San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-16
THAT OHIO PLANK.

There is no doubt that the gold
bugs of the country will be as
thoroughly dissatisfied with the
financial plank of the Ohio plat
form as the free silverites will be.
Already has the fight opened on
that line and it is likely to be car
ried on until the meeting Of the
national republican convention at
st. Louis. 1t may be as we'll &C.
cepted now as later that the views
expressed in that platform are
those of Mr.. Mckinley. He will
not repudiate them. He has ever
been frank and manly in his ut
terances in this as in all other
things. tits this frakness that has
so strongly commended him to the
confidence and regard Of the re-
publican party. He has not sought
to shelter himself behind any sub
terfuges, at any time, and is not
likely to now. 1t is we'll that
the utterances of the Ohio plat
form are before the people, that
they may read for themselves and
digest the utterances Of the dis
tinguished gentlemen from Ohio
who makes this his financial plank
That declaration is:
We contend for honest money;
for currency of gold, silver and
paper with which to measure our
exchanges that shall be as sound
as the government and as unfair
ished as it's honor, and to that end
we favor bimetallism and demand
the use of both gold and silver as
standard money, either in accor-
dance with a ratio to be fixed by
international agreement, if that
can be obtained, or under such re-
strictions and such provisions to
be determined by legislation as
will secure the maintenance Of the
parity of values of the two metals,
so that the purchasing and debt
paying power of the dollar, wheth-
er of silver, gold or paper, shall be
at all times equal.
Now contrast this with the
declaration Of the republican party
as made in the last national con-
vention, which assembled at Min
neapolis on the 10th OF June, 1892.
That convention said:
"The American people from ira
dition and interest, favor bimetal-
ism, and the republican party de-
mands the use of both gold and
silver as standard money, with
such restrictions and under such
provisions, to be determined by
legislation, as will secure the
maintenance Of the parity of
values Of the two metals, so that
the purchasing and debt-pay-
ing power of the dollar,
whether of silver, gold or
paper, shall be all times equal.
The interests Of the producers Of
the country-its farmers and it's
Northumberland that every
dollar, paper or coin, issued by the
government shall be as good as
Bny other dollar. We commend
the wise and patriotic steps al
ready taken by our government to
secure such an internal conference
to adopt such measures as will in
sure a parity Of value between gold
and silver for use as money
throughout the world"
1t will take a fine-haired seive to
strain these two platforms and
show any essential difference be-
tween them. Those who contend
that the declaration of the Ohio
platform are not in line with true
republication, are only kicking
against the pricks of accepted
party declarations. That Mr.. Nc
Kinley defers to the good sense OF
the great mass of the people in
pronouncing for bimetalism, as
we'll as to the declarations of the
party whose support he asks, is not
to be successfully denied. The
people want both gold and silver
as well as currency, and they want
them all equal in their purchased
BILE value. In giving expression to
these views the Ohio republicans
have placed their candidate for the
st. Louis nomination squarely up
on the national platform with both
faat Thnro ia scarcnlu q dom t