Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-04-21
STATES LINING UP.
Conventions in Kansas, Penn
sylvania and Massachusetts.
CYCLONE STATE DEMOCRATS TALK.


Free and Unrestricted Coinage of Silver
and Tariff for Revenue Only Their Doc
trine, Grover Cleveland Their Mainland
Combine with the Alliance Their
POlicy-Keystone and Bay State Re
publicans EulOgize Harrison and
Blaine, but Give No Instructions-The
Louisiana Election.
SALIVA, Kan, April 2l.-The Kansas
Democratic vention yesterday. after its
committee on resolutions had spent five
hours arranging the silver plank, adopted
its report, declaring for the free bimetallic
coinage of both gold and silver, and in
structing the delegates to vote for Cleve-
land while his name remained before the
Chicago convention. The previous ques-
ton shut off all debate on the resolutions,
and Hill delegate seconded the adoption
of the report which was carried without
q dissenting vote. The tariff plank de-
clares in favor of free raw materials, and
that all tariff taxation be based upon the
true constitutional and Democratic prin-
ciple of tariff for revenue only. The
resolutions declare in favor of such legis-
trusts and combinations which in any
way tended to restrict the product OF the
mine the farm or the factoLy.
Free Coinage Plank In Full.
The money plank reads: I'VE demand
fhe free and unrestricted coinage of both
gold and silver, the money of the constitu-
ton under such conditions as will pre-
serve from time to time the parity value
of these metals as money and not as
articles of commerce. We believe that the
gold basis of currency is insufficient, and
that the welfare of the great body OF the
people requires, and we urge, that every
possible effort be made to induce the other
commercial nations of the world to agree
with us upon q common basis for bl-me-
talic coinage of both gold and silver. We
also demand the continued use of our
greenback currency and such other paper
currency, redeemable in gold or silver,
at the option of the government, as the
business needs Of the country may de-
mand."
Bound tn Vote for Cleveland.
The instructions to delegates bind them
completely, and are follows: "rhe dele
gates selected by this convention are in
structed to vote for Grover Cleveland, and
to use all honorable means to secure his
nomination in order that he may be ena-
bled to execute the policy upon which he
has united the masses of the country, and
that his patriotic course while in office may
be vindicated; that in their vote in said
convention the delegation determining
what the vote of the entire delegation shall
be shall vote as unit; that the delegates
elected shall continue to vote and work for
Grover Cleveland as long as his name shall
be before the convention
Olher Piapks-pelegates-a t-Large.
The resolutions declared for the election
of United States senator by the direct vote
of the people of the several states; con-
deInned the present pension department.
for making itself an instrument to much
favored agents and assist favorite districts
and to construct personal political ma
chimes. The convention then proceeded
with the election of delegates. The six
delegates large elected are the leaders
of the Cleveland movement in the state.
They are: Ex-Governor George w. Click;
W. c. Jones, chairman of the Democratic
central committees; Tully Scott, of Ober-
lin, executive of a land Office under Cleve-
land; Hon Thomas Fenlon, of LeaSen-
worth; K. c. Sapp, of Cherokee county,
and Thomas r. Fitch, of Wichita.
Will Work for an Alliance Combine.
The men placed in power by this con-
vention will proceed at once to organize
for the purpose of securing combination
with the Alliance in the congressional dis
tricts aud ON the state ticket The Demo
Gratis are confident of electing the Peoples
electoral ticket, and will organize Demo-
cratic clubs all over the state for the pur-
pose of showing the voters the necessity OF
voting the Peoples instead of the Demo
cratic electoral ticket. The work of the
central committee in fixing the Democratic
state nominating convention at Pittsburg,
July 6, was undone by the convention, and
resolution adopted urging the committee
TO agree upon more central location.