Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-16
GOLD, GOLD, HARD ANDCOLD Hanna Comedies That It Is in the
 Ascendant. THE LAB0RS OF MIR. LODGE Have Turned the Tide Which Is Running Like
 Mill Race. WILL THE MAJOR SWALLOW HIS MEDICINE The Platform Will Abound in Catchy Characterization, EFlley and Hahn Are Among the Dead, and Man.
 ley Is Not Well Himself.
WILL THE MAJOR SWALLOW HIS MEDICINE

St. Louis, June 15.-"Gold has carried the day" This assertion, made by Sena- tor Henry Cabot Lodge this afternoon. put new phase on the financial situa- ton and overturned several of the plans which had been formed by those who ex- pected a different result. Mr. Lodge fig ures that twenty-two out of the forty five states now forming the union had each selected a member of the committee on resolutions favorable to the gold standard and that two or three western states were likely to follow suit thus securing a clear majority.
 The Ohio men somewhat reluctantly recognized that MT. Lodge was speaking by the card. MT. George A. Robertson, editor of the Cleveland (O) Recorder, who has made a specially of fashioning the views of the Ohio leaders in this matter, saw Ex-Secretary Foster and asked him if he did not know that the people of Ohio were for silver. He re- piled: "The people of Ohio are repub- licans and they will stand by sound republican doctrines. Free silver Is heresy and they do not want it.
 General Grosvenor, who is regarded almost as the mouthpiece of Mckinley, said: "The platform will be all right There will be no occasion for the east to complain on that score. It will be dis cussed a good deal more. but 1t is really settled just the same that the declara- tion will be for gold"
 And even MT. Mark Hanna could not dispute the fact that the gold standard plank was in the ascendant It is some what singular that Illinois, which turned SN1In favor nf nIy in1 Inv in structing for him instead of for CuHom took a leading part in shaping the course of the middle western states today by adopting gold plank by the decisive vote of 42 to G.
 The action of the Idaho state delega- tion may perhaps be significant of an intent to bolt. It selected all of the usual officers appointed by the state delega- tions except some one to wait upon the nominee for president and the nominee for vice president. Beyond this and the exceedingly soft money plank adopted by the Iowa delegation, who favored gold. silver and paper" kept on a par ity by the enactment of laws to accom- plsh it. there were no very significant financial features in the meetings of the state delegations which have occupied so much of the day.
 In the selection of national committee men for next year many men of national repute were turned down. William II. Hahn, so long potent factor in Ohio pol itics, disappears from the list, as does also the equally well known Gen. James s. Clarkson of Iowa and Ex-President Harrisons friend, J. N. Huston of h. diana. MT. Chauncey l. Filley of Mis- souri sustained another defeat at the hands of his old opponent, R. c. Kerens, and Col. William Lamb, chairman of the republican state committee of Virginia and leader of the Reed forces of that state. was compelled to retire from the national committee in favor of a gentle man holding different views. The case of MT. Joseph H. Manley is still held un- der advisement by his delegation, with an intimation that they will probably con slider his recent offense in giving up the Reed ship as one of the head rather than of the heart and will keep him in his committee membership.
 Today's proceedings seem not only to have settled the financial plank of the next republican platform, but the tariff plank as well. A sketch of the proposed tariff plank, which, it is said was either drawn up by Major Mckinley himself or was submitted to him for approval. pro- poses an increase of duties all along the line sufficient for the needs of the treas ury and the reimposition of protective duties on wool and sugar.
 The first four paragraphs of the plat form are devoted to a denunciation of the democratic policy. to which is ascrib- ed the commercial and industrial depres- sion that has prevailed during the past three years, and a laudation of the repub- lcan policy of protection which had pre- vailed for thirty years previous. There is also a recommendation for the imposi- ton of a 10 per cent duty on imports in foreign bottoms, as foreshadwowed in Governor Forakers statement published this morning. The language of the plat form is described as forceful alliterative and full of catchy phrases, such as are calculated to "bring down the house."
 All the talk among the advanced silver men tonight is of bolting after their mi nority free silver report from the com mittee on resolutions is voted down, as of course it will be.