New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-06
PLATFORM POSSIBILITIES.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON REsO
LUTIONs TRYING TO GET TOGETHER.
FREE SILVER OF COURSE. WILL DOMINATE THEIR
UTTERANCE-DoUsT AS TO AN 1NDoRsE-
MENr OF THE WILSON LAw-rHs
ADMINISTRATION 10 BE 10
NoREp-THE INCOME
TAX MAY BE
FAVORED.

Chicago July 5.-Free-silver leaders who have been
selected by the respective delegations as members
of the Committee on Resolutions. and others who
will undoubtedly form part OF that important
organization, have to-day been comforting with
respect to the Of the platform and the subjects
that shall be mentioned therein. Only upon the
financial plank has there been any definite agree
ment As heretofore stated In these dispatches, this
plank IL to dominate the whole pla ana Gil
other matters are to be second thereto The exact
text has not been finally determined. but that Is
matter Of detail that be easily arranged when
the committee gets together. That 1t Will be Snort
clear-cut concise declaration for the free and un-
limited coinage of silver at ratio OF IL to J. is
foregone conclusion Two short sentences are all
that will be necessary 10 construct this plank
The indications are that those who have hoped the
platform would ignore other matters will be disap-
pointed Well-known men among those in controi
of Convention matters assert that the tarin Ques-
ton must not be overlooked. While there IS q
diversity Of opinion as 10 the advisability OF coming
out in q fat-footed Endorsement OF the wilson
Tariff act, that law bearing the stamp OF Democra-
cy, Will be incidentally Endorsed. at least II the
United States Senators here are permitted TO nave
their way the platform will declare that the present
tariff law should remain untouched until the OK
igences of the occasion prove that this modihc&o"s
is absolutely necessary.
Whether the income tax. which was declared 70
be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court shall be
q
great difference of opinion. The majority OF the
leaders, however. appear 70 be in favor OF recos-
MIXING the principle that became part OF the wilson
Tariff act and a determined effort Is to be made by
DELEGATES from some Of the Western and Southern
States TO secure an expression the subject II
they fail II will be because the agitation OF the SUBJ
tect Is not deemed be cxpedient and not because
the majority OF rhe party are against It. .
The Administration will not be mentioned N the
platform Some OF the more radical of the silver
men want an emphatic condemnation OF the financial
pollcy of president, Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle
inserted in the platform. but 1t Is believed that while
the ton will escape censure. the CohVeI-
ton will likewise refuse TO commend II, and that
any substitute the gold men may offer Will be voted
down by the solid free-sver vote OF the Convention
There was a great deal Of talk to-day favorable
TO a plank that smacks very largely OF what u
known IS i!ngoism In a conversation this afternoon
a delegate who has been selected as member o:
the Committee on Resolutions. and who VIII, in hii
nroha bility be its chairman, SAID the Democratic
nnartv has always been the American party and II
was oniy during the Administrations Of President
Cleveland that the Americanism OF the party has
been cast side 1t Is therefore quite likely that the
foreign policy OF the present Administration Will
Nv ndirection at least he repudated. II the pro-
oramme agreed upon by these gentlemen does not go
an,ss the sympa Thy of the Democratic party Will be
expressed for Cuba and demand made for the
recognition of its independence " Is not Impossible
mai the desire to even things up with the Admin
tstration may lead 70 the adoption OF a plank on
this subject that will be equally strong as tha'
adopted at 81. Louis