The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-07-30

aR0 tuCH OWh uhohcs AnSy ~~s~~~ ~~- fered grievously at the hands of no nopolies and trusts, but hereafter they would look after their own affairs.
 Ex-Gov John P. St John, of Kansas, was then called upon to speak. He was greeted with cheers. He told how corn was worth ten cents and oats eight cents bushel in Kansas and po- tatoes six cents bushel in Minnesota This was one of the reasons so many farmers believed in free silver. Three months ago nearly everyone believed that nothing on earth could defeat William Mckinley for president, but the surrender of American interests to Great Britain at the republican convention had fallen upon Mckinley like bolt of lightning. It had changed the senti- ment of the whole country. Free sill yer at sixteen to one would sweep the nation. Never in the history of Amer ica had it been so hard to keep gold here as under the present system. Un- der it S262, 900, 900 worth of bonds had been issued and the working people plundered by the Wall street syndi- cates and the English bond sharks"
 The next one to address the conven- tion was Mrs Helen M. Cougar, of h. diana. She denounced the gold bug monopolists," Wall street pluto crats," and English bond sharks" and said the only salvation of the people from serfdom was to declare for the free coinage of silver. She denounced Mckinley and the platform on which he stood. She denounced the repub. Iican party, the liquor traffic and the rum power of the world. The saloon keepers, the rum power and the an- archists, she said, were with Mckinley. So were "the thieves of Wall street" A general wrangle followed over the demand made by some of the delegates that poll of the convention be made to find out the previous political be- l liefs of the delegates. The convention | had voted to take such a poll in the forenoon. The discussion grew out of an effort to have the secretaries of the delegations poll their several delega- tions and report to the secretary of the conven ton. It was decided to proceed with the roll call of states The result of the poll showed that there were 256 republicans, 135 democrats, 47 popu- | lists, nine prohibitionists, one nation alist. one green packer, and 12 inde- pendents. Twenty states sfailed to re- port.
 ST. LOUIS, July 25-The silver party convention did very little at their ses. l esA ha waiting on their conference committee with the peoples party and the con. vention. after listening to some speeches. adjourned until 3:3O in the afternoon.
 It was nearly four o'clock when Chairman St. John rapped for order. The report of the conference commit tee was read and adopted and then Senator Jones read the platform, the chief part being as follows:
 First-The paramount issue at this time in | the United States is indisputably the money question. It is between the gold standard, gold bonds and bank currency on the one side and the bimetallic standard, no bonds and gov- ernment currency on the other
 l On this issue we declare ourselves to be in | favor of a distinctively American financial | system. We are unalterably opposed to the single gold standard and demand the imme- diate return to the constitutional standard of gold and silver. by the restoration by this gov- ernment, independently of any foreign power. | of the unrestricted coinage of gold and silver as the standard money at the ratio of sixteen | to one, and upon terms of exact equality, as they existed prior to 1873 the silver coin to be | a full legal tender, equally with gold, for all debts and dues. public and private, and we fav layiS 1af inn xyil far ' thx, future the demonstration of any kind of legal | tender money by private contract
 We hold that the power to control and regu- late paper currency is inseparable from the power to coin money: and hence. that all cur rency intended to circulate as money should be issued and its volume controlled by the gen. eral government only. and should be legal tender.
 The platform then goes on to say that it is opposed to the issue of bonds in time of peace; it is against allowing a syndicate of native and foreign bank. CTS to uphold the gold standard and letting them make a large profit; de- nies that there can be such an economic paradox as overproduction; favors re. storing both gold and silver; appeals to the people of the United States to thuhC ohC co PtS"C ShoIO tO lTCC tucIns selves from the money power, and rec commended the convention to nominate the democratic nominees for president and vice president.
 The platform was adopted after some debate.
 The convention again took up the veteran soldier resolution and it was decided to call the roll of states that the chairman might announce the number of veterans in each state dele gation. The call resulted in showing 196 union soldiers, IS confederates and four Mexican soldiers, represented in the convention. Out of the roll call grew a suggestion that crystallized into motion which was agreed to that the old soldiers and sailors the con- vention-union, confederate and Mexi. can-form the basis of an organization within the party, for campaign pur- poses-to save the union.
 Mir. E. c. Little, of Kansas, then nominated William J. Bryan, of Ne. braska, for president After a mum.