The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11
Isas Much GoIdbug as He Ever
Was.
SILVER AND SATAN TWINS
ssOUND MONEY MUST BE THE
LEADING ISSUE.
Would Rather That the Republican
Party Should Go Down to Defeat
Than Adopt ''Straddie," or, in
Fact, Anything But q Gold Plank
Satisfied the Party VIII Lose
Some Western states.

FRANKFORT. KY, June 1O.-Dur-
ing the past week statements have
been sent out from Washington that
Governor 0. w. Bradley, who was last
year elected governor of Kentucky on
gold standard platform over Demo-
cratic free silver candidate, had origi-
nahy been in favor off a compromising
policy, and that Governor Mckinley
had induced him to adopt the gold
standard policy and that he has since
negotiated with Mckinley and other
candidates, and this has been followed
by statements purporting to come from
Franfort that Governor Bradley had
iii his possession letters written him in
confidence from various Republicans
of national prominence, which he
would make public in retaliation for
the aspersions against his sincerity. 1t
has been intimated that the expected
disclosure would
CREATE A GREAT SENSATION
in national politics and in consequence
the governor has been overwhelmed
with inquiries on the subject Con-
corning these reports Governor Brad
ley today made the following state
ment:
Il cannot permit the Washington
dispatch to the Chicago Record to pass
unchanged. In response, L deny that I
was ever the representative of Mr..
Hanna in any way, nor is it true that
my action was ever controlled or gov
erned in the slightest degree by what
is politically called in that dispatch
the 'Platt-Clarkson crowd
There was never any combination
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them and myself or any Of my friends.
I have not attempted to make terms
with Mr. Mckinley or any of his man
ayers, or with any one of the preSi-
Dental candidates or any of their man.
ayers. l have not offered to trade six
teen votes or any vote for the. vice
presidency
NOR WILL 1 BE A CANDIDATE
for vice-president, nor would l accept
a cabinet position.
II did write to Mr.. Mckinley and at
the same time write to a number of
leading Republicans throughout the
country concerning the Kentucky cam
paign The insinuation that 1 wrote
favoring a straddle on the currency
question or that Mr.. Mckinley ad-
ViSed me not to pursue sucn course
or said that The silver agitation was
greenback craze was the result of the
panic of 1873 is totally false. I did not
write him that "A majority of the peo-
pie Of Kentucky were in favor of free
coinage, or that both parties were
rapidly drifting that way My ex-
pressed opinion was that the Mime
apolis platform was too general and
that the party, should make a
CLEAR AND DISTINCT DECLARE
TON.
NY views concerning the currency
question are too we'll known to re-
quire explanation in Kentucky"
In conclusion, after referring to the
late campaign in Kentucky, Governor
Bradley says:
Il believe sound currency will be the
leading issue of the coming campaign.
The honor of the republic and the well
fare of the people demands its correct
solution 1t is far above personal sue
cess or individual advancement and in
this hour of supreme trial the Republic
can convention should declare unhesi-
tatingly in favor of the single gold
standard. 1t is no time for clubbing
or evasion. We may lose some west
ern states, but this loss will be more
than compensated by gains in the old
slave border states. But if | thought
such a declaration would cause the
Republican nominee to be defeated, 1
would none the less favor it, for sue
cess at the expense of national well
fare would be neither creditable nor
profitable. In justice to Mr.. McKin-
ley, 1 will add that the statement in
today's Courier-Journal that he wrote
me recommending the adoption of a
plank with a. strong free silver tinge'
IS not true; neither he nor any of the
gentlemen addressed suggested any
thing of the kind"
Close friends of Governor Bradley
say the interview was very much modi-
fed from that prepared Yesterday. Az
ter a long conference with his political
friends today, it was revised and much
of the original statement was also
emitted No reference is made to the
announcement last week of Governor
Bradiey's withdrawal as candidate
for the st. Louis nomination and close
friends are reticent as to what the Ken
lucky delegation will do at St Louis.
They do not know whether the governor
will go to st. Louis or not