St. Paul daily globe., 1895-07-03

silver to its time honored place as
money
%. 1t sends greeting to the people OF
sister states who are awakening to a
realization of the ruin and desolatjon
that must follow in the wake of gold
monometallisn, and assures them that
the Democratic party of Colorado will
never surrender it's convictions on this
great issue, but will do battle for the
restoration of silver until the wrong
inflicted upon the people by the de-
struction of its money function has
been righted.
FIGHT TO THE END.
q. In view of the fact that single
gold standard newspapers in the East
have seized upon the action of Repub-
lican clubs of this state, recently as
sembled in Denver, as justifying the
declaration that interest in the silver
question is dying out in Colorado. the
Democratic party of this state en-
phatically declares its purpose to stand
for the free and unlimited coinage of
silver at the ratio of 16 to /, with or
without international agreements to the
end, and calls upon every citizen of the
state, who regards the silver question
as greater than party allegiance, to
prevail.
.. We recommend and urge upon
the Democrats of every county and pre-
c1nct in the state the importance of
immediate and effective organization.
and that at the approaching election
for county officials a full ticket be
nominated in every county, which
shall stand for and represent the prin-
cipleS herein expressed
70. Believing that the masses Of the
Democratic party throughout the Unit
ed States are in sympathy with the
movement for the restoration of silver,
we call upon them to take such action
as will secure the selection of delegates
to the next national convention who
will declare absolutely for the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of Is to
l, and be actuated by the same spirit
which prevailed with our forefathers
when they declared in favor of Amer
lean independence, and insist and de-
mand that these United States shall
restore to silver its rightful place as a
money metal, Independent of the ac-
ton of any other country in the
world.
NO CLEVELAND POLICY.
'7 Resolved, That we expressly dis
sent from the financial policy of the
present administration. We are op-
posed to the issue of interest-bearine
bonds in time of peace
''8. Resolved, That we second the
call of the Democracy of the state of
Illinois for convention of the Democ-
racy of the nation to put the Demo-
cratic party upon its historic platform
OF sound money, consisting, Of the gold
and silver coinage of the constitution
+ ". That committee be appointed
to prepare an address embodying the
sense of this convention and these
resolutions, and procure the publica-
ton and distribution of the same
throughout the state"
The resolutions were adopted with
out dissent or discussion. Thomas J.
O'Donnell, of Denver, was called for
and responded in a short address, in
which he predicted that the next
Democratic convention would declare
for free silver. He denounced the
present administration for following
as he claimed, the policy of John
Sherman. Addresses by Judge Ve1-
man and eX-Goy. Alva Adams followed
The following delegates to the Demo-
cratic bimetalic convention, to be held
at Washington, Aug. IA, were chosen;
Charles S. Thomas, T. J. O'Donnell
Alva Adams, John A. Gordon, j. Ern-
est Meiere, J. NJ. Ellis. ]. w. Barnes
E. l.. Coates, Charles o. Unfug
Theron Stevens. A. T. Conneu, Joseph
Morgan and Adair Wilson. The fol
lowing were named as a committee to
draft an address to the people of the
United States on the silver question:
Charles S. Thomas, Alva Adams,
James Shinn, Frank E. Wheeler, Adair
Wilson, Sam E. Browne. H. o. Swee-
ney and Mrs. Kirkpatrick. The meet
ing then adjourned