The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-07-09

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yer Platform Adopted.
The Democratic National Conven.
ton at Chicago was called to order
on Tuesday July 7, at one O'Clock D.
m. by w. F. Harrity, chairman of
the National Committee. After PRAYER
by Rev. E. M. Stires of Grace Episco-
pal Church, the report of the COM
niittee on temporary organization was
announced by the chairman. This
included Senator d. b. Hill of New
York, as temporary chairman. Clay
ton of Alabama, nominated Senator
Daniel of Virginia for the position.
Then followed a number of speeches
by the friends of the two candidates.
Daniel was the choice of the silver
men, and Hill of the gold men. A
vote was taken by states, and Daniel
received $50 votes, and Hill34o and
the former WIS declared elected. On
being escortedto the chair SenatorDan-
iel expressed profound gratitude for the
honor conferred upon him and express
ed his regret that his name should
have been brought in even the most
courteous competition with his most
distinguished friend. Senator Hill
would readily recognize the fact, how
ever, that there was no personality in
the matter 1t was solely due to the
principle which the great majority of
Democrats stood for, he (Mr. DanieD
standing with them. AS the majority
OF the convention was not personal in
its aims, neither was it sectional. 1t
began with the sunrise in Maine, and
spread into sunburst in Louisiana
and Texas 1t stretched in unbroken
lines across from Virginia and Georgia
to California. 1t swept like a prairie
fire over Iowa and Kansas and it
lighted up the horizon in Nebraska.
Mr.. Daniel continued: 'sDo not
forget that in the last national con-
vention Of 1892 you proclaimed your
selves to be in favor of both gold and
silver as the standard money of the
country and for the coinage of both
god and silver without discrimination
against either metal or charge for
mintage, and that the only question
left open was the ratio between the
metals.
"Do not forget that just four years
ago, in that same convention, the
New York delegation stood here solid
and immovable for a candidate COM
mitted to the free and unlimited coin
age of silver and gold at the ratio of
sixteen to one; and that if we are for
it still it is in some measure from your
teachings. That we owe you much
is readily and gratefully acknowl-
edged, but are not our debts mutual
and not one sided to each other?
''Brlng us, we pray you, no more
makeshifts and straddles. Vex the
country with no more prophesies of
smooth things to come from the
British Republican gold propaganda.
We maintain that this great nation,
with natural base las Gladstone
saic) OF the greatest continuous EN-
pre- ever established by man, with
far more territory and more produc-
tive energy than Great Britain, France
and Germany combined, without de-
pendence upon Europe for anything
that 1t produces and with Europe de-
pendent upon us for much that we
pro1uce, is fully capable of restoring
Its constitutional money system of
gold and silver at an equality with
each other, and as our fathers in 1876 |
declared our national independence,
SO now has the party founded by
Thomas Jefferson, the father of that
declaration, met here to declare our
fnarcial independence of all other
nations and to invoke all true Ameri. |
cans to assert it by their votes and to
place their country where it ought to
belong as the freest and foremost
nat on of the earth"
There are number of delegates in
the Pennsylvania delegation who are
S d to be for free silver. They are
the following: John S. Killing, Erie;
John I. Lenahan, Luzerne, delegates.
at-large; Frank B. Rhoades, Sixth |
district; Howard Mutchler and Frank
p. Sharkey, Eighth district w. Oscar
Miller, Richard M. Reilly, Josepb |
OBlicn, Eleventh district; John NJ. |
Garman, Twelfth district; William A. |