The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-20

of the committee Were in Favor OF
Crushing it as Much as PossibIe-Inti-
mates That Mckinley Must Go Back on
silver or He Can Not be the Nominee
Walkers Talk.
New York, March ia special to the
World from Washington says: The
views of William Mckinley on the fl
nancial question as presented in the
World today, were read with much in
terest here, but proved very disappoint-
ing. Neither gold nor silver men here
could find fish, flesh or fowl in the Ohio
candidates opinions, men of both par
ties declaring that Mckinley was en-
deavoring TO straddle the question now,
as he did through his entire service in
congress.
Joseph H Walker of Massachusetts,
who is the chairman of the committee
on banking and currency in the pres
ent house, said tonight:
THE Ohio platform and what Cover
nor Mckinley says in the World this
morning are all well enough for Ohio
possibly, but no platform will be salts
state or national, that does not declare
in terms that not another ounce of sill
yer shall be bought, and not another
silver dollar coined, except by interna-
tlonal agreement, and Furthermore,
that every obligation of the govern
ment, principal and interest, shall be
paid in that coin in which every obli-
CATION held by the senators from the
silver states and by the capitalists of
the silver state is payable, namely, gold
coin.
The people of the rest of the country
are tired Of representatives trying to
force free silver coinage on them, when
congress has no more power 10 touch
their own states, which are gold states,
than it has to touch England, which is
a gold country"
One of the members of the advisory
Republican committee Of Fifteen, which
in the Forty-first congress were ap-
pointed by the Republican caucus to
prepare a financial bill, and which did
eventually frame the bill that resulted
in the Sherman silver purchasing act,
said tonight:
'iMr. Mckinley was a member Of this
committee of fifteen, and he was the
only one Of its 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
Massachusetts, Carter of Montana
Comsbock of Wisconsin, Bartine Of
Nevada, Knapp of New York, and Tay-
lor of Illinois. Together with these,
seven Of the strongest and most promi-
nent Republican leaders in the house,
ramely, Mckinley OF Ohio. Cannon of
Illinois, McKenna of California, Bur-
rows of Michigan, Bayne Of Pennsyl-
vania, Townsend of Colorado, and Nc
Comas of Maryland, served on this ad-
visory committee.
I'VE 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
caucus. Each time that we made our
report Mckinley, although he had sup
ported the plan in the committee. turn
ed tail in the caucus and made motions
and offered amendments which in every
case would have tended to greater
use of silver than the committee Itself
had deemed advisable.
Even the out-and-out free silver men
who were members oS<he advisory COM
mittee were willing to stand by the I'M
written pledge to support the plans pro-
posed by the committee, and made no
attempt in caucus to upset the work
that had been done. If it had not been
for McKinley's peculiar tactics it is en-
tirely probable that a much more con-
sentative meaure than the Sheman law,
which was finally passed, would have
been adopted by the Fifty-iirst con-
gress.
Throughout his carer in congress
Mr.. Mckinley lodged the silver ques-
tios. He lodges IT in his interview in
the World this morning and in the plat
form, which his state has adopted as a
basis for the candidacy for the presi-
Dental nomination