Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-06-15
Much Platform Agitation.


st. Louis, June 15.-To-day promises
to be one of platform agitation. The
three, cornered fight has drawn the lines
sharply. The men from the east demand
ing gold in the platform are very deter
mined.
Lodge, Platt and other opponents Of
Mckinley seem to feel that they are
placing Mckinley in the hole by insisting
that an emphatic gold declaration be
made. Their program is to force the
fight in the committee on resolutions,
and, if they can not win there, to carry il
to the convention.
Lodge, the Reed manager, is to lead the
fight for gold declaration. If it be not
granted, he and his friends and other
Reed men have a faint hope that re-
fusal to put gold in the platform will
solidify the gold vote on Reed. But the
fact that SO many Mckinley men are for
gold gives rise to the hope that the gold
men may be successful.
1t has been an effort of the friends of
Mckinley to avoid fight in the conven-
ton between the factions favoring the
single standard and against free coinage.
DRIFT TOWARD MODERATE EXPRESSION.
There has been drift toward moder-
ate expression in favor of gold and there
ls quite pressure from several states
for declaration against free coinage and
not to have the word gold used in the
platform at all.
BOSS HANNA DOMINATES.
As yet Ohio has not signified willing
ness through Hanna, to accept this. So
sure is the latter of control of The con-
ventlon that he believes he can either
allow the easterners to fix the plank or
else use his own judgment and strike it
out.
The plan at present is to have an ad-
journment of the convention after the
nomination of president is accomplished
to allow concentration of votes upon
some of the many candidates for vice.
president.
Hanna, Platt, and Manley this morning
denied that they had any conference with
each other looking toward the withdrawal
of minor candidates.
Lodge, who has drafted the gold decla-
ration and secured it's Endorsement by the
representatives of number of states, has
been pressing his plank with great deal
of persistency, and has irrltated some
who would prefer milder declaration.
Gen. Grosvenor, of Ohio, said this
morning: ave know there is great ef-
fort being made to force a certain form
of declaration. The probabilities are
that no one will know what the financial
plank will be until the committee on reso-
lutions reports. 1t may be that the fight
as to the form of the resolution will be
carried to the convention. The financial
plank will be what we want. That is all
there is to it."
ATTITUDE OF SILVER REPUBLICANS.
The silver men were disposed to aid
the ultra gold men in securing the
straightest kind of declaration, but
there is an indication that they are not
quite SO enthusiastic in that direction as
at first. Some seem anxious to make
dramatic exit from the convention hall,
but the count up to date finds number
of waverers, and the probability that
there will be representatives of all the
delegations left on the floor makes the
proposed grand stand play seem little
doubtful as to effect. There is disposi-
tion toward moderation among some of
the prominent silver men which makes the
bolt less pretentious than advertised.