Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-15

"oS oOopeSu. 10y COuutIcS TIC NoIc re-
suited 423 yeas to 90 nays The St.
Louis delegation registered 60 for to z
against the motion.
The committee on resolutions not be-
ing ready to report, the meeting was
treated to a number of speeches. one
by Mr.. Hatch and another by NJ. E.
Benton.
The committee on resolutions re-
turned at 4:30. 1t presented the plat
form. which was read by d. A. De Ar
mond and adopted.
Resolutions were passed instructing
the central committee to issue a call
for the holding of state convention
for the election of delegates to the ma
tional convention not later than April
Is, 1896, and further instructing it to
call a state convention for the nomi-
nation of state officers, to be held fter
the national convention. The conven-
tion of April Is is to be held in st.
Louis.
A resolution sending greetings to
Senator Black burn for his fight on the
dark and bloody ground of Kentucky
in behalf of the free and unlimited
coinage of silver and gold at the ratio
of 16 to 1" was carried.
The call by districts of the new
members of the state central commit
tee resulted as follows:
First Dist ict-J. A. Knott. Hannibal.
Second-ChaS. W. Green, Linn county,
Third. c. Brown. Roy.
FOURTH. L. Christensen, Atchison county.
Fifth. l.. Grosshart. Lafayette county.
Sixth-E. B. Man, Dade county.
Seventh-B. a. Barber. Greene county
Eighth-G. T. King. Galloway county.
Ninth-O. Fl. Avery, Lincoln county.
Tenth. w. Boone. Franklin county.
Eleventh-T. j. Ward, ST. Louis
Twelfth-O. r. Z. Foster, St. Louis
Thirteenth-G. E. Oregon, Dent county.
Fourteenth-W. A. Evans. Howell county.
Fifteenth-S. S. Hoss. Vernon county.
The following were elected by the
convention for mem
Judge NJ. A. Fyke, Kansas City; J. W. Far
ris. Laclede county: G. w. Alien, St. Louis;
81. E. Benton, Vernon county.
Evening Session.
At $50 the convention reassembled
and listened to speeches by Harry
Hill, of ST. Louis, and Senator Cock
rell. The single gold standard, the
senator argued, was wholly undemo-
cratic, and was in entire conflict with
the principles of the party. from it's
birth to the present time. He did not, as
n democrat, ever intend to allow a few
men, however high their position, how
ever exhalted their station. by their
mere dictum and advocacy to destroy
the principles of the democratic party,
which had been championed and main
tanned for century of the country's
constitutional existence. He entered
into a detailed argument of the finan-
cial question, occupying more than
two hours in Its discussion. The speech
was ended by 10 o'clock, and the con-
vention was terminated.
Tho Platform.
The democrats of Missouri in state conven-
ton assembled make the following declaration
on the monetary question. which has been
forced into the leading place among the issues
of the day:
The federal constitution names silver and
gold together as the money metals Of the
United States.
The first coinage law passed by congress I'M
der the constitution made the silver dollar the
unit of value and admitted gold to free coinage
at a ratio measured by the silver dollar unit.
From the beginning of the government follow
ing policy formulated by Thomas Jefferson
and firmly established by Jackson. the demo-
cratic party has been the party of bimctallism
favoring the free coinage of both silver and
gold at the national minis. and opposed to
farming out to banking corporations the gov
ernment's sovereign power of issuing and con-
trolling the money Of the people.
The act of 1873 demonetizing silver was sur
reptitiouSly passed. without the approval or
knowledge of the American people. and from
the time when the effect of this act in fasten-
ing upon the country the single gold standard
was understood the demo ratio party has con-
SiStently and perSiStently urged that the griev-
Gus wrong be righted.
Failure to accomplish this object has result
ed in the steady appreciation of gold CORE
spending falling in the prices OF commodities
produced by the people. a heavy increase in the
burden of all debts public and private the en-
richment of the money-lending class, paralyza-
tion of industry and impoverishment of the
people and unexampied distress in all gold
standard countries.
Experience has shown that while under the
single gold standard there may be an occa-
sional revival of business activity. accom-
panied by enhanced prices OF limited num-
Der of commodities, such revival is due to arti-
fetal and temporary causes, and can not per-
manenty alleviate the suIerings due to fall
ing prices brought about by the appreciation
of gold and the inadequate supply OF primary
or redemption money.
Duty to the people requires that the party OF
the people continue the battle of bimetallism
therefore. be it
Resolrrd. That we. the democratic party OF
Missouri. in convention assembled, demand
the free and unlimited coinage of silver and
gold into primary or redemption money at the
ratio of Is to without waiting for the action
or approval of any other nation: and
Rrsoired. That we irrevocably opposed
to the substitution for metallic money of a
panic-breeding corporation credit currency
based on a single metal. the supply of which is
so limited that it can be o.rnered at any time
by a few banking institutions in Europe and
America.
Resoired. That we are opposed to the policy
and practice of surrendering to the holders OF
the obligations of the United States the option
reserved by the law to the government, of re-
deeming such obligations in either silver coin
or gold coin.
Resolred. That we are opposed to the issuing
OF interest bearing bonds of the United States
in time Of peace. and especially are we opposed
to placing the treasury Of the government un-
der the control OF any syndicate OF bankers
and the issuance of bonds to be sold by them
at an enormous profit. for the purpose of sup
plying the federal treasury with gold to main
tain the policy of gold monometallism-
-Proclamations by the president OF
the United States have maintained
one form since the foundation of the
government. The original emancipa.
ton proclamation issued by President
Lincoln is written upon very heavy
white unruled paper that is folded
once. The fold is at the left, like a
sheet of four-paged 1etter-paper, and
each page is ten by fourteen inches in
size. 1t begins, as do all presidential
proclamations. by the President OF
the United States of America-A
Proclamation" The first line is writ