The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-16
TOM PLATT BOASTS MKINLEY.
Continued from Sixth Page.)

publican party when he has been elect
ed and We settle down to the work Of
restoring to this country the prosperity
| Of which it has been robbed by Demo-
| cratic sectionalists and free traders.
'The financial question cannot be ig-
nored- 1t might not have been especial
ly troublesome if there had been an IN
interrupted period of Republican rule.
but even then its embarra ssment would
only have been postponed. A protective
tariff is only half Of our task, and much
the lesser half, because much the less
difficult of accomplishment.
I'VE are all agreed about protection,
but if our bill were ready today and its
| enactment could be a completed fact
simultaneously with the presidents in
auguration, a return of prosperity that
we used TO know would be still far dis
tant-
The great question, then, is the finan
cial question, and nobody can look az
McKinley's record and read the conflict
ing and generally fiabby things he has
said on that subject without perceiving
he has no fixed opinion about il and that
he has been turned and twisted by
every changing wind Of what he thought
was public opinion.
THE most explicit statement he has
ever made on the subject was in these
words, which he delivered in congress
June "a, 1890, when he moved for a con-
ference committee:
" I am for the largest use of silver in
the currency Of the country. 1 would
not dishonor It 1 would give ii equal
credit and honor with gold. I would
utilize both metals as money and dis
1s~ r
dard, and I believe a conference will
accomplish these purposes9.'
GAS a matter of fact he did once vote
for a free coinage bill. He voted also
TO override presidential veto of such a
bill, and even as late as the Fifty
fourth congress, where he had made
the speech above quoted, in all the eau
Gus controversies among the Republi-
can majority. Mr.. Mckinley, who was
a member Of the advisory committee,
of fifteen appointed to deal with the
currency question. continually favored
the granting Of concessions to the silver
element
1T is time, and high time, for the
business men OF this country TO wake
I'D TO what is going on in the effort to
push the nomination of Mckinley
through the Republican convention
with a whoop and hurraih.
THE Republican party is not in favor,
as N1r. Mckinley says he is, of double
standard. 1t does not want, as he says
he does to give the silver equal honor
and credit with gold 1t has had enough
Of crazy schemes to make money out OF
all sorts Of paper resting on all sorts OF
security.
at has had enough Of attempts 20
concihate a sentiment that can never
be conciliated in the first place and ough
not to be conciliated in the second place.
When Mckinley says he is for the larg-
est use Of silver IN the currency Of the
country he says he is for adebased cur
rency and for another period of silver
Initiation, business uncertainty, and gen
eral pecuntary loss to every producer.
Il submit to the business men of this
country, whose sentiments can always
control a nominating convention, that
they had better do something between
row and June 10 on other subjects thar
the silly twaddle of newspapers about
bosses and boss rule"