The San Francisco call., 1896-05-14
The New York Politician
Answers the Ohioan'S
Managers.
SEES DANGER TO THE
PARTY.
Says the Attitude of the Nominee
Should Be Known in
Advance.
NEED OF CAREFUL JUDGMENT
AT ST. LOUIS.
With Victory in Sight, Republicanism
Has Now It's GrandeSt
Opportunity.

NEW YORK, n. Y, May 13.-Ex-Sena-
tor Thomas c. Platt gave out a statement
tonight in which he says:
The Mckinley managers have under
taken to break the force of my charge that
his financial record shows that he is an
unsafe leader for the Republican party at
this time by publish hing extracts from his
recent speeches. These extracts consist
OF a lot of general phrases about the neces-
sity of having a currency as good as the
best of our keeping all our dollars equal
in value and that sort of a thing. But
the Mckinley managers are away from
the point.
1.-The point is not that Mckinley has
made no remarks and cast no votes that
tend to the maintenance of good money,
but that he has made all sorts of remarks
and cast all sorts of votes, and, in word,
that he has acted in every situation not
from settled principles and convictions,
but in accordance with what he consid-
cred at the time TO be popular.
''It is believed on all sides that the man
who is placed in nomination at st. Louis
will be the next President of the United
States. The Republican delegates there
fore have an Incompatible opportunity.
ut is their supreme duty to nominate a
man whose developed character and
achieved record indicate that with his
leadership Republican policies will secure
the longest application. They should lind
their candidate who will take Office with
the confidence of the country and not
with its apprehension and distrust; who
is known to be free agent and not mort
gagged up TO his eyes with pledges that can
never be performed and expectations that
can never be satisfied; who is safe and not
cratic, conservative and not impulsive,
firm and not impressionable.
''If these general principles are agreed
to they render the selection OF Major Nc
kiniey impossible, and l repeat that my
opposition to him proceeds from the fact
that foresee the gravest dangers to the
Republican party when he has been
elected and we have settled down to the
work OF restoring to this country the pros
perity OF which 1t has been robbed by the
Democratic sectionalists and free traders" !"
Mr. Platt then adds that it is high time
for the business men of the country to
wake up to what is going on in the effort
TO rush the nomination of Mckinley
through the Republican convention with a
whoop and hurrah, and says that the
highest intelligence, the soundest business
judgment, the widest experience of pub
lie affairs and the firmest resolution that
the Republican party can command are
not too great an equipment for the leader
on whose shoulders viii rest the chief re-
sponsibility for the settlement under the
next administration of the currency oues-
ton. In conclusion he says:
The Republican party is not in favor, as
Mr.. Mckinley says he is, ,of the double
standard; it does not want, as he says he
does, to give equal credit and honor with
gold. 1t is without disguise eold-stand-
ard party.
"f submit to the business men of this
country, whose sentiments can always
control nominating convention, that
they would better do something between
now and the 10Th of June on other subjects
than the silly twaddle of newspapers bout
bosses and boss rule"