The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-13
COLD DAY
FOR SILVER.
GOldbugs of the East and South
ImeXOrable.
Present Indications Are That
the Republican Platform
WILL BE GOLD ALONE.
A Platform Said to Have Been
Brought
To st. Louis BY Mark Hanna
For Inspection.
Will BE GOLD ALONE.

ST. Louis, June 18.-The Post-Dis-
patch says: "A platform was brought
to St. Louis by Mark Hanna 1t was
written a week ago and submitted to
Major Mckinley at Canton. He APP
proved it, as does Mr.. Hanna. 1t was
handed to a few of the big leaders for
consideration. They are discussing it
in the various caucuses. The following
is the text.
The Republican party is in favor
of q protective tariff system which will
not only afford adequate protection to
American interests, but which viii also
provide revenue in excess of expendi-
lures. and thus solve the financial prob
lem
THE people of this county are salts
fed with the currency as it now exists.
1T is the conviction Of the Republican
party that the money of the nation
should equal that on any of the
civilized nations of the world. and
should pass current in the markets of
the world"
With this as basis, the Mckinley
men hope to succeed in making a plat
form. 1t is given out as being stamped
with McKinley's approval.
10 carry through this plank it may
be necessary to turn down Henry Cabot
Lodge for chairman Of the resolutions
committee If this becomes necessary.
the Mckinley men viii put in Mark
Hanna as chairman.
The opposition to the nomination of
William Mckinley having practically
vanished, Mark A. Hanna. has time to
consider the platform. lit is the only
question of any Importance which re-
mains unsettled. AS the leaders who
are on the ground find time to canvass
the situation the more perplexing it
grows. There has come from the sim
gle standard advocates a protest
against any straddle, which the Nc
Kinley people find more embarrassing
than the question of how to treat the
silver delegates.
Without the Sound money men
Hanna cannot turn a wheel He finds
his game blocked. While the free sill
yer men represent a respectable min
GRITTY, the single standard advocates
are strong enough to hold in check the
doughty political general who is mar
shaling the forces of Mckinley
When Hanna reached the city Wed
nesday he had his IieutenanIs begin
canvass for the Ohio platform.
The preliminary roundup developed
SO much opposition that orders We're
wired to drop the Ohio plank and offer
the Indiana platform as a compromise
Tt was thought this would be accept
ed by the sound money men, but Sem
ator Henry Cabot Lodge wired from the
east that this would not do The gold
men could not accept the Indiana plank
A fight must be made for more pro
nounced expression on finance.
Now the situation has resolved itself
into q three cornered fight. slightly diff
ferent on the triangular lines from that
of the previous days
w. Murray Crane of Massachusetts.
Senator Lodges direct representative
is marshaling the sound money men
for a determined stand for gold.
The free silver forces, temporarily
under the management of Isaac Trum-
DO of Utah, are waiting the result of
the caucus to be held tonight. AT this
meeting their plans viii be mapped out
plank on which they propose to stand
Tit viii be definitely decided whether
there shall be bolt, and when it shall
come.
Senator Henry NJ. Teller Of Colorado
viii be here. Senator Fred Dubois of
Idaho is already here. There VIII be no
more trimming i'm the silver rank.
Senator Teller fights i'm the open. liz
he has decided to set recognition or
walk out. he viii tell the Mckinley
The leutenants who do the open po-
liticaI work for Mare Hanna are busy
trimming the Mckinley sails to the
sound money breeze They now offer
little stronger gold plank than the Ind
lana article.
lit is said to have been written by
Hanna after a midnight conference
with his trusted heutenants At this
conference they told the Cleveland man
of the obstinate southern delegates
who We're just as insistent for a single
standard as the men of New York or Of
Maine
The Mckinley men were surprised at
this. 1t was considered best to make
another slight advance towards the ap-
parently inevitable demand for a sin
gle standard.
SO the story was sent about that the
/ redoubtable Hanna had prepared a
/ plank which embodied i'm its brief
/ length both finance and tariff. On
finance it proclaimed that one dollar
should be as good as another; that sill
! Yer should be used in volume sufficient
to maintain the parity, but that the
/ equal standard could not be maintain
ed by this country alone. The word
gold" was carefully kept out, and the
equally objectionable words 'interna-
tfOnaI agreement faded beneath the
heavy strokes of Censor Hanna's blue
/ pencil.