The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-07-01
I1Ighes. Of all in Leavening power.
PREDICTS DEFEAT.

Republican Judge Says Mckinley will
Not be Elected-Because or Surrender
to Gold-Judge WalterG. Ong Believes
That the Platform will Drive Many
Votes From the Republican Party;
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The stand that several prominent
Republicans have taken on the
platform of their party adopted at
st. Louis, by which silver was ig-
nored, indicate their intense dis
pleasure and the rapid growth of
the silverq question. Judge Walter
@. Ong, who has said that he
would never vote for the gold
standard, was asked by n reporter
last night as to whether he would
vote the Republican ticket not
withstanding the gold platform.
81 never said that 1 would" re-
piled the Judge "What I did say
was 1 would not vote the Demo
cratic ticket"
"Will you vote an Independent
ticket if one is put in the field?"
"Unquostionably / will if the
platform contains free silver
plank and other Republican doc
trines."
"You are in favor then of the
free coinage of silver and opposed
to the money plank i'll the ST
Louis PLATFORM"
81 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
70 per cent. of the votes of the
farmers, 30 per cent. of the merch-
ants, and 60 per cent. of the labor
ing classes from the Republican
party. / tell you, the common
people want and demand the free
coinage of silver with gold, and
not until they get it will their la
Dor and products again command
reasonable wages and prices. Un-
der the present system, and espec=
tally under the ST. Louis platform,
gold has not and will not cease to
be money, but has been and will
be commodity in which both
American and English capital
speculate. 1t is beyond the reach
of labor, product or property. If
this is not true, will some distin-
guished advocate of the gold stand
ard tell me why, under fair pro-
tective tariff, with this great coun-
try of ours at peace, with an abund-
ant production, for four years past
our whole people except the bank
er, Wall street speculator and mil
have been in the midst
of financial panic and depressed
of business?"
GLOW do you account for the
gold plank in the PLATFORM"
"Indeed, it seems almost impos-
sible to account for it, especially
when we remember that only last
winter the Senate of the United
the most distinguished and
learned Legislative body i'll the
world, with Republican majority,
passed an absolute free coinage bill;
also when we remember the de-
mand 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, Notwithstanding
all this, the Republican convention
at st. Louis not only
adopted the single standard but
put it in such language as was never
written before i'll any platform
from the first, which, believe,
was written by Mr.. Madison in
1888, until the convention at st.
Louis. The platform provides that
until the happening of something
that will never occur, the existing
gold standard must be preserved ,
Tt is not a declaration of principles,
but command of the money pow
er of the United States. / can ac-
count for this strange action aud
departure of the Republican party
from Republican principles by
one theory, and one only. That is,
Senator Platt, of New York, went
to ST. Louis determined to defeat
Mckinley for 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