Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-26
Mckinley.

We are informed by the Geographic
correspondent of the New Orleans Times
| Democrat, as respects the republican sit
uation in this state, as follows:
Alabama Reedites and other anti
| McKinleyites have been beat at almost
| every turn of the wheel the past few
weeks, until they are ratified beyond
| measure, and solid Mckinley delega-
ton seems certain. Morgan, Limestone
and Walker counties on Monday went
for Vaughan for state chairman and Nc
kinley solid, while the small county of
Autauga divided between Reed and Nc
Klnley. Mckinley has carried thirty out
or thirty-four counties, with thirty-two
to act yet. Stase Chairman Moseley, the
Reed leader has been beaten for re-elec-
ton In his home county, Talladega, which
gave Vaughan and Mckinley four out of
six delegates. At Birmingham, Jefferson
county, the largest in the state, the ma
Jority of McKinleyites have appointed
Mckinley chairmen in every beat over
Moseleys earnest protest. Moseley's
paper the Birmingham Times. the Off
eial republican state organ, this week
says nothing for Reed, but prints big
picture of Mckinley. Reed men have
proposed for Vaughan and Moseley both
to come down, but Vaughan and his fell
low McKinleyites declined the PROPOSE
ton. While Reedites are much dis
turbed, it is probable they will fight to
q
highly probable"
All of this Is very interesting. 1t means
that the republicans will inscribe upon
their banners free silver" and "a protec-
tive tariff"
Mr.. Mckinley is not a goldbug, far
from it. We can judge of his attitude
from the following interesting bit of
inside history unearthed by the New
York World:
zone of the members of the advisory
republican committee of fifteen, which
in the Fifty-firSt congress were appointed
by the republican caucus to prepare
financial bill, and which did eventually
frame the bill that resulted in the Sher-
man silver purchasing act, said tonight,
" Mr.. Mckinley was a member of this
COMMITTEES of fifteen, and he was the only
one of it's members that turned traitor.
1t was composed of the eight republican
members of the committee on coinage
and weights and measureS-Conger of
Iowa, Wickham, Walker of Massachu-
sets, Carter of Montana, Comstock of
Wisconsin, Bartine of Nevada. Knapp of
New York and Taylor of Illinois. To-
gether with these, seven of the strongest
and most prominent republican leaders
| in the house, namely, Mckinley of Ohio,
| Cannon of Illinois, MeKenna of Califor-
| mia, Burrows of Michigan, Bayne of
Pennsylvania, Townsend of Colorado
| and McComas of Maryland served on
| this advisory committee.
| owe considered the subject with
great care, and on three or four occa-
| sions we agreed on the proposition that
| we should submit to the republican eau
| Gus. Each time that we made our re-
| port Mckinley, although he had sup
| ported the plan in the committee, turned
| tail in the caucus, and made motions
| and offered amendments which, in every
| case. would have tended to a greater use
of silver rather than the committee itself
| had deemed advisable.
| "'Even the out-and-out free silver
| men who were members of the advisory
| committee were willing to stand by the
| unwritten pledge to support the plan
proposed by the committee, and made no
| attempt in caucus to upset the work
| that had been done. If 1T had not been
| for McKinley's peculiar tactics it Is en-
| tirely probable that a much more con-
| sentative measure than the Sherman
| law. which was finally passed. would
have been adopted by the Fifty-first con-
| gress
| Throughout his career in congress
| Mr.. Mckinley lodged the silver question;
and he lodges 1t in the platform which
| his state has adopted as basis for his
| candidacy for the presidential nominal
| ton
! Talking of the Ohio money plank, Rep
resentative Walker of Massachusetts,
| chairman Oh the mousse committee On
banking and currency, expresses the
views of the eastern goldbug republi-
| cans thus: 1.-THE Ohio platform may be
all well enough for Ohio possibly, but no
| platform will be satisfactory to the re-
publican conventions, state or national,
that not does not declare in terms that
not another ounce of silver shall be
bought, and not another silver dollar
coined, except by international agree
ment; and, Furthermore, that every OBJ
legation of the government, principal and
interest, shall be paid in that coin in
| which every obligation held by the SEN
ators from the silver states and by the
capitalists of the silver states Is paya-
| BILE, namely-gold COIN"
How the two wings of the republicans
can reconcile their differences it is hard
to see, but they will no doubt get togeth-
er in some way. They are looking after
the spoils and will not let little plat
form stand in their way.