Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-06-10

A careful analysis of the situation
seems to indicate that a straddle on the
financial question will not be popular. A
straddle to hold the silver states, the
leaders say, would lose New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut, in case gold
Democrat was in the field. The silver
men claim that no straddle the Republl-
cans could adopt would hold Colo
RADIO and such states against combine
of Democrats and Republicans on free
silver platform.
PRESS AND PUBLIC EXCLUDED.
The national Republican committee
in the chair. There were very few alb
sentees. The consideration of the 1853
contests was promptly taken up. This
initial meeting was Of an executive Q
character and the press and public were
excluded.
The executive committee of the ma
tional committee held meeting to-day
to hear report of the subcommittee,
which made arrangements for the con-
vention. An informal visit to the con-
vention building was made by Chairman
Carter and other members. The acoustic
properties of the hall were found to be
all that could be desired.
The committee had been in session only
for a few minutes when Richard Kerens
offered motion to admit the press, which
was adopted.
It was discovered as soon as the com.
mittee announced its readiness to take up
the Alabama contest that the parties were
not prepared to proceed Immediately.
A recess was therefore taken until
O'Clock. when it was announced that the
states would be taken up in alphabetical
order to hear contests.
SUPPOSED TO VOICE M'KINLEY.
The following was given out to-day by
Richard G. Kerens, member of the ma
tional committee from Missouri, more
importance being attached to it than to
the various proposed planks on account
of Keren's visit to Mckinley, at Canton
although Kerens would not have it un-
derstood that the proposed plank had
the sanction of Mckinley:
"We believe that our money should
not be inferior to the money of the most
enlightened nations of the earth and we
are unalterably opposed to every scheme
that threatens to debase or depreciate
our present monetary standard. We
favor reasonable use of silver as cur
rency, but such use should be to the ex-
tent only and under such we'll defined
reg gulations that it's parity with gold as
currency can be easily and efficiently
maintained. As consistent bimetallists
| we are opposed to the independent free
coinage of silver at ratio OF 16 to as a
measure fraught with certain disaster to
all commercial interests, destructive to
the interests of wage earners, and, in the
absence of international agreement, sure
! to lead to silver monometallism."
CONGRESSMAN WHO ARE DELEGATES.
Washington. = Members of congress-
were not conspicuously honored by the
state conventions which elected delegates
to the st. Louis convention. All tolt
there are not more than thirty members
of both congressional branches among
the delegates. Representatives we're con
spicuously snubbed and lot of new blood
introduced to national politics.
Take the Pennsylvania delegation fol
illustration. Quay and Hastings are abou
the only men on 1t known by anybod,
outside the state. The Pennsylvania sen
ator and candidate for the presidency wa
| responsible for this. Unlike the Missour
boss, Quay believes in passing the honor
around. He would not permit the con
vention to elect him delegate .at-large
but came from his congressional district