Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-06-19
THE FINANCIAL PLANK.
Full Text as Agreed Upon by Messrs
Hanna, Foraker and Lodge.

Text as ASTceu upon Ny MesoASs
Hanna, Foraker and Lodge
st. Louis, June 16.-The text of the
financial plank of the platform was agreed
to Tuesday morning at conference held
Immediately after breakfast by Mr.. Hanna,
Senator ELECT Foraker and Senator Lodge. |
1t Is as follows:
THE republican, party is nnreservedlv
of the law providing for the resumption
of specie payments In 1873; since then every
dollar has been as good as gold.
I'VE are unalteraby opposed to every
measure calculated 70 debase our currency
or impair the credit of ctr country. w.
are therefore, opposed to the free coinage
ment; and until such an agreement can ue
obtained, the existing gold standard must
in circulation as currency, must be main
tanned at a parity with gold, and we favor
all measures designed to maintain in
yiolahly the. Civilizations of the United
States and all our money whether coin OF
paper, at the present standard, the stand
ard Of the most enlightened nations Of the
EARTH"
The draft of the plank above quoted
was not finally agreed to until almost
ten o'clock Tuesday morning. and after
its preparation it was carefully read and
assented to by Mr.. Hanna and Mr.. For
aker.
A strong effort has been made to incor-
porate In the tariff plank a clause favoring
| bounty on sugar manufactured from
| beets, an industry in which the states of
| Nebraska, Kansas, California and several
others are vitality interested This how
| ever, it is understood will not be done for
| the reason that it would commit the party
| too strongly to the policy of pa. ing boun-
| ties, question upon which the party Is
| more or less divided. The subject will be
taken care of in the general tariff plank
Cuba Will Be Given a Plank.
| The Cubans now engaged in rebellion
| ott,ot ha CHI
hope and comfort in the expression of the
| convention with relation to that subject
| A separate plank will express strongly
the sympathy of the republican party for
| CUBAN patriots, and a declaration will be
| incorporated favoring the recognition of
| their independence.
Civil service reform promises to give rise
to some debate in the committee. deter
mined effort will be made to secure Wig
orous plank indorsing civil service, and,
incidentally, condemning the administra-
ton for its violation of civil service rules
and regulations. The contest between the
advocates and opponents of civil service
promises to be warm and spirited, but it
is believed that the friends Of civil service
will carry the day.
Ship Protection Plank.
The proposed ship protection plank
drawn by Senator Lodge first found ex-
preston in the Massachusetts, platform,
since which time 1t has been incorporated
in the platforms Of 15 different state
conventions. 1t will read as follows:
I'VE pledge ourselves to restore the
early American policy of discriminating
duties for the protection of our shipping
in the foreign carrying trade, SO that
American ships, the product of American
labor employed in American ship yards,
sailing under the stars and stripes, and
manned and differed and owned by Amer
leans, may regain the carrying of Ameri-
can foreign commerce"