The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-16
5DDEs SkbIl{NTIAL (AnNpAIGNS

escape. mckinley vas IN nns neiai III a.eultet.
usually because he was a NAN Of no fortune
with great public position maintain, Haana SCI
Nim of them.
systematic canvass country alxo
auctcd by Hanna. with eye 'I,ractieal mar"
he secured the nation aad sferefer aere was con-
aention committee delegation TO be influence.
Hanna Influenced IL w-it! more regarI re4u ha
methods,
quite natural It that Hanna should ht a,46s
chairman the Republican national committee
Secretary he was furnished with Witlrafa NJ osber:
charles f. t,ick, afterward senator froT1 onto.
t1osen tina, it was Bncbeye OUTFIT from start TO
only sembiancc Ct a contest in the cor ventioa
was over the money plans, To tie day of his death
The late senator Thomas Collier Fiat New York,
main tanned thai Hanna came TO 81, Louis wtta FRA
determination ~straddef the freeslver .ssHe Iust
AS determined senator Piast to ioree through
.,xound money" pl~Nk Aftcrward Senator Hanna
asserted that he had simply meant TO be particuls
aver wording Of the resolution. but McKiney
hifnsele had leanings toward free silver when
eress and senator Plstts given in us
autobiography, Is rather erc un,stantial
ut was In 1925 that scored what regard tins
s4ea.ext- achievement ct political earasi -sEeAs
senator Platt. That the insertion OF the goin
plank In tho St Louis platform, Mark A.
llanna who had assumed charge OF the eAnpaisn
- .,,f,ate oh,sc, was =, name and elect
successor restert ttevstHt,
through the country two years IN advance OF fht
national pledgins his choice to gold In goii
states silver in silver states. In Wyoming. for
instance delegates TO st Louis instructed
support Mckinley and all honorable means TO
secure the adoption OF platform declaring for free
SILVER"
whether or rot senator Platt ovcrvalued his
efforts tae New York delegation undoubtedly
Instrumental In forcing much stronger gold plaah
imam contemplated, the currency rtsolutiUH
declaring that;
The Republican parts is unreservediy for sound
IT caused the enactment Of the Law providing FOR
the assumption Of specie payments In 1878. Since hsa
every dollar has been good gold. Te unsi-
eraby opposed TO every measure calculated to dshass
our currency impair tho credit OF country We
are therefore. opposed free coinage OF slv&t.
except, by international agreement with the leadir-
nations the world, witch pledge ourselves
and until such agreement be obtained
The existing gold standard lie preserved WtA
moro 10 the same effect.
riatt and most Of New XarS delegation zv~ee .A
of Norton of New York for president. hut he
eas never more than foriorn hope The convention
MeEStnley's before II met. The aop IA
nomination OF Hobart fer president
Taese events produced similar ~
enacted Chicago senator Henry u. Teller. COL
arsdo. silver state" with thirty-th delegates
from the far west, marched maJsstleaty oat q. 4.
convention hall
To ali practical purposes. the old party haes s.
aeaaed exist 1t well tina, Pre@a.
Cleveland radically against that section of
party that favored free silver. The Dcnoer
with him.
on the other hand Senator PETER. of Kansas :hs
father Of the Pcpulist movement; Senator Teller
many Of the far western Rrpubicans for 80
principles advocated bryan The Silver party cen
venton. held at s. Louis July 20. with Frank u
Newlands, OF Nevada temporary ehairasaH a44,
William St John York, as he psrraa2z.,,3
presiding officer. indorsed the Chicago nominees
The PopuItsts haiked SewaiI the ard
builder. who really represented everything thai 1e "a
opposed, and for vice president put UP Tom Watasn
Georgia.
A sensational campaign could scare b ba
imagined than that wheh followed BFsaa.s
ton. The whole country curious o young
who. single handed could stampede a nauulal
convention Certainly his GIT o oratory rnuEI
great, and he just certainly inclineo %
avoid showing 1t off.