People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — Two Conventions in Alabama. [ARTICLE]

Two Conventions in Alabama.

Montgomery, Ala., April 29.—The McKinley and anti-McKinley delegatee to the republican state convention here Tuesday declined to meet together, and two conventions were held. The anti-McKinley convention adopted a platform containing but one plank—a demand for fair and honest elections. The delegates-at-large stand one each for Reed, Quay, Allison, and Morton. The McKinley republicans adopted a platform which opposes 16 to 1 coinage and condemns Cleveland’s administration and the bond issues. It favors the building of the Nicaragua canal, to be controlled by this government. The populist platform will declare for free coinage at 16 to 1 and for fair election's.