St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-03
LED BY DONNELLY.
OUR own fGNATiUS GIVES THE SH-
HERITES 4 PLATFORM.
CLEVELAND RECEIVES a ROAST

Carlisle Is Criticised for Confer
ring With New York Bankers
Fiery Speeches by Pierce. of
Tennessee, Brown, of Cali
fornia. and Cyclone Davis, OF
TeXas-Oyation to Waite.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2. The delegates to
the national bimetalic convention were
a little late in assembling this morning,
the evening session of last night having
been prolonged to so late an hour that a
quorum was not present at $3.50 this
morning.
When the convention yesterday
found the First NJ. E. church inadequate
to its needs, and it was imperative that
larger hall be secured, the proprietor
OF the Central Music hall eXacted
rental of S4O0 for the use of the hall for
two days. There was great many
protests against this charge, but the
committee was in a quandary, and
time pressing, and the terms
were reluctantly agreed to. Con-
siderable trouble was experienced
in raising the money, a local financial
committee having practically pledged
itself to provide hall free of expense
to the delegates. This morning several
wealthy delegates from Colorado and
other wealthy states came to the rescue
of the local committee, and in few
minutes sufficient money was raised to
give satisfactory guarantee that the
credit of the finance committee would
be upheld and all the obligations Of the
convention promptly discharged. The
agent or the building. who had stationed
himself at the door early this morning
and refused to open the door until ex-
Senator Hill, eX-Congressman Symes
and c. S. Thomas, of Colorado, had per-
sonally guaranteed the rental money,
retired with profusion of apologies
for his hastY action.
When President Thurman called the
convention to order ex-Uhited States
Senator n. Z. Hill, of Colorado, ad-
dressed the convention on the silver
question for nearly all hour. His argu-
mentS were chiefly based on statistics
gold or silver standard in any country
had invariably been followed by dec
AIDES of poverty and depression.
1t Is not conceivable that the saga
ciOus men who control its public affairs
will push the gold conspiracy to any
such extremity. If they can caiole US
into cooperation in their schemes of
financial ACKNOWLEDGMENT they will, ii
not thankfully, at any rate gladly, ac-
cept and profit by our aid. But when
they become convinced that we mean to
use the power of protecting our own
interests which the situation gives us,
they will III all probability recoil from a
contest which can have no other issue
for them but fatal one. If they do
not recoll from it they will only give
another illustration of the wisdom of
the saving of the ancients, that Whom
the gods would destroy they first make
mad" Great applause.
Congressman Francis q. Newlands, of
Nevada. delivered an address outlining
congressional legislation on the silver
question. England, he said, is the great
gold owning country of the world. We
owe her hundreds of millions of dollars.
We have in this country 100000, 900 of
gold today which can he withdrawn to-
morrow if England so elects. If the
withdrawal of S1O0,O00,0O0 of gold this
year has produced the present panic,
what disaster may not be produced
when we are absolutely dependent upon
England and she chooses to call upon
us for her gold. As the fax on tea pre-
cipitated the Revolution and led to po-
lilical independence, so the present
blow at silver might lead to financial
independence from the old world.-TAp-
plause.
United States Senator Allen, OF Ne
braSka, provoked much enthusiasm in a
brief but stirring speech. The present
panic was first created by the bankers
OF the country for their own selfish pur-
poses, but it has become farther reach
ing than they expected, and the bankers
themselves have become involved and
have appealed to the president and con-
gress for aid. The time has come for
action, not for talk. We 0he Populists)
told you last fall of the impending dan
ger. but you did not believe us. Laugh
ter. Now you are obliged to stand out
from your own parties and stand up for
the American home as against the Brit
ish home.
Hon. c.. S. Thomas, the prominent
Colorado attorney, followed in twen-
ty-minute address. "Gold aud silver"
said Mr.. Thomas, "aIe the money of
history and of civilization. They have
been united from prehistoric days down
to the hour when tue malignity of men,
driven on by Unsuitable avarice, saw fit
to proclaim an artificial and Infamous
divorce between the two metals. [Ap-
plause. They say we are lunatics and
cranks, yet we are proposing nothing
now but simply the return TO system
sanctiled and hallowed by the history