The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-05-31
A SILVER RALLY.
A NON-PARrIsAN CONFERENCE
HELD AT SALT LAKE CITY,
Western Governors, Ex-Governor aud
Congressman Were on Hand.

Altyt Itnh, were mass OF huhllHg /
aud national colora Wednesday. Tho |
streets we're crowded with strangers /
from oil parts Of the west, who were |
In attendance on the silver convention
called by Governor Richards, Of Mon
tana, 10 discuss means 10 promote the
interests Of the silver cause.
Governor Richards, Of Montana,
called tho convention 10 order shortly
after noon. Governor West, of Utah,
and Mayor Baskin delivered addresses
Of welcome, after which q temporary
organization was effected and a recess
was talon until late in the afternoon.
Among the distinguished people
present were: Governor Richards,
+ Governor Mcconnell Of Idaho, ex-
Governor Adams Of Colorado, Con-
gresham Shafroth Of Idaho, ex-Goy-
ernor Thompson OF Oregon, Hon.
Thomas G. Merrill, Patrick Henry
Winston, Senator Carter Of Montana,
George Stephen DeWolf, Albert
Kleinsohmidt, Wharton Barker of
Philadelphia, ex-Congressman Bartin
and many mayors Of western towns,
with leading state officers and bankers
from the main cities of the west.
Letters Of regret, in which the signers
all take advanced ground in favor OF
the silver movement, have been re-
oeived from w. II. Harvey, the editor
OF Com; ex.Congressman Bryan, Viii
liam p. st. John of New York, and
Judge Mcdonnell Of Chicago.
Fully 1900 people we're present
when Governor Richards, of Montana,
again called the convention to order.
Governor Richards made an impas-
stoned address of half an hours
length, detailing the motive OF the
convention, which he said was without
party prejudice and irresistible be-
cause it was not partisan.
"The common people of the whole
country" he said, 'are discontinued
with our financial condition, and are
turning en- masse to the free coinage
of silver as the great remedy"
Permanent organization was effect
ed with Ex-Governor Thompson, of
Oregon, as president; Ex-Governor
Adams, of Colorado, and General Gu
J ney, of California, vice presidents /;
Henry w. Langenour, California, sec
rotary.
1t was finally decided to allow each
state to cast three votes regardless of
the number of its delegates. The main
addresses of the day were the speech
of Richards in opening, and an ex-
haustive paper on the silver question
aud the evils of monometalism, read
by Wharton Baker, the Philadelphia
editor, at the evening session, before
/: an audience Of 1000 people. Governor
Richards said in part:
eve do not meet as republicans, as
democrats or as populists, but as
American citizens jealous for the
right as god gives us to see the right
and earnest in the advocacy of sound
financial principles. The masses OF
the people in the east as well as in the
> west have grown distrustful of the
4 financial ability of a class of reason.
ers whose policy has invited the most
far-reaching disasters that ever over.
took the business interests of oul
country or paralyzed the energies o.
our people. Every prophecy made by
the gold men has been discredited by
g the progress of events and the predic
: ton made by the silver men has beer
s verified in the colossal misfortune
that have visited our lands. Thu
logic of the situation demands a re
t versal of the public judgment and i
will come. The argument of tn,
single gold standard advocates ha
matured from a gilded theory into
condition that ought to appeal will
s irresistible force to the candid oh
server of events. Existing condition.
rejecting the misfortunes of the bust
8 ness world upon every phase of our in
+ dustrial and social life have stimulated
I a demand on the part of the masse
( for a better knowledge of fnancia
d propositions that self-interests ma,
be repeated at the polls. In no way
can the interests OF silver be bette
a served, in the receptive condition O
/. the public mind than through a sys
= tematic course of education that vii
# reach the individual intelligence in tn
u sacred circle of the home. The emf
nent gentlemen who represent the sew
eral states in this conference have beef
/ delegated with the responsibility o
). devising ways and means for the car
rying out of this object, and that you
d, labors will prove an aggressive step il
a most successful campaign of tn
s. cause, 1 doubt not. Already tn
ID European wing OF the American re
public is beating the air in an effort t.
n retain it's lofty perch. The gold mel
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