The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-06-14

ing silver, as Is SHOWN by lneir UNI
form votes in both houses of congress.
But when the money powers discovered
Cleveland they found an instrument to
thwart the will of the democratic
masses and they gained a valuable ally
for Sherman and Harrison and other
executive agents of the gold stand
ard.
The. alarm and distress caused by
the raid OF the gold combination on
the treasury. in 1898. created a furore
which amounted to a political cyclone.
which was directed by the firm hand
of the executive against the two houses
OF congress. Many democrats fell be-
fore the blast but the republicans sailed
with the wind and the democrats who
were stranded by the violence OF the
storm were swept back into the arms
of the republicans of the two houses.
Together they made majority to do
the bidding OF the money powers and
to wipe from the statute book every
law which recognized silver as a money
metal
The people have at last taken this
matter In their own hands. They now
know that those who say they are
friendly to silver. but want IL accom-
plished without doing it themselves. are
enemies and cannot he trusted No
man is a bimetallist who does not ad-
vocate bimetallism as ID existed for
thousands Of years before Sherman
visited England in 1867. and before he
carried out the purposes of an English
syndicate to strike down silver in 1878.
Conventions and the party lash have
thwarted the will OF the people for 20
years. Public plunder. n venal press
and ten thousand banks have dominat-
ed conventions of all parties since the
| man from Buffalo took charge of the
democratic party. A majority to do
| the will of the gold monopoly has been
easily secured in the conventions of
both old parties. and multiplicity of
ISSUES bars the success of the popu-
lists.
| What party names without party
principles? What is the democratic
party when 1t repudiates jefferson and
Jackson and follows John Sherman?
The democratic masses are in favor of
restoring the money of the constitu-
tion. They are speaking out in every
|
dread by the enemies OF the republic.
A very large percentage of the repub-
lican masses are equally true to the
principles Of free government with the
democratic masses, but the republican
leaders who worship at the shrine of
gold monopoly are more numerous and
powerful than the democratic leaders
who work with them to maintain the
gold standard. There are more Har-
risons than Clevelands and more Sher-
mans than Carlisles.
THE democracy of Illinois has brok-
en- the ice. The rank and file of the
republican party south and west are
shrunken. but the manipulators are
still In control. The republican COLI
vention of Kentucky renewed allegi-
arce Of the party of the state To the
alien gold syndicate. but the ties of
party are not strong enough to held
republicans of the great Northwest in
line. The South and West and the pro-
ducing classes OF all sections have a
common interest in restoring ,he money
OF the constitution aai gaining con-
troll OF the government of the United
States
When Senator Stewart had finished
his speech, loud cries We're made for
Congressman Money. one Of the silver
leaders of Mississippi. He advanced
to the stage and prefaced his remarks
by saying: II am here silver man
from head to foot. and a democrat all
over" Mr.. Money deprecated any at
tempt to settle the silver question
outside Of the democratic party. John
Allen of Mississippi was then called on.
He advanced no new arguments. but
he caught the crowd. throwing n verb
al bouquet at Senator Stewart and re-
minding the people that the West is the
friend OF the South The speaker elic-
tied roundsof applause when he said
the fight should not be taken out Of
the democratic party. He claimed that
the gold men were threatening people
with the disruption of the democratic
party. and he invited the republicans
to come into the democratic party and
fill up the ranks left vacant by the
deserters who went to the republican
party.
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
Immediately after the convention
was called to order for the afternoon
session. Senator j. *. Jones OF Arkan-
sas. as chairman. presented the report
of the committee on resolutions. which
read as follows:
silver and gold have in all ages
constituted the money Of the world
they were the money of the fathers Of
the republic, the money of history and
of the constitution. The universal ex-
perience Of mankind has demonstrated
that the joint use Of silver and gold as
one money constitutes the most stable
standard Of values, and that the full
amount of both metals is necessary as
a medium Of exchange. There is no
health or soundness In financial sys-
TEN under which a boarded dollar Is
productive Of increase to its possessor.
while an invested dollar yields con-
stantly diminishing return, and under
which fortunes are made by the accre-
tions of idle capital or destroyed by the
persistent fall in the price of commod-
tiles and a constant dwindling In the
margin of profits in almost every
branch of useful industry.
such a system is a premium upon
sloth and a penalty upon industry;
such system is that which the Grim
inal legislation Of 1873 has imposed
upon this country. The bimetalliC
standard OF silver and gold has behind
II the experience Of ages and 1t has
been tested and approved by the en-
lightened and deliberate degree II man.
kind. The gold standard Is a depart
urc from the established policy NJ the