The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-01
Thu SILVER CONVENTION.
Everything Ready for the Open
ing at Chicago.
A SIGNIFICANT GATHERING.
Aggressive Committee Will Be APP.
pointed to SO to Washington.
An Assembly Wherein the Delegates Are
Terribly in Notwithstanding of
Great Moral Crusade-An
Awakening of the Masses.

CHICAGO, July 31-There will be dec
laration of war tomorrow and the signal
for hostilities will be given by a COM
bined convention of Populists. free silver
men and Greenbackers The foe to be
outlawed will be "the money power" and
this generalization is so broad that it is
designed TO include the capitalists of
Europe, as well as the money barons of
Wall Street. The scenes following the
imposition of the stamp and other taxes
SO badly contested and Indignantly de-
nounced by the colonial fathers of 1776,
would have been a fitting parallel to that
furnished in the hotel Hobbies today by
the popular arraignment of the attempt
which, it is asserted, is now being made
by Great Britain and the mono metallic
monarchies of Europe to coerce the Amer
lean continent into financial dependency
upon the nat of the old world.
The laws of supply and demand nor the
results OF over production, found no place
in their arguments, for every suggestion
OF this kind was repulsed by startling
array of statistics and figures tending to
show that the closing of the minis of
India was death blow to free coinage in
Europe and the demand of Wall street for
repeal of the Sherman bill but parts of
great conspiracy against the silver re-
pubilcs of the western hemisphere. 1t is
the opinion too, of the delegates now
assembling that the conspiracy should be
firmly met and the enemy promptly
routed and some of them grow hot
enough at times to intimate that if legis-
| lation is inefficient, a recourse to arms
might present remedy.
The Populists, greenbackers and free
silver men seem to beunited on one pro-
gramme, viz: That the repeal of the
Sherman purchasing act must be resisted
| to the last, unless there be coupled with
! it an act for the free coinage of silver or a
greater volume of currency. The green
hackers and Populists who believe the
fiat of the government is as potent to
make a dollar out of strip of green
pager as to make a dollar of seventy cents
worth OF silver, are, of course, not par
ticular whether legislation substituted
| for the Sherman act shall be free coinage
or government green backs, but for the
sake of showing a solid front against the
common enemy, the monometallists,
they will unite with free coinage men in
La concerted resistance to the Cleveland
policy, unless greater volume OF cur
rency is insured to meet the stringency OF
the financial situation. In this pro-
gramme are found united, Republican
Cong Bartine, of Nevada; Demo
crat Silver Dollar Warner, of Ohio;
Populist Kolb, of Alabama, and all their
respective followers, and their name is
legion, and it is apparent even now, that
the work of the convention is not to end
with a sine die adjournment on Wednes-
day.
Aggressive committees are to be APP
pointed to carry the fight to Washington
and state committees to work Up public
sentiment in the various states. Then q
campaign committee is to be named
and to this committee is likely to be en-
trusted what is really the most important
work OF the free silver crusade. Mass
meetings nightly for all the weeks to
come during the financial crisis are to be
held by the unemployed and poverty
stricken in every city of the land, an6
resolutions presented and adopted calling
I upon Congress to pass free coinage bill
The PROSECUTING of labor leaders and Of
labor organizations is to follow next. Il
Is to be great moral crusade, an awak-
: ening of the masses, until popular de-
mand becomes SO strong that the voice O.
the people will be stronger than the voice
of Gold. as the Populists put it tonight
The men who are assembled here are
terribly in earnest and their numbers anC
marked personality and intelligence o
the most of their leaders give grea
, Significance to the gathering. The lead
ers are proceeding cautiously and decline
to express an opinion as to exactly wha
: will be the outcome. To begin with tn
former adherents of all parties will b.
asked to forget their former allegiance
. and unite upon line of action in th
struggle for free silver. 1t is certain tn
resolutions and delegation to Washington
I will not approve repeal OF the Sherman
law unless provision is made for create
t volume of circulating medium. An ap
! peal will be made to the unemploye
everywhere to call mass meetings and de
/ mand OF Congress legislation increasing
3 the volume of money to relieve the strin
gency of the financial situation.
II A large delegation from Colorado ar
l rived today headed by Governor Waite
ex-senator Tellar, Ex-Governor Routt
ex- United States Senator Hill, Presiden
Fisk of Pan America bimetallic league
and others. Shortly after, delegatio
r arrived with B. G. Kingsbury and G. /
Halfway of Spokane. R. F. Goliath, A
j. Warner of Ohio and Senator Reagan {
! Texas are also on hand.
$ It is thought ex-senator Reagan {
g Texas will be permanent chairman of th
. convention.
Late tonight it was announced that
conference of leaders had decided upo
Allan w. Thurman of Ohio, for chairman