People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — WANT GOV. MORTON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WANT GOV. MORTON.

NEW YORK REPUBLICANS SO INBTRUCT. Senator Davit Withdraw. Ilia Nam* and Minnesota Republican. Declare for McKinley—Result, of Other Conveatlons Held Tuesday. New York, March 25. —The republican state convention on Tuesday Indorsed Levi P. Morton for president The delegates-at-large will be Thomas C. Platt of Tioga, Warner Miller of Herkimer, Chauncey M. Depew of New York, and Edward Lauterback. The electors-at-large will be Gen. Benjamin F. Tracy of New York and Edward H. Butler of Buffalo. The McKinley men showed their hand In a motion to have Jewett and Thomas substituted for Platt and Lauterback as delegates to St. Louis. They were defeated by a vote of 631 to 109. The platform declares their firm and unyielding adherence to the doctrine of

protection to American industries, protection to the products of the American farm, and protection to American labor, and In favor of a reciprocity with other nations which shall give our producers and manufacturers an opportunity to dispose of their surplus products and to obtain articles we need from those countries on the most advantageous terms. The financial plank is as follows: “We recognize in the movement for the free coinage of silver an attempt to degrade the long-established standard of our monetary system, and hence a blow to public and private credit at once costly to the national government and harmful to our foreign and domestic commerce. “Until there is a prospect of international agreement as to silver coinage, and while gold remains the standard of the United States and of the civilized world, the republican party of New York declares itself in favor of the firm and honorable maintenance of that standard.” Gov. Morton’s name was presented with the words: “We present Gov. Levi Parsons Morton as New York’s republican candidate for president. His long and honorable public service, his spotless character, his great executive .ability, his devotion to his party and Its principles eminently fit him for the presidency and entitle him to our hearty and enthusiastic support. Therefore we instruct our delegates to the St. Louis convention to present him as our candidate for president, and urge upon them to use every honorable means to secure his nomination.” Thomas Fitchie of Kings presented a resolution, “That if it appears after the first ballot that the Hon. Levi P. Morton cannot be the choice of the national convention, the delegates-at-large from this state will use all honorable means to promote the cause of William McKinley.” Then pandemonium reigned, one-half of the audience rising and shouting for McKinley as the name was read. The chairman’s gavel was raised again and again, but without effect. When quiet was restored, the chairman put the Kings county man’s amendment and the roll call was begun. The chair announced the vote of 631 against and 109 for the amendment, and then there was wild cheering.

SENATOR DAVIS WITHDRAWS. McKinley the Choice of Minnesota Republicans. Minneapolis, Minn., March 25.—Just before the state republican convention was called to order Tuesday it was announced that Senator Davis had wired Congressman Tawney withdrawing from the presidential race. This action was due to the refusal of three of the five Minnesota conventions on Monday to indorse his candidacy. It was nearly 1 o’clock before the convention was called to order by Chairman Bixby, and when Congressman lames A. Tawney arose before anything else was done and read Senator Davis’ telegram of withdrawal there was unbounded excitement. It cleared the atmosphere wonderfully and gave free headway for the resolution naming Wiliam McKinley as the choice of the republicans of Minnesota as the candidate for president, which was adopted by a rising vote.

Following is the financial plank reported to the convention by the resolutions committee and adopted: “Resolved, That we favor the use of both gold and silver to the extent to which they can be maintained in circulation at a parity in purchasing and debt-pay-ing power; that we are earnestly -opposed, under the present conditions, to the free and unlimited coinage of silver, for the manifest reason that it would destroy such parity, enormously contract the volume of our currency by forcing gold out of circulation and im-, mediately place us or a silver' basis.

Believing, also, that It la a aelf-evldent fact that the effect of the international demonetization of silver can be overcome only by the International remonetization of that metal, the republican party‘of Minnesota most heartily favors an international conference for that purpose.”

LEVI P. MORTON.