Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-06-12
NATIONAL POLITICS.
PLEADING FOR GOLD.

New York.--A circular letter has been
sent out by President Green, of the Re.
publican league of New York, which is ex-
pected to have much weight with the
framing of the platform in the national
Republican convention. 1t says:
"The business men of the country, in
common with the laboring classes, stead
fastly rely upon the Republican party to
deal death blow to the present mischiev-
GUS uncertainty (Which $50 largely re-
sponsible for the inactive and depressed
condition of business affagss>, qud to set
in motion, through the resus.s'of t;ne ",
Louis convention, an active agency for
the promotion of confidence among the
people of home and foreign lands.
"The time is not propitions one for
lodging issues or building platforms for
doubtful planks, susceptible of different
constructions. The exigencies of the
situation demand an honest, unequivocal
Piles, and this demand must be complied
with if success is hoped for. Two of the
strongest planks upon which the party
must rely for platform solidity are:
"Tirst-An explicit demand for sound
m oney and continual maintenance of
the present gold basis, recognized by all
civilized countries alike as the standard
of the world; no free silver, 16 to ratio
or compromise proposition in advance of
an international treaty.
"Second-A decided protective tariff,
one made ION purpose not alone for rev.
enue requisite to defray governmental
expenses, but as we'll to afford ample pro-
lection to home industries and home la
Dor against the pauper wage competition
of foreign countries"
SELECTING QUARTERS AT CHICAGO.
Chicago.-The various state delegations
to the acknowledgements convention
are already selecting their quarters. The
New York delegation will be lodged at the
Palmer House. The headquarters will be
in parlor F. The national committee
will also have rooms provided for them
at the Palmer. Tammany will be located
at the Auditorium. 1t will have as CON-
panions the delegations from Mississippi,
Kentucky, Maryland and South Carolina.
Over in the Annex, West Virginia, Wash
ington, Missouri and Rhode Island repre-
sentatives will hold forth. A number of
eastern newspaper correspondents will
also be located at the Auditorium Annex.
The Great Northern will house represen
tatives of several of the New York and
Philadelphia papers. Men who shout for
Kansas have engaged twenty-five rooms
at the Leland. A stampede for rooms is
expected within few days, owing to the
fact that 80 many of the state delegations
delay the selection of their headquarters.
BLAND's ANNOUNCEMENT.
st. Louis.-Hon. Richard Parks Bland
has formally announced his candidacy for
the Democratic presidential nomination
on platform for the free, unlimited and
independent coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to /. Heretofore it has been Mr..
Bland's policy to evade all efforts to elicit
from him direct statement as to his at
titude toward the presidency. He has all
along maintained that the cause of silver
was Of greater moment than personal am
bition, and even after the state Dem ocracy
of Missouri, in convention assembled, de-
clared for him and instructed it's national
delegation to vote for him at Chicago and
work for his nomination, his silence was
persistent.
Mr.. BANDS formal declaration of his
candidacy for the Chicago nomination ar
rived at the headquarters of the Bland ex-
ecutive committee, in the Rialto building
here, on Tuesday. 1t was under cover of
a letter to Secretary George W. Allen. OF
the committee. Here follows Mr.. BANDS
announcement:
"No one who understands the temper
of the people on the silver question can
for moment doubt that 16 to plat
form is absolutely, unconditionally and
undoubtedly necessary for the Democratic
party to gain any victory.
II only regret that heretofore have
not been able to say that I should wish
my friends to appeal to other conven-
tions (the Democratic conventions in
other states) for my Endorsement. but
now should be very glad to have them
do -