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Decorah-posten., 1895-03-08

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money power of this country, assisted by
the money power of England, will have to
be met face to face and conquered. We
whipped them in the Revolutionary War,
we whipped them again in 1872 and we
will whip them again in the battle that is
soon to be opened up.
'We want to reach the people. In COM
mon with other Democrats in this State
have assisted in preparing platforms to
suit the administration Democrats and sill
yer people. And as my friend Braunhart
will tell you it was q pretty hard job.
have cut loose from any further attempt to
suit any administration on the money
question.
"1f the forefathers of this Republic had
been in power in the past few months
there would have been little hanging
match in this country. 1t may be that the
opponents of silver are honest in their
opposition. Let US hope they are. This is
the grandest country on earth and has the
greatest of resources, and it is not likely
that we will lie down at the feet of Great
Britain.
II am ready in conjunction with your
honored chairman and the son of this
grand old patriarch, Alexander Majors, to
go from one end of this State to the other
and organize the people and teach them,
if they would not enslave the unborn
generations, to rise up in their might and
teach the misguided lea ders their duty"
At the conclusion of Mr.. Clunie's ad-
dress the press was given vote of thanks
and the convention adjourned until
O'Clock
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the dominant issue. If you look over the
history OF the country you will see that the
white metal which has been disgraced
once stood side by side with gold and gave
the country what it has of prosperity to-
day. Restore silver and you will again
hear the song of prosperity through all
this proud land. The barren wastes of the
WesI will blossom as the rose, and the
wheels of commerce will again revolve.
Cleveland has done more to retard the pro-
eression of this country than any other
man or body of men that ever had hand
in the affairs of Government.
1.-THE constitution of the United States
has disappeared. 1t has become a myth
of history. The constitution OF the coun-
try is the Chief Executive, who has
usurped the powers that belong to the
people. How did it all come about?
When the war closed, leaving one-half of
this country a barren waste and the other
half sacked by conquering armies, there
was no financial depression. How is it to-
day? Everywhere we hear the cries OF
poverty and distress; misery stalks upon
all your streets and over all your fields
all due to destructive financial system"
J. NJ Barton of Sacramento did not be-
lieve in giving the Democrats another
chance.
81 am in favor of immediate organiza-
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gold and all obligations payable in gold are
enormously appreciated.
Sixth-Many OF our most important indus
tries have Leen rendered profitless; others are
languishing, almost lifeless the burden of in
debtedness upon our people has been doubled
business enterprise is manacled; honest, in
dustrious wage-earners can find no occupation.
We are IN charity, being forced to pity and
provide for the great army of unemployed, and
each successive year the condition of our peo-
pie is becoming worse.
We further declare that this Nation is power.
full enough, and ought to be independent and
brave enough to determine its own financial
policy and maintain it, without suggestion,
dictation or advice from any other nation or
nations whatsoever; therefore, be it
Resolued, That at the earliest moment that it
can be legally done and without in any way
considering the financial policy of any other
nation or nations, and ignoring all advice,
suggestions or threats from any and every
source, our National Government shall return
to the monetary policy of the Fathers of the
Republic; and. at the coinage ratio of
gold and silver of 16 to l respectively, should
again permit to individuals the unlimited
coinage of silver and gold in our National
mints without preference to either metal, thus
again making our silver and our gold coin
money for all purposes in this country without
discrimination for or against either, thereby
again making our silver dollar, as it should
have always remained, standard unit for the
measure of values; and be it further
RESOLVED, That 1t Is the duty OF every citizen
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A Plan for Immediate County Organization
~ Decided Upon.

tion." said he. "This country has been
ruled too long by the hired lawyers of cor
porations, masquerading as statesmen.
We want Congress of honest men
Americans. We want an American Presi-
dent. We must go down among the COM
mon people and find men who will put
this country back where Thomas Jeffer-
son left it. In addition to this we must
watch our Legislators and demand that
they undo the work which has put the
country on the brink of ruin. We must
demand the restoration of silver.
Major Moore of Colusa argued briefly in
favor of immediate county organization.
He wanted to hear what the other counties
were doing in this regard-more specific
facts and less of the glittering generalities
OF the question under consideration.
What are we gong to do about it ana
what have we done?" These seemed to
Mr.. Moore the important questions for
solution.
j. W.'Murphy of San Francisco recalled
Hoar's famous misstatement, that the sill
yer question was not equal i'll Importance
to the eggs laid in Texas for single day,
and said that the goldbugs would soon
come to see that the question would cut a
bigger figure in National politics than
they affected to believe. In concluding
Mr.. Murphy advised the plutocrats and
money -grabbers generally to beware of the
day when the laboring classes should rise
in their might and demand their place at
the helm of Government.
Lee Fairchild introduced the following
resolution, which was unanimously adopted
by rising vote, upon a suspension of the
rules of the convention:
WHEREAS, The cause of bimetalism early
found q stalwart champion in John P. Young,
managing editor of the San Francisco. Chroni-
Gle; and, whereas, his recent treGtises entitled
respectively "Bimetallism, vs. Monometallism'
and tSilver-Using Nations furnish writers
and speakers with storehouse of facts classi-
fed and set to convincing argument; therefore,
be it
RESOLVED That the thanks OF this convention
be extended to John P. Young for the good he
has rendered the cause OF btmetaIlism.
Mrs. Frona Eunice Waite was intro
duced and spoke briefly upon European
finances and the indemnity settlement be-
tween China and Japan. Mrs. Waite was
followed by R. Guy Mcclellan of Berkeley
He said:
THE country to-day is under cloud Of
humiliation. We have become bankrupt
| by cowardly financial policy. When the
Blue and the Gray shook hands over the
bloody chasm that had divided them we
felt that we were indeed one great Nation
united for common good. The 1873 law
for the demonstration of silver was a
crime which has pauperized our industries
and brought us to the very brink of ruin.
We are here to undo this work. We know
no party. Upon one point we are united
and determined-that is for the restoration
of silver and the opening of our mints
They tell US that if we have the free coin.
age of silver the country will be over.
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IOHIO DEMOCRATS STRIKE AT SILVER.

legitimate means to secure the election OF the
candidates so nominated and SO pledged; ana
be 1t also
RESOLVED, That the members OF the State Cen
tral Committee hereafter to be selected be
authorized to select delegates to represent
their several Congressional districts in said
Bimetallic National Conference when called,
and that this convention now select four dele
gates.at-large to represent the State of Califor-
MIA in the same. And lastly be it
Resolred, That the condition set forth in the
second of these resolutions requiring the lay
ing of the said bimetallic platform before the
said conventions of the various political parties
be conditioned upon the supposition that said
conventions be convened at no later date than
July, 1885, T. c. WEIGH.
"Now then" said Mr.. Welch, ''if this
convention prefers to refer these resolu-
tions to the committee it may do SO, but
want you to know where stand in this
matter. 1 shall not submit to the dicta-
ton of three men"
An objection to the effort of Mr.. Welch
to make a speech was presented in the
form of point of order, and the speaker
retired from the platform.
James McCue, apparently ignoring the
resolutions or the mover of them, under
took to speak. "My first interest,"" he
said, sis in Marin County, then in every
county of the State of California, after that
the United States and have no interests
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The Springfield Convention Ruled by
Senator Brice.

State, and if we let it drag the old parties
sidetrack u.s."
John D. Moore of Colusa settled the con-
troversy by calling the attention of the
chair to the fact that series of resolutions
had been reported by the committee on
organization and the report had been
adopted, and that it could not be amended
without a motion to reconsider.
The chairman considered the point well
taken and so ruled. Then he called on the
convention to listen to a speech from
Thomas J. Clunie, who was invited to the
platform and spoke as follows:
"We have great duty to perform, and
the California friends of silver have issued
to-day new declaration of independence.
We have said to England what she could
not do in war by the combined force of her
army and navy, and we say now what she
cannot do in peaceful times in the latter
part of the nineteenth century-the great
mass of the people of the United States
say this.
"We have great battle before Us. The
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fayorinp bimetallism to aid in uniting and
organizing all citizens of like convictions, that
they engage in a crusade of education so de-
termined, so diligent, that all may become
fully informed and join in the peoples cause,
each with a fixed and steady purpose to sup
port no person for any position Of public trust
not well known to be openly, unequivocally
and earnestly upon the side OF the people in
the contest now existing between the people
and the money kings; and be 1t further
ResoIued, That it is the sense and the recon-.
mendation OF this convention that bimetallic
clubs be Immediately formed in each and every
county in the State, and in such numbers as
the convenience of members and the popula-
ton will Justify; that as soon as such organ
izations are perfected the said clubs shall meet
in Joint county conventions and elect three of
their members as county committeeman one
of whom shall be chosen from the Republican,
one from the Democratic and one from the
Populist party; that, when so elected, such
members shall constitute and be members of
the State Central Committee of the American
Bimetallic League of the State of California.
Respectfully submitted. HENRY 1. WILEY,
Chairman of the Committee on Platform and
Resolutions.
The report was unanimously adopted by
the convention upon motion of Tom
Clunie, seconded by John D. Moore of
Colusa.
The feasibility of naming the Silver Ad-
vocate, journal published in San Fran
cisco, as the organ of bimetallism for the
Pacific Coast, was discussed at length.
Julian Sonntag opposed such course. He
did not believe in singing out any one
paper as an advocate of the silver issue.
McCue of Marin County declared that
all of the newspapers in California would
ultimately come out boldly for silver. He
was opposed to naming any one publica-
ton as a champion of the cause.
Murphy of San Francisco and Moore OF
Colusa held like opinions, and without a
vote the discussion was dropped.
Alex Majors, California pioneer, white
with the storms of 80 eventful years. was
introduced and spoke for half an hour on
the duty of citizens during what he con-
siders "trying time in the history of the
Republic"
There was little of the silver argument
in his address, but his venerable appear
ance and unstinted enthusiasm aroused a
great demonstration on the part of the
delegates and they cheered the old man to
the echo. He said that he was 80 years OF
age and had recently decided to live for
ten or twelve years longer, if for no other
reason than to see food of silver in this
country. He said that the honest money
cry had been used or misused by men and
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| whelmed with the white metal from all
over the world. This is. ghost story
which am obliged to refute nearly every
day In the week. The whole of Europe
only produces twenty millions OF f,silver an
nualiy, less than the United States can
produce in ninety days. England produces
neither gold nor silver, and yet she controls
the finances of the world.
ave produce the silver of the world and
could easily force the nations of the world
to come to us for this supply. We are in this
fight to stay and we do not propose to be
deceived by the old party platforms, which
declare that We are in favor of both met
ais as money This has become chest
nut We have been fooled too often by
the word-iuggling of party platforms. We
want representatives from the people and
for the people"
At the conclusion of McClellan's re-
marks the convention adjourned until 2
o. clock p NJ.
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THE SILVER CONVENTION ADJOURNS.

involved in preparing the report which he
was about to read had been arduous, from
the fact that there had been great deal of
matter submitted touching all sides of the
question under consideration, the essence
of which it had been deemed advisable to
embody in the report. 1t had, therefore,
been made as comprehensive as possible
without extension to an unnecessary
length. The substance of the resolutions
submitted to the committee by the various
delegates had, in Mr.. Willey's opinion,
found some degree of expression in the
final report, which he read as follows:
We, the representatives of the American
Bimetallic League of California, in convention
assembled, do hereby declare:
That the Constitution of the United States
recognizes silver and gold coin as money for
all purposes, without partiality to either.
That in 1892 the fathers of the Republic
adopted monetary system making our silver
and gold coin money for all uses, authorizing
their unlimited coinage in our National mints,
for individuals, without preference to either
metal, and making our silver dollar standard
unit of the measure of value.
That thereafter, under that system, with the
coinage ratio of gold to silver as 16 to /;
sixteen ounces, of coined silver. the parity OF
the purchasing power OF our silver and gold
coin was alike maintained, the real money
of the country constantly increased, as also
did the value of all property, and each sue
cessive. year our people grew richer, happier
and more prosperous.
That, on the 10Th day of February, 1878, the
money kings OF Europe, in collusion with
those of our own country, by fraud, conspiracy
and corruption, procured the surreptitious
passage of measure through our Congress-
which inaugurated new and an untried
monetary system, which has since been main
tanned to our dire disaster. By this system:
First-The coinage of silver in our own Ma
tional mints, upon demand of our people, was
prohibited.
Second-Tne gold dollar was made the single
standard unit of the measure of value al
money, in our National mints.
Third-Silver was reduced to a commodity oi
commerce, the market price of which was con.
trollable, and has been regulated by the Shy
locks who debased it.
Fourth-More than one-hslf of our money oi
final redemption has thus been destroyed, and
the silver in circulation ranks only as token
money. II
Fifth-Our undoing is the exaltation of those
who thus wrong us. While adversely increases
with us, in like ratio they prosper, because al
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parties TO confuse the people as to their
real attitude, and then he asked:

parties TO confuse the people as to their
real attitude, and then he asked:
"What is honest money? Cleveland says
he is in favor of honest money. The
stamp of the Government makes money,
not the intrinsic value of the material
stamped, be it sole leather or paper. We
are Fastening on to serfdom. If some
thing is not done soon by ballots, then
bullets willNbe used. We cannot have too
much silver. If all the money of the
United States was invested in silver mines,
and every man set to work taking out the
white metal, we should not then have too
much. We want floods of it. Statesman
ship has degenerated until it has reached
the low level of political tricKcry. Our
Lawmakers are hired attorneys of the
bankers and brokers, posing as legislators" !"
At the conclusion of his address Mr..
Majors was given hearty vote of thanks
by the convention.
At this juncture in the proceedings the
delegates were treated to a surprise.
Thomas G. Welch of Orange County
walked down the aisle with roll of paper
in his hand, which he said was set OF
resolutions that he did not propose to sub.
NIT to the committee on resolutions until
he should be permitted to read them to
the convention. Mounting the platform,
he read as follows:
Be 1t resolved, That 1t is the sense of this con-
vention that National conference Of the Bi.
metallic League of the United States of America
be convened at as early date as may be
thought advisable by the bimetallic National
committee at a place to be by that committee
designated, and a platform clearly and unmis-
takably enunciating the principles and
demands of the friends of silver adopted
and proclaimed and, that commit.
tee be by such conference appointed
whose duty it shall be. to appear at the Ma.
tional conventions of the various existing
political parties to be held in the year 1896,
and to urge upon said conventions the incor-
porating of the principles so enunciated and
proclaimed by said National Bimetallic Con-
ference into their platforms and the nominal.
ing for the various Offices of National trust oil
men of well-known and sterling integrity,
pledged to faithfully and fearlessly fulfill the
propositions thus adopted and proclaimed; ; and
be it further ,
ResoIued, That we herewith as Representatives
of the friends of silver, in our various States
and sections, pledge ourselves to give our un-
hesitating allegiance and earnest support to
that party which accepts the foregoing propo-
sition; and we call upon all friends of silver
throughout the Nation to unite with US in this
undertaking and to use all honorable and
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outside the United States. If I had not
begun this fight thirty years ago 1 would
be to-day the worst broke man in this
hall"
There was cry of .'Order" and de-
ting at.
You, might as well listen to me-" he
shouted, "bscause am going to talk"
But Mr.. McCue was told by the chair
that he was out of order and promised that
he should be permitted to make speech
in good time, when there was nothing else
before the convention.
Mr.. Welch's resolution seemed to have
been lost sight of in a scramble to learn
what there was before the house. Then,
for the edifcation of the gentleman from
Orange, motion prevailed that section 8
of the report Of the committee on organi-
cation be read, recommending the selection
of George w. Baker (Republican) James
Majors (Populist) as members of the Ma
tional committee of the American Bimetal.
lie League.
Mr.. McCue again arose. 1.-THE National
banks have had the greatest champion. u
he said, s'and / admire John Sherman. He
is greater man than ever Chris Evans
was"
But Mr.. McCue was finally subdued, and
the section was read.
Mr.. Welch asked for an explanation Of
the duties of the committee of three and
what authority it was empowered to exert.
Secretary Eeley explained that the COM
mittee had no power, except that as mem
bers of the National committee it had three
votes, and that the power would be where
it belonged-ln the hands of the bimetal-
lists of the several counties.
at was well known" continued the sec
retary, ssthat an attempt would be made
to have the organizers governed or con-
trolled by gentlemen selected from this
convention. But the counties are able to
manage their own affairs. What right has
this convention to say what the bimetal-
list in any particular county should do?''
Mr.. Green of San Francisco declared that
three men could not organize the State.in
one year. ssThe intention of the resolu.
tion I introduced yesterday" he said
"was to have persons selected to 60 into
every Assembly district of the State and
organize them. As soon as the clubs are
organized they will take matters into Their
own hands. We came here to organize the