The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-15
BLOOD ON The MOON
Furious Feuds Stirred Up
Among All the Clans
at st. Louis.
PLAgT AND HILLER's DEATH GRIP
Foraker a BIZ Metallist But
Afraid Of Free Silver
Gold Demand Urgent.
BITTER FIaRT IN PROSPECT
Platt and Teller Both Ready for
Gore on the Floor of
the Convention.
BITTER FIGRT IN PROSPECT

tho NOh fSAtlVus
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June Is, 1ssS-The
morning before the meeting Of the Ma
tonal Republican Convention opened with
the leading topic in the minds Of the dele
gates. not the selection of candidates, but
the nature of the financial plank to he
adopted. 1t seems clearly settled that the
fight over this question viii be carried
from the Committee on Resolutions to
the floor of the convention. The commits
tee. under the leadership of Its chairman,
Ex-Governor Foraker, will sustain the
Ohio idea Of declaring in favor of the
existing standard, but net specifying what
that standard is. The Eastern members,
under thes leadership of Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge, will insist upon defining
the existing standard as a gold standard
This proposition being voted down in com
mittee, as it probably VIII be. Mr.. Lodge
and ex-senator Platt viii take the MAJ
ter into the convention and demand a roll
call vote, 50 as to place each delegation
distinctly on record. Massachusetts,
Maine. Connecticut. Rhode Island, New
York. Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wilson's n,
Minnesota and Tennessee have given their
adhesion in advance TO the Lodge-Platt
programme.
When the convention is thus brought
face TO face on the question Of declaring
fer or against the free coinage of silver
then viii occur Senator Teller's oppor-
surity. He had repeatedly declared that
70 effort on his part or that of his friends
VIII be wanting 60 force the convention
to plain, honest declaration. s.Better
a gold plank, he said than an equivoeal
declaration which means gold hut may be
taken to mean something else 1t is
iptimatsd that when the convention shall
have definitely declared its hostility to
silver coinage, Senator Teller viii make,
a speech which VII take the form of a
vaieaictory to the Republican party and
VIII retire &c his home in, Colorado to
= AKA t eFetsts There Is really 1ietle
warmth CT earnestness in the canvass
beng made for the Vice-Presid ency All
care dates await a sign from the prophet
from Ohio, Mr.. Mark Hanna: and Mr.
Hanna. it IS said, has intimated to at
least one prominent asp:rart that it is
not his purpose to make any sign until
after the nomination of Major Mckinley
becomes an assured fact. This condition,
OF things, It is alleged. places at least
ore prominent gentleman in rather en-
9er-=v wo,,ld ma - e,,oaa1s ' q ~" :"
s,,,i4b =, 1ooo ~ !, ,',s - Sr'',ltoi
80 ouia ii>e Seili eee-
tsf 20 De Vice-President of the United
States. He fully realizes that no candi-
date f5r the Vice-Presidency can succeed
'aheut the active support CT Major
MeK:nley's friends, and before cloudfng
his Senatorial aspirations hv evnauetirg
b=s cis;me ,,,o, b;s n.,.t,, er,o.,.5~
80 pay LIieEds ~
cy, he greatly desires to hear more def
InitelyA from Ohio than he has vet been
a5,ia toN do &c - ',S''7-'
- % wiie,e NJ - d.
M n. Clay l1Vans OF tennessee pur-i
sues his canvass with no such hamper/
ing consi6era lions 10 bo,a f,,, ,,aol,
-, -, -, y 80 '' "a n iis
iiaS uecisi 81 IN sIaFoF OF using the wore
god" in the platform, and claims to
have received ml7rh arco,,ra oa,y,e7,4 from,
tla Vermont Nov y,r1-7 ris,.;ea, W.
= 4io,l' NiiSnisan, WIS
cohs-h. indlSna ana limos delegations
Ex-Governor ID. Russell Brown, O.
Rhode island opened heado1,arters in III.
,,rs,,, - 4,s c,o,st, IT,, 49,
ie-iu--iS ro rooiii u Ing l 'ocutieli 1iosei eH-s
morning and began distribution Of
Vice Presidential buttons He thinks New
4sr,y,and il a.,titled "a .ae sacond n1.oa
80 -. - - 49, 49, 80
: ara exoecls the support OF enc new
England delegations.
Mr.. Mark Hanna has prepared the tar
;sr n1anL of tho nl.+f-~,,, Il VII be
~ paahA u tne piee eeiN'in = <"it y
stsffiy protective, and IS understood to
distinctly reflect Mr. McK.nley's views.
1t win not demand restoration Of the
nor viii il refer specifically to that law,
1.-The Mckinley law.
All personal reference to the author of
first Congress viii be avoided. 1t viii
call for such an increase Of duties as
vi annIv a,rasrct The American mann
u