Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-09-21
The State Convention Assemblies at
Columbus---Chairman Hurd's
Address.
FREE COINAGE FAVORED
At a Ratio Of Is to 1 and Declares
Protection a Fraud---NeW York
Republicans.

Ocratic state convention met at 10 a. M,
with Hon. Frank Hurd of Toledo as
temporary chairman. In his opening
speech Mr.. Hurd congratulated his fell
low Democrats upon assembling in
state convention in the fushes of the
dawn Of a new day of prosperity. He
blamed the Republican party for the
hard times that the country had passed
through and claimed that the new tar
if law proclaimed the doom of protec-
ton.
As to Party Divisions.
Coming to the division in the party
IN the tariff question MI. Hurd said:
First and foremost I give credit to
Grover Cleveland and John G.. Carlisle.
Free wool is worth more to tariff reform
than all other provisions of the law put
together.
To their credit be it said, the Ohio
Democratic members in the house stood
firm, every n voting for free wool.
When by one word he could have de-
feated free wool, more credit is due
Senator Brice than to any other infu-
ence. or to all other influences com.
bined.
Mr.. Hurd counselled harmony and
further effort to agree.
The different schedules will require
further adjustment in the interest Of
free trade.
The Chicago platform declares that
protection is unconstitutional and rob-
berry. If that declaration be true our
mission cannot be ended while a pro.
tective statute remains.
MI. Hurd closed by saying he was op-
posed to the American Protective Asso-
citation because it was a secret political
society. Such societies organized on
religious lines are unconstitutional, or
CARNATIONS violative Of the fundamental
law, both Of the United States and Of
this state. The A. P. A. gave Governor
Mckinley his majority of 81, 1000 and the
large Republican majority in Maine.
We must make it plain that no man
can be a Democrat and an A. P. A.
The Platform.
The platform praises the efficient,
honest, and economic administration of
President Cleveland; declares protec.
ton a fraud, and while recognizing the
benefit of the reduction of the duty on
imports just made by congress, favors
such further reduction as can be made,
to the end that purely protective duties
be abolished; declares that the McKin-
ley law caused the business depression,
reduced the revenue and led to the
necessity for issuing government bonds;
business failures, strikes, low wages,
low prices for farm products are enum-
Grated as the result of the Mckinley
law. Under the new tariff business is
declared to be reviving.
"We dissent" says one plank, ''from
the presidents views, construction and
treatment of the silver question, and
therefore believe that silver should be
restored to the position it occupied az
money prior to its characterization by
the Republican party and to that end
we favor the unlimited coinage of sill.
yer at the legal ration Of 16 to l, and
with equal legal tender power"
The platform denounces the last gen.
eral assembly of Ohio, Governor Nc.
Kinley's administration and the Amer.
lean Protective association. 1t favors
labor pensions, ga corrupt practice
law" limiting amount of money to be
expended by candidates and a law pro.
hibiting free passes Oh railroads.