The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-08-10
TIE SILVER NJ EN-
FORMALLY ENUNCIATE THEIR DE.
MANDS ~ C )NVENTION.


the Delc"ates.
CHICAGO, August There was lit
tie delay III calling to order the second
days session OF the silver convention,
and it Is whispered among the dele
gates that there has been trouble in SO
curing funds for a continuance of the
convention.
AS soon as hartman Thurman called
the body to order this morlibg, j s.
Dougherty, of Texas, in a voice that
could be heard to tho roof, moved that
the roll of States be called for appoint.
ment of committee to devise a plan
and consider WAYS and means for i'm
pressing upon Congress the ruin and
peril now threatening all our national
interests by the demOnetiza'i ion OF sill
yer. He claimed that the proceedings
or the convention were not being fully
reported to the country, and the need
existed for an immediate resolution.
Several objections were made on
technical grounds, and Gen. Warner,
announced that the committee on reso.
lutlons would fully cover the subject.
Inc subject was dropped, and Il dis
patch OF greeting from the * uights of
Labor Of St Louis was read. 1t was
stated that the assembly has adopted
coinage of silver at Il ratio of lG toI
This was received with applause. The
committee on resolutions not being
ready TO report, speeches were in order
TO I'LL up the waiting time. Tx Senator
I'LL of Colorado was the first speaker:
next came Representative Francis
NeWlandS of Nevada, United States
Senator Allen of Nebraska, and :. G.,
Th0maS OF Colorado. After Mr.. Thom
as had cone tluded, the convention took
a recess until = o clock. At that hour
The committee on resolutions present
ed Il long preamble and resolutions,
which were adopted with bat slight
amendments
The preamble asserts that the law Of
1873, which demorallZeu silver, was
originated by one Ernest Seyl, Lon
don banker, who came to the United
States as the emissary of the moneyed
classes OF Europe for that purpose
The resolutions declare, first, that there
must be no compromise of this QueS-
ton. All legislation demOnetiZing sill.
yer and restricting the coinage there
of MIST be immediately and complete
ly repealed by an act restoring the
coinage of the country to the cOndi-
lions established by the soundness Of
the nation. and which continued for
over eighty years. without complaint
from any part OF our people. Every
hours delay in undoing the corrupt
work OF Ernest Seyd and our foreign
the American people, a crushing bur
den on their prosperlty,a ,and an attempt
to place us again under the yoke from
which George Washington and his
companions rescued us. We protest
against the financial policy of the Uni
ted States being made upon the Opin-
ion or policies Of any foreign govern
ment, and assert the power of this
nation to stand on its own feet and
Itgslate for itself upon all subjects.
Second, we assert that the only remedy
tor Our metallic financial troubles is to
open the mlnts Of the nation to gold
and silver on equal terms, The old ra.
TO OF sixteen of silver to one Of gold.
Section 3 SAYS the Sherman y ct Of
July II, 1880, was the device OF the
enemy to prevent the restoration of
free coinage, and we protest against its
repeal except by an act restoring free
bimetalic coin.
Section I asserts that the calamities
which now ailliCt the American people
are not due to the Sherman Act OF 1890
and that matters would be still worse
but for the act. 1t insists upon the
full execution of that law in the mat
ter OF purchase of silver and the issue
of circulating medium.
The fifth resolution calls attention
to the fact that national bai.k and le-
gal tender mo lny of whatever KIND has
not fallen III yalne a particle, ;tud Sug
gests for the consideration of our TEL
low citizens that the refusal Of the oD-
DOnents Of himetilliSm to propose any
substitute for the present law or to
elaborate amy plan for the future indi
Gates either an Ignorance OF our linan-
2lal needs or an willingu"SS to take
the public INTO their confidence; "aud
we denounre Lhe attempt tn uncondi-
tlOnally repeal the Sherman law as an
attempt to secure gold monOmetaliSm
In ilagrant violation of the last nation
al platforms OF all the political par
ties The report was read by IgnaLius
DOnnelly and explained 10y ex-senator
Reagan of Texas
"A resolution, not embraced in the
platform, was also adopted, providing
iOr the selection of committee. to act
in conjunction with the American Ma
tlonal business League, Jointly, 10 de-
wise plan to provide ways and means
for impressing upon Congress aud the
people the impending perils from the
hnal demoneLlZation of silver and the
adoption OF Il single standard.
I,he Following gentlemen were pre-.
Spnted by the various State delegations
as the committee on ways and means:
Alabama, j. G.. Manning; Florida !
Orchids; North Carolina, j. fl. Stan.
ton; Tennessee, Rice A. Pierce; Virgin.
ia, |. l. Johnson.
The platform was not presented
promptly at the opening of the after
noon session, and speeches were again
In order as Stop-2ap. EX-COngIess-
man Rice Pierce Of Tenno ssep, the
lieutenant OF Chairman Bland iii the
last Congress, was received with great
enthusiasm, and proceeded to make Il
speech, which was the sensation of the
day In its arrangement of President
Cleveland. IL am here as q Democrat"
said hs. democracy had no part in
the decentralization OF silver. The De-
mocratic party does not believe 1t
Applause. | say here, without fear
or contradiction, because speak from
the record, that the Democratic repre.
Sentatiyes frCm the South and the
west, constituting the overw helming
majority of the Democrats npon the
floor of Congress, have. eyery ii me that