Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-06-06
Mckinleyites in Illinois, and the
Probable Money Plank Of
the Party.
AN ENGLISHMAN SUICIDES
President vet0es General Defi-
cheney Bill and Is Sustained
by the House.
REFoRMERS NOT RELEASED

CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 6.-The Nc
Kinley boomers have captured, in ad.
vance large proportion Of the tickets
of admission to the republican national
convention allotted to this state, and, as
a RESULT the members OF the republican
state executive committee, hurriedly
summoned from their various congress
sional districts, went into the fret ses-
sion of a special meeting at the Great
Northern kstel at noon to-day, for the
purpose i 2pding out just where they
stood. e. evernor Joseph W. Fiier,
of Bloon the present national no Al
explain Just what he knew about the
upsetting Of the plans Of the machine.
1t is charged that the emissaries OF the
Marquette and other strong local re.
publican cluos, with Mckinley tenden-
cies, have been jumping backward and
forward between here and st. Louis
for six weeks past, and that, in collu-
sion with Dick Kerens, they have pre-
empted for their following about every.
thing in sight belonging to Illinois, ex.
cep. the regular tickets for delegates
and alternates. At the Great Northern
hotel, to-day, the leaders of the anti
Mckinley machine confessed that they
have been outwitted, and that the
chances of their following showing up
IN the visitors section of the conven-
tion hall we're decidedly slim. This is
the first case OF the kind that has, so
far. arisen in any state.
CHICAGO, Illinois, June 6.-The
financial plank upon which the ad-
vocates OF gold and silver will join
issues in the committee on resolutions
of the republican national convention
has, so it is said, been already drafted
and received the approval of many
men eminent in finance. Its author
is R. w. Patterson, publisher of the
Chicago Tribune, and son-in.law OF
the distinguished Joseph Medill. He
is one OF the four delegates-at-large to
St. Louis, and has already been prac-
tically selected as the representative
of the state delegation on the com
mittee on resolutions; which place
would have been given to William
Penn Nixon, editor of the Inter Ocean,
but for the fact that the latter is an
ardent bimetallist and has opened his
columns literally to the free-silver
element. The exact terms of Dele
gate Patterson resolution are known
only to the chosen few who have been
consulted on the subject. but it is
known that it declares 9uivocally
for single gold standard, and it is
understood that it follows closely on
the lines of the pronunciamenlos of the
republicans of New York and other
eastern states in convention assembled.
Unless material changes are made
within the next ten days, the guess is
hazirded that the resolution in its
wording will not materially differ
from the following:
"We recognize in The movement for
the free coinage of silver an attempt to
degrade the long established standard
of our monetary system, and hence a
blow to public and private credit at
once costly to the national government
and harmful to our domestic and
foreign commerce. Until, therefore,
the prospect presents itself of an inter- !
national agreement relating to silver
coinage, and SO long as gold remains
the standard of the United States and
of the civilized world, the republican
party. through Its representatives 10
national convention sembled, de-
clarts itself in favor Of the finn and
honorable maintenance ct that stand
ard.''