The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-16

believed that the friends of silver would
capture the next National convention.
Ex-Representative Charles ii. Turner of
New York City said that the doctrine of
free silver was growing. All that was
needed to foster the sentiment was mis-
sionary work in the South and West. The
only hope for the country is the retention
of Democrats in power. Because the party
has made blunder that was no reason why
a clean candidate cannot be chosen whose
feet or any other part of his anatomy is so
large that he can obscure the planks of the
platform.
Representative Jones of Virginia said
that if the free-silver people in the various
States would organize it would be possible
to elect free silver candidate on a free
silver platform. 1t is necessary, however,
that the fight be made within the ranks
of the Democratic party.
Representative Lockhart of North Caro-
lima made a conciliatory speech, in which
he defended the Presidents right to enter
tain different views from the free silyerites
Oh the money question. He had no in
tolerance for those who differed from him
on this question. He defended his own
view against the assertion of Mr.. Carlisle,
who had said free silverism is Populism
Yet he would not abuse the Secretary be-
cause he entertained an erroneous position
on this topic. In North Carolina, he said,
the silver people had such distrust of
Populism that the name was sufficient to
turn public sentiment against that party s
plan.
Ex-Representative Fithian of Illinois
said that he had been defeated for re-elec-
ton because he had to bear the odium of
the Administrations action ir the last
Congress. He was believer in free COIN
age and would abide by the action of this
conference.
Representative Livingston of Georgia
said that the trade commerce and agricul-
ture of the United States were again in
jeopardy and that another declaration of
independence was needed. If England
was given the control of our money sys-
tenn she would control the country-a
thing which she could not do by force of
arms. He referred to the recent bond is
sues and said they were the most disgrace
full thing a party had ever done.
Senator Call of Florida was in accord
with the movement now proposed and
thought that the people of the country
were now ready to join the great triumphal
march.
Mr.. Hill of Missouri when called re-
sponded by thanking God that he was not
Hill of New York. In two short years Mr..
Cleveland had led the Democratic party to
defeat and disgrace by series of acts of
perfdy and treachery unprecedented in
the history of this country. Mr.. Cleveland
and Mr.. Carlisle, he said, would go down
the lanes of oblivion hand-in-hand amid
the cries of Indignation of the people.
Senator Brice, he said, was the black white
man and as great traitor as Cleveland,
Carlisle and German.
When the committee reports were an
nounced as complete shortly before noon,
Senator Jones took the chair and Governor
Stone of Missouri presented the address.
He announced that il was substantially
the same as that partially adopted bv the
Texas silver convention and adopted in
toto by the Mississippi convention. The
address is as follows:
At a conference between q number of Demo.
Gratis from different States who attended the
non-partisan convention recently assembled at
Memphis, Tenn, for the purpose of promoting
the cause of free silver coinage (Which confer
ence was held after the adjournment of the
convention), a committee, consisting of Sena-
tors Jones of Arkansas, Turpie of Indiana and
Harris of Tennessee, was appointed and au-
thorized to invite representative Democrats
from the several States to meet them at Wash
ington for consultation with the view of secur-
ing cooperation and concert of action among
those Democrats throughout the Union who
believe in adhering to the cardinal Demo
cratic policy of actual bimetallism and who
are opposed to committing the party to the
plutocratic Republican doctrine of gold mono
metallism.
The present conference is the result OF the
action then taken. This is purely voluntary
assemblage, and therefore does not assume to
speak with party authority. Disclaiming all
right to bind any person by our utterances, but
profoundly conscious that the Democratic
party to-day confronts a crisis the most mo-
mentous in its history, and fraught with far
reaching peril to the people and to the coun-
try we are assembled as individual Democrats
to take counsel together, and for the undis-
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