Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-06-18
Third Day OF the Convention.

The day began when minister, DR..
John r. Scott, of Jacksonville, Fla, the
second colored pastor who has conducted
the devotional prelude, took the platform.
Although DR.. Scott's voice was strong, so
great was the confusion that it could be
told only from the movements m of the min
ister's lips that he was praying.
Chairman Thurston plunged into busi-
ness by announcing that the first thing
on the program was the report of the
committee on resolutions, and called for
Senator-elect Joseph B. Foraker, OF Ohio.
Foraker crowded to the front and
climbed the steps to the stage, while the
crowd sent up shrill yell. There was
no opportunity, in reading the platform,
for the fiery oratory with which the Ohio
man has often stirred the conventions of
the past.
THE PLATFORM OF THE MAJORITY.
The platform as presented by the ma
jority of the committe is the same as
sent out by the Associated Press on Tues
day night. The plank regarding wool fol-
lows: "To all our products, to those OF
the mine and field as well as to those OF
the shop and the factory, to hemp, to
wool, the product of the great industry
of sheep husbandry, as we'll as to the fin
ished woolens of the mill, we promise the
most ample protection"
The money plank follows: "The Re-
publican party is unreservedly for sound
money. 1t caused the enactment of the
law providing for the resumption of
specie payments in 1879. Since then
every dollar has been as good as gold.
We are unalterably opposed to every
measure calculated to debase our currency
or impair the credit of our country"
eve are, therefore, opposed to the free
coinage of silver, except by international
agree ment with the leading commercial
nations of the world, which we pledge
ourselves to promote, and, until such an
agreement can be obtained, the existing
gold standard must be preserved. All
our silver and paper currency must De
maintained at parity with gold, and we
favor all measures designed to maintain
inviolably the obligations of the United
States and all our money, whether coin or
paper, at the present standard of the
most enlightened nations of the EARTH"
ROAR FOR PROTECTION.
A roar came when the pledge to restore
protection IN the interest of American
labor and American industry was read
The reference to the restoration of the
policy of reciprocity, as twin-brotheI
of protection, also came in for round
of applause. The proposed protection
to the sugar industry aroused the Louis
ana delegation to cheers. The merchant
marine plank brought the Maine, Mary.
land and Massachusetts, delegations to
their feet with three cheers.
The first sentence of the plank, pledg'
ing the party to sound money, started
great uproar among the delegates, but the
galleries did not participate until the "un-
alterable opposition" to the free coinage
of silver clause was read. Then the dele
gates, led by Senator Lodge and Col. W
A. stone, of Pennsylvania, rose en- masse
Fans, canes and hats waived wildly unit
the pit looked like hurricane tossed
sea and the galleries roared their ap
proval.
For two minutes the tumult continued
The mention of the "gold Standard
while received enthusiastically by tn
Maine, Massachusetts,, Connecticut ant
New York delegates, did not arouse sucl
great enthusiasm.