Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-07-30
Democratic Northwest.
AND HENRY COUNTY NEWS.
IN LINE
With Party PreCedentS
IS THE PLATFORM PROMUL.
GATED AT CHICAGO.
Democracy From JeferSOn'S Time Ad-
VOCated BimetalllSm,
And> Has Denounced the
Fight Against Silver.
GRoSvENoR' STRONG STAND
FOR THE WHITE METAL.
Quotations from Many Platforms
Prove the Present One Consis-
tent or Finance
And> Has Denounced the
Fight Against Silver.
GRoSvENoRs STRONG STAND
FOR THE WHITE METAL.
Quotations from Many Platforms
Prove the Present One Consis-
tent on Finance.
Special dispatch to the Enquirer


CoLUMBUs, o., July l9th.-Tne e.
nanclal promulgatIons of the Chicago
Convention were not only in strict
accordance with the traditions of the
Democratic party from the days of
Jefferson and Jackson down, but ex-
pliclty consistent with the platform
utterances of the state and national
Democracy ever since the perpotra-
tion of the act in 1873, which Secre-
tary Carlisle so fttingly described as
"the greatest crime of the century"
In 1875 the Ohio Democracy, at
their State Convention, took cogni-
zance of the surreptitious work which
had been done three years previously,
and the knowledge of which had just
begun to dawn upon the country, and
adopted the following resolution, with.
out dissenting vote:
~. That public policy and the
sense of common justice requires that
silver issued by the Government
should be legal tender In payment
of all debts, public and private, and
that we demand the unconditional re-
peal of the so-called silver act, so far
as the same limits the amount for
which said silver coinage shall be a
legal tender.
EMPHATIC DECLARATION.
In 1877 the Ohio Democracy were
equally emphatic, and by unanimous
vote, upon call Of the convention,
adopted the following:
We denounce as an outrage upon
the rights of the people the enactment
of the Republican measure demone-
tizing silver, and demand the passage
of law which shall restore to silver
its monetary power"
Again in 1878 the voice of the Ohio
Democracy was strong, and upon call.
ing the roll of the convention every
vote was recorded aye for the follow
ing:
~. That at the time when the
country was weighed down with debt
created on basis of q full volume of
paper, it enabled sweeping change
inSthe measure of value wholly in the
interest of moneyed capital by de-
monetizing silver and decreasing the
destruction Of legal tender paper, and
thereby wrongfully added, in effect,
hundreds of millions to the burden
of debt and taxes upon the people.
%. We congratulate the country
that the downward course of bank
ruptcy and ruin involved in the Re-
publican party has been partly avert.
ed by the Democratic measures pass
ed at the late session of Congress re-
storing the debt paying power to sill
yer dollars, made the law in spite of
a Presidential veto, and stopping the
further destruction Of greenbacks,
and we demand as further act of
Justice, as well as other measures of
relief, the removal of all restrictions
to the coinage of silver and the re-
establishment of silver as a money
metal the same as gold, the same as
It was before the fraudulent demone-
HPiRIT OF JEFFERSON.
The spirit Of Jefferon and Jackson
and Democracy was strong in the
ohio Convention In 1879, and this
uas Tie unanimous declaration: