The San Francisco call., 1896-06-13

sented by him the same measure of pro-
lection that is afforded others. Ex-Gov-
ernor Yarmouth of Louisiana is in accord
with the sentiments expressed by Mr.. Ok
nard and is lending him his hearty CO.
operation. Under the present tariff the
duty on sugar is 40 per cent advalorem.
This Mr.. Oxnard does not think is high
enough to keep out the competition of the
cheap peon labor of other countries and he
is in favor of levying a specific duty OF
cents per pound on sugar, as it was in the
Mckinley bill. This would enable Amer
ican sugar-producers to build up the in
dustry without raising the price and would
bring into cultivation in California alone
many thousands of acree of what would
otherwise be unproductive land
Mr.. Oxnard says that the experiment IN
California has proved conclusively that
beet-raising for the purpose OF sugar man
ufacture is profitable to the farmer and
under proper system of protection will
be in time one OF the great industries of
California.
Mr.. Oxnard and his associates from
Louisiana have prepared the following TO
be submitted to the committee on plat
form as q special plank for insertion there
in:
1.-THE practicabiity of successfully grow
ing sugar-beets throughout the United
States having been clearly demonstrated
within the last five years, and believing
that univ ersal introduction of this crop
will be a material aid to our agricultural
classes in times when other staple crops
are depressed, We favor any measure which
can bring about the rapid development of
a National sugar industry, thereby keep
ing at home and distributing among our
own agricultural Inhabitants the $125. 000.-
900 which we are annually sending abroad
to foreigners for sugar"
1t is not expected that there will be any
opposition to the insertion of this plank in
the platform. Other special planks asking
for protection on wool and lead, which in
dustrles have been paralyzed by the Demo
cratic tariff, will be urged, SO that it may
become Enthusiastically apparent 10 even
the most unrefecting voter that the Re-
publican party is sdetermined at all hazards
to restore to the afflicted laborers, me-
chanics and agriculturists of the country
that prosperity which was strangled by
the Wilson bill.
The following is the proposed plank on
the lead matter:
"The Republican party is in favor of the
re-enactment of the tariff schedule of 1890
providing for duty on lead ores, without
taking notes of the value of the silver
associated with the lead in the ores i'm
ported"
There is but little doubt that the follow
ing will be made part of the platform:
Noting that under the tariff act of
March ,, 1867, the wool industry was more
prosperous than during any other period
in the history of the country, ana observ-
ing that the present free-trade policy of
the Democratic administration has ruined
that industry, the Republican party, not
less eager to-day than in the past to up
hold the interests of those engaged in the
raising of wool, hereby stand committed
TO the reinstatement of schedule on wool
as enacted in the tariff law of 1861"
A prominent Morton man said tonight,
speaking of McKinley's expected nomina-
tion, ''Dead things sometimes get up and
walk"
Next N importance to protection is the
financial issue. The silver men, headed
by Colonel Isaac Trumbo of Utah, are still
defiant and aggressive. They declare that
as they cannot get free coinage they will
insist on clean-cut plank in favor of
gold, so that there may be no mistake as
to the attitude of the Republican party on
the subject.
If declaration for gold would be better
for the cause of Republicanism in the East
than an attempt to conceal the gold
standard behind glittering generalities,
they want gold to be put into the platform.
Several conferences have been held con-
cerning this matter, and up to the present
writing the leaders of the Republican
party who are for sound money and the
silver men have not been able to agree.
Nor is it likely that there will be any COM
promise, for Thomas c. PIatt of New York
said this morning:
1--WE are here for gold standard. The
New York delegation is for a gold standard
and a man that fits it, and we believe that
man to be Morton of New York"
The following financial plank was pre-
pared by the Mckinley men this morning:
1--WE are firm and emphatic in our de-
mand for honest money. We believe that
our money should not be inferior to the
money of the most enlightened nations of
the earth. We are unalterably opposed to
any scheme that threatens to debase or de-
preciate our currency. We favor the use
of silver as currency, but to the extent
only and under such regulations that its
parity with gold can be maintained, and
in consequence are opposed to the free and
unlimited and independent coinage of sill
ver."
a copy of this was handed to Colonel
Trumbo, and he declared that it did not
suit him. T. c. Platt of New York has re-
fused to agree to the substitution of Sound
money! for gold, the New Workers de-
manding an outspoken and unequlvocal
declaration. So that the hitch remains.
1t is estimated that there are 900 votes IN
the convention opposed to gold plank
such as is desired by Morton's hackers,
and in favor of sound money or currency
laws that will provide a circulating medium
in gold, silver and paper which will
always be interchangeable at its face
value.
Colonel Trumbo has prepared the fol-
lowing plank on silver:
"The Republican party is in favor of
free and unlimited coinage of gold and
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