The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-24

and hard times during the recent panic,
and concluded in his most impressive and
significant style by saying: 'And these
things will SO continue unless man like
honest Dick Bland is nominated for Presi-
dent
Elks' Hall, in which the first portion of
the afternoon meeting was held, fairly
shook with the enthusiastic reception of
tbs sentiment.
Upon being introduced Mr.. Bland said !:
"There can be no greater question affect
ing the welfare of the people than that of
currency and we are asked to become ad-
vocates of a system of currency supplied
by National banks. The power to control
the volume of the money of the country
will necessarily result in the enslavement
of the people and the breaking down of the
power of the States. If all the facts stated
in Mr.. CarIisle's speeches at Memphis and
other places be true, and if the doctrines
he advocated are correct, then Democracy
as taught in history and practiced by our
fathers, was fraud.
"Ratio is constitutional question be-
longing to Congress, but justice must be
done to silver by putting it back right
where it was in 1873. The duty of the
present generation and the present time is
TO undo the wrong and wipe out the crime
of 1873"
In conclusion, Mr.. Bland said:
''In my opinion the conspiracy which
seems to have been formed here and in
Europe to destroy, by legislation or other
wise, from three-sevenths to one-half of
the metallic money of the world, is the
most gigantic crime of this age or any
other age. The consummation of such a
scheme would ultimately entail more mis-
cry upon the human race than all the
wars, pestilences and famines that ever oc-
Cured in the history of the world. We
still believe that silver's restoration is alb
solutely necessary to the prosperity of this
people; and we will indorse Carlisle and
his record as member of Congress, and
not Carlisle and his record as Secretary of
the Treasury"
At the conclusion of Mr.. BANDS ad-
dress recess was taken, and shortly after
noon the editors permanently organized.
These are the officers elected as recon-
mended.by the committee on organization,
which had been appointed this morning:
fIeSlu6Ub, OOlOilcl w Il DWltZlcI, DOuue-
vile; ce-presidents, one for each Con-
gressional district; secretary, III. ]. Groves,
Lexington; treasurer, G. K. Waldon, Ne
yada; executive committee to consist of
the elective officers. The Eleventh and
Twelfth districts are lot given representa-
ton, as the convention acknowledges them
as gold-bug sections.
At 2:30 P. NJ. the meeting was again
called together, when Governor Stone
made his address, that on account OF its
magnificent delivery and sensational ut
terances made the hit of the day. In ad-
dition to launching Mr.. Bland's boom
upon the Presidential seas, the Governor
claimed that the issue could be lodged no
longer He claimed that free coinage had
been the Democratic doctrine from the
time OF Jefferson; that monometallism
had been Republican cry and that those
who wished to go upon plutocratic prln-
ciples should be led out of the party. He
said that should Democracy, especially that
of Missouri, follow the ideas OF the National
administration, it would be confronted
with the possibility of both great parties
running upon the same issue.
Never before was Governor Stone more
at ease and never before did he seem more
thoroughly in harmony with his subject.