Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-26
M,KINTEYISM.

Taylor, has essayed to define the Ohio republican platform and to place his dis tinguishedr leader upon gold standard basis. At the convention of the Eigh- teenth Ohio district, held at Massillon few days ago, MT. Taylor said
 To-day we find the republican party in the lower branch of congress. fresh from the people, standing on the nation al platform of 1892. declaring itself by an overwhelming majority against the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1.'
 And that, said MT. Taylor, is consa- quently the interpretation of the Ohio platform. It is to be construed as in har- mony with the sentiment of the lower house, and that sentiment is opposed to free coinage in every root, branch and fiber.
 It is all very we'll for MT. Taylor to construe McKinleyism to suit the neces- sities of his district, but we can better arrive at the truth by looking to the rec ord of MT. Mckinley. We have no in- formation that he has changed his views recently or been converted to the new theories of the day as propounded by MT. Carlisle. The republican platform of Ohio is not gold basis platform. Iti is not even a straddle. If it means any thing it means free silver coinage, and is in accord with the views entertained by MT. Mckinley when leading member of congress. Gen. H. V. Boynton, one. of the most intelligent and candid ob- servers of public sentiment among the Washington correspondents, writing to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, the leading republican newspaper in McKin- lEt rt. ing belief here, which has already become conviction in many minds, that New England, New York and New Jersey can not be carried for the republicans on the Ohio money platform;" while, on the oth- CT hand. "the silver leaders have not been captured or even conciliated by it." Of the outlook for the national convention he says:
 "The firm belief is that the St. Louis platform will give no uncertain sound in it's plank defining the relations between gold and silver. If this occurs it will be awkward for Ohio, and, as matters now stand, embarrassing for Ohio's candidate If it does aot occur the democrats are likely to join issue at Chicago with straightout sound money plank. In that case he would be a bold prophet who would declare that republican success vas assured. The campaign would te defensive from the start. Under present conditions such might easily be losing campaign.
 It cannot be forgotten or erased from the record that MT. Mckinley, in congress in June, 1890, as chairman of the ways and means committee and leader of the house, earnestly advocated the passage of the silver purchase act, as better than the Bland-Allison act, and the next best thing to free coinage. saying of it:
 We cannot have free mage now, ex- cept in the manner prt l in the bill To defeat this bill means .l defeat all sl- yer legislation and to leave us with two millions a month only, when by passing this bill we would have four and a half millions month of treasury notes as good as gold
 He voted for free coinage outright as a member of congress in 1877, and for the Bland-Allson silver purchase act of 1890 as the nearest possible thing to free coin age that could then be secured.
 His Ohio platform asks for him the nomination for president on the plain and unm:stakable declaration that his party, the republicans of Ohio, flavor bimetal- lism and demand the use of both gold and silver as standard money" and would se- cure this double standard either by inter- national action, if that can be obtained, as everybody knows it cannot be, ''or under such restrictions and such pro- visions, to be determined by legislation, as will secure the maintenance of the parties of values of the two metals"-a provision which would allow him as pres- ident to sign another such act as he sent to Harrison for his signature six years ago.