The San Francisco call., 1896-05-10
PULLED THE FILES
ON DACCETT.
Buckleyites Got Out a
Record of the Party
on Silver.
DAGGETT AS A SILVERITE
How the Present Federal Brigade
Once Lined Up for Free
Coinage.
BUCKLEY LITERARY BUREAU.
Playing the Local Democratic Game
With the Silver Sentiment of
the Party.
LITERARY BUREAU.

The Buckleyites are conducting a shrewd
and vigorous campaign throughout the
Democracy of the State on the way of get
ting the Democratic leaders of every
county we'll informed in the merits of their
cause as representing the regular" local
party, SO that when the State Convention
meets their delegation may get recognition
either instead of the Junta's 161 or along
side of them.
Much missionary work is being done.
Correspondence is going on, Democrats
from the interior are told about the local
muss at every opportunity and pulls are
being used through the State to set intiu-
ential people at work and thousands OF
circulars and pamphlets are being mailed
to California Democrats everywhere.
One that Eis just from the press is a
mighty interesting one to some people. 1t
Is entitled "Record of the California De-
mocracy on the Free Coinage of Silver.''
and bears the names OF Joseph Rothschild,
president, and D. NJ. Gavigan, secretary, of
the General Committee.
The Buckleyites have learned by care
full soundings that the convention will be
a silver one by big majority. The Buck
ley General Committee has adopted some
redhot silver resolutions introduced by A.
J. Clunie at its last meeting and it will
play the silver business for all it is worth
in the contest with the Junta delegation
that will be for gold as far as Superinten-
dent OF the Mint Daggett and the rest of
the Federal brigade can make it so. Hence
this record"
This eight-page pamphlet gives the plat
form planks on silver and gold, with some
of the pertinent discussions of them. of
every Democratic State Convention since
1852, showing that the record has a white
and not yellow luster.
The document is quickly seen to be an
attack on the Federal brigade and the
Junta. Through its pages are given the
records as former silver mea of lot of
these same Federal Office holders who are
now working hard to make an administra-
ton and sound-money showing in the
State Convention.
The files are most effectively pulled on
John Daggett. HIS record as an able
champion of silver looms up strong and
sure.
The record shows, for instance, that at
the State Convention of 1888 at Los An
geles the platform plank demanding 1.-THE
Tree coinage OF both gold and silver was
adopted, the plank being verba tim COPY
of the one in the preceding platform.
During the discussion of the platform it
was John Daggett OF Siskiyou, now the
chief political representa-
tive in California, who rose and in the
course of a brief speech said:
The producer OF gold had the privilege of
bringing his bullion to the Mint and could
have ii exchanged for the coin of the country
1t means that the producers of silver shall be
allowed an equal privilege. The tendency of
the present law is TO depreciate the price of
silver, and as gold is left as the only rem aiming
standard OF currency IL must necessarily follow
that gold becomes appreciated Such being
the fact, the man that produces wheat and
fruit has to part with more of his produce in
order to obtain a dollar under the gold STAN