Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-25
SOUND MONEY MEN WIN, And It Wasn't Much of a Fight,
 After AL IOWA nN1OCRATS COUNSEL.
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 E- Moneta .S}lank of the National Platform of o '94 Reaffirmed, AN xuCP mrT0QN cr0QEn OM nATE
sF SHER VICTORY SCORED ON DATE.
C Oil Was Poured on the Waters and the Party May Yet Show
 Strong and Solid Front.

DeS Mo1neS, Ia., Aprll 24.-One hundred democratic leaders of the state and cen tral committee had a conference here this afternoon. The silver question was the principal topic of discussion. The representatives of the sentiment in diff ferent parts of the state differed widely and the debate became acrimonious, but the preponderance of sound money" sentiment was shown by the final adop- tion of a declaration that 'it is the sense of this conference that two monetary metals should be kept at a parity
 To this declaration was added, at the request of $. B. Evans of Ottumwa, rcp- resenting the moderate silver men and without objection from the antagonistic wing of the party, the modification, Without discriminating against either metal in the matter of coinage" thus practically reaffirming the national dem ocratfc monetary plank of 1892 The con- ference also voted in favor of holding the state convention after the republican convention, and the central committee accordingly this evening named August 7 as the date and Marshalltown as the place. The date is a compromise, the ex- treme silver men desiring an earlier coh- Vention and the extreme gold men very late one in order to give what they term tiiO PiNoNHt SliNcI craze tune 10 eXnauSt ltSelf The conference was a representa- tive one, so far as party leaders are con cerned, although the free silver men de- clare that the rank and file of the party. wherein their strength lies were not proportionately represented, and promise convention.
 When the question of the time for holding the state convention came up the sound money men, led by w. w. Will mer or Des Moines, delegate at large to the last national convention arraved themselves in favor of late convention In order that the party members might De educated to an understanding of the currency question prior to the conven- tion.
 F. c. Start led the free silver men in favor of an early convention.
 Ex-Congressman Hayes of Clinton and Henry Vollmer of Davenport urged "a late convention, and warned the party against yielding to free silver. They declared that the German-American voters of the state, and especially the Mississippi river counties would never be led into an indorsement of a depre- ciated currency. Mayor Vollmer de- clared that the democrats lost the First Iowa district at the last congressional election because of popular fear that the party would come out for free silver
 When vote was finally reached on the question of whether the democratic convention Should Follow or precede the republican convention, the advocates of a late convention won by a vote 60 to 20.
 Then w. w. Winner sought to recon cile the differences of opinion by offering a resolution favoring the maintenance of the money metals at a parity. A dozen free silver men objected to the consideration of the resolution as an at tempt to bind the party, but when vote was forced only five went on record against it.
 Although the free silver men promise a fight, the result of today's conference is taken to indicate that Iowa democrats in convention this year will indorse the national monetary plank of 1892, and the party leaders will interpret it in accord ance with the views of the administra- tion. :.