Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-07
FRIENDS OF SILVER.
Meeting of the Bimetallie Convention ut
st. Louis-Preliminary Work.

Meeting of the Bimetailie COnventioo ut
st. Louis-Preliminary Work.
ST. LOUIS. Oct 4.-The Pan-Ameri-
can bimetallic convention met at Arm
DRY hall ut II o'clock with disap-
pointingly small attendance.
Gov. w. j. Stone, of Missouri spoke
for the state and accorded n most
hearty welcome to the convention.
s. $. King, of Kansas, responded, ex-
pressing thanks for the welcome. OF
the question of sectionalism and silver
he declared that this country was able
to get along without the economic aid
of any foreign nation; that as regards
silver there was no sectionalism
other than that conceived by
those endeavoring to debase it;
as to commerce that the internal
commerce of the Mississippi valley was
greater than the combined foreign
commerce of all the world. He touched
upon depreciation of money value OF
agricultural products by the use OF the
single gold standard, and in closing
called upon the Mississippi valley to
wake up.
Gov. G. P. Tillman, of South Caro-
lima, was chosen temporary chairman.
In his address he charged that the re-
duction in the anticipated numbers OF
delegates was due to the power OF the
press to smother the efforts OF the
masses to rise to their proper place, but
the time was coming when the west
and south would join hands and win
their rights, if not by agitation
then by their ballots He of the
south had felt the pressure of sectional
ism and he was glad that the west, too,
had felt the iron enter its soul. 1t was
proposed to exercise the right to vote
to govern their own states and to send
representatives to congress to better
voice the sentiments of thelr constitu-
epts than some now there.
0lney Newell, of Denver, was unani'
mously chosen secretary. committees
on credentials were ordered appointed
and recess taken.
The convention was slow in getting
together again and it was a:5a p. IN. be-
fore Gov. Tillman raped for order.
The credentials committee reported an
authorized convention list of 1876, rep
senting the states of Colorado, Iowa,
Texas Indiana, Montana, Kansas,
South Carolina, New Mexico, Old Mex
leo, Arkansas and Missouri. The read
ing of the report precipitated what
promised to be an almost inter-
minable debate upon the vot-
ing powers of the various dele.
cations and delegates. Suggestion
after suggestion was made by Gov. ID.
II. Waite, of Colorado: eX-Congressman
J. B. Weaver, of Iowa; Hon. 4. c. Fiske,
of Denver. Col: Gov &. =. II. Tillman,
of South Carolina: Gov. w. j. Stone, of
Missouri, and others, and ut length it
was decided that each state delegation
at large should cast twenty votes, while
all other delegates from other sources
should cast their individual votes.
ii. c. Walters, of Washington, a del.
egate from state whose governor re
fused to appoint, was given power to
cast the states entire vote of twenty,
as was also j. X. Weatherford, of Ore.
gon. for his state. The settlement OF
this matter admitted of the submission
of the report of the committee on per-
manent organization, the following
names being announced as the selec-
ton of the committee for officers of
the conventions:
President, Gov. L. ID. Lewelling, OF
Kansas; vice president, NJ. L. Benton,
of Missouri; secretary, Olney Newell,
of Colorado; assistant secretaries, Sam
uel Il. Cook, of Missouri, and w. Ii.
Culp, of Arkansas
Mrs. Lease, who then spoke, opened
with the declaration that q crisis was
now on, more dangerous than that
which confronted the American people
in 1776.
TDEATN