SO.-White-
law Reid, editor Of the New York
| Tribune, who has for the past six
weeks been the guest of d. o. Mills at
the latter's country seat at Millbrae,
departed for his home in New York
this evening. In an interview with a
representative ofcthe New York Sun,
Mr.. Reid was asked:
who do you think will be nomin-
ated?"
Mckinley" he replied.
What sort of a platform will he
have?"
"A thorough-going, honest-money
platform, solid as cube"
| What about the silver men,"
There are not as many of them as
people think. and there are not great
many even among them who think free
silver the most important thing in the
world Some Of them care more for the
principles and history OF the Republi-
can party than they do even for free
silver"
| But you know we nave declared for
! free silver in this State?"
Yes, when you didn't need to do it
at ALL 1 believe if the solid men of Cali
fornia, who make and prize it's prosper
! ity, had the courage of their convic-
tons, and would go into the campaign
as the Republicans of Ohio did under
Hayes, they would win just as signal a
victory for honest money, and do as
much toward shaping the history of the
nation. The truth is there are two kinds
Of silver men, those who thought it to
| the interest of the silver producing
States to get a bigger market for their
great product, and the very different
| class who are in favor of free silver now
just as at other times they were in ia
vor Of greenbacks or fiat money, or any
other financial nostrum for making
| fifty cents pay a dollars worth of debt.
This last class have pretty generally
gone over to the Populists or else to
the Democrats, while the others have
| found out that the producing
States are now producing more gold
than silver, and that their real inter-
ests are on the gold side"
THE Republicans, then, will do moth
| ing whatever for silver?"
THE Republicans have always been
eager to do everything possible for
silver, consistent with preserving the
nesss of our currency. At that line
they always have stopped, and at that
! line they will surely stop now, and the
so-called silver States would be among
the first to regret if they did not"
What about the Vice-Presidency?
THAT is very much at sea at pres
ent; just as 1t always is till the nominal
ton for President has actually been
made. Why don't you newspaper peo-
pie, who are constantly demanding
recognition for the Pacific Coast, put
up candidate for yourselves"
But about Eastern candidates."
| "Oh, well, the ideal candidate is my
big namesake."
But he won't have tt
| Il don't believe he has said so, or
authorized anybody to say so for him.
He u not the kind of a man to say that
he is too big to take a place which
Thomas Jefferson could take. Beside,
good citizenship requires that when a
man holds himself out as DESTROYS of
public service, he should also hold him
self bound to serve the public where
they want him, if he cam
| But are you not candidate your
self?"
! Il have never sought any office, and /
resigned the only big Office L ever held
as soon as could get through with the
work they had given me. I did not
seek the nomination in 1892 and there
are no indications that it is seeking me
lnow."