Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-06-13
SILVER rs SILENT.
Decent Seem To Be Saying
Anything at st. Louis.
TRYING TO PLEAsE THE GOLD MEN.

outline q TIE Mccoy P1ank = n Il
HfamSl By the MeKinley lGanagers-
Propssatsea 70 llake Eairbanks Temper
ary Chaarmaa Raises Dreezs and
brings Out Explan&fasas = The Ohio
MANS OPPoaenss Nakins Pians-Dela-
ware Contest Before the Comnitsee.
81. LOUIS, June 1s.-The platform max
ers are still st work ON the money plank
for the Republican convention. The great
thing IL to get one that, while 1t il per-
fcotly satisfactory to the Mckinley men,
will be equally 90 to the men from the
east. II Is said that plank has been
formulated that will show the eastern
men that tho close friends Of Mckinley
are ready to offer them q financial plank
they can agree upon without hesitancy.
Several drafts Of . platform have been
prepared. It will declare against free
coinage Of silver unless it should %
brought about BY international agree
mcnt. No ratio Is mentioned, and in this
respect It is more acceptable to the gold
men. It will also declare that the Repub-
ncans are against the debasement Of the
currcncy, and are therefore in favor Of the
present gold standard.
Silver Men Not Considered q All.
The Republican party will be given
credit for having brought about the re-
sumption act, which has also maintained
every dollar at . parity, whether
coin or paper, and it will be
demanded that the standard of
money should be ~ it always has been
and Is now equal to that Of the most en-
nghtened nations Of the world. These
declarations embody the wishes Of the
friends Of Mckinley and the men who are
now here approve them II the resolution
should be changed it will be by the COM
mittee on resolutions or the convention it
self, but this Is not likely, because it con-
tains all that 10 asked for by any one,
except the most extreme gold men, who
want q straight single gold standard de-
claration and nothing more. There is
some opposition to the reference to an in
ternational agreement, but those who de-
sire that language inserted in the resolu-
ton say that the party should not place it.
self in opposition to the coinage Of silver
under an international agreement II such
an arrangement could be made, but the
party is not to be pledged to bring about
such an arrangement, which is q conten-
ton of some of the de cgates
Mckinley Not Sponsor for Fairbanks.
1t has been positively denied that the
Mckinley management has urged the
election Of Charles w. Fairbanks, of
Indiana, for temporary chairmafof the
convention. Marcus.A Hanna 90 states.
He said that Fairbanks would be accepta-
BILE, and that was all. A good deal of
talk in regard to the matter has been
caused by . circular letter which has been
sent to every member of the national COM
mittee. The letter Is made up from a
newspaper interview with Colonel Rich-
ard w. Thompson, delegate-at-large
from Indiana, in opposition to the selec-
ton of Fairbanks. A copy Of the circular
was sent to Hanna. When he had read ii
he expressed regret that the affair had
been carried to such an extreme.
Done by That Indiana Plank.
After emphatioally denying that he had
anything at all to do with Fairbanks So
lection Hanna said: 1.-THE suggestion Of
Mr.. Fairbanks as temporary chairman OF
the convention came from various sections
Of the country, partly from members Of
the national committee, whose attention
to Indiana had been called by it's financial
plank in the platform adopted by that
state convention some weeks ago. That
plank met with so much approval that II
was believed to be wise to choose q chair.
man from Indiana, and as Mr. Fairbanks
had been the recognized author of the
financial plank Of the Indiana platform
his name naturally came into the minds
Of those members Of the committee and
others. who read it, and it thus occurred
to suggest Mr.. Fairbanks for the position.
When we were approached upon the sub
ject we simply said that Mr.. Fairbanks
would be acceptable"
VIII He Fairbenks All the Same.
Quite q number of the members of the
national committee stated that there waa
no doubt of the selection Of Fairbanks AZ
temporary chairman when that order Of
business-the selection of temporary of.
flccrs Of the convention-comesb before the
committee at Q o'clock this afternoon.
They contend that the committee, in &C.
lecting a temporary chairman who will
sound the keynote Of the campaign, should
pay no attention to any local issue or n
valry or personal advantage.
CONTEST CASE FROM DELAWARE.
One Of the Hottest That Has Gene Before
the National Committee.
In explaining to the Louisiana contest.
ant what the national committee was gov.
erned by in deciding contests, Chairman
Carter put 1t all on the question Of regu-
larity. He said that the committee could
not under its rules 60 behind the verdict
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