The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-08-02
They Begin Their Big Conven-
tion in tho Windy City.
WELCOMED evMAvoa HARRISON
Silver Dollar Warner Sets the Rail- in
Notion BY Characteristic Speech.
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horse. 10 Made Chairman sna veast-
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CHICAGO. Aug. I--Tne national conven.
fion OF the American Bi-Metallic League
met at 10 O'Clock this morning IN the
k,rst Methodist church auditorium. IL
Was the largest assembly Of \ like charac-
ter in the history Of the financial! aSita-
uon- The features Of many SCARED vet
erans Of financial agitation were visible in
the heterogeneous assembly. Gen. A. J.
warner. of Ohio. president Of the B:.
Metallic League: ex-t'ongressman Bar-
tine. OF Nevada: Congressman w. J,
Bryan. OF Nebraska: Gov. Waite, OF Coi-
orAdo; Senator Stewart, of Nevada; Sena-
tors Mantle. of Montana. and Shoup. of
Idaho: I. ii. Patterson. Of Colorado: Gov.
koib, the Popuiist leader of Alabama;
Editor Goodwin. Of Salt Lake: Herman
Il. Taubeneck. Of the executive committee
OF the People party. and Senator Dubois,
oi Idaho, were conspicuous among these.
When Chairman Warner. Of the BIZ
Metallic League. called the convention to
order, many Of the delegates were Obliged
to stand in the aisle on account OF the
smaiiness OF the hall. Chairman Warner
opened tbs proceedings by introducing
Mayor Carter H. Harrison, of Chicago,
who welcomed the delegates to the city.
The mayor said:
II welcome you warmly because be-
lseve you have the good of the country at
heart. Some of you may be rather wild.
II IS said that you are silver lunatics.
look down upon you and am rather glad
to welcome such lunatics. IL is crazy men
that march the world forward and make
progress possibility. They said that
though You believe i'm bi-metallism you
are crazy. II the action Of 1873 should be
blotted from the annals of American
political action. believe that silver would
be worth 10 cents an ounce. Be wise in
your deliberations. but fearless. Congr ess
Is about to meet Give the benefit OF your
deiiberation to congress and tell Grover
Cleveland what the people Of the United
States want"
Then Thomas Patterson, chairman OF
the Colorado delegation. responded 10 the
mayor. Chairman Warner, Of the BIZ
Metallic League, delivered his opening
address. He said:
"The most extraordinary condition OF
affairs meets the assembling Of this con-
IN unusual abundance and rich haryests
are being gathered under favoring skies,
and yet never before in the history OF the
country has there been such widespread
fcsr and distress. Never before such loss
OF confidence and destruction 70 credit.
Industries are everywhere breaking down,
aud isbosess hy tens Of thousands. thrown
In the face; scores - banks are driven TO
suspension: there hns been . shrinkaee OF
SlO0. 100000 in the value Of stocks and other
property. To attribute this condition to
the silver purchasing iaw 10 absurd. Tn
der this law. since 1870, ti5O, ,0O0. 900 have
been added to our currency. Does any
body believe that the presence Of this $780,
The real object lesson OF the situation Is
different from that which the gold con-
spirators intend. 1t enables us to zee the
beginning Of the shrinksge in prices that
must take place In order to 20 to purely
gold basis. The trouble IL in
value 81 money ' may be doubled
either by doubling the weights Of standard
COINS or by destroying half Of the metal
out Of which coins are made The estab-
lishmcnt OF q single gold standard 10
equivalent to pntting value Of two dol.
lars into one. II Is doubling the unit and
putting p,,opssty down % A. onsnaii s I,i Thi. is
quire the same number Of dollars In pay
ment Of debts and taxes Is to sanction the
spoiiasion Of one class by another"
He characterized the silver act of 1873
~ . crime, and said he was willing to
have the act OF 1880 repealed II the other
Sherman law Of 1873 can be repealed by
the same bill Let both Of the Sherman
laws 70 together and place the country
back upon the constitution and the Law
as il stood before 1873.
A committee on credentials was then ap-
pointed. consisting Of one member from
each state. and . committee. consisting Of
Lyon, Of Colorado. chairman: Reagan, Of
Texas; Stark, Of Ohio; Washburn. Of
MasSachusetts and Euiien wider Of iii.
nois. were appointed on permanent Or
ganiza;ion; also . committee, consisting
Of . delegation from each state repre-
sented. on rules and orders Of business.
The convention then adjourned till 2:30.