The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-27
FREE SILVER FORCES.
Bryan Nominated BY AccIamntion in
Nebraska.

| Omaha, Sept. 26.--Before the Demo-
cratic state convention was called to
order this afternoon, the situation was
chaotic. The Bryan free silver forces
had selected Ed P. Smith for temper
| airy chairman, but the state central
| committee held a meeting to name a
man who would represent the admins
| tration. The free silver men had also
decided to have w. D. Oldham of
kearney, for permanent presiding Off
Ger, and this, too, was thorn in the
| side of the administration.
The convention was called to order
at 2:35 by Chairman Euclid Martin, of
| the state central committee. Ed P,
Smith was made temporary chairman
after Matt Miller had been named and
had withdrawn
BY vote of 80 to the central COM
mittee decided to recommend Judge
Matt Miller, of David City, for temper
airy chairman, and allow the conven-
ton to choose permanent officers.
The Bryan free silver faction had
charge Of the machinery of the conven-
ton when it reconvened al o'clock.
The credentials committee reported all
the contestants in favor of the Bryan,
leaving the administration anti-silver
element a small minority in the con-
vention-scarcely 100 delegates.
w. D. Oldham, of Kearney, was
made permanent chairman, and an
nounced the convention ready for nom
nations.
DR., Edwards, of Lancaster, amid
great demonstrations of enthusiasm,
placed Congressman Bryan in nominal
ton for United States senator. He was
chosen by reclamation and replied in
speech pledging himself to work for
free silver and against monopolies.
After wrangling until midnight, over
the question of fusion the matter was
postponed, pending the report of the
committee on platform.
The minority report was similar to
the majority with the exception of the
clause relating to finances, which de-
clared for a gold basis. 1t was wholly
ignored by the victorious silverftes,
however, and the majority report car
ried with rush. After renewing their
allegiance to Jeffersonian principles,
expressing the belief that a public
office is d public trust" and that all
men are created equal, the income tax
is endorsed, election of United States
senators by the people advocated and
an amendment to the constitution MAX
ing a president ineligible to reelection.
The report at length reviews the A. P.
A. question and denounces that move
ment in severe terms and concludes
with the following clause in favor of
silver:
1--WE endorse the language used by
Hon. John G. Carlisle in 1888, when he
denounced the conspiracy to destroy
silver money as the most gigantic
crime of this or other age, and We
agree with him that the contamination
of such a scheme would ultimately en-
tail more misery upon the human race
than all the wars, pestilences and
famines that ever occurred in the his
tory of the world. We favor the inn
mediate restoration of the free and
unlimited coinage of gold and silver at
awaiting for the consent of any other
nation on earth"
1--WE believe that all money issued by
the government, whether gold, silver
or paper, should be made a full legal
tender for all debts, public and private,
and that no citizen should be permit
ted to demonetize, by contact, that
which the government makes money by
law
After the adoption of the platform,
the leaders of the fusion and anti
fusion factions announced an agree
ment, and Judge Holcomb, the Popu-
list candidate for governor. was en-
dorsed at midnight by large majority.
The following ticket was nominated.
IV4 alli-IuSlOnlStS Doitlng during the
process: Governor, Judge Holcomb.
lieutenant governor, ]. N. Gaffin; secre-
tary of state, F. +. Ehlick; treasurer.
G. A. LinlShart; attorney-genera Cen
eral d. B. Carr; auditor. j. C. Dahl
man; commissioner of public lands and
buildings, j. j. Kent; superintendent of
public instruction, w. A. Jones
Holcomb. Gaffin, Carr Kent and
Jones are Populist nominees. The reg
ular convention then adjourned.
The boilers then at once organized
into a separate convention and began
the work of selecting straight Dem
ocratic ticket.
The following state ticket was
named by the boilers, including the
delegates of six counties:
For governor, p. D. Sturtevant: lieu
r. E. Dunphy: sec
rotary of state, D. T. Rolfe; auditor.
Otto Bauman; treasurer, Luke Dry
denthalt attorney general, John III.
Ames; commission public lands and
buildings, Jacob Bigler; superinten-
dent public instruction, Milton Doo.
little.
The boilers convention then ad-
journed. after adopting a platform
similar to the other. excepting that it
favored a gold basis.
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