People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — M’KINLEY’S ON SILVER. [ARTICLE]

M’KINLEY’S ON SILVER.

rhu Declaration Wa* Printed Lust Spring and Denied. Chicago, Ill.— The Time z-t lev:.’'prints tiiis conclusive statemen. as o .Major McKinley’s position on free r, inage: ‘‘A year ago in Thcmasvirre C-r, Major McKinley, when offered the clegates of the three Southern states if ho would declare for free silver, said ir. the presence of the editor of this journal: “ ‘lf the Republican platform decir-rr; for free coinage. I will not be a cat didate. I would not run on a free-co n:g. platform.’ ” The editor of the Times-Herald, it will be remembered, is H. H. Kohlsaat, one of Mr. McKinley’s most intimate friends, and who, next to Mark Hanna, is generally understood to be most competent to speak for the Cilia statesman.