The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
ALL CUT
AND DRY.
Convention Programme as
Laid Out by Mark
Hanna.
MCKINLEY FOR FIRST
PLACE.
A Platform Which Will Declare
for the Existing Gold
Standard.
THE VICE PRESIDENCY FOR
HOBART.
This to Be Accomp ished During To-
Day and Tc.Morrow and Then
Adjournment.
THE VICE PRESIDENCY FOR
HOBART.
This to Be Accomp ished During To-
Day and To.Morrow and Then
Adjournment.
THE CALLS HEADQUARTERS, J
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ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 16
"Mgr" Hanna now proposes to wind up
the convention tomorrow evening if pos
sible, or by Thursday noon at the latest,
and expects to nominate Mckinley for the
Presidency, and Hobart of New Jersey
for second place on the ticket.
Hobart is the logical Vice Presidential
candidate. 1t was predicted in these dis
patches last Wednesday that he would be
the Presidential nominee, and to-
days developments tend to confirm the
accuracy of this prediction. The plat
form, too, has been foreshadowed cor
rectly in The CALL.
Mr.. Hanna this morning had a confer
cnce with Henry Cabot Lodge of Massa-
chusetts and an agreement was reached
for the adoption of Mckinley version of
the exis ting gold standard declaration
which differs from Senator Lodges plank
only in a multiplication of PHI ases, and
which makes the work OF the committee on
resolutions merely formula. Senator Lodge
withdrew from the fight for the chairman
ship of the committee and personally nom
mated Governor Foraker for it, which LETT
nothing to be done, so far as the one i'm
portant question was concerned, but to
vote down the minority of Teller silver
ties, whose free coinage report will be the
only minority one made.
The convention will make short work OF
that even under the threat that Senator
Teller and twenty-seven other delegates
NAV walk out after the free coinage sub
stitute is voted down and the gold stand
ard plank is adopted.
The committee on credentials by follow
ing Manager Hanna's directions and re-
using to consider any contests except
those from Delaware and Texas, which
we're expressly referred to it by the Ma
tional Committee, greatly contributed to
cut down the work of the convention and
hasten its adjournment. The committee
permanent organization simply took
Permanent Chairman Thurston and all
the permanent officers just as Manager
Hanna had selected them. and the con-
vention will do the same.
The reports from these committees,
which are all that will have to come be-
fore the convention, Mr.. Hanna expects to
have disposed of tomorrow in couple of
hours-and then to have the nomination
of Mckinley made in the afternoon and
the nominating speeches and nomination
of the Presidential candidate in the
evening. The platform-framers have had
war about words and the battle was finally
won for the existing gold standard. THAI
the word gold would be included in the
platform was stated positively by THE
CALL correspondent last night.
Now that 1t is settled that the platform
I'LL Cor n iS4i etc dor n
Mr.. Hanna declares that this was in
tended from the start. Senator Lodge and
the other gold standard leaders insist,
on the other hand, that if they had found
Manager Hanne willing to concede on
Sunday, or even yesterday, the plank
which they accepted from him this morn
ing they would not have made the fight
they did, and that it was only because
they did make such fight that they won
a victory.
There is no doubt that Editor Kohlsaat
of Chicago and close friends of Mr.. Nc
Kinley advocated such a plank as that
adopted to-day in the Mckinley confer
ences held here last Friday, but if it was
then accepted by Manager Hanna he was
very successful in concealing that fact.
Tbe extreme standard men believe that
their announcement last night that they
were going to make Morton their candidate
Tor the Vice-Presidency and that they be-
leve they could carry the convention for
him and the ''existing gold standard"
phrase brought Manager Hanna round to
accepting their phrase, though not their
candidate.
This morning Mr.. Hanna knew that Mr..
Platt had had a talk with Governor Nor
ton last night by long-distance telephone,
and that he then arranged that after Nc
Kinley was nomin ated for President Gov
ernor Morton would allow himself to be
nominated for the Vice Presidency. Also
that Mr.. Platt, Mr.. Quay, the New Eng
land men and the gold-standard allies in
the West were working to bring this
about. Mr.. Hanna being opposed to Nor
tons Vice-Presidential candidacy, for
both personal and political reasons, an
nounced to his lieutenants that he hal
definitely determined, with Mr.. McKin-
ley's approval" upon Garrett A. Hobart
Of New Jersey as the Mckinley candidate
The Mckinley men in the New York dele
cation at once went to work for Hobart
against Governor Morton.
IL WOulu seem tnat Mr.. hanna, even
though his convention programme has
been altered by the extreme gold standard
men in the m after of the wording of the
financial plank. though in no other respect
as yet, is still sufficiently master of the
convention to have Mr.. Hobart put on the
ticket with Mr.. Mckinley, and thati is what
is expected, unless the gold standard men
develop such strength, as a result of their
efforts among the different delegations to-
night, as to make it plain to Manager
Hanna in the morning that he must yield
again and put Morton on with Mckinley.
This is now the only unsettled matter
before the convention, and everybody
treats its work as practically done, and IS
beginning to talk of the campaign excent
those who have Weep reside ntial candi-
dates whom they hope to help in some
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