The San Francisco call., 1896-06-16
Illinois Swings the Middle Western
States Into the Yellow
Metal Line.
ADOPTION OF EASTERN FINANCIAL POLICY
CONCEDED BY THE LEADERS.
Advanced Silver Men Talk of BoIting After Their
Minority Report Is Read in the Convention
by the Committee Resolutions.

UNITED PRESS HEADQUARTER RS,
~ SOUTHERN HOTEL, ST. LOUIS, Mo-,
June 15.-Gold has carried the day. This
assertion, made through the United Press
by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge at an early
hour this afternoon, put a new phase on
the financial situation and overturned
several of the plans which bad been
formed by those who had expected a
different result Mr.. Lodge figured that
twenty-five out of the forty-hve States
now forming the Union had each selected
a member of the committee on resolutions
favorable to the gold standard, and that
two or three Western States were likely to
follow suit, thus insuring clear maiority.
The Ohio men somewhat reluctantly rec
ognized that Mr.. Lodge was speaking by
the card. George A. Robertson, editor of
the Cleveland CO., Recorder, who has made
a speciality of fashioning the views of the
Ohio leaders on this matter, saw ex-Secre-
tary Foster and asked him If he did not
know that the people all through North
ern Ohio were for silver. He replied:
1.-THE people of Ohio are Republicans and
will stand by sound Republican doctrines.
Free silver is a heresy and they do not
want it."
General G. A. Grosveror, who is re-
gsrded as almost the mouthpiece of Nc
Kinley. said: 1.-THE platform viii be all
right. There will be no occasion for the
East to complain on that score. 1t will be
discussed good deal more, but it is really
settled just the same that the declaration
will be for gold.
Even Mark Hanna could not dispute the
fact that the gold-standard plank was ia
the ascendant. 1t is somewhat singular
that Illinois, which turned the scale in
fovor of Mckinley by instructing for him
instead of for CuIlom, took leading part
In shaping the course of the Middle West
ern States day by adoptinga gold plank,
by the decisive vote of AZ to 6.
The action of the Idaho State delegation
may perhaps be significant of an intent to
bolt. 1t selected all the usual officers ap-
pointed by State delegations except some
one to wait upon the nominee for President
and ice-President. Beyond this, and the
exceedingly soft money plank adopted by
the Iowa delegation, which voted that
gold, silver and paper be kept on a parity
by the enactment of laws to accomplish it,
there were no very significant financial
features in the meetings of the State dele
cations which have occupied so much OF
the day.
In the selection of the National Com
mitteemen for next year many men of
National repute were turned down. Will
liam A. Hahn, so long a potent factor in
Ohio politics, disappears from the list, as
does also the equally well-knewn General
James S. Clarkson of Iowa, and ex-Presi-
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Indiana. Chauncey L Filley of Missouri
sustained another defeat at the hands OF
his old opponent, Mr.. Kerens, and Colonel
William Lamb, chairman of the Republi-
can State Committee of Virrinia, was COM
PEELED to retire from the National Com
mittee in favor of a gentleman holding
different views. The case of Joseph H.
Manley of Maine is still held under ad-
visement by his delegation, with an init
nation that they will probably consider
his recent offense in giving up the Reed
ship as one of tre head rather than of the
heart and will continue in his committee
membership.
To-day's proceedings seem not only to
have settled the financial plank, but also
the tariff plank of the next National Re-
publican platform. A sketch of the pro-
posed tariff revision, which it is said was
either drawn up by Major Mckinley him
self or was submitted to him for approval,
proposes an increase of duties all along
the line sufficient for the needs of the
treasury and the reimposition of protec-
tive duties on wool and sugar.
The first four paragraphs of the plat
form are devoted to a denunciation of the
Democratic policy. to which is ascribed
the commercial and industrial depression
that has prevailed during the past three
wears and laudation of the Republican
policy of protection, which had prevailed
for thirty years previously. There is a
strong recommendation for the renewal of
reciprocity agreements. There is also a
recommendation Tor the imposition of 10
per cent duty on imports in foreign bot
toms. as foreshadowed in Governor For
aker's statement published this morning.
The language of the platform is de-
scribed as forceful, alliteratlve and full of
catchy phrases, such as are calculated to
bring down the house. All the talk among
the advanced silver men tonight is of
boiling after their minority free-siver re-
port from the committee on resolutions is
voted down, as, of course, it will be.