The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-12
COLORADO SILVER LEAGUE.
A Great Mass Meeting Held in
Denver.
FREE COINAGE ALWAYS.
Hon. Charles Thomas Is Selected as
Permanent Chairman.
He Declares That 'swe Are Face to Face
with Crisis''-An Ovation Is Given
to Governor Waite, Who Deliv-
ers an Address.

DENVER. July 1.-THE mass meeting
called by President Merrick of the state
silver league was held at Coliseum hall
today. The building was crowded with
thousands OF delegates from every sec
ton of the state who came to see what
could be done toward crystalizing senti
ment in Colorado for the establishment of
free and unlimited coinage OF silver.
There appeared to be but one feeling IN
all the gathering and that was for free
coinage or nothing.
In his address calling the meeting to
order, President Merrick said: 1--WE
ask for justice for our rights. We will
accept nothing less. The crime OF 1873
has gone on all these years unpunished.
We are here TO demand early and speedy
settlement OF the silver question.
Following his remarks a committee on
organization was appointed and N otion
to take a recess. At this point some e1-
tremist attempted to introduce resolu-
ton. This created an uproar which came
near terminating in riot. Quiet was
finally restored and the recess taken.
On assembling it could be seen that the
spirit which controlled the delegates at
the morning session was not under con-
troll, but only awaiting opportunity to
VI C1h Oue dSa1u. I1Ous SudIIco nOilldS,
member of the Democratic national COM
mittee from Colorado was made perma-
nent chairman. In assuming the chair
manship he said:
We are face to face with crisis which
has had but few parallels in the history
of the country, SO deep, so broad, and so
far reaching that it does not involve eX-
aggeration to predict that it means
another phase of the old question of slav-
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business paralysis in commerce.
This stagnalion Mr.. Thomas went
on to show was from the failure to restore
silver to its legitimate ratio of Is to l..
At the conclusion of Mr. Thomas re-
marks there was a call for Governor
Waite. The echo was taken up in a
mighty shout from one thousand lungs
which was carried to the galleries where
as many more joined in the demonstra-
ton.
AS the old gray haired governor started
down the aisle to the platform the scene
presented is beyond the penis descrip-
ton. Men whose future depended on the
cause for which they were fighting, stood
in their seats and yelled until exhausted.
The executive, who comes from Aspen,
one of the leading silver mining camps in
the state, confined his remarks to the
question of silver and it's characterization
and to those in the east and Europe who
were not only the ruin of the west, but
the entire country by forcing such a
policy, and concluded by saying:
If the money powers ST. all attempt to
sustain its usurpation by a strong hand
we will meet that issue when it is forced
upon us for it is infinitely better that
blood should flow TO the horses brides
rather than our national liberties be de-
stroyed. If it is true that the United States
is unable to carry out its governmental
policy without the dictation or consent OF
| foreign powers; if we are the
province of European monarchies, then
we need another revolution, another ap-
peal to arms and we have won that battle
If war is forced upon US we will send to
Halifax far greater army of British tories
according to our population than our fore
fathers sent there after the revolutionary
war had begun. 1t is the same wal
which must always be waged against op-
preston and tyranny to preserve the lib
critics OF man.
The address created a sensation and a
scene of great confusion followed, the
applause being deafening.
| Judge Kerr of Pueblo got the floor and
spoke in the same infiammatory
vein as Governor Waite. He
endorsed the recent revolution
airy kilograms sent east in which
1t was declared that if the war upon sill
yer continued it would result in the west
repudiating all obligations, that $50, COZ
men would be paupers and 500, 00C
people be on the verge of starvation and g
revolution would be the final result.
! 1t was then moved that the convention
endorse the remarks of Governor Wait,
and the motion was carried amid tht
greatest enthusiasm. The convention
adjourned till tomorrow when the com
mittee on resolutions will report.