The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-25
IOWA ron SOUND MONEY.
A Conference Endorses the Financial
Plank of 1892.

Des Moines. Ia, April 2A-One hundred
democratic leaders of the state and the
Central committee held a conference here
this afternoon al which the silver question
was the principal topic of discussion. The
reports as to the sentiment in different
parts of the state, as we'll as the views Of
those present, dinered widely ana the de-
bate at times became acrimonious, but the
preponderance of sound money" senti-
ment was hown by the final adoption OF
declaration thai lit is the sense of this
conference that the two monetary metals
should be kept at a parity.
To this declaration was added at the re-
quest OF b. Evans. of Ottumwa, repre-
scnting the moderate silver men, and with
out objection from the antagonistic wing
of the party, the modification without
discriminating against either metal IN the
matter of coinage, thus praetlssaily re-
affirming the national democratic none
tarv plank of 1892.
The conference also voted in favor OF
holding the state convention after the re-
publican convention, and the central COM
mittee accordingly this evening named
Aug Z as the date, and Marshallton as the
place. The date is "a compromise, dhe eN
irene silver men desiring an earlier con-
vention aud the extreme gold men very
late one in order to give them what they
term the present silver craze time TO
exhaust itself. 49,.
one, so far as party leaders are concerned,
although the free silver men declare thdt
the rank and 1lfe or the party, WhSielii
their strength lies, were not proportion
ately represented and promise to make
better showing in the state convention.
When the question of the time Tor nolu-
ing the state convention came up, the
sound money men, led byl w. w. Wilmer,
of Des Moines, delegate at large to the
last national convention, arrayed them-
selves in favor of a later convention IN
order that the party members might be
educated to an understanding OF the cur
rencv question prior to the convention.
f. O. Stuart led the free silver men IN
favor of an early convention, while ex-
Congressman Hayes, of Clinton, and
Henry Vollmer, of Davenport, urged a
late convention and warned the party
against yielding to free silver, They de-
clared that the German American voters
Of the state. and especially the Mississippi
river counties, would never be led into any
Endorsement of a deprecated currency.
Mayor Vollmer declared that the demo-
Gratis lost the First Iowa district at the
last congressional. election because OF the
popular fear that the party would come
out for free silver.
When a vote was finally reached on the
question of whether the democratic con-
vention should follow or precede the re-
publican conNention, the advocates OF a
late convention won by a vote of 90 to 90
Then W. W. Wilmer sought to reconcile
the differences of opinion by Offering a
resolution favoring the maintenance OF
the money metals at parity. A dozen
free silver men objected to the considera-
ton of the resolution as an attempt to
bind the party, but when a vote was
forced only five went on record against 1t.
Although the free silver men promise a
fight the result of to-day's conference Is
taken to indicate that the Iowa democrats
i'm convention this year will endorse the
national monetary plank OF 1892, and the
party leaders will interpret II in accord
ance with the Views OF the administration.