The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-16
POINTS from ST, LOUIS.


Hanna Opposes tho Gold PlanlS-Mr.
Platt's Gold Plank-Brass Bands and
Shouters Arrive Honest Currency senti-
mcnt Overwhelmingly strong-Platform
WIN be for Gold--Alllson's sentiments
A Cola PlatfOrm-Hanna Fixing Up tho
Tariff Platform.
st. Louis Mo, June 15,-Hanna OBJ
jects to the word gold" in the plat
form. So he told Warner Miller. Mil
Ter and Bliss represent the eastern SEN
timent for gold, 1t Is now asserted
that the committee ON resolutions will
report u so-called sound money plank,
which win declare against free coinage,
but will not demand the maintenance
of the gold standard.
The leaders of the sound money move
ment have decided to make their main
fight in the convention. They will move
to Substitute Il straight declaration for
gold for the Hanna plank, To-day
they express themselves as confident
of getting their substitute adopted by
the convention. -.. '''''
Miller and Bliss say to-day that the
plank will be strong enough to satisfy
the east, but they no longer assert that
1t Will contain the words gold standard
| The question as to the nature of the
| plank to be reported by the committee
| ON resolutions, continues Of more alb
| sorbtng interest than any other. Cor
nelius N. Bliss of New York expressed
! himself this morning as confident that
| the committee would report Il solid
| money plank. but he declined to COM
| nit himself as to whether or not he
| thought the words gold standard
| would appear in it.
National Committeeman Hahn of
Ohio who is high uD in the Mckinley
| councils, declared that the money plank
| would be for sound money uneQuiVoCal-
ly and against the free coinage of silver
without international agreement. Mr..
Hahn said:
The plank will be for sound money
unQuestionably and unequivocally. 1t
"'ill also declare against the free coin
/ age of silver in the absence of interna-
tional agreement"
Mr. Hahn was then asked # the plank
would be strong for sound money as to
CREATE Il ulSllIlCl HlltlCldL lSSIlt ptlNGtI
the republicans and democrats.
Yes" he replied. ut will be amply
strong enough to do that"
Mr.. Hahn also. 1t will be seen, like
Mr., Bliss, omitted to discuss the ques-
ton of the incorporat ton of the words
| gold standard" in the plank.
M Platt's Gold Plank.
| The following is the text of the finan-
| cial plank upon which MIR. Platt and
| his friends agreed at a conference
| which adjourned late last night, and
| which was attended by leading eastern
| men and a number from the middle and
| western states:
| we favor the maintenance of the ex-
| listing gold standard, and are opposed to
| the free coinage of silver, except by in
! ternational agreement for bimetallism
! with the leading commercial nations
| Of the world
| 1t was decided that the fight would
| be kept uD Cor this plank in the plat
| form, and Mr.. Plat stated that he be-
! lieved such plank would be inserted.
| Besides the New England states,
which were represented at this confer
| ence chiefly by Senator Lodge of Mas
| New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Mich
| igan. Minnesota, Washington and Ten
nessee, each of whom demanded that
there should be no equiVocation in the
| platform, but that gold should be men
| toned in such a way that there could
| be no misinterpretation of the purport
Of the platform. Among those present
| were number of delegates from other
states who favored Mr., Platts PROPOSE
ton, but were without authority to act
| for their states.
| Honest Currency Sentiment Strong,
The Ohio syndicate would, if posi-
| BILE, continue the same tactics of silence
! and evasion on the money question that
| they have adopted from the beginning
of their campaign. But the sentiment
for an honest currency is likely to prove
too strong for them They cannot stem
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