Show ALL TALKING FINANCE republican statesmen making money planks NO STRADDLE IS POSSIBLE senator believes that if the convention will rill pledge the party to strive for international Bl Bi it will hold the western republicans financial plan plank k favored by mcelavey thurston thinks it good policy to drop the west and nd hold on to the east rt et loul louir june 10 the financial question Is still uppermost in the nit minds rids of dr the politicians in III st SL louis there beloff being now scarcely any ajay possible doubt about the question of tho the nomination ot of the president and not very much be bc lne ing said as to who the mill be men are walking on financial plinks planks or saying what tile the financial plank ought to be senator Havis brough a member of the national nud committee in an interview today said ald the convention should at leat least pledge the R republican republic an party forty to labor faithfully in behalf of an all international conference on oil the money question quest llon lon with a view to securing un all agreement in behalf of a permanent anti and fettled equality between silver and field id and the nominee should he be in by ill thu convention to foice tile sold gold nations of eusope through thi trade discriminations in our commercial intercourse ter course with them to establish bibet its aa the universal rule should tho the republican party take lake hold of 0 this great question motion in ill the vigorous way it has heretofore be bellied other great questions the honest masses will support it heartily this lit in my judgment should be the central idea in framing the financial plank all the rhetorical claptrap about honest dollars and parl parity ty and iti Blied honor used in the construction of 0 former platforms should be left out livery every patriotic american believes in sustaining the untarnished honor 0 of the country and in honest dollars and millions of voters are thoroughly satisfied thet our national honor would lye be preserved and that honesty would under a just s system stem of bloc tho the fact la 14 tile the gold cold standard advocates do not want birac england does not panr nr we have bave been re in favor avor of bimetallism and leg li g In lating in favor of 0 the iii dwalsh illah gold standard until distrust and ment lave have taken the place of patience mid and toleration lit in the ho inland of the peo pie pic in Eng ingland ilind closed the mints of india to silver and we repeated repealed tho the Sli flierman erman law strange as it may appear thene two e eisenla ants took place in thirty days of each other it would I 1 ook look lery iery touch louch like collusion only we no are re tenured assured that it was done to lieb ice toro tore confidence what the people of the united states want from this convention la Is a substantial promise that the republican party will elvo them genuine financial they know the there re la 14 nothing to hope for under a policy which means meana more bond issues and perpetuates the gold cold standard leading southern dell dele rates with w horn I 1 have talked admit awer the he force of this argument but they an bacr that the democratic party parly has become the champion of silver and consequently ciu ally the republican party must take lake the other side ride of the question quest lon it if it a are given a straight gold plank next evac it will be largely th through ough tha help of delegates from slates staica that never gave a republican vote in the electoral college it the convention conven llou the mistake of approving the Ilig HEh financial syr syblein By Blein tein it ft will be anything but it cheerful campaign for our party parly our orators and party parly may turn the eagle loose and unfurl the stars and stripes when advocating catin g an american pi elective protective tariff but lit they will fail I 1 want it a unicorn and the he crosa 8 of st george when they discuss the ills financial question STRADDLE UNPOPULAR cageful analysis of tho the situation to indicate that a sti en addle on tho the financial quest question lon will not be popular A straddle raddle dt to hold the silver states tho the leaders leads rii nay bay would lose new york new jersey iera y avid and connect connecticut in case a gold TAmo crat Is in the field silver men claim no straddle the republicans could adopt would hold colorado and au such ch stales against a combine of democrats and na R republicans on a free ace silver plat tonn 0 n 11 u rit g on I 1 the he b basalt s c of J the e electoral rm collece col U leee it t 1 Is d declared I 1 r d the he ig logical I 1 cal nd candid d jd way my B n U be to condemn d e mn fr tree coinage im and rid d declare C I 1 in r is I 1 1 I t anns corvia tor for eold Via standard t vid ard |