The record-union., 1896-05-14
Forsees Great Dangers in Case of His
Election.
Report That the Sentence of John
Hays Hammond, the American
Engineer Who Was Condemned to
Death at Pretoria, South Africa,
Upon the Charge of High Treason,
Has Been COMMITTED to Five Years
Imprisonment.
Imprisonment

NEW YORK, May 13-Ex-Senator
Platt gave out a statement tonight, in
which he says:
The Mckinley managers have under
tken to break the force of my charge
that his financial record shows that he
IS an unsafe leader for the Republican
party at this time by printing extracts
from his recent speeches. These ex-
tracts consist of lot Of general phrases
about the necessity of having curren-
cy as good as the best of our keeping
all our dollars equal in value and that
sort of thing. But the Mckinley mana
gers are away from the point The point
is not that Mckinley has made no re-
marks and cast no votes that tend to
the maintenance of gold money, but that
he has made all sorts of remarks and
cast all sorts of votes, and in a word.
that he has acted in every situation not
from settled principles and convictions.
but in accordance with what he consid-
cred at the time to be popular.
1T is believed on all sides that the
man who is placed in nomination at ST.
LOUIS VIII be the next President of the
United States. The Republican dele
gates therefore have an Incompatible
opportunity. 1t is their supreme duty
to nominate a man whose dayeIoped
character and achieved record Indicate
that with his leadership Republican pol
1cies will secure the longest application.
They should find a candidate who will
take office with the confidence of the
country, and not with it's apprehension
and distrust; who is known to be a free
agent, and not mortgaged up to his eyes
with pledges that can never be per-
formed and expectations that can never
be satisfied; who is safe and not erratic
conservative and not impulsive, firm and
not 1mpfeSSlOnable. If these general
principles are agreed to, they render
The selection of Major Mckinley impos-
slble, and l repeat that my opposition
TO MIN proceeds from the fact that I
foreSee the gravest dangers to the Re-
publican party when he has been elected
and we have settled down to the work
OF restoring to this country the prosper
ity of which it has been robbed by the
Democratic sectionalists and free trad
ers'
Mr.. Platt then adds that it is high
time for the business men of the coun
try to wake UP to what is going on in
Kinley through the Republican Conven-
tion with a whoop and hurrah, and saws
that the highest intelligence, the sound
est business Judgment, the widest ex-
perience of public affairs and the firm
est resolution that the Republican party
can command are not too great an
equipment for the leader on whose
shoulders will rest the chief responsi-
/ ~
administration of the currency uues-
tion
In conclusion he says: tThe Republi-
can party is not in favor, as Mr. McKin-
ley says he is, of the double standard: it
does not want, as he says he does, to
give equal credit and honor with gold
1t is without disguise a gold standard
| party. / submit to the business men of
this country, whose sentiments can al
ways control nomination. that they
would better do something between now
and the 10th of June on other subjects
than the silly twaddle of newspapers
about bosses and boss rule
MORTON'S POSITION.
ALBANY On. Y), May 13-The fol-
| lowing kilograms are self-explanatorv:
| New York. May 18th.
Levi P. Morton, Governor. Albany:
Will you kindly state for publication
| your views on the money uuestionp
| Whether you favor the continued usa
of silver, and if so at what ratio and
under what conditions. Please tele
graph your answer.
''R. c. ALEXANDER
Editor Mail and Express"
Albany, May 18th.
"R. c. Alexander, Editor Mail and
Express New York City: Responding
to your telegraphic inquiry of this date,
nave only to say: Our last Republi-
can State Convention declared the po-
sition of New York Republicans. in
Guiding myself on the money question.
L stand on the New York platform.
LEVI p MORTON