The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-16

San Francisco, May 15.-1nstead of
the great results for free coinage aimed
ct. the visit to California of General
y. ]. Warner, of Ohio, head of the
American bimetallic party, and Con-
gresham Joseph c. Sibley, of Penn
sylvania, named by that organization
for president in 1896. has apparently
been productive of the opposite eff
feet. The effect S the fiat secession
of the State Silver League from Gen
eral Warmers national organization.
Abe trouble was caused by the at
te&npt of General Warner and several
oeH,gressmen, enthusiastic for the
reconciliation of silver, to make
Sibley the presidential candidate of
the white metal party in the next
campaign.
AutOcratic Warner.
The expressions of antagonism to-
ward General Warmers booming of
Mr.. Sibley were so many and loud
that 4 meeting of the executive COM
mittee was called at Los Angeles last
Saturday afternoon. The entire mat
|. ter was submitted TO a subcommittee
OF five to report upon. The report,
which has been prepared, character
ICES the members of the Sibley eau
Gus as persons claiming the right to
dictate the party nomination for
president of the United States" and
seeking a division of the bimetallic
party by a wrongful use of party ma
chinery TO force Endorsement of the
said candidate, regardless of the
wishes of others in the party as &c
what the issues should re when ap-
pealing from the money power to the
intelligence of the American people"
1t plainly insinuates that the War
ner-Sibley plan of advocating silver
is dishonest, and says Mr.. Sibley's
adherents are ''evading a vital is
sue" The following excerpt is an in
dication of its tone:
Strad5Ie the Issue.
They straddle the national bank
question by pretending to give the
general government the exclusive con-
troll over the issue and volume Of paper
money, when, in truth, their platform
can be fully complied with by leaving
the issue and volume of paper money
wholly in the hands of the national
banks. They attempted to lead the peo-
pie into the belief that those who are
urging Mr.. Sibley for the presidency
are opposed 10 government partner
ship with national banks that control
the circulating medium at the pleas
ltre Of their foreign stockholders"
kTS5e committee, therefore, recon-
led the adoption Of some plainly
W52ied resolutions condemning Cen
erah Warner and Mr.. Sibley; appeal
IHg to sister states to organize like
the California league, and to protest
against the caucus method, and calling
for a national convention of state
leagues to meet at St. Louis, March
16, 1896, to nominate candidates for
president and vice-president. The reso-
lItions charge General Warner, as
chairman OF a "self-styled national ex-
ecutive committee" with "esta blishing
rival organizations in this and other
states to force the favorite of the con-
demned caucus upon the American
people
Independent of Warner.
It all means that the California or
ganization proposes to move from
henceforth Independently of General
Warner and the national party, and
tkat it will do its utmost to bring
u bout national convention of its own
IN St. Louis next March, which, it
hopes, VIII adopt a platform and NOM
mate candidates upon the lines it lays
Gown.
The State Silver League also finds
fault with General Warner for limit
ing his efforts TO an attempt to secure
the unlimited coinage of silver at a
ratio of 16 TO l. The league contains a
large number of Populists, and they
do not think any financial platform
would be complete unless it included
provision for an issue of greenbacks
and an explicit declaration against the
national banking system and the is
Guance of any more government bonds.