The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-17
by the United states government is
HOW 1T WAS MADE.
Authorship Credited to H. H. Kohl


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ST. LOUIS, June 1.-THE true story of
the formation of the platform which will
be proclaimed to the country by the Re-
publican convention tomorrow makes the
most interesting chapter of the past
week. The authorship of the financial
plank is credited to II. H. Kohlsaat, the
publisher of the Chicago T9mes-Herald,
and the warm friend of Major Mckinley.
1t IS known also to the party managers
that the
SPIRIT AND MATTER OF THE PLANK
meets the approval OF Mr. Mckinley and
of his chief adviser, Mark Hanna.
| In the inner circle it has been no secret
! from the beginning that both Major Nc
Kinley and Mr.. hanna Were personally
/ favorable to a declaration for the main
| tenance of the gold standard so long as
! the present financial condition of the lead
ing commercial nations We're TO continue.
| There were complications existing, how
! ever which forbade Mr.. Hanna giving
1 his views of the money question or from
/ throwing his influence into the ante-con-
vention campaign in the direction of his
personal preferences. Foremost among
The considerations which have weighed
with Mr.. McKinley's managers have Deen
the wishes of that contingent of the Nc
Kinley supporters arrayed in the col
umnS of western free coinage men. The
California delegation was the most influ-
entail section of this wing, and that dele
cation had been pledged TO cast its vote
in convention for the Ohio candidate
The CalfOrnians have given their at
tendance to Mckinley. recognizing that
his personal preferences was for a gold
platform. They have expected to be
! forced to
ACCEPT AN UTTERANCE FOR GOLD,
but they said they thought it only a rea-
sonable degree of consideration toward
nj AIoL< I'm Low hat
the inevitable result should be brought
about in the natural way by the action
of the convention and should not be as
sisted by the Mckinley forces. BY their
support of Mr.. Mckinley they have helped
to put him and Mr. Hanna. in a position
where any words they might say in the
platform would carry weight, and they
have thought it only fair to them that
the power they were helping to give Mr..
Hanna should not be used in behalf of
a policy bitterly distasteful to them.
Into this financial field came Mr.. Kohl
saat, well known to be an intimate per-
sonal friend of Mr.. Mckinley and equally
well known as a strong advocate of a
gold plank. Immediately upon his arrival
last Friday. Mr.. Kohlsaat STROBE into
THE THICK OF THE FIGHT
for the gold plank His first step was to
discuss the situation with Mr.. Myron Her
rick of Cleveland, also one of Major Nc
! Kinley's closest friends and managers
: and Governor Merriam of Minnesota. The
result of the conference was the drafting
of a financial plank practically identical
, with the one which will be presented to
the convention tomorrow. 1t was based
upon the Indiana plank, with slight
changes in the verbiage and an addition
al phrase pledging the Republican party
to the maintenance of the present gold
standard as a conspicuous feature. Wher
this had been done Mr. Kohlsaat began q
missionary canvass with all the energy
of which he was capable. In the mean.
time the Massachusetts and New York
delegations arrived upon the scene anC
each instituted a campaign for gold or
its own behalf.
On Monday Mr. Kohlsaat took his plank
to Mr.. Hanna. and was told that it would
be acceptable; on the same day he showed
it to Senator Lodge, who also announced
that it met his views. Today the planl
was
PHOTOGRAPHED TO MKINLEY
and no word has come from Canton that
. he does not approve It.
The preamble to the platform denounc-
. ing the Democratic administration and
the declaration of the protection policy
is the work of Hon. Charles Emory Smith
of the Philadelphia Press, as is the state
ment of policy concerning the merchant
marine reciprocity clause is modifica-
ton of plank suggested by Charles A
Pillsbury of Minnesota. The utterancf
upon foreign policies which deal with tbs
Cuban-Hawaiian and Armenian queS-
TONS came from the pen of Senator
Lodge. The authorship of the Nicaragua
plank rests upon Mr.. Burleigh, of tbs
state Of Washington s' SHs