The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-06-27
PREDICTS DEFEAT.
Republican Judge Says Mckinley
will Not be Elected,

Republican Party.
CleveieLd Plain Dealer.
The stand that several prominent
Republicans have taken on the plat
form of their party adopted at ST.
Louis, by which silver was ignored,
indicates their intense displeasure
and the rapid growth of the silver
question. Judge Walter C. Ong,
who has said that he would never
vote for the gold standard, was ask
ed by reporter last night as to
whether he would vote the Republi.
ho - sisnd ae the a
platform.
Il never said that / would" re-
piled the Judge. "What / did say
was would not vote the Democrat
ic ticket
will you vote an independent
ticket If one is put in the field"
PROFESSIONALLY | will if the
platform contains free silver plank
and other Republican doctrines"
You are in favor of the free coin
age of silver and opposed TO the
money plank in the St, Louis plat
form?"
Il am unalterably So"
What effect will the gold plank
in the Republican platform have on
the success of the ticket?''
at will, in my judgment drive 40
per cent of the votes of the farmers,
80 per cent of the merchants, and go
per cent of the laboring classes from
the Republican party. l tell you,
the common people want and demand
the free coinage of silver with gold,
and not until they get it will their
labor and products again command
reasonable wages and prices. Under
the present system, and especially
under the st. Louis platform, gold
has not and will not cease to be
money, but has been and will be a
commodity in which both American
and English capital speculate. 1t is
beyond the reach of labor, products
or property. If this is not true, will
some distinguished advocate of the
gold standard tell me why, under a
fair protective tariff, with this great
country of ours at peace, with an
abundant production, for four years
past our whole people-except the
banker, Wall street Spectator and
millionaire-have been in the midst
of financial panic and depressed
condition of business?"
How do you account for the gold
plank in the PLATFORM"
Indeed, it seems almost impossi-
bic to account for it, especially when
we remember that only last winter
the Senate of the United States, the
most distinguished and learned leg
islatiye body in the world, with Re-
publican majority, passed an abso-
Lutte free coinage bill; also when we
remember the demand of the great
West on this subject and with the
withdrawal from the party of some
of the ablest men in it ON account of
the gold plank Yet, notwithstand-
ing all this, the Republican conven-
tion assembled at st. Louis not only
adopted the single standard but put
it in such language as was never
written before in any platform from
the first, which / believe, was writ
ten by Mr.. Madison in 1898, until
the convention at St Louis. The
platform provides that until the hap
pening of something that will never
occur, the existing gold standard
must be preserved II is not dec
laration of principles, but a COM
mand to the money power of the
United States. l can account for
this strange action and and depart
ure of the Republican party from Re-
publican principles by one theory,
and one only. That is, Senator Plat
of New York, went to st. Louis de.
termined to defeat Mckinley of the
nomination or ruin his chances of
election if nominated. He failed in
the first, but succeeded in the latter,
Platt, aided by Lodge, Quay and
some others whom | need not men
tior, saw at glance that McKinley's
nomination was an assured fact and,
indeed, had been for at least four
weeks before the convention met.
Yet, with his great political sagaci-
ty and foresight, almost single hand
ed and alone, Platt controlled that
over Mckinley and his
managers on the only issue before
1.-THE money plank. Talk about
managing! There was nothing to
but the platform on the one
question, and in this Platt outgener
aled them all, returned to his home
in New York conscious of one fact at
least, that with the Mckinley men
in absolute charge, he dug their po-
litical graves. His political ability
and shrewdness must be admired, |
but his success at st. Louis must be
What will be the result if the
Democrats adopt the gold standard |
at Chicago?'
"a free silver organization which |
will be crowned with success in No
vember."
The large gang of men who have
been laying the s inch gas main be-
tween here and Stumptown finished |