The Bessemer indicator., 1893-07-15
VOX POPUL1,
colorado's Miners. Merchants. and
shsiness Men of all Depart.
ments Firmly United.
THE DrSvxR -,lvs* csSyrSr,os
A Demand for the Fehabiiitsiioh of snt.r
that Ma.t Ne ssunrd.

business men who believe In the free coinage
OF silver met In Denver on the 1lth, and its
sessions continued On thc ,ath. Il was one
II inc largest conventions ever held In the
capital city, and the Coliseum, which holds
1900 people, was iammed The intense inter
est was commensurate with the size OF the
crowd, and every part OF the proceedings
showed how close the subject under consldera-
tlou lay TO the hearts OF those In attendance.
Sometime before the hour for opening, the
hail was full and at l0;30 George W. Mer-
rick, president of the State Silver League,
called the meeting To order and stated its OBJ
jcct. The object he said, called ior the ccol-
rst, calmest delibcratlon without passion Or
desire 10 iniht ppnishnient nut with stern
and nnyieidlng dignity Of true American clti-
Eenship TO demand the right, remembering
that the fathers of this Union held that re-
sistancc to tyranny is obedience to God.
The roll call showed that thirty-nine coun-
ties were represented. 1t was stated that every
man present who favored bimetalllsm was
titled 10 vote, A committee on organization
of one from each county named, Gem
siderable discussion and sonfusien then en-
sued ms !, Was uncertain what was the next
thing In ortic'-
I'd r. Holden asked leave 10 Introduce u
resolution bearing on The fact that he
claimed there were gold bug, in the Arapa-
boo delegation, but on request of J, II. Platt
and T. VI. Patterson, he postponed It's INTRO
duction.
The courteous offer by the Greys'one Club
OF It's rocms for the use of Us rooms for the
usc o. the committees brought forth the dc-
rlaration from f. G. kavanagh Of salida that
rather tban sit In the White Wings rooms
would go TO helin This paralyzed the meet
lug, and cheers and laughter continued for
several minutes.
\ recess was taken until O'Clock At that
hour me committee on permanent organiza-
ton reported, and its report was adopted as
follows:
For Presidcnt-Charlcs 5. Thomas.
For Secretary-Joe Hutchinson.
Assistant Secretary Frank w, Owens, and
C. +. Craig second assistant,
Nice rrc.lIents-J Cook, Jr., OF Arapahoe
a. !. shotwell of Boulder, Senator Robert
Turner of Clear Greek, 7. J. Tarsney OF Do
lores, r. j, Walters Of GunBisou, L. &. Cava-
ssugh 81 UhaiTcc, Senator II. c. Balslnger OF
Glpiu, George W. Currier Of Weld, Repre-
sentative Fitzgerald of San Miguel, j. c,
Funder burg OF Kiowa, scna'orJ T. Drake of
Pueblo l.or C. Abbott OF I.arimcr, Senator
Charles Newman OF La Plata, Senator CAST
nero Barela of Las AnImns, T. NJ. Goody-
kooutz OF Montezuma- Charles F. Nelson of
Mineral, VI. E. 6Ill of Ell Paso, Judge j. John
son Of Pitkin, &. H. Iacharia, of llinsaale,
William y. Batcheldcr Of Morgan, Ebcn
Smith Of Lake. judge BAllngct Of fark, +.
a. NIngatc Of San Juan, j. H. Hodges of Gar
field. T. ". Mcneil of Montrose, Senator d.
A. Mills OF Eagle, William q. Smith OF let-
ferson. William ilort "f Ris Grande. +. ".
Emerson cf Urray, Charles A. Finding OF
Summit, Carl Wuls,en of Custer, and Bert
Sanford Of Costllla.
Mr.. Thomas upon taking the chair, made
q speech OF some length. lie said:
We are face to face with crisis which Is
without any parallels in The history Of tie
country with Il crisis 81 broad and 50 deep
that 1t really Involves the old question OF
slavery over again, and this time slavery OF
not merely physical but intellectual bondage;
which affected ell tho people aud their de-
scendahts TO the third aud fourth generation.
The decentralization of silver and con ractlon
OF the currency means stagnaton Of industry,
paralysis of commerce, deprcs ion OF trade,
the ruin OF the mining Industry in the inter-
est Of creditor class which has loaned one
kind of money and demands payment In an
other. II Is the elimination of events which
q
fnarchlay ior years uhtll NOW III, stand mist
be taken. There Is ono commodity for which
men are striving and that Is money. We
hare met 10 lodge our solemn protests and
for more than protesting II possible against "A
policy which brings 30 much suffering on our
people. For more than eighty years never
did The government of ,hi, country attempt
TO Interfere with that self adj In-tlng system of
currency established by Thomas jefferson
and Alexander Hamilton but 10 1878, Aflrf n
II -f hell he'd nfs.r mi
'i''r5 6f treasure had beal lost. after great
debt had been cont-acted, payment Of which
except the interest, 10 legal tender,
gold conspiracy tht most far reaching OF
"hth history gives an account. was set on
foot against The liberty of the American peo-
pie. That conspiracy, conceived In Sin and
brought forth In iniquity, is shedding It's
baleful Influenced wherever trade and com
merce exist.
But ID IRIS rcuutry. where tic fci, al free
sfsech exists, 1t l. not too late 10 attempt by
every lawful means 70 arrest the progress OF
tiris inslnlous enemy at the vlials, not only OF
ihi- state, but Of all the people Of the coun-
try No great measure ever was suggested,
no valuable measure for the benefit of the
many against a powerful few, but the aeepcsi
obloluy aud infsmy was heaped upon II. To,
dey ihcse 'ncr 'ThD sfc iightit; f6r the m5ney
OF the constitution, gold and silver at ~ to /,
are st'gnatizcd ns lunatics, thieves, traitors
and dishonest men. We are told that he who
seeks to pay a debt In rcrudlated or discred-
tied money Is disturbcr Of society The
msn who is dsturhar n society Is not he
who i willing 10 pay In money Of hts coih-
try, bur he who demands that he hn paid
sl.5O for Il 81, We have DISHONEST dollar,
but Il Is not the dollar bf OUT fathers II Is
the dOilar which loads 80 per cent more on
the producer and on the suffering people
tho gold dollar Of Lombard and Wall streets
Mr.. Thomas address was warmly ap-
plau1ed.
The sHcrctaty read 1 communica-
ton from the bankers and -melters OF
prn.rr heartily faTsring the object Of
The meeting. The Denver clearing house also
sent check for 81 600 towards the expenses
Of the delegates 10 the st. Louis and Chicago
conventions.
The committee on resolutions was appointed
rs followsi
Afapahoe, 2. NJ Patterson Boulder W C.
Dyeri Chnirec. a n Heuncdy; Clonf tieeA,
j VI. 5. Egan; III Paso, T. c. Parrish; Eagle,
|. H. Cb1tlicld; Gi.pin, ". j. Thomas; Gar
field, :. L. Hodges; Gunnison, X. i. Walter.
Dolores, T. j. Tarsncy iIlnsdale, B. A. Far
rel; Jefferson, w. &. Smith; Klowa j. c.
Funderburgh; Lake, A. 7. Guunel; La Plata.
C. \, Newman tsaiilie:, Chafles DuBols
las Aniuias, J. y. Fucker; Lincoln, 5. j.
Rawley, Mesa, II. c. Long; Montczuma, c.
A. Powers; Montrosc, I. W. Mcneil. Morgan,
W. NJ. Batehelier Outay, l.. NJ White; Park,
.;ohn Mitchell; Pitkin, J. NJ McMichaei; Pu-
eblo, Platt WIcks; Rio Grande, Colin Tim
mons; San Juan, S. A. Wlngate; San Miguel,
+. r. Fitzgerald; summit, J. c. Fincher;
Prowers, j. A, Fleming Weld David Boyd :,
Douglas, 3. W. Riggs; Mineral, Richard
Dodd.
Governor D. II. Waite was unanimously In :
vlted to seat on the platform.
Mr.. Patterson was called upon for a sspeech,
but only spoke briefly, IS he wanted the COM
r,i,tcc on resolutions to get to work. The
committee met In Mr.. Pattersons office. Mr.
Holden, being called upon, said that he was