The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09
EVEN GROVER
May BOLT.
The President and Cabinet to
Vote for Mckinley
lin Case Democrats Adopt a Sill
YER Platform.
TO BE NO THIRD PARTY
For Them, VIII Have to SWaI-
low Mckinley
Even on Any NOn-COmmittal
Platform.
TO BE NO THIRD PARTY

New York, June 9.-The Herald's cor
respondent in Washington sends today
a rather startling bit of news which, If
true, viii cause JOY to the sound money
Republicans. He says.
Rather than support a free silver
Democratic candidate on a free silver
platform. President Cleveland and some
of the members of the cabinet, viii vote
Tor Mckinley
"Since the free silver tidal wave has
swept over the country and made it ap-
parent to almost every one that the sill
er men viii be in control at the Chi
cago convention, there has been a great
deal of discussion in administration cir
cles as to the course which honest mon
ey Democrats should pursue. The ques-
tion of a bolt has been discussed in all
its phases but Mr.. Cleveland's friends
have abandoned all idea OF a third par
ty ticket with sound money man at
its head.
"The matter has therefore. resolved
itself into a question of whether the ad-
ministration officials should support
free silver candidate, whether they
should remain neutral and stay away
from the polls, or whether they should
vote the Republican ticket. "A member
Of the cabinet to whom the president
has talked freely on the subject, told
me today that the president believed
that the money question was of more
importance LLle4u All OLLlGL DD4llAGcLA
sues at this time, and that 1T was abso-
lutely essential that the cause of sound
money should triumph by an OVerWhel-
mingly majority at the November cleo
ton He said the president thought this
result could best be obtained by unit
ing the sound money men ia support OF
the Republican ticket i'm the event Of
the adoption Of saE stacIory SOUND
money plank at St. Louis.
Mr.. Cleveland does not want strad-
die plank adopted at either St. Louis
CHICAGO wants the issue TO be
sharply defined. and for this reason he
is opposed to placing any obstacles in
the way of the silver men if it should
be found that they have clear ma
jOrity at the Chicago convention He
wants them to go ahead and declare for
the free and unlimited coinage of so
cent dollars and any other POpuistic
schemes they may ueslte 70 put INTO lne
platform.
Notwithstanding his radical differ
enCe of opinion on the tariff question
with Mr. Mckinley, the president be-
Heves it is the first duty of all Demo
Gratis who are opposed to 5O-cent dol
lars to support the ticket that stands
for the main Uenance or the naglonal
credit and the present standard of val
ue He believes that the tariff ques-
tiOn and all other questions must be
relegated to the background until this
overshadOWing money issue is settled
and the country has adopted a sound
financial system, without which he does
not believe it can ever have prosperity
"He has no sympathy with the men
who are trying to bring about a COM
promise with those who favor q bolt,
for he believes that the proper thing to
do is to draw the issue clearly between
two tickets and that if this is done the
advocates of free silver win be so bad
ly defeated that the craze will rapidly
die out
According to the member of the cab
met referred to, the president believes
that this viii be the best course. not
only for the country alt large but in
the end for the Democratic party as
we'll He believes that within the next
four years the party will pull itself to-
gether again. free from the financial
'heresy.' and viii enter the contest with
the Republican party as the defender
of popular rights and the foe Of tariff
monopoly.
This support of the Republican tick
ct by the administration viii be based,
of course. upon an unequiVOcal declar-
alton in favor of the gold standard by
the St Louis convention. Although
there are among the Republican lead
sions to the silver men of the west and
northwest, there seems to be no good
reason why such concessions should be
made Assuming that the Republicans
adopt a platform entirely satisfactory
to the gold standard men and all the
opposition elements line up against
them in support of a Democratic free
silver ticket the Republicans would be
able to carry within 19 of enough cleo
tOral votes to elect their president
practically without a fight and will
have little difficulty in securing the
/ necessary majority