People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — TARIFFTOBEDROPPED [ARTICLE]

TARIFFTOBEDROPPED

FINANCE THE GREAT QUESTION AT ISSUE. Plans of Gold and Silver Men Set Forth aa Learned from Current Gossip at Washington—Gold People May Non* Inate Cleveland. Washington special: Public interest here is centered on the probable action of the St. Louis convention on the currency question. Speculation on this subject is rife in every quarter. Opinions range from the adoption of a “sound money” plank to the indorsement of ultra free-silver views. The concensus of conservative opinion, however, is that the financial plank will be either the re-enactment of the Minneapolis plank of the plank adop.-. ed by the recent republican state convention in Ohio. Some prominent eastern republicans incline to the belief that the St. Louis convention will take such action on the currency question as will satisfy the “sound-money” men. Such opinions however, are Offset as already indicated by the views of the free-silver men of the west. Old political philosophers are very free in their predictions that the platform adopted at St. Louis will be too much like the Minneapolis or Ohio plank to suit either the radical gold or silver men. It is the belief of these same political philosophers, that, unless the unexpected happens, the Chicago convention will declare for free t silver. They admit tbat the convention will not b° held for some time, and the action c; the St. Louis convention in the mi s;:time may influence the result at Chicago. A gentleman pominent in the councils of the republican party, gives the following as his opinion on the subject: “I predict that' two days after the Chicago convention th% tariff question v ill be as dead as a door nail. Y. won’t hear the. subject of tarU: nr” tionccl. The currency question is the th:ng "hi-. 5 ' —'his r- mt.xy from r.r.v urtii • her election, an 1. ur*“£f! ray op:.- irns "re false, the nice question will coplinue to agitate this cciiTitrv foq»<