The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-13
White Metal Champions of the West, Northwest and
South Declare for Unlimited Coinage

it is viler than the dime, and the homes: penny
is banished forever.
According to this same test and rule of COIN
age there is not an honest coin in the treasury,
there is not piece of sound, safe money in the
country.
Senator Turpie was accorded another
round of applause when he finished his
speech.
The convention then completed its per-
manent organization by the election by
reclamation of F. B. Wade of Tennessee to
act as secretary. Mr.. Wade was nominated
by Governor Lowry of Mississippi.
Senator Jones OF Arkansas moved the APP
pointment of committee on resolutions
to be composed of one delegate from each
State represented. The motion carried
after it had been amended at the sugges-
ton of Judge John w. Tomlinson of Birm-
ingham, Ala, so as to provide that upon
rollcall each State delegation should pre-
sent the name of member of its delega-
ton to act as vice president of the conven-
ton, and one member to represent it on
the committee on resolutions. The roll
call resulted in the naming of the follow
ing vice-presidents:
Senator J. H. Berry of Arkansas, Alexander
Delmar of California, J. B. Bush of New
Mexico, B. F. Weaver of Virginia, A. P. Black
well of Texas, Senator William B. Bate of
Tennessee, Governor J. G. Evans of South
Carolina, Congressman Joseph C. Sibley OF
Pennsylvania, E. E. Brown of Nebraska, Gen.
eral A. ]. Warner of Ohio, G. F. Key of North
Carolina, Senator William NJ. Stewart of
Nevada, William F. Smith of Missouri, Paul A.
na,rr af n Il
NJ. ]. Cunningham of Louisiana, J. R. Rey-
nolds of Kentucky, Arson Walcott of Indiana,
w. H. Hidell of Georgia, Alva Adams of Colo
RADIO.
The following committee on resolutions
was named:
Senator James ]. Jones of Arkansas, ]. H.
Bankhead of Alabama, Senator Marion Butler
of North Carolina, Senator William NJ. Stewart
of Nevada, Senator C. F. Cochran of Missouri,
Charles A. Hartman of Montana, Senator ]. u.
George of Mississippi, J. H. Dupree of Louisi-
ana, ]. P. Barton of Kentucky, Senator David
Turpie of Indiana, F. NJ. Longley of Georgia,
Charles S. Thomas of Colorado, Ex-Governor L..
B. Prince of New Mexico, Alexander Delmar
of California, E. C. Treadway of Virginia, S. E..
Watson of Texas, E. w. Carmac of Tennessee,
B. R. Tillman of South Carolina, ]. C. Sibley of
Pennsylvania, William J. Bryan of Nebraska,
A. ]. Warner of Ohio.
Upon motion of Mississippi delegate,
Senator Harris was nominated as "the old
wheel horse of free coinage" to be mem
Der of the committee on resolutions for
the United States at large, and was elected
amid great excitement.
Judge j. H. Mcdowell of Tennessee
arose to ask recognition for the Populists
upon the committee on resolutions. The
Judge in appearance bears some resem-
blance to Senator PETER of Kansas, and
the most striking characteristic of his
style of oratory are his gesticulations.
He carried his point without difficulty
and it was agreed that he be empowered to
present the names of delegates, who were
added to the committee on resolutions as
representatives of the Peoples party.
Ex-Governor Prince of New Mexico, in
explaining that number of Western and
Northwestern States had failed to respond
to the rollcall, said that but few weeks
ago the representatives of every one of
these States had attended silver conven-
ton at Salt Lake City, at which commit
tee had been appointed to represent them
collectively at the Memphis convention
The absence of delegates from the indi-
indicate any lack of interest on their part
in the free silver movement or of sympathy
with the Memphis convention. The
South and West are hand in hand in this
convention and must stand together.
The next speaker was Alexander Del
mar, the well-known writer on the coinage
question and member of the silver COM
mission of 1876. Mr.. Delmar said:
Mr.. Chairman: Amid the conflict of none
tary theories, doctrines and assumptions
which divide the American people, nay, the
civilized world, can discern but single prin-
ciple upon which all parties unite and that is
stability. All agree in the cardinal principle
that monetary system, if it is to be Just and
equitable in its operation, should be stable. 1t
should afford reasonable assurance to the
buyer, the seller, the debtor, the creditor, the
producer, the consumer, the annuitant, the
pensioner and the wage-earner that it will
work no essential, no violent, no revolutionary
rise or fall of prices so that men may buy and
sell, contract, undertake and plan for the
future upon more or less assured and endur-
ing basis.
1t is because am profoundly convinced that
any system of money which does not point to
substantial stability of prices is destined to
speedy overthrow, that stand here to-day to
ooPPoA1 ehC ACihuAa ioI tuC TtStOFdIlOu Oh the
ancient coinage laws of the Republic.
At no time in the history of the world have
such enormous, such widespread, 1 NAV
almost say such cosmie disturbances of prices.
such unforeseeable and undeserved changes of
opportunity and fortune occurred as have
occurred since the evil day-now some thirty
years ago-when the coinage of silver began to
be checked throughout the civilized world.
The fact, which nobody has questioned, that
more than half of the mbined circulation of
all the States of the Occident con sists of legal
tender paper notes; the fact, which all admit,
that over 95 per cent of all the exchanges of
the world are transacted not with money.
whether of metal or of paper, but with mere
orders for money, such as checks and bills of
exchange-these facts, together with others.
prove that metallic coin, though made of both
silver and gold, is quite inadequate to Justly
measure the parity of exchanges, so that the
coin has to be eked out not only with paper
money, but also, and still more largely, with
orders and promises of money, which being
limited in circulation to one or two persons
and slow Of movement at that, have to be con-
tinually drawn, destroyed and redrawn. In
short, the growth of commerce during this CEN
fury of steam and electricity has been SO enor-
nous that the equity of exchanges has come to