Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-15
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
The Eve of the Convention.


ST, LOUIS, June 15.-The morning
before the meeting of the convention
opened with the leading topic in the
minds of the delegates-the nature OF
the financial plank to be adopted. The
fight on this question will be carried
from the committee on resolutions to
the floor of the convention. Senator
Cannon will meet Senators Teller and
Dubois this morning and plan OF ac.
ton will be outlined. a caucus will be
held Immediately afterward and then
the men who are running affairs In st.
Louis will hear from those republicans
who have been instructed to fight for
free and unlimited coinage of silver at
he ratio of 16 to /. 81 can say truly
that until last night we had no plan"
said prominent silver delegate. "But
Yesterday a perfect understanding was
arrived at. We know that we are out
of everything SO far as this convention
is concerned; we are not disgruntled,
dissatisfied or soreheaded, but we are
decided. We are instructed to vote for
free silver, and we will do it if we get
the opportunity" This is all that the
free silver men would say. They stead
tasty refused to talk on the possibility
of bolt.
1t is reported that when the nominat-
ing speeches are in order Senator Tel
Ter will be placed in nomination for
President by Senator Dubois. Eastern
republicans seem to attach little i'm
portance to anything the flea silver
men will do. They admit that Colo.
RADIO, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana
and Nevada are as good as lost to the
republican party already, but add that
| it is better to lose them than New York
and Pennsylvania. Senator Teller
Saturday night said that after the
meeting to day he would be better
able to talk. GAS TO bolting," he add
ed, 81 have nothing to say. We want
this convention to come out squarely.
The day of the straddle is past. We
are clean.cut in our demands. The
single gold standard men are equally
honest and this convention should be
straight forward"
Mr.. Mark Hanna has prepared the
tariff plank of the platform. 1t will be
stffly protective, and is understood to
distinctly reflect Mr.. McKinley's views.
1t will not demand a restoration of the
rates of duty fixed in the law of 1890,
but will call for such an increase of
duties as will amply protect the manu-
facturer and farmer from foreign COM
petition. The platform will recite the
benefits which the wool grower enjoys
under the Mckinley law, and it will
advocate a restoration of the rates
which were in vogue when the present
law was enacted. 1t will contain a
strong declaration favoring restora-
ton of the duty on sugar, and will as
sert that the expansion of the sugar
beet industry will materially aid the
farmers and increase the value of their
land. Some of the republican leaders
objected to the bounty provision of two
cents pound, and are urging that the
sugar paragraph shall merely stipulate
for an adequate protection to the
American grower. The merchant-ma-
rine association is laboring to secure the
insertion of plank imposing duty OF
| 10 per cent. ad valorem on all importa-
lions to the United STATES that are not
transported in American bottoms.
One of the sensations of the early
morning was report that when the
committee on credentials of the national
convention assemblies Immediately af-
ter the opening an effort would be
made to secure the adoption en- bloc of
the temporary roll prepared by the ma
tional committee as the permanent roll
of regularly elected delegates to the
convention. This statement is dis.
quieting to those delegations whose
claims have been rejected by the ma
tional committee and who were san
guine of reversal of that verdict at
the hands either of the credentials COM
mittee or the convention itself. A
strong argument against the plausible
ity of this rumor lies in the fact that as
the temporary roll now stands the State
of Delaware is unrepresented.
The probability of fierce factional
fight in the New York delegation re-
suited in an adjournment of this morn.
ing's meeting until o'clock this after
noon in order that the Platt and anti
Platt forces might have further time in
which to prepare their plan of cam
paign. The New Workers met at their
headquarters. MIR. Warner Miller
moved that Mr.. Chsuncey M. Depew
be made chairman of the conference.
This was agreed to unanimously.
Thereupon Mr.. Miller again moved
that Mr.. Depew be appointed perma-
nent chairman of the delegation during
the continuance of the convention. Mr..
Quigg moved to amend this motion by
substituting the name of 7. G. Platt.
This was received with chorus of dis
sent. Thereupon State Senator Raines
suggested that perhaps it would be bet
ter if the meeting were adjourned until
o'clock this afternoon. This motion
was carried. The Platt men insist that
they could easily have carried Quigg's
motion by handsome majority, but
that they preferred to make 1t decisive.
The malcontents in the Massachu-
sets delegation returned to camp this
morning very willing to act in harmony
with the entire delegation. M. V. B.
Jefferson, who started the revolt, when
it was attempted last night to make
Mr.. George Lyman the member of the
national committee, was first on his feet
this morning to make the motion that
Mr.. Lyman be elected. This was done
by the solid vote of the delegates and