The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-12
PLATT'S BLUFF.
Threatens to Walk Out of the
Convention
Ii Any PIatt Men Are Thrown
Out.
1 AND ''M 'MY"SIXTY-FOUR
Delegates viii Walk Out Says
Mr.. PIatt HotIy.
Marc Hanna Says He Won't
Get Excited Over 1t.

St. Louis, June 12=Today there was
in circulation reports that Thomas g.
Platt had declared his intention Of bolt
ing or walking out of the convention If
the six contestants from New York
should be seated.
It is learned from members Of the ma
tiOnaI committee that in all probability
the six Platt men will be thrown out
and the other men placed on the tempo
airy roll
Mr. Platt is quoted as saying:
If the committee does not do justice
to the contest cases in New York 1 viii
walk out Of the convention with my o.
delegates"
The report of what Platt had said
was told to Mr. Hanna today and ne de
clined to discuss the matter in any way
II shall not get excited over this even
if Mr.. Platt said ii" Mr.. Hanna re-
marked and when assured that Mr..
Platt had made the remark, he was not
disturbed.
Other friends of Mckinley who heard
the remark said that Platt was putting
UP q grand bluff, and that no one was
to be alarmed over what he might say.
From the manner in which the report
of Platts intention to bolt has oeen
circulated by his friends quite freely,
one of them stated emphatically that
the position of Mr. Platt was that in
case six regularly elected delegates in
New York should be unseated, there
would be 60 more delegates who would
walk out of the convention. This view
is cOntrOVerted by some of the dele
gates from New York now on the
ground who say that there are from %
to 80 delegates from New Ork who are
ardent Mckinley men and cannot be
expected to follow Mr- Platt IN any
Members Of the national committee
think the talk of q New York bolt is
wholly for the purpose Of the influence
it may have on the decision or contests
yet to be decided
To an Associated Press reporter to-
day Mr. Piatt said that he had not
spoken particularly of the New York
delegates which We're contested but
upon the whole proceeding in the COM
mittee. They are riding rough shOd
over everything" ne said The cues
tiOn of mans title to man seat ls
not considered on its merits, but as to
his position on presidential candidates.
Mr. Hahn, the member Of the commit
ee from Ohio had declared that the
only question involved in these con
tests is whether or not the man is for
Mckinley and that line Of policy is
what New York objects to-"
AIr. P1att reiterated what he has con-
tfnually declared that MI Morton s
name viii be presented and voted for.
When asked what he had to say
about Mr. Mauley's manifesto ne SAID
he did not think it had made any ap-
preicable difference in the situation
He was very sorry that Mr.. Manley
lad made the statement and was at a
loss to explain it except that the Maine
committeeman must have become de-
moralized when there was no necessity
for it.
Mr. Platt has received a dispatch
from Reed who says that Mr. Manley' S
uttterance was wholly unauthorized
and expressing his astonishment that
ManIey had taken such a course.
Mr.. Platt is interested in having a
gold standard plank in the platform
From all I have heard he said, II
think that the convention viii take
that course. There seems to be a de-
mand that cannot be united in faV or of
firm declaration for the gold stand
ard. The silver men viii not be salts
fed with any kind of a straddle that
may be prepared and there should be
no attempt to have anything but a
straight gold declaration"
aTKINLEY AND Leland