Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-17
NATIONAL POLITICS.
M'K1NnEY AND THE A. P. A..

M'K1NLEY AND THE A. p. A.
Kansas City.-While J. H. D. Stevens,
chairman of the national judiciary COM
mittee of the A. P. A., is going about the
country proclaiming in newspaper in
terviews that the order will fight the nom
ination of William Mckinley for presi-
dent, knowing ones in the organization
here are laughing in their sleeves.
They scout the idea that Mckinley is
to be tabooed because his manager did
not 60 before the national campaign
committee of the A. P. A. at Washington.
They say it was not necessary for the
champion of protection to go on record.
because his attitude toward the order was
we'll known before. They say, too, that
the Ohio man received the Endorsement
of the A. P. A. long before the national
committee ever met to hear the pledges
of the other candidates, and that the pur-
pose of the assumed unfriendiness of the
A. P. A. is a sharp trick to draw into Nc
Kinley's ranks elements that would op-
pose him If they knew him to be the A.
P. A. candidate
For more than year the lay members
of the order have everywhere been en-
| thusiaetic in their endorsement of Nc
Kinley. A canvass of the prominent
mem bers Of the A. P. A. in Kansas City
| fails to discover one who is not an ad-
mirer of Mckinley and who does not be.
! believe that he will be nominated and
elected. This ia true with members who
were free trade Democrats before joining
the A. P. A. Judge John B. Stone, who
| has probably voted half a dozen Demo-
, cratic presidential tickets, Is now red
hot advocate of the high protectionist.
| The A. P. As. are fond of political
badges and the lay members and all the
leaders are wearing the Mckinley A. P. A.
badge. This badge is a button, the
ground work of which ia miniature
American flag. In the center is McKin-
ley's portrait with the inscription, 'Pro-
lection, go" None of the Kansas City
A. P Az. has quit wearing the button
since the stories of the orders alleged
hostility have come out
For four years it has been the boast of
the organization that the next president
of the United States would be en- A. P. A.
Members deny that Mckinley ia men,
Der of the A. P. A., but the Junior Order
of American Mechanics, an organization
more far reaching in its anti Catholic
tendencies, claims him as member. He
is said to have Joined the Junior Order as
a charter member of lodge in Canton,
Ohio, several years ago. The order has
always been foremost in his support for
congress and governor.
GOT IT GRABBED.
Washington. - The opinion prevails
among statesme at the capital that the
Democratic convention at Chicago will
be dominated by the free silver element
of the party. The Oregon declaration
was great surprise to the sound money
men and has shaken their confidence to
marked extent The great setback in
Missouri was also disappointment.
Sound money men here had boped for a
draw iu that state, if nothing better.
With the exception of few states 1t is
now possible to present something of An
idea Of the alignment of the various dele
cations at Chicago on the financial Ques-
tion. Without counting the territories
there will be 1874 delegates in tho Demo-
cratlc convention, and any person or any
policy commanding 450 votes will be in
control. The various delegations as near
ne they can now be anticipated show now
454 delegates fsvoring free coinage, 1856
favoring the gold standard and "a
doubtful, and out of the "a votes
which are thus summed up as doubtful
the sound money men will have to cap.
ture all of them to be in anything like
position of vantage, and the chances are
almost entirely on the other side. The
doubtful states are Georgia, Kentucky.
Virginia and Washington. As the silver
ties count on getting at least half OF these
doubtful delegates and will have eighteen
more from the territories, the claim that
the silver Democrats will control at Chi
cago seems to rest on very solid foun-
dation.
doLDITEs ALERT.
Washington.--It 10 now conceded by
many administration Democrats to be
alm ost certain that the free silver Demo-
Gratis will coptrol the convention, and will
put in the platform declaration for in
dependent free coinage at 16 to 1.
The president, IN conversation with
prominent ''sound' money Democrats
drawn here by the executive COMMITTEES
meeting, has expressed his surprise at
the strength the silver movement is show
ing. He has expressed his fears that the
convention will be carried away by it,
and has urged that there be no relaxation
in the fight for sound money. He has de
clared his willingness to do all in his
power {. strengthen that cause. At the
same time the president has expressed
himself em phatically against anything in
the form of compromise. He wants the
sound money Temoorats to ask no con-
cession and to give none IN the conven-
tion, believing that it ls best the tight
shall come now and he ended.
The president has consulted ex-Secre-
tary Whitney, Of New York, and ex.Gov
Russell, of Massachusetts, particularly,
upon the advisability Of writing letter.
He was advised by Mr.. Whitney TO wait
while and let the conditions develop a
little further. Mr.. Whitney had agents
investigating the silver sentiment In the
west and south. He, rather than exGov.
Russell, gave the presid-nt,to understand
that the free silver movement was far
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