Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-15
To-DAY's TELEGRApHIC NEWS
The SILVER Conferences.

The Silver Conference.
WASHINGTON, Aug. Ex-senator
Harris called the silver conference to-
gether at ten o'clock to-day. AS soon
as the delegates were seated he stated
that the committee on resolutions,
though it had worked most of the
night, was not yet ready to report, but
would be able to do so in about an
hour. 1t was agreed to devote the
hour waiting for the committees re-
port in speech-making, and the confer
ence was made public.
Short speeches were made by Colonel
Casey Young, of Tennessee; ex-Repre-
sentative Fithian, of Illinois; Represen-
tatiye Livingstone, of Georgia; Senator
Mr.. Cleveland has led the democratic
Call of Florida, and Mr.. Hill of Missouri.
The latter said: I'm two short years
party to defeat and disgrace by series
of acts of perfdy and treachery I'M
precedented in the history of this coun-
try" Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Carlisle,
he said, would go down the lanes of
obliveration, hand in hand amid the
cries of indignation of the people.
Senator Brice, he said, was the
black-white man, and as great traitor
ss Cleveland, Carlisle and German.
When the committee reports were
announced as complete, shortly before
noon, Senator Jones took the chair and
Governor Stone, of Missouri presented
the address. He announced that it
was substantially the same as that par
TALLY adopted by the Texas silver con-
| vention and adopted in toto by the
Mississippi convention. The present
conference, the address says, is
purely voluntary assemblage. and
therefore does not assume to
speak with party authority and
disclaims all right to bind any
person by its utterances, but is profound
| ly conscious that the democratic party
to-day confronts crisis the most mo-
mentous in its history and fraught with
far reaching peril to the people and the
country, who are assembled as individ-
ual d 9mocrats to take counsel together
and fJr the undisguised purpose of in
augurating and promoting thorough
and systematic organization of the DEM
ocratic masses so that they may so
forward as one man, with a resolute
purpose 10 rescue the old party founded
by Thomas Jefferson from plutocratic
domination.
The resolutions are as follows:
Resolved, That the democratic party
in national convention assembled
should demand the free and unlimited
coinage of silver and gold into primary
or redemption money at the ratio OF
16 to 1, without waiting for the action
or approval of any other nation.
Resolved, That it should declare its
irrevocabls opposition to the substitu-
ton for metallic money of panic
breeding, corporation credit currency,
based on single metal, the supply of
which is 80 limited that it can be cor
nered at any time by few banking
institutions in Europe and America.
Resolved, That it should declare its
Opposition s the policy and practice Of
surrendering to the holders Of the obi.
cations of the United States the optfon-
reserved by the law to the government
of redeeming such obligations in either
silver coin or gold coin.
Resolved, That it should declare its
opposition to the issuing of interest
bearing bonds of the United States in
time of peace, and especially to placing
the treasury of the government under
the control of any syndicate of bankers
and the issuance of bonds to be sold by
them at an enormous profit for the pur-
Io:e of supplying the federal treasury
with gold to maintain the policy of
gold monometallism.
The address and resolutions were
adopted by unanimous vote.
The plan of the organization recon-.
mends national committee of demo-
Gratis who are in favor of both gold and
silver as the money of the constitution,
which shall be composed of one demo-
crat from each State and the execu
tive committee hereinafter provided for;
that until otherwise ordered by the
national committee, Senators Harris, OF
Tennessee, Jones, of Arkansas, Turpie,
of Indiana, and Hons. w. j. Stone, of
Missouri, and W. II. Henrichsen, of IL
linois, and Mr.. Casey Young, of Ten
nessee, be constituted the executive
committee who shall at as early day
as possible appoint the members of
the National Committee herein pro-
vided for, and fill vacancies in the
same.
By unanimous vote approval was
given to the plan proposed, and the
conference then at quarter of one, on
motion of Senator Harris, adjourned
sine die.
The executive committee before sep
arating named the following members
of the national committee
Ex-senator Walsh, of Augusta, Geor-
gia; ]. II. Dennis, of Reno, Nevada; G.
S. Thomas, of Colorado; G.. Ainslee, of
Idaho; ]. n. Head, of Nashville, Ten
nessee, and G. Armstrong, of Arkansas.
Both Killed.
NoRRIsTowN, Pa, Aug. 15.-Thomas
Hovenden, a well-known artist, was
instantly killed by railroad train near