Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-06-24

placed before tbs COnVention Iol
Vice President
Hobart was nominated on Grst bal
lot. The entire Pennsylvania dele
cation voted for him.
The Convention was as harmon
ious as q Convention Of that number
of delegates can well be on all points
till the gold and silver resolution il
the platform was reached. At Iha!
point the silver men = the double
standard men-offered to amend the
gold plank SO as to include silver
money as standard money, but the
amendment WAS voted down on vote
of 812I for the platform resolutions
1104 votes against the platform reso
luton.
Upon the announcement of the
vote, number of the silver men
withdrew from the Convention. The
silver delegates who withdrew from
the Convention are: Frank j. Can
non of Utah; r r. Pettigrew OF
South Dakota: Henry Teller of Col
orado; F. T. Dubois Of Idaho and
other less prominent men. When
the silver men were leaving the Con
vention, the Convention sang the red.
white and blue. Everybody sang,
and the voices of twelve thousand peo
pie in the building drowned out the
music of brass bands, and for once
the bands were silenced by super.
ior noise.
The money plank in the Republi.
can platform reads
"The Republican party is unre-
servedly for sound money. It caus-
ed the enactment of the law provid
ing for the resumption OF specie pay
ments in 1879; since then every dol
lar has been as good as gold.
We are unalterably opposad to ev
cry measure calculated to debase our
currency or impair the credit of our
country. We are therefore opposed
to the free coinage of silver, except
by international agreement with the
leading commercial nations Of the
world, which we pledge ourselves to
promote, and until such agreement
can be obtained the existing gold
standard n,ust be preserved. All our
silver and paper currency muat be
maintained at parity with gold, and
we favor all measures designed to
maintain inviolable the obligations
of all or money, whether coin or pa
per, at the present standard of the
most enlightened nations OF the
earth.
This is what the silver men offered
as an emerdmentt to the money plank.
"We the undersigned members of
the Committee on Resolutions, being
unable to agree with that portion Of
the majority report, which treats Of
The subjects OF coinage and finance,
respectfully submit the following
paragraph as substitute therefor
The Republican party favors the use
of both gold and silver as equal
standard money, and pledges its pow
81 to secure the free unrestricted and
Independent coinage Of gold and sill
yer at United States mints, at the re-
ito Of l6 parts of silver to OF gold.
THE CANDIDATES
Major VIM. Mckinley, was born
January 9th, 1S43, at Niles, Trum-
bull county, Ohio. His parents We're
poor. He was q good boy. The
slave holders war broke out when he
was about II years old. He enlisted
as private, served ell through the
war and was mustered out as major
At the close of the war ho studied
and was admitted to the bar in 1867,
taking up his residence at Canton,
bis present bone. He entered poll
tics, was sent in 1876 to congress,
and returned in 1878 and 1880. In
1882 he was again re elected; but con-
gress being democratic he was kept
out of his seat. In 1884 he was le-
turned to congress, where he remain
ed until 1890, when, by democratic
''gerrymander," his district was made
up of Stark, Wayne, Medina and
Holmes, which lad given Campbell
for governor the year before 1900
majority. Major Mckinley however
accepted the republican nomination
and made one of the most remarkable
congressional campaigns in American
history. He reduced the formerly
overwhelming democratic majority
to 3O3, receiving $500 more votes
than had been received by Harrison
for president in 1883 in the same dis
trict. He was defeated, however, on
March 4, 1891, after a service of more
than twelve years, almost continuous.
In the summer of 1889 Major Nc
Kinley had announced himself as
candidate fer the speakership, aud
made the next best showing to
Thomas B. Reed in the house repub-
lican caucus, receiving thirty-nine
votes on the first ballot and thirty
six on the second, when Reed re-
ceived eighty-six votes, three more
than were necessary. Speaker Reed
without hesitation named Major Nc
Kinley as chairman of the committee
on ways and mssns, and thus gave
him the opportunity of his lifetime.
He early took an interest in tariff
Legislation and became protection
advocate. gradually gaining promi-
nence, until as chairman of the COM
mittee on resolutions OF the national