Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-10
MAKING UP THE ROLL
Big Task Before the Republican
National Committee.
M'KIKLEY PEOPLE CLAIM THE CONTROL
"Magnanimity"WiII Be the Watch,
word.
WILL BE NO GRAB GAME
Special From a Stafr Correspondent.

| Special From Stafr Correspondent
| ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June IO-rne making
| up Of the temporary roll of the repubican
| national convention by the national COM
! mittee Is the matter Of immediate inter
| est at st. Louis today. The settlement of
| contests between rival delegations is eX-
| pected to occupy the national committee
| until the close of this week, and their work
| may not be fully completed until the day
| before the assembling of the convention.
! Apparently there does not so much depend
! upon these contests as 1t was at first sup.
| posed These contests were the chief re-
| lance of the anti-Mc Kinley men.
Mckinley's nomination now being conced-
| ed, the contests are deprived of this sig
nificance. All the contests cannot be de-
| cided against the Ohio champion, and If
| they were it would probably not change
| the result since the tide has set in with
| a sweep in his direction. The contests are
| interesting, therefore, chiefly 90 the dele
| gates interested, or inasmuch as the vote
| on the platform may be involv ii. The Nc
| kinley people claim that at least two thirds
| of the present national committee are
| friendly to the Ohio candidate, and that if
| they were disposed to carry things with
| Kinley contestants.
Efforts for Harmony.
There other considerations, however,
| besides piling up Mckinley votes in the
convention. Harmony is the thing most
desired now. Several things threaten to dis
turb this, without any unnecessary cause
| of friction. 1t is expected, therefore, that
| effort will be made to come TO as fair
a conclusion in each case as pOSSible The.
password is Mckinley, magnanimity."
With this it is hoped to overcome the
| enemy and put excessive hostility to
shame. The idea is to settle all the most
obvious cases one way or the other, as the
case may be without prejudice, and
where both parties to a contest appear TO
have good grounds for their claims to di-
vide the vote between them on the tenn
porary roll admitting both delegations, each
with half vote.
The great number of contests, and the
fact that both sides will insist upon full
hearing, no matter what the merits OF their
| case may be, will render it extremely
tedious to dispose of them. j. P. M
THE MONEY PLANK.
Efforts to COnciIiate the Silver Dele
gates.
Special From stan Correspondent.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 10.-The efforts of
the anti-Mckinley people will be to gain
many votes for the gold standard
plank iii the platform as possible. 1t is
complicated and many-sided fight they
have or hand The extreme anti-McKinley
men while conceding either openly or pri
yately that Mckinley will be nominated,
appear to be still bent upon embarrassing
Kim as much as pc ssible. 1t is certain that
Mckinley wants 10 avoid a declaration for
the single gold standard. He does not
want the expression gold Standard 10
occur in the platform. This is made mani
fest by what is being done by his represen-
tative friends as part Of their well-ar-
ranged program At the same time it is
conceded that many men who sup
porters of Mckinley are in favor of
very frank declaration for gold. 1t is on
this that the eastern managers are de-
pending for a victory On the platform.
The contest is merely over the form Of
expression, but it will require a great deal
of skill to prevent Mckinley being put in
the light of opposing sound money" If
his ieute nants Insist on phrases that will
rot Offend" Practically all the men who
are not friendly to Mckinley are expected
to insist upon a single gold plank. They
number Of the advocates Of McKinley's
nomination who, as matter Of principle,
believe that there should be nothing
equivocal or doubtful in the dac!ara ton on
the money question. They know, too, that
they can rely upon the extreme silver men
to opp 4 straddle.
This gives the single standard men hope
Of getting the platform to suit them,
though they cannot control the nomination.
| On the other hand, there is large element
of the silver men who intending to sur
render to the will of the majority, insls,
that the way should be made as easy for
them as possible
These men, declining the leadership of
Teller and Dubois, will vote for a straddle
platform, after having made a formal effort
to secure a declara ton for free silver.
These men will be led by Hansbroush and
Shoup, neither Of whom is a delegate but
who are now on hand here to work 1t is
| said that Pettigrew, who is delegate, will
be another of the leaders who, failing to Sc
cure silver plank, will insist on phrases
that will not offend.' Both Hansbrough
and Shoup are supporting Mckinley.
The Platform Will Mean "GoId."
There is no thought even among the men
from the silver states that the platform,
however covered, will mean anything but
gold standard, but the silver men, who in
| tend to accept Sound money" platform
want the language to be as inoffensve as
possible. The Idaho. the Colorado, the
Montana, the Utah and the Nevada dele
cations are the only silver delegates who
are expected to insist upon frank up-and-
down declaration one way or the other.
| The rest of the delegates of that faith are
| expected to vote for "sugar-ccated''
| sound, sound money plank.
Other silver men besides Hansbrough
| have conferred with Mckinley and q num-
| ber of letters have been written TO him,
| and a thorough understanding has been
reached. If Mckinley has not been frank
and free-spoken to the eastern gold men,
| he has at least been so with some of the
| silver men. He has let them know plainly
| that he is Sound money man, opposed
| to the free coinage OF silver, AMI that all
| he is willing to concede is that the declara-
| ton for sound money shall be couchcd in
descriptive rather than direct, decIaratory
| phrases. In other words. he wants Plat
| form that will mean gold standard, but will
not name it.
The silver men. except those from the
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