The herald., 1896-05-23
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS
Quay Pays a Mysterious Visit
to Mckinley
BOTH MEN DECLINE TO TALK
The Great Prctecti0nist Proceeds TO
Confer With Hanna
The Cleveland Leader Gives II Out That Quay
Wants Information as to HcKin-
lsy's Financial Attitude
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire
CANTON, o., May Ex-senator Quay
called on Mckinley today.
At 1:25 p. m. Senator Quay was driven
from the Mckinley home to the depot
and took the train eastward. Both Nc
Kinley and Quay declined to be inter
viewed about their conference. Later
in the afternoon Mckinley started for
Cleveland to join his wife and remain
until Monday, the guest of Mr.. Hanna.
CLEVELAND, o., May 22.-The
Leader, which better represents Nc
Kinley perhaps, than any other news
paper in the United States, will publish
tomorrow, in substance, the following
upon the visit of M. S. Quay to McKin-
ley:
Quay came to Canton, not as the
bearer of messages from any man or
group of men, but as the leader of the
Republican party in Pennsylvania. He
did come, as he facetiouSly remarked in
washington, to question Mckinley
about his attitude on the money ques-
ton. He was a Republican leader visit
ing the man who will certainly be the
nominee of the Republican party for
president. The giving of offices was not
considered, nor was the campaign for
the nomination discussed, because
every Republican knows the campaign
to be practically ended. One thing they
uIu w DIS the CStllF FJdls II WHICH NC
Kinley will enter against the Demo-
cratic candidate for president The
conference was most pleasant and cor
dial on both sides. The visit of Quay was
such as will undoubtedly be made by
many other Republican leaders both
before and after the st. Louis conven-
tion
CHICAGO, May PA special to the
Tribune from Washington says: There
is no question that the financial ques-
tion Is the paramount issue to the eX-
clusion of the tariff said Comptroller
Eckels. land this will be demonstrated
more and more as the ensuing campaign
progresses. Party lines will not be
drawn so closely as people imagine, and
there will be a great many surprises
before the contest for the presidency is
ended.
tinued agitation of the silver question.
The caucuses held thus far in Illinois
indicate that the silver men virtually
control affairs in that state. 1t remains
to be seen what Cook county will do in
this emergency and there is a possibil-
ity, ii the sound money win the fight
there, that they may be able to stem the
current in Illinois, which is apparently
setting so strongly in the direction of
the free coinage of silver. Gentlemen
with whom I talked while in Chicago
were inclined to take the same view re-
are looking forward eagerly to the pro-
ceedingS of the Democratic state con-
vention month hence"
PITTSBURG, May Ex-senator Quay
arrived at his home in Beaver, from Cam
ton. O., about 5 o'clock To the query as
to whether he believed Mckinley would
be nominated, he replied: II have moth
ing to say whatever"
The senator broke his resolution not to
talk the next moment, however, and to
the solicitous question as to whether he
was still candidate, emphatically said:
"Oh, yes / am still a candidate for the
presidential nomination and shall be
voted for at the st. Louis convention.
SPLIT IN IOWA.
CHICAGO, May pa special to the
Record from Des Moines, Ia, says:
The leaders of the silver and gold
forces at the Democratic convention at
Dubuque passed through Des Moines
yesterday on their way home. The sill
yer men are elated but the gold men
were not discouraged. 1t developed that
the gold standard men had determined
to play bold game at Dubuque to out
wit the silver men, but were baked by
the silver element being forewarned.
When, on Tuesday night, the silver men
had announced that they should refuse
to let Temporary Chairman Samuel
Wright make his gold speech, the gold
men determined to wait until the tenn
porary chairman had been turned down.
then, by the chairman of the state CEN
trail committee, c. S. Bank of Iowa City,
declare the convention adjourned 1t
was their purpose to meet in convention
at the call of the chairman without the
silver element in attendance and select
delegation to Chicago. The silver men
discovered and baked it by not inter-
fering with the temporary chairman.
STATE POLITICS.
IT'D ANCJoCn Ma,
ecutive committee of the Republican
state central committee met this morn
ing. Major Frank Mclaughlin was
elected chairman. He was nominated
by John D. Spreckels. e. X. Taylor of
Alameda was elected vice chairman;
Paris kilbourne. treasurer; M. r. Hig-
gins. secretary; Jacob Stepchaser, as
sstant secretary. Louis Sloss Of San
Francisco resigned from the committee
and G. W. Mainwaring was elected in
his place. A. j. Martin was elected mem
ber of the committee from the thirty
third district.
Tt was recommended that the county
committees be instructed to make prep
arations for ratification meetings on the
night after the Republican president
and vice-president are nominated
A motion to appoint a committee of
fve to act as an auxiliary committee to
the executive committee of the stat
central committee to act in Southern
California, was referred to the commit
tee on bylaws. The committee then
adjourned.
WAR TO THE KNIFE.
CHICAGO, May 22-When the Demo-
cratic gold standard committee read to-
day that the call for the county con-
vention as issued by the county central
committee, a meeting was called and war
tc the knife was declared. After two
hours consideration of the question the
following resolution was unanimously
adopted:
Resolved. That this comrnitte recon-
mends to the executive committee of the
Democratic honest money committee
that it advise all Democrats of Cook
county who are in favor of honest pri-
maries and honest money to remain
away from the primaries to be held on
Monday next and be it further
Resolved, That this committee rec
ommend to the executive committee
that it proceed at once to reorganize the
Democratic party in this county.
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