The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-08-10

Obliged to stand cut from your own
parties and stand up for American
home as against British home. do
not come fere to talk politics, but !
want to saw that as far as the Populist
party is represented in the senate II
will not be found wanting. Applausel
We NAV not understand parliamentary
maneonvreing as well as some, but
tell YOU we will be in sight of the boz
all the time. Laughter. Our party
is pledged for all time for free coinage
of silver at the ratio of l6 to l. Cheers
Hon. G. S. Thomas, q prominent
Colorado attorney, followed in an adj
dress. Thomas said the adversarles Of
white metal objected to free coinage
because silver mines in other countries
would flow into the United States
But, he added, it shows that if free
coinage is adopted it will make silver
worth 81 80, and it will stay at that.
He quoted several well known author
tiles on financial questions, among
them Baron Rothschild and John
Sherman. The latter IS quoted
from the congressional record OF March
6. 1876, as follows: 1t should be re-
ceived as fundamental fact so as to
guide the statesmen of this country
that the reverse OF what suits England
always suits US, and as an exclusive
gold standard undoubtedly suits her,
double standard suits us.
AT this point recess was taken un
til 2 p. III.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The first speaker of the afternoon
session was John B. Lemon of New
York, representing the executive
council, of the American Federation OF
Labor. He read a telegram which
authorized him to attend the conven-
ton and express the sentiments OF the
American Federation of Labor upon
the silver question. The Federation
people, he said, are silver men because
they are union men. The same senti-
ment for free coinage does not prevail
among unorganized labor.
Judge G. Z. Goodwin of Salt Lake
City made half hour speech which
was loudly applauded. Judge Good
win was called out of the crowd and
his speech was such a mixture OF hu-
NOR and seriousness that it was de-
cided relief to the convention. He
referred to the hall where the conven-
ton was called yesterday, how on one
side of the pulpit were the words in
gold: Glory Be to God on High, and
on the other the words, And on Earth
Peace, to Man Good Will.
He said he was thinking as he read
how an event so momentuS that the
heavens opened and the noises of the
glorifed ones thrilled the earth, and
how 30 years later the money
changers in the temple, assisted
by those who stood over
in the corner and thanked God that
they were not like the men of the
West, crucifed that being, the birth o
whom had thrilled the universe. Just
then some one handed him a Chicago
daily paper, and when he had glanced
over it he felt like repeating the
words which came down from the
cross: Father forgive them for they
know not what they do" He said the
West was Frustrated, property values
had been destroyed over a third area
of this republic, but that Western
men did not come here asking any ia
vors. They asked merely for recogni-
ton of something which repre-
5ented labor imMortalized and
which had served as al
perfect measure of values through the
ebb and flow of 1000 years and while
100 generations Ct men had lived and
died? That they asked for restoration
Of that money on which had been
placed the fiat of omnipotence, that
the two metals which were long ago
because they contained the exact prop.
critics necessary for money; lustre, NAL.
indestructibility and scarcity
necessary to make them such measures
Of values, might be recognized as
such by the nation. That in
the plea they put they
were asking for as much
more for the last as for
the West, as the products of the East
exceed the value of the products of
the West in valne. He besought
everyone present become a missionary
in the cause to work with the people
for appeal to congressman and appeal
to the president for justice for silver
He pointed out that by new motives
and labor saving machinery the work
ing forces of the world so far have
doubled within fifty years. He noted
how many workingmen were
idle abroad the country that
unless the treasures of the west were
utilize to open new fields, where men
who wanted work, that. they might
feed and clothe and educate their
could obtain employment,
there was no certainty that our insti-
buttons could endure the strain soon to
be put on them.
The speech electrified the conven-
ton.
The report of the committee on
resolutions WAS then read to the con-
vention by Ignatius Donnelly, inter
rupted by frequent applause.
The committee reported the follow
ing, which was unanimously adopted:
THE PLATFORM.
Whereas, Bi-metalism is as ancient
as human history, for certain it is that
for more than 5000 years gold and
silver have come down through the
ages hand in hand, their relations to
each other having varied but few
points in all that time, and then
almost invariably through legislation;
d,