The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-20
Representatives Present From
All. Parts, of California and
!: j.. Neighboring States.
RUMoRs OF A SILVER PARTY
The. Old Organizations Are Rather
:. Severely Handled by the White
-; Metal Advocates.

e. =: ne. non@partlsan SILVER COA'oiAllOA Ao-
sriIting. from a call issued by meeting of
white metal advocates that met at the Pal
= ace Hotel on June 20, convened yesterday
at noon in Metropolitan Hall. Delegates
were present from.all parts of California,
. as we'll as from neighboring States.
George w. Baker, chairman of the BIZ
metallic League of San Francisco and one
of the prime movers in the gathering,
opened the convention with brief ad-
dress, in which the objects sought to be
attained were outlined. He said in SUBJ
stance:
LAS chairman of the Bimetallic League
of San Francisco it becomes my duty to
call this meeting to order and to review
the objects for which we are assembled.
1t is well known to all of you that the great
question before the American people to-
dayis one Of finance. before which all
other issues sink into inslgniieance. This
question has reached out until it has made
itself felt in every part OF our country. 1t
means the lining-up of the industrial
classes against the banker and bondholder
the sharks of corrupt and all-grabbing
financial system, that if persisted in will
drive the, country into absolute ruin.
ave know that if the people have a
chance to be heard in this matter of grave
concern to every true son Of America that
they will repudiate the acts of the sharks
OF Wall and Lombard streets and declare
for AN American policy, of American birth.
and . founded upon the principles of
American Government = sound money.
We: know that we have a powerful
and treacherous enemy in the field.
one. that will not hesitate at any
meansy honorable or otherwise, to de-
fend the crime which was committed
against this republic twenty years ago.
We know. that the mmon people-the
people who are MAXIM the wealth of this
'lSetion-s sHte 10 g1eat extent under the
iron heel of the money power.
This is the reason that seventy FIVE men !
met at the Palace Hotel on the 10Th of last
June and decided to issue a call for this con-
vention. We decided there that recruits were
necessary to make this great fight in de-
fense of the rights of the American people,
and that the best way to get these recruits
would be to call meeting and talk the
thing over. For this object we are here to-
day.
1--WE are not here as partisans. There
are members of all parties in attendance.
We are here not as Republicans or Demo
Gratis or Populists, but as bimetallists.
Party Tines here have been broken and be-
hind us we have left party names and con-
ditions. We have gathered together a
crowd of men determined to be right on
this great question, whatever it may cost
in party traditions and ties. We come
from the. workshop, the farm, and the
forum, resolved to face this question and
to look it squarely in the eye.
ave want sound-money man in the
White House, and we are going to have
such. man. If he cannot be found in
either of the old parties then we will land
one from the Bimetallic League. We do
not seek political preferment or the spoils |
of office. This is not our mission. What |
we do want is the money given US by the |
founders of this republic-the currency of
Washington and Jefferson. That is sound |
money, honest money, and good enough |
for America for many years to come.
"If the thousands who are with us in |
prineiple will come forward and assert |
themselves the battle will be easily won, |
and as eternal vigilance is the price of |
liberty; we must organize early and watch |
late. The country must be defended from |
the: grasping moneyed oligarchies of the !
Old and New World.
we hear from the press-not the press of
California, to whom all honor is due for |
the stand which it has taken on this ques-
tion-that we are under great obligations
to Morgan and the Rothchilds for coming
to the rescue of the United States
Treasury. Protection for the treasury of
The United States, indeedl
"Who protected it during the dark days
of :our great war? We carried on the
greatest conflict at arms that the world has
ever seen and bore our flag to victory on
the credit ofthis Nation.
Some one in the New York Herald
said recently that we were under great obi
cations to the bankers for favors shown
the Treasury Department. For one l am
opposed TO turning the treasury OF this
country over to any three-balI game under
the moi heaven. The bone and sinew is
entitled to some protection, instead OF
turning its efforts into the Golfers OF Wall
street.
1--WE believe in gold and silver as money.
We believe that silver was stricken down
bv an arch conspiracy, and we seek to re-
store it to its proper standard. We may,
did our forefathers of old. but right will
ultimately prevail"
At the conclusion of Chairman Bakers
address a motion was carried calling for q |
committee of fifteen on credentials.
julius Sonntag moved that ali delegates
from neighboring States be accorded the !
same privilege in the convention as regular |
California delegates, excepting the privi-
lege of voting.
S. S. Wright moved to amend Sonntag's |
motion by granting delegates from other
States.the privilege of voting on all ques-
tions coming before the convention.
D. w. McNiel raised point of order to
the effect that the call did not contemplate
the voting of outside delegates, and that it
ought not to be allowed.
II, a. McCraney responded that as Cali