The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-12
THE RESULT

has been as antlclDdIeu anu pldsLA IiAr>
have been coming in by letter and by
telegraph from every part Of the
country The Mckinley managers have
not only been able to obtain forms for
financial planks, but they have been
able to secure the. views Of men al
over the country whose opinions are
worth having. The more the matter
is considered, the more probable it APP
pears that the national platform Will
conform very closely to that of the In
diana, convent ton, with oil reference
to a ratio stricken out. The Indiana
platform declares against the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver at ratio
of is to l." 1t Isl proposed to cut off
the sentence quoted and end with
straight declaration against free coin
age. II is also said by the gold men
if the declaration is against free coin
age Fat a ratio of 16 to I" it will give
opportunity to say there is 10 declara-
ton against l555 to or 1879 to /, Or
in the platform. The insistence ia
strong that there shall be no chance
to declare
THE PLATFORM IS A CATCH,
or that it means anything more than
what it says, on that it can be conStl-u-
ed in one part of the country as for
YER It is quite apparent there is no
determination to make the platform
for the single gold standard, but there
is desire TO avoid a declaration en-
phatic in these words, as it is believed
1t would be offensive to some sections
OF the country, and particularly to sew
eral states i'm the Mississippi valley.
All expectancy of forming a financial
plank which will be satisfactory to
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reproducing states has been long
abandoned. Silver men so prom ounced
as these have also abandoned any
idea, If they ever had one, that
A STRADDLE OF ANY KIND
could be formed which they could con-
| strue for any possible use of silver
as against a straight 16 to l declara-
ton of the Democratic convention.
Other features of the platform are
under discussion, especially the tariff
plank. While declaring for the Ameri-
can system of protection, it is quite
probable the Ohio platform will be
closely followed. At least that has
been the talk among the Mckinley
leaders whenever the tariff plank has
been mentioned. The deficiency in
revenue will be declared Attributable to
the Inefficient tariff and, it is said, the
oillltstiAlSS, utCS-SSl ldt1US lT6
issue of bonds, viii be declared due tc
| the failure of the Democratic party to
provide sufficient revenue TO meet the
cllrreut expenses OF the government
1t is also expected the platform on this
subject will review at some length the
CONDITIONS OF THE COUNTRY
and the depression, the financial dis
tulbances and everything of that char
acter viii be attributed to Democratic
control Of the country.
1t is understood to be a part of the
programme to have the leaders Of this
various delegations confer and agree
upon q platform SO As the committees
on resolutions may be selected, which
will report a PLATFORM that will moi
precipitate fight an the floor of the
convention between those who
favor and those who oppose an
arlai-silver declaration. A fight from
the silver men cannot apparently vel
be avoided. The other portions of the
platform will largely follow past declar.
atoms of the party. The main inter.
eet centefs upon the currency plank
and next N order of Importance is the
tariff. and these are the only themes
that have thus far been discussed.