Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 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 iu squelching both the gold plank offered by the majority and the silver plank submitted by the minority of the resolutions committee, and the substitution tnerefor of the money plank of the Minneapolis platform of 1892. McKinley was.indorsetl most unequivocally and the delegate; were strongly instructed in his favor. Four delegates-at-large were elected, two of them without contests. The financial plauk was as follows: We are unyielding and uncompromising in our demands for sound and honest money. We are in favor of the use of gold and sliver and paper dollars in our currency, all to be maintained at n parity as to their purchasing and debt-paying power. We are opposed to provision that will invite-depreolatlon of any portion of our currency, and, therefor®, we are opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver by this country alone trader present conditions, and we believe that such a course would destroy the parity of and contract the currency.