The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-08-17
FREE SILVER BEATEN
Texas Democrats Stand Loyalty
by the Administration.
coxEYs STATE CONVENTION.
Ohio Popuifsss Adopt . commonweal
Army PIatform-Idsho Demo-
cratic Nominations

DALLAS. Tex, Aug. 16-At l o'clock
this morning the Cleveland Democracy,
headed by George Clark. junped int the
saddle and rode over the free silver IL TO
ratio men By Q vote of 45l TO Ais. The
platform presented by the minority was
adopted. Had the majority report, fer
free silver a. the ratio OF Is 10 ], been
adopted, there is q probability that the
straight-out Cleveland men would have
bolted the convention, and il Is said thar
many free silver men voted against their
convictions in the interest OF harmony.
When thu convention. assembled at l;oo
today Chairman Hamhley read letter
from John H Reagan. Withdrawing from
the race for governor, declaring he had
made his canvass on the issue of free
silver ss ratio of Is to /. and that he
would not accept . nomination on the
platform adopted if it were given him.
He said, however, that he would support
the ticket that shall be nominated. The
convention proceeded to the nominations
for governor At the beginning of the
first ballot John ID. Mccall withdrew,
leaving the race between Culbsrson and
Lanham. Reagan's forces were largely
thrown to Culberson. and when he had re-
Withdrawn. Culberson was nominated ny
reclamation. George I. Jester. of Corsic-
ana, was nominated for heutenant-gov
ernor.
William Cochran, of Cleburne, was
nominated for attorney general
The platform reiterates the national
Democratic platform adopted in 1892;
ndorses the state administration of
Gov. Hogg and resffirms the Harmony
agreement" between the Democratic
factions entered into March 10. 1898, at
Dallas. President Cleveland administra-
ton is Endorsed as wise, patriotic and
statesmanlike, and the presidents action
in calling out Federal troops TO suppress
lawlessness during the recent railway
strike is commended. The financial
plank Is as follows: 1--WE hold to the
use of both gold and silver as the stand
ard money of the country, and the COIN
age of both metals without discrimination
against either or charge for mint
age, but the dollar unit OF coin
age of both metals must be of
equal intrinsic and exchan geable value,
adjusted through international agreement
or by such safeguards of legislation as
shall insure the maintenance of parity of
the two metals and the equal power of
every dollar at all times in the markets
and in payments of ali debts, and We de-
mand that all paper currency shall be
Kept at par and redeemaole in such coin."
David B. Culbers on. of Jefferson, Tex.
was born in Troup county. Ga. September
%, 1880. and was educated at Brentwood
college, La Grange. Ga. He studied law
under Chief Justice Chiffon, of Alabama,
removed to Texas In 1856. and was elected
a member of the legislature of that state in
1859. On the breaking out of the war he
entered the Confederate army as private,
was promoted to the rank of colonel OF the
Eighteenth Texas infantry, and was as
signed to duty in 1864 as adjutant general,
with the rank of colonel, of the state of
Texas. He was elected to the state legis-
lature in 1864, and has been q member of
everv congress since the Forty-fourth. He
is chairman of the judiciary committee in
the present congress.l