The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-03
Formulating RESOLUTIONS.
Preparing the PIanks for the Sound
Money! Platform

Money Platform.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Sept 2-The
committee on resolutions met at the Grand
Hotel shortly before O'Clock and organ
lied by selecting Senator Villas of Wiscon-
SIN chairman and Albert Watkins of Ne
braska secretary. 1t was deemed best to
leave the actual construction of the plat
form to subcommittee, and after an
hour of discussion the following were
selected to do this work Hon. W. +.
Villas (chairman), c. V. Holman of Maine,
G. P. Lewis of New Jersey, Hon. Virgil P.
Kline of Ohio. Comptroller of the Cur
rency James II. Eckels of Illinois, Ed
mund Cooper of Tennessee, Thomas G.
Jones of Alabama, John P. Irish of Cali
fornia, Henry W. Lamb of Massachusetts
and Albert Watkins of Nebraska.
The informal discussion of the mem bers
disclosed the fact that the great majority
of the committee was of one mind on the
leading propositions to be submitted. 1t
is understood that there will be no refer
ence to bimetallism, but that the money
plank will declare unequivocally for the
existing single gold standard. Along this
line the plank submitted by C. Z. S, Wood
Of Oregon, heretofore given in these dis
patches, appears to have met with gen.
eral approval, for its reading was greeted
with applause. While it is probable that
the declaration will be put in different
dress the ideas advanced will likely form
the basis of the financial plank. That pro-
posed plank is as follows:
We favor the use of gold and silver as
money, but insist upon the maintenance of
our present gold standard and that silver
should only be used so far as it safely may be
and con sistently with the firm maintenance
OF such gold standard
We oppose all forms of fiat money and con-
slider us retirement from circulation rec
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dispensible to a stable currency and to the
maintenance of the gold standard.
The retirement of the greenback has
many strong advocates, among them Virgil
Kline of Ohio and Perry Belmont of New
York.
Equitable and just pension laws will be
Endorsed.
The tariff plank will be along the usual
lines. a vigorous opposition will be ex-
pressed TO all forms of fraudulent and mis-
guided paternslism.
The Chicago platform will be arraigned,
notably on account of It's attacks on the
Supreme Court and its "upholdine of
anarchy by denying the right of the use
of Federal troops in State to suppress
the violations of the United States law in
those States"
Among the propositions offered and
read for the information of the committee
was one by c. Vey Holman of Maine re-
SdIO1uS lAS meTCHanL marine. 1t was,
he said, radically different from the plank
pressed upon the committees of the st.
Louis and Chicago conventions - and
adopted by the latter-by the representa-
tives OF the American Shipping League, of
which Arthur Sewau Is president. 1t reads
as follows:
We demand that henceforth modern and
liberal policies toward American shipping
rshal take the place of our imitation OF the re-
strlct1ve statutes OF the eighteenth century
long ago abandoned by every other maritime
power but the United States To this end we
favor the repeal of those navigation laws
which, to the Nations humiIiation have
driven American capital and enterprise to the
use OF alien flags and alien crews, have made
the Stars and Stripes an almost unknown en-
blem in foreign ports, and have virtually ex-
tinguished the race of American seamen
We oppose the pretense that discriminating
duties will promote shipping: that scheme is
United States, un-American in the light of our
great commercial treaties, offering no gain
whatever TO American shipping while greatly
increasing ocean freights on our agricultural
and manufacturing products.
The subcommittee tonight began the
work OF drafting platform, a task which
Senator Villas said should be well and
thoroughly performed. regardless of the
time required to do it. The subcommittee
reviewed the propositions before them
and decided that more satisfactory
progress could be made by further sub
division of labor, so the general divisions
of the platform were assigned to the fol-
lowing named members for preparation !:
Preamble and general declarations, Kline.
Curtis and Jones; financial plank. Villas
and Eckels: tariff and economic subjects
Irish, Watkins and Holman; civil service
Lamb.