Show THE MOUNT PLEASANT COJTVEXTIOS I The Republicans who met at Mount Pleasant to nominate McKinley electors were placed in a sore dilemma though a very amusing one to those who were merely lookers on They nominated three McKinley electors adored a platform which in turn made the St Louis platform a part of it with the exception of the financial plank which is the specific mark of Republicanism this year just as the financial plank of the Democratic platform is its specific mark this year A more inconsistent illogical position than was taken by the Utah McKinley ites could not be conceived Place their declarations on the money question beside be-side that of the St Louis platform and see how absolutely at variance they are MT PLEASA ST LOUIS W7e endorse the We are unalter platform of the Re4 I ably 0 p pas e d to publican convention every measure cal held at 81 Louislculated to debase and make it a part our currency or im of this platform pall the credIt of with the exception our country We am of the financial therefore opposed to question Ve renew I the free coinage oC the promises whIch silver except by In have been made IterQational agree former platforms ofment with the lead the R e pub Ii can Ing commercial na part of Utah Ye tlons of the world believe in himetal which we pledge 11sm and thereby we ourselves to pro mean the use of mote and until such both gold and silver agreement can be as standard money obtained the exist and free and un Ing gold standard limited coinage of must be preserved both metals at the ratio of 16 to 1 The reason that the Mount Pleasant convention made such a declaration on the silver question is because the people peo-ple of Utah are for free silver and the convention hoped to hoodwink them as to the attitude of the Republican party on the question The convention seemed to proceed on the theory that the people of Utah did not have political politi-cal sense enough to know that the declaration of a national convention on any subject determined the party doctrine doc-trine on it The declaration of the Mount Pleasant convention on the silver sil-ver question Is not the Republican doctrine doc-trine on it The Utah McKtoleyifes have done lip service to silver but the sentiment of their hearts is for gold |