The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-25
Method Of Selecting Delegates
From the Several
Counties.
TO BE A NoN.PARTIsAN BODY.
The Timetable Executive Committee
Issues an Address to the Peo-
pie Of California.

recent meeting OF DlmetaIl1StS held at the
Palace Hotel, for the purpose of making
arrangements for a State convention
called for August 10, and also authorized
to act as finance committee in the
matter of receiving subscriptions in aid of
the American Bimetallic League, met yes
terday afternoon in the Mills building
and formulated an address to the people
of California.
It is expected that about 900 delegates
will be present at the convention from
every county in the State, without regard
to past party utilization. Since the last
meeting at the Palace Hotel two new
members have been added to the executive
ommittee-Hermann Zadig and August
Waterman. This committee, which is also
a finance committee, will commence tax
ing subscriptions at once, and convention
work will be pushed forward with all
possible speed.
eve want" said Secretary George P.
Keeney yesterday, "to get an expression
of opinion from the people of the whole
State We know that the time is ripe Tor
organization, and the recommendations
for county mass-meetings for the selection
hearty response. All thinking men have
come to recognize the fact that silver is to
be the issue of the coming fight. AS a
branch of the American Bimetallic League
we want to see the organization of a strong
bimetallic party in California. To this end
we have outlined course which has been
pursued in other States with good results"
The address formulated yesterday by the
committee is as follows:
To the Voters of California: The undersigned
executive committee, appoiuted at a meeting
of citizens held at the Palace Hotel, San Fran
cisco, upon June 20, 1895, in the interest of
70 ea s 81 Of
electors, regardless OF party, was made, to be
held in this City upon August 10, 1895, at IL
O'Clock noon, do hereby adopt the following
rules and regulations for holding such conven-
ton:
First-Each county in the State shall be en-
titled to be represented at said convention by
each 500 votes or fraction thereof cast in said
county at the last general election.
Second-The only test required for a seat in
said convention is that the delegate be an elect
or of the county which he claims to represent
and be in favor of the free and unlimited coinage
OF gold and silver with equal privileges at the
functions as money at the ratio of 16 to l.,
without waiting for any international confer
ence or the concurrence of any foreign power,
prince or potentate.
county in such q manner as the friends of the
cause in such county may determine, but as
the bimetallists belong to all existing political
parties and are themselves without party Or
ganization we recommend that mass-meetings
Of bimetallists be held at the county seat of
each county upon Saturday, August 8, 1895,
for the purpose of selecting delegates to said
convention. and that the chairman and secre-
tary of the meeting issue q certificate to the
delegates selected, which certificate will be &C.
cepted as credentials by the convention.
It is i'm portant and essential that each county
should have full delegation at the cOnyen-
ton, as in no other way can the earnest wishes
of the people upon this most important cues.
ton be fully understood and appreciated.
The time for triling has passed and the people
can and will have an inning If they demand
their rights in such q manner as to convince
are in dead earnest, and will neither follow
party traditions nor heed equivocal or uncer-
tain promises, but insist upon candid declare
1t is well known that this contest is one in
which the masses OF the people are confronted
by the moneyed powers, both at home and
are clamoring at the doors OF Congress for re-
lief against the unequal privileges awarded by
legislation to aggregated capital BY the de-
monetization of silver Every effort which
arrayed against the people in this struggle and
hired orators and interested intriguers will be
everywhere encouraged TO resist the assault or
stem the tide of public opinion; yet, notwith-
standing this disparagement of wealth, we
have an abiding faith in the justice of our
cause and in the ultimate triumph of princi-
pies over pretense, of right over iniquity.
We therefore request the press of the State,
which can ever be relied upon to voice the
sentiments of the people, to publish this call
and by so doing enable'the voters of California
to be fully informed of its contents and object.
This convention will be non-partisan in poll
tics, but ultra-partisan upon the question of
free coinage and the ways and means neees.
sary to accomplish that result.
To this end we have the promise of the at
tendance and cooperation of the ablest expo
nents of bimetallism in the United States, who