Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1896 — MICHIGAN REPUBLICANS. [ARTICLE]

MICHIGAN REPUBLICANS.

Indorse McKinley for President—Animated Fight Over Money. An animated fight over the money question was the most striking feature of the Michigan Republican convention at Detroit. It resulted in squelching both the gold plank offered by the majority and the silver plank submitted by tbe minority of the resolutions committee, and the substitution tnerefor of the money plank of the Minneapolis platform of 1892. McKinley was indorsed most unequivocally and the delegate: were strongly instructed in liis favor. Four delegates-at-large were elected, two of them without contests. The financial plank was as follows: We are unyielding and uncompromising In our demauds for sound and honest money. We are In favor of the use of gold and silver and paper dollars la our currency, all to be maintained at a parity as to thelr purchaslng and debt-paying power. We are opposed to any provision that will Invite depreciation of any portion of our currency, and, therefore, we are opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver by this country alone under present conditions, and we believe that such a course would destroy the parity of and contract the currency.