The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-08-21
READY FOR WORK.
Silver Democrats Formulate Plans
for the Campaign.
Result of Their Conference at Washington
Text of an Address and Series of
Resolutions Adopted Work
of Organization.

tnere Tor the purpose or agreeing
: upon line of policy to be pursued
in the interest of silver in the demo
cratic party. While the call for the
conference issued by Senators Harris,
Turpie and Jones, of Arkansas, did not
specify the hour, the meeting was post
poned until noon.
The meeting was called to order at
IL o'clock by Senator Harris, who
moved that Senator Jones, of Arkansas,
be made chairman and William c. Hin
richsen, of Illinois, secretary. This
was done. Senator Jones, in opening,
said that the conference had met in
accordance with the call, which eX
planned its purpose. He wanted to see
a silver militia organized to cope with
the gold forces. The roll call showed
nineteen states represented, with the
following number of delegates:
Virginia. Is; West Virginia. 2; Arkansas 8;
Colorado, 3; South Carolina, /; North Caro-
lima. 81 Illinois, ID; Florida, 4; Tennessee, 4:
Alabama, 4: Ohio 1: Georgia, 2; Missouri, IA;
Indiana, 2, Delaware. 1; Maryland, 81 Ken
lucky, 1; Mississippi, l. and North Dakota, l.
On motion of Senator Daniel, of Vir-
ginia, the chairman appointed the fol-
lowing committee to prepare pro-
gramme of proceedings and resolu-
tions, and report the same to the con-
ference at an adjourned meeting to be
held at 4 p. m.
Missouri, Gov Stone and H M. Hill; North
Carolina, Senator Jarvis; Illinois, w.
H Hinrichsen; Indiana A. W. Clarke:
Georgia, ex-senator Walsh; Alabama,
j. F. Johnson: Tennessee, NJ. Carmack:
Virginia, Senator Daniel Kentucky. w.
Woodson; Colorado, A Newell; North Dakota,
W. r Bierby; Ohio, p S Yoder: Delaware,
J. F. Sanesbury; Maryland, M M Pullman;
Mississippi, w. S. Stocksdale South Caro-
lima, j. F. Trentlen; West Virginia, j. j.
Cromwell; Texas, Representative Hare;
Arkansas, Senator Jones, and Florida, j. S.
Beard.
The conference reassembled at 4
o'clock. Senator Daniel, in accord
ance with the agreement reached by
the committee on programme, reported
progress and asked that the confer
ence adjourn until 10 o'clock Thurs
day morning, at which time they ex-
pected to be able to report resolutions
and an address to the party. The re-
quest of Senator Daniel met prompt
compliance and the conference ad
iourned until 10 o'clock to-day.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.-Without a
dissenting voice the delegates to the
silver conference on Thursday adopted
free coinage resolutions, appointed
provisional committee to perfect
national organization, made speeches
anything but complimentary of the
administration and adjourned sine die.
When the committee reports were
announced as complete shortly before
noon, Senator Jones took the chair
and Gov. Jones, 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 Address.
The main portion of the address fol-
lows:
After explaining the call for the conference
and declaring that it was purely voluntary
assemblage and therefore does not speak with
party authority it proceeds as follows:
PROFOUNDLY conscious that the democratic
party to-day confronts a crisis the most
momentous in it's history and fraught
with far-reaching peril to the people and
the country, are assembled as individual
democrats to take counsel together and for
the undisguised purpose of inaugurating and
promoting thorough and systematic organi-
cation of the democratic masses, SO that they
may go forward one man with a reSolute
purpose to rescue the old party, founded by
Thomas Jefferson, from plutocratic DONNA
ton.
Therefore, with this object in view, this
convention of American democrats, composed
OF representatives from twenty-five of the
leading states OF the union, make the following
declaration on the monetary question which
has been forced into the leading place among
the issues of to-day. The federal copsti-
tuition names silver and gold together as the
money metal of the United States The first
coinage law passed by congress under the con-
stitution made the silver dollar the unit of
value and admitted gold to free coinage at
ratio measured by the silver dollar unit.
From the beginning of the government, fol-
lowing policy formulated by Thomas Jeffer-
son and firmly established by Jackson the
democratic party has been the party of bimet-
ailism favoring the free coinage Of both silver
and gold at the national minis and opposed to
farming out to banking corporations the
governments sovereign power Of issuing and
controlling the money of the people
Act of 1873.
1.-The act Of 1873 demonetizing silver was
surreptitiously passed without the approval
or knowledge OF the American people, and
from the time when the effect Of this act in
fastening upon this country the single gold
standard understood the democratic
party has consistently and persistently
urged that the grievous wrong be righted
Failure to accomplish this object has
suited in the steady appreciation Of gold and
corresponding fail in the price OF commodities
produced by the people. heavy increasein the
burden OF all debts. public and private; the
enrichment of the mOney-lending class;
paralysis of industry and the impoverishment
OF the people and unexampled distress In all
gold standard countries. Experience has
shown that while under the single gold stand
ard there may be occasional revival of
business activity accompanied by enhanced
prices of q limited number of commodities,
such revival Is due to artificial and temporary
causes and cannot permanently alleviate the