Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-09
p. M, was declared carried and the Sec
ond days convention ended.

NEW Ork o6QaLOrS, altSr LILO IcSoiu'
lions which theoretically condemned
the President at three distinct points
had been adopted by the committee on
resolutions, and just previous to the ad,
journment of that committee, created
something of sensation By offering the
following resolution
"We commend the honesty, courage
and fidelity of the present democratic
administration"
In presenting this resolution, Mr..
Hill said, as one of the silver men after
wards characterized it, sin his bland
and easy way" that he assumed that
the resolution would be voted down,
but that the minority had concluded to
offer it, nevertheless, so as to give the
party an opportunity to put itself on
record. He was requested not to per-
sist in his purpose, but he insisted upon
exercising his privilege.
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
followed promptly with motion to lay
upon the table, which prevailed by a
vote of 80 to 17-three not voting.
Virginia, by Mr.. Carter Glass, voted
aye.
The following is the platform as pre-
sented by the full committee on resolu-
tons:
We, the democrats of the United
States, in national convention assem-
bled, do resfirm our allegiance to those
great essential principles of justice and
| liberty upon which our Institutions are
founded, and which the democratic
party has advocated from Jefierson's
time to our own-freedom of speech,
freedom of the press, freedom OF con,
science, the preservation of personal
rights, the equality of all citizens be-
fore the law and the faithful observance
of constitutional limitations.
During all these years the democratic
party has resisted the tendency OF sell
| fish interests to the Capitalization of
governmental power, and steadfastly
maintained the integrity of the dual
scheme of government established by
| the founders of this republic ofrepubllcs.
Under its guidance and teachings the
great principles of local self-goyern-
ment has found It's best expression in
the maintenance of rights of the States
and its assertion of the necessity of
combining the general government to
the exercise of the powers granted by
the constitution of the United States.
Recognizing that the money question
| is paramount to all others at this time,
we invite attention to the fact that the
| federal constitution names silver and
gold together as the money metals OF the
| United States, and that the first coin
age law passed by Congress under the
constitution made the silver dollar the
unit of value and admitted gold to free
coinage at the ratio based upon the
silver dollar unit.
| We declare that the act of 1873 de-
monetizipg silver without the knowl-
edge or approval of the American peo-
pie has resulted in the appreciation of
gold and corresponding fall in the
prices of commodities produced by the
people a heavy increase in the burden
of taxation and of all debts, public and
private; the enrichment of the money
lending class at home and abroad !;
prostration of industry and impover-
ishment of the people.
We are unalterably opposed to
monometallism which has locked
fast the prosperity of an industrial peo-
pie in the paralysis of hard times. Gold
monometallism is British policy and
its adoption has brought other nations
into financial servitude to London. 1t
| is not only un-American, but anti
American, and it can be fastened on
the United States only by the sitting of
that spirit and love of liberty which
proclaimed our political independence
| in 1776 and won it in the war of the
| Revolution.
We demand the free and unlimited
! coinage of both silver and gold at the
present legal ratio of 16 to l without
waiting for the aid or consent Of any
other nation. We demand that the
standard silver dollar shall be fulllegal
tender, equally with gold, for all debts,
public and private, and we favor such
legislation as will prevent for the flu
ture the demonstration of any kind of
legal tender money by private contract.
We are opposed to the policy and
practice of surrendering to the holders
of the obligations of the United States
the option reserved by law to the gov
eminent of redeeming such obligations
in either silver coin or gold coin.
We are opposed to the issuing of in.
terest- bearing bonds of the United
States in time of peace and condemn
the traficking with banking syndicates
which, in exchange for bonds and at an
enormous profit to themselves, supply
the federal treasury with gold to main
tain the policy of gold monometalism.
Congress alone has the power to coin
and issue money, and President jack
son declared that this power could not
be delegated to corporations or indi-
viduals. "We therefore denounce the
issuance of notes intended to circulate
as money by national banks as in dero-
CATION of the constitution, and We de-
mand that all paper which is made
legal tender for public and private
debts or which is receivable for dues in
the United States, shall be issued by
the government of the United States
and shall be redeemable in CON-"
We hold that tariff duties should be
levied for purposes of revenue, such
duties to be SO adjusted as to operate
equally throughout the country and
not discriminate between class or Sec
ton, and that taxation should be linn
tied by the needs of the government
honestly and economically administer
ed. We denounce as disturbing to
business the republican threat to restore
the Mckinley law, which has been