The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-06

| farmers, laborers and property-owning debt
| ors, the most defenseless victims OF unstable
money and fuctuating currency.
| Free coinage of silver, at 16 to /, means sill
yer monometallism; 1T means poorer money
and less of it it means less wages for the labor
| ing man and less actual money for the far mer
| and very much less credit, as we'll as money
| for the business man. 1t means bankruptcy
| for all save the mine-owners. We recognize in
the issue and reissue of our treasuryRnotes a
serious menace to the stability of the National
finances but we favor the retirement OF all
| treasury notes at the earliest possible moment,
with proper and safe guarantees tor MAINTAIN
| ing the necessary volume OF currency which
shall be devised by competent, non-partisan
currency commission.
The consultation OF this State provides that
no religious test shall be made as qualifica-
tion for office. That provision we accept both
in the letter and in the spirit, and we con-
denim every attempt by secret societies or
otherwise to prescribe any portion of our citi-
zens on account of their religious beliefs or
affiliation.
Nominations for Justice of the Supreme
Court brought out but one name, that OF
T. j. Mahoney of Omaha, and he was
nominated by acclamation. John H.
Ames of Lincoln and w. S. Ashby of Hill
university, and the convention shortly
after O'Clock adjourned sine die.
Tonight. at the opera-house, ex-Con-
gresham Nj. d. Harter of Ohio addressed
large crowd. After referring briefly to
the tariff, he took up the currency ques-
ton, saying in part:
To-day, and until the question is finally
settled, the overshadowing issue is the ques-
ton of money, and the Democratic party is
unfit to be trusted with the government OF
even a township, if it does not on this great
question take stand for honesty, for intelli-
gence and in the interests OF the toiling millions
who vote its ticket and look up to it to protect
their interests. We have in this country to-day
the humiliating and disgusting spectacle OF the
three prominent candidates for the Republican
nomination for the Presidency all in hiding on
this momentous question. question whether
we have before had an ex-President of the
United States, voluble enough upon all other
subjects, but too prudent, shall we say, no, too
cowardly, to declare whether or not he is will
ing to consent to the adoption OF policy
which would pay for 100 cents worth of honest
sweat with so cents worth of Colorado mine
| owners silver. The other two prominent Re-
publican candidates, while less conspicuous,
| seem to be equally cowardly and are to-day
| the most disgraceful political exhibition in
| civilized Governments anywhere on the globe.
| Thank God, this cannot be said of the Demo
cratic party. We have men ignorant enough
to advocate the coinage without limit of so
cent legal tender dollars, but they are courage
Gus enough to air their ignorance. and, in
doing so, advertise their honesty. These Dem
ocrats are for rotten money, but they are not
| dark-lantern statesmen nor do they hide their
rushlights under bushel.
| Even the wild-eyed, distorted.countenanced
| leaders OF Populism and anarchism, by COM
parison with many leaders of Republican SEN
| timent, shine and command respect. The great
leaders of the Democratic party, its really rep
| resentative men in public and in private life,
| give out no uncertain sound upon this ques-
| ton, and from the South and West, as well as
| in the North and East, the great Democratic
! party of the country stands for dollar worth
| 100 cents every day in the year and in every
j part of the country. The test of sound Democ-
i racy is sound money. The man who to-day is
willing to see his country disgraced, its pros
| perity checked, his fellow-citizens robbed by
| the adoption of system that will put us upon 9
| silver basis and put us alongside of Mexico and
| China in the scale of intelligence and, honesty
| is not Democrat, and his absence from the
| party councils and from the ballot-box will not
be missed. The sooner, my fellow-Democrats
| of Nebraska, we are ria of these repudiation-
| lists the better. The weakness of our party has
| always been in those who, while wearing the
| badge were not of us. While the Republican
| party stands shaking and hesitating, we should
| declare in all our platforms the most uncom-
| promising opposition to every form of repudia-
| ton and set our faces like flint against every
attempt to degrade the currency of the Nation.