St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-06-06


control the masses, either by means of
public patronage or by threats Of leav-
ing the party and now that they have
so evidently failed to accomplish their
purpose and desire to leave US, we
can only bid them good bye and wish
them better luck in bossing the oppo-
sition. Gentlemen, you have respond
ed to the call of the committee in COM
ing here today and it is my hope that
your further action will not mark
out a line of policy for the committee
to follow, but will serve to unite the
Democratic party on one common OBJ
ject and to again write ourselves the
majority party in the state and ma
ton.
Mr.. Hinrichsen's speech was inter-
rupted by frequent applause, and he
commanded the closest attention. At
the conclusion of his speech, Mr.. Hin
richsen said that the state central COM
mittee would announce the list Of tenn
porary officers. The temporary chair
man was Judge Monroe C. Crawford,
of Union county, and the secretary
Arthur w. Bentley, of Pike county.
The committee on resolutions includes
p. H. Keenan,, Richard Micha ellis and
j. w. Lanehart, of Chicago; Attorney
General Moloney, the famous Pull
man labor commissioner; n. E. Worth
ington, of Peoria, and eX-United States
Land Commissioner w. A. ]. Sparks.
The committee appointed to select
four delegates at large to national
silver convention met during the re-
cess. John P. Hopkins, of Chicago, and
Secretary Of State w. H. Hinrichsen
were elected by acclamation. Some
discussion followed concerning other
nominations made. Finally Hon.
George B. Fithian, of Jasper county,
and Gen. Lewis B. Parsons, of Clay
county, were elected by acclamation.
The reports of the committee on cre-
dentials were read and adopted. The
committee on permanent organization
elected vigorous applause by naming
as permanent chairman Judge S. B.
Mcconnell, Of Chicago. A committee
was appointed and escorted Judge Nc
Connell to the chair.
JUDGE MCCONNELL SAID:
"This convention has most peculiar
and most important significance. 1t
marks departure and is intended not
only to allow a free discussion before
the next political engagement, but to
define our party position with distinct
ness and definiteness, so that no voter
shall fail to understand US, and no can
didate-if chosen to office-have
chance or excuse to defeat our COM
mand. Can any one say that because
a great nation of 100000 people de-
cides to coin silver into money and all
they get of it, the result Will be to
make gold more valuable? If corn,
by any invention, could be made to
serve all the purposes Of wheat, the
tendency certainly would be to make
corn dearer or wheat cheaper. We
produce one-third of all the silver
which now reaches the markets of the
world. If we keep it all and make
money of it, certainly silver will be
worth more-and just as surely gold
worth less-in every market of the
world The demand for gold will be
less, 1 think it is a matter of no
consequence whether other nations
agree with us or not. We shall send
neither our silver nor our gold dollars
to these other nations. We never
have. When we pass the national
boundaries our money-Whether silver
or gold-is treated like our wheat or
our corn for what it is worth Neither
our gold nor our silver dollars are and
never We're legal tender beyond our
own territorial limits. Money is
domestic servant merely.
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT
is by no means necessary. The Paris
conference of 1878 resolved that the Sc
lection for use of one or the other of
the metals, or both simultaneously,
should be governed by the special posi-
ton of each state or group of states.
The great financiers composing that
conference evidently did not reach the
conclusion which some of our Amer
lean bimetallists have. They evident
Iy realized what we ought to under
stand-that a nation like ours, the
richest in the world, producing one
third of all the world produces, can
regulate it's own financial system, and
do so without universal consent. 1t is
quite apparent any way that if we
want other nations to remonetize sill
yer, we can compel them to do so more
easily than we can persuade them.
If our legislation in favor of the re-
monetization of silver does not result
in making silver worth one-sixteenth
of gold then England and the other ma
tions of Europe will find it to their
advantage to help us make silver more
valuable If they don't they suffer
more than we do. We cheaper gold
by coming silver. They can make
the silver which we offer them more
valuable by coming it also. In other
words, they would be more interested
than we in giving to silver the debt
paying power our laws give to it.
We must rid ourselves of the veto
power of New York and London. Let
the people command, and our official
servants must obey"
CONGRESSMAN BRYAN,
of Nebraska. was called upon to address
the convention. Bryan's appearance
was the signal for tremendous ap-
p1ause His speech was facetious and
cutting, and occasioned almost contin-
uous applause, the delegates throwing
their hats into the air. He compli-
mented Chicago for having as a citi-
zen such man as Judge Mcconnell,
VINO would march at the head of the
Democratic party with the double
shield. No party is fit to be factor
in politics which has no opinion on
every public question. He said that
there was a time when Cleveland had
| to face the question Of turning either to
| the plutocracy or the democracy, and
said had he been a Jackson or a JEFF
ferson he would have turned to the
common people, and there would be no
need of your convention here today to
repudiate Republican principles. Gap
plausa.) If he had not faltered the De-
mocracy would have continued in pow
er for years to come. No man who is
in favor of the gold standard can talk
bimetallism and be honest. If the dou-
BILE standard is right, then monometal-
lisn is crime against society. Cap
plause) You had just as well have an
English general at the head of our
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