The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-05-14
SIGNS OF ANXIETY.
McKinley's Advisers Hard at Work
Trying to Allay Distrust.

New York. May 14.-Since the presi-
dental campaign began. there has been
no such gathering here of McKinley's
llose friends and political advisers as is
now haunting the financial quarter by
day and the Fifth Avenue hotel by night
Ex-senator Alger of Detroit, fresh from
a visit to Mckinley himself; Mr.. Hahn,
member Of the Republican national COM
mittee from Ohio; Congressman Tay-
lor, who sits for MeKinley's district;
Christopher Magee, the Pittsburg boss,
who heads McKinley's supporters In
pennsylvania, and four or five other less
known men have all come to town with
In day or two and will stay for some
days TO come. Each processes per-
sonal errandi but their doings and their
words show that they have come hither
TO allay the distrust in the financial
world Of McKinley's soundness on
money questions. and that they are
working in concert. During business
hours they are 10 be seen going from
cffice TO Office IN the banking quarter.
and at night they are about the hotels
and clubs. There could be no better
evidence that McKinley's managers are
alarmed at the doubt of him that is
rising In the financial community, ana
at the use that allied bosses are making
of II TO his detriment.
These confidential agents. even In
private, are singularly shy OF definite
statements. and they have qualms at
the plain words. gold standard" NC
kinley is for sound money" they re-
peat again and again. HE will stand
upon the platform that the st. Louis
convention adopts. and that will declare
plainly for sound money. Look at his
record. Hear what he has said to his
friends" They carry extracts from his
former speeches In their pockets, anu
abound in recollections of his private
talk with various men two and three
years ago. But they will not say ex-
plicitly what he means or they mean by
sound money" and their explorations
OF his present persistent silence limp.
1t is indecorous," they say. for him to
speak now. Precedent" bids him keep
silent There are signs. too, that they
are succeeding less well in their mis-
sion than they anticipated; and that
they may themselves urge Mckinley to
declare himself. Bankers and hnanciers
who are even friendly to him are telling
than IL would harm his canvass. pre-
cedent or no precedent. They are find
ing also that the doubts of the great
banking and corporate interests are not
readily aliayed By vague and high
sounding assurances.
1t is true that the vigorous campaign
The Herald. The World, The Sun, The
Times and The Post are conducting
against Mckinley as a wobbling candi-
date. silent upon the money question,
has been in some respects overdone.
There seems TO be no truth, for example.
in the statenieat that bankers are pun
ishing the coterie behind Mckinley By
q limiting OF their loans and refusals TO
discount their paper. The distrust is
widespread and deep. What continu-
ally farastt is such a statement as this
from Congressman Newlands of Ne
vada, tho president Of the Silver league.
who chances to be in town: 1T would
be unwise for Major Mckinley to declare
himself. If he should come out for gold,
he would gain no votes in the east,
which is already against him, and he
would lose the west which is now for
him."