Huntsville gazette., 1893-08-05
The SILVER CONVENTION.
Resolutions Adopted for the Protection
Of the Precious White Metal.

Resolutions Adopted for the Protection
of the Precious White Metal.
CHICAGO, Aug. Awaiting for the
commit to report was the princlpai
work of the silver conve ntlon, ana
when, at last, that report was forth
coming, quick work was made of the
proceedings.
The committee they were waiting on
was the one on resolutions, which final
ly reported the following, which de-
clare:
l. That there must be no compromise
of this question All legislation demon
etizing silver and restricting the coinage
thereof must be Immediately and com
pletely repealed by an act restoring the
coinage of the country to the conditions
established by the soundness OF the ma
ton, and which continued for over 81
years without complaint from any part
Of our people Every hours delay in I'M
doing the corrupt work of Ernest SPyd Is
an insult to the dignity of the American
people, is crushing burden on their
prosperity and an attempt TO place US
again under the yoke from which George
Washington and his companions rescued
us We protest. against the financial pol
icy of the United States being made upon
the opinion or policies of any foreign
governments and assert the power OF this
nation to stand on it's own feet and legls-
late for itself upon all subjects.
g We assert that the only Yemedy for
pure metallic financial trouble Is to open
the minds of the nation to gold ana silver
on equal terms at the old ratio of 10 OF
silver to of gold. The Sherman act was
A., s baa ba n
ration of free coinage, and we protest
against its repeal except by an act restor-
ing free bimetalic coinage.
Section asserts that the calam1tles
which now affiict the American people
are not due to the Sherman act of 1890,
and that matters would be still worse
but for that act 1t insists on the full
execution of that law in the matter OF
the purchase of silver and the issue OF
circulating medium.
The fifth resolution calls attention to
the fact that national bank and legal
tender money of whatever kind has not
fallen in value particle, and suggests
for the consideration of our fellow citi-
zens that the refusal of the opponents
Of bimetalism to propose any substitute
for the present law, or to elaborate any
plan for the future, indicates an ignor
ance of our financial needs or an unwil-
lingness to take the public into their
confidence.
They denounce the attempt to uncon-
ditionally repeal the Sherman law as an
attempt to secure gold monometalism
in fragrant violation of the last plat
form of all political parties.
The report was read by 1gnatius
Donnelly.
A resolution. not embraced in the
platform, was also adopted providing
for the selection of a committee to act
In conjunction with the American Ma
tional Business league jointly to devise
plan to provide ways and means for
impressing upon congress and the peo.
pie the impending perils from the final
demonetization of silver and the adop-
ton of single standard. The following
gentlemen were presented by the vari-
Gus state delegations as the committee
on ways and means.
Alabama, j. c. Manning; Florida, J.
Orchids; North Carolina. ]. H. Stanton;
Tennessee. R. A. Pierce; Virginia, l. L.
johnson,
The preamble asserts that the law of
1878, which demonetized siver, was or
ganized by one Ernest Seyd, London
banker. who came to the United States
as the emissary of the moneyed classes
of Europe for that purpose.
The resolutions were adopted with
little alteration from the way they left
the committees hands.
The convention then adjourned.