The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-08-01
UNITED AGAINST GOLD
Solid Front Of III, Advocates Of Free
Coinage al Chicago.
THEY ARE BOUND TO WIN
Great Crowds OF Delegates Assem-
b.inG-trobab!e Plan OF Cam
paign of the Convention
Committees.

Chicago, july 3l,-Tbcrc will lie a dec.
laration of war Tomorrow and the signal
for hostilities will he given by the 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 il is |
designed to include tho capitalists OF Eu-
rope. as well as the money barous of Wall
street. The scenes following the imposi-
ton of the stamp and other taxes So ho,ly
contested aud Indignantly denounced by
the colonial fathers of iT76 would have
been a fitting parallel to that furnished in
the hotel lobbies to-day by the popular ar
raignInent OF the attempt, which, il is as
sertcd,is now being made by Great Britain
and the Inoao-ructallic monarchics of Eu-
rope To corrcc the American continent into
financial desponlency upon the flats of
the old world.
The laws OF supply and demand, tho
results of over-proluct ton, found no place
in their arguments, for every suggestion
of this kind was repulsed by a startling
array of statistics and figures tending To
show that the closing of the nints of
India. the death blow TO free coinage in
Europe and the demand of Wall street for
the repeal of the Sherman bill we're but
parts of a great conspiracy against the
silver republics of the Western henis-
phe.e.
1t is the opinion, too, of the delegates
now assembling that tho conspiracy
should he fully met and the enemy
promptly routed and some of them grow
hot enough at times TO intimate that IL
legislation is inefficient, recourse 10 arms
| might present remedy. Populists,
rrecnbackers and free silver men see m to
be united on one programme, that the
repeal of the Sacrman purchasing act
| must be resist ed TO the last. unless there
he coupled with il an act for tho free
coinage of silver or a greater volume of
| currency
| The presnb,ckers and nonulists who
believe that the fiat of the Government is
| as po,ent TO M Ike a dollar out of n strip
| of green plper as TO make n dollar of 10
cents worth of silver. are of course not
4 par,icuIar whether the legislation substi-
| tutc,l for the sherman Act shall he free
| COINAGE or royerumeut yrcenbarks. bur
for The sake of showing a solid front
against the common enemy, the mono
| mctailist, they will unite with the FREQ
coinage men IN n concerted resistance to
the Cleveland policy. unless a greater vol.
| ume of currency is insured to meet the
| striucency of the financial situation. In
this programme are found united the re-
publican Congress man Bartine Of Nevada !:
the democrat. "Silver Dollar" Warner OF
Ohio: the popnlist. Kolb of Alabama. and
all their respective followers, and their
name is legion.
IL is apparent, eyca now, that the work
of the convention is not to end with a sine
die adjournment Wednesday, Aggressive
committees are to be appointed to carry
the iirht to Washington. and state com.
mi,tees 10 work M public sentiment in
| the various states Then n campaipn
committee is To bc named, and to this
committee is likely to he entrusted what
is really the most importan, work of the
free silver crusade. Mass meetings nightly
for all the weeks TO como during the
financial crisis are 10 be h.!! by the un-
employed and poyerty stricken i'm every
civ of the land, and resolutions presented
and adop,ed calling upon congress TO pass
free coinage bill. The proselytinr of
labor leaders and of labor organizations is
10 follow next, II is to bc rrea, moral
crusade. a N wakening of the masses, until
the popular demand becomes SO strong
that the voice of the people will bc
stronger than the voice of gold as the por-
ulists nut n.
The men who are assembled here arc
terribly In earnest and their numbers and
mark ed pcrsonali,y, and the intelligence
of most their leaders. give great sirni,i.
cane. 20 the Gathering. II il Thought tha,
OK. Senator Reagan of Texas will he IN,
nermnnent chairman of the convention.
The indications are that the couyentior
will be the mos, largely attended in The
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