The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-15
GOT TO TALK SILVER.
Democratic Silver Conference
Listens to Speeches.
Cleveland and Carlisle "TwO
StupendOus Frauds"
rs NOT DYING OUT.
Delegates Deny That Silver
Sentiment is Waning.
Freedom is. Wanted From the
Jews of Europe.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15-The silver
Democrats continued their conference at
the Metropolitan hotel at 10 o'clock to-
day. The committee on resolutions and
programme being unable to report when
the meeting was first called to order, it
was suggested that the conference should
listen to speeches by those present
c. F. Cochran, editor of the st. Joseph,
Mo, Gazette, addressed the conference.
He said it seemed anomalous that a
meeting, such as the present should be
called, for he knew of no doctrine of
the party which was not in con-
sonance with the purposes of this
conference. He said that congress was
the place to look for the declaration of
the party's belief, and he declared that
gold mono metalism would be more dis
astrous than war, pestilence and famine.
1t was we'll to settle first what was Re-
publicanism and what Democracy
whether such men as ex-senator Thur
man and Senator Harris or Senator Sher-
man were the leaders of Democratic
thought He declared that the silver
agitation would not die out, but would
continue until the end. for which it was
originated should be attained.
Mr. Cochran also declared against the
D6ED6tubblOu Vi b0S ndLlOadL Oduhs, WuOo6
tyranny, he said, was the greatest many
people would bear. The national banks
were directly opposed to Democracy. He
was for a declaration for silver without
regard to the prospect of success or
failure at the polls.
Representative NeilI of Arkansas an
nounced his entire sympathy with the
objects of the present conference. He
wanted to see the free coinrge of silver
provided for at the next session, "regard =
less OF the position of the distinguished
citizen at the other end of the
avenue" which sentiment was
loudly applauded. He declared the
Democratic party had no show in the
next campaign, if there were not declara-
tions for silver.
Ex-Representative Fithian, OF Illinois,
denied that the free silver sentiment was
dying out in that state. vHs said that all
the Democratic farmers and 80 per cent
of the Democrats in business in that state
were silver men. He declared that IIli-
nois would send a delegation to the next
national convention favorable to free
coinage at 16 to /, independent of other
nations.
He declared that he had been defeat
ed in the last election not because of his
position on silver, but because he had to
bear the odium of an administration that
was not Democratic. [Applause]
Representative Livingstone of Geor-
gia said the time had come for another
Declaration of Independence. "It is the
purpose of the country from which I
come" he said, Hto prosecute the fight
with their coats off and sleeves rolled up
and not to desist until the end"
1t was England's purpose, he asserted,
to control the United States, and finding
herself unable to do so by force of arms,
she has undertaken to do it by control
ling our finances. Georgia was deter
mined that the issuance of bonds should
not continue.
He declared the last bond contract
whereby the Rothschilds had been en-
gagged to protect our credit, the most
disgraceful thing that had ever taken
place in the history of the country. The
cry for sound money was a subterfuge as
all our people were for sound money.
The prospect of an international con-
ference, he ridiculed
Col. Casey Young of Memphis, who
conducted the correspondence incidental
to the propositions for the conference,
said he had written 1900 to 5000 letters
in connection with the movement for the
conference.
Representative Bryan sent a letter
saying there was mo room in this coun-
try for two Republican parties" and
Senator Morgan sent a telegram saying:
81 will follow the old guard wherever it
leads"
Col Young asserted that four fifths of
the Democrats were friendly to free
coinage and he believed a properly or
ganized movement would be irresistible.
Speeches were also made by Senator
Call, A. A. Lipscombe of Washington, j.
n. Hill of Missouri, Representative
Jones of Virginia and Lockhart of North
Carolina, and Bodine of Missouri.
When Mr.. Hill arose and some one
asked his name, he said, ut is Hill of
Missouri. l thank God it is not Hill of
New York"
Mr. Hill criticised Mr.. Cleveland's ad-
ministration in severe terms saying the
president had betrayed the Democratic
party by a series Of acts of perfidy and
treachery which were without parallel,
one of the principal of which acts con-
sisted in his ignoring the bimetallic
declaration in the last Democratic plat
form.
He declared that there had been q
bargain and sale by which the people
of the United States had been turned
over to the Jews of Europe and the
gamblers of Wall street, the result oil
which would be that their children and
their grandchildren would become hew-
ers of wood and drawers of water
The bond transaction had beer
enough to consign Grover Cleveland
and John G. Carlisle to everlasting
political oblivion and shame. They woulC
''go down the ages hand in hand amiC
the execrations of all mankind as tw,
of the most stupendous frauds of thu
cen tury."
He asked the reporters present to max
j especial noticaof the last sanfanca HI