Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-06-12
WAS INVITED TO CANTON
M'KINLEY WISHES TO SEE REPUB-
LICAN SENATOR'S.
Gossip Regarding the Framing of
the Financial Plank at the st.
Louis Convention.

There seems to be no question now
that Senator Quay was invited to visit
Mr.. Mckinley at Canton and that the
meeting had been arranged for several
days in advance, says the Washington
correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch.
There is good reason to believe that Sen
ator Quay was included in number OF
| republican leaders in the senate who
have been asked to call on Mr.. Mckinley
and talk over national affairs with him.
That such invitations have gone out, can
not be denied, and during the next few
days other men of national note are
likely to leave Washington for Canton,
where they will have similar conferences
to that which took place between McKin-
ley and Senator Quay Friday.
Senator Elkins of West Virginia was
reported as having an intention of going
to Ohio, but this morning in some
what equivocal interview, he denied that
he is going. 1t is known, however that
he carries in his pocket letter believed
to have been written by Mr.. Mckinley
himself, asking him to visit Canton at
his convenience for the purpose of con-
sultation. The letter is dated several
weeks ago.
CuIIom and Lodge Also Invited.
|
for the presidency, is another prominent
republican senator who has been request
ed to go to that political Mecca. Senator
| Lodge of Massachusetts, has received
similar request, and two or three other
prominent men in public life here in con-
| gress, who take an important part in
republican affairs, have also been in
vited.
When Senator Quay stated that he was
| going to Canton to talk over the flnan-
| cial situation, there is reason TO believe
he told the truth, and there Is further
reason to believe that the many sugges-
lions and invitations to leading repupli-
cans that they go and consult with Mr..
| Mckinley, have been made and given
with the idea of having satisfactory con-
situations on the great question which
is troubling prominent statesmen in both
parties.
There is no danger that the republican
convention at st. Louis will declare fol
the free coinage of silver, but it is known
that an honest, earnest desire influences
Mr.. Mckinley, as well as other candi-
dates and other leaders in the republican
party, to have declaration made in the
st. Louis platform on the financial ques-
ton that will be satisfactory to a ma
jority of the party east and west.
Platt's Famous Harmony Dinner.
1t is known that when that celebrated
dinner was held in New York City last
fall, which was attended by Mr.. Plat,
Mr.. Quay, Mr.. Tanner, Mr.. Depew and
several other republican leaders, one of
the principal topics of discussion was
with regard to the financial plank of the
next platform, and that question Is still
agitating the minds of these gentlemen,
with Mr. Mckinley included. 1t is pot
believed that a straight-out gold standard
platform, without some recognition to tine
enlarged use of silver, can be adopted.
There is among the people in the cen
trail and western states a sentiment in
favor of the white metal that can not
be well ignored but the party leaders ave
very much averse to recognizing silver to
the extent of indorsing its free coinage at
the ratio of 16 to 1. There is an idea
among some of Mr.. McKinley's friends
here that he would favor a financial
plank that would declare for money of
equal value, but also declare for an en-
larged use of silver in Difference to the
demands of republicans in his own state,
in Illinois and all through the west and
south.
Inc OhtOh '" Gil represented
The fact that Senator Mitchell of Ore
gon, representing the Pacific slope, and
Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota,
representing the free silver republicans
of that section, and Senator Quay, repre-
senting the sound money republicans of
the east have all been in consultation
with Mr.. Mckinley; and the fact that
other senators, representing various seq
tons of country and sentiments of re-
publicans have been invited, is taken here
as an indication that an effort is on foot
to unity the sentiment and the leaders
so that no discord can occur over the
platform at St. Louis.
1t is also declared here that another
object of these consultations with Mr..
Mckinley is to have the leaders of the
party informed that he is good
straightout party man and in favor OF
the regular organizations in all the
states. He is not posing as a reformer
nor Identifying himself with the mug
wumps of the party; but he desires to
have it known that he believes in party
success through the regular state AMI
local organizations. He has proven in
the past that this is his attitude, and
has none of that demagogic horror fol-
political machines that is affected by
some factions of the party.
For the first Sunday in more than two
months, the political leaders having
charge of the Washington end of polit'
ical booms this evening refrained from
giving to the public estimates of the
strength Of their candida ties.
LAND SETTLED BY OLD VETERAN!