The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-24
aTER rs A SNAIL.
SLOW Work in the White
Metal Convention.
| PLATFORM NOW PREPARED,
Endorsement Of Bryan and SsWaII
Embodied in 1t.
| ALL READY TO ADJOURN.
4 COnllb With The Pop! ALI That's in
the Way.
ALL READY TO ADJOURN.

The Adoption of the Platform VIII
End the work Before the COnven-
1fon-senatOr Jones of Nevada Sc
Iected After IA WrangIe to Present
the Platform-Presentatio of the
Platform Postponed Until Today
in order to Hold the Delegates in
Town to Act on the Conference
with the POpuIists.
ST. Louis, July 23.-The committee on
resolutions of the silver convention COM
pleted its work this afternoon by adopt
ing the platform and address to the people
which had been prepared by the sub-com-
mittee. The platform and address are as
follows:
1.-The national silver party Of America,
in convention assembled, hereby adopts
the following declaration Of principles:
"First-The paramount issue at this time
in the United States is indisputably the
money question. 1t is between the Brit
ish gold standard, gold bonds and bank
currency on the one side, and the bime-
tallic standard, no bonds, government
currency (and an American policy) on the
other. on this issue, we declare ourselves
10 be in favor of a distnctively American
financial system. We are unalterably op-
posed to the single gold standard. and de-
mand the immediate return to the constl-
tutional standard of gold and silver by
the restoration by this government, in
dependently Of any foreign power, of the
unrestricted coinage of both gold and sill
ver into standard money at the ratio of
l6 to !, and upon terms of exact equality
as they existed prior to 1873; the silver coin
TO be fun egal tender equally with gold
Tor all debts and dues. public and private.
and We demand such legislation as will
/ prevent for the future the destruction of
the legal tender quality of any kind of
money by private contract. We hold that
the power to control and regulate a paper
currency is inseparable from the power to
coin money; and, hence that all curfencv
intended to circulate as money should be
issued and its volume controlled by the
general government only, and should be
d legal tender.
we are unalterably opposed to the is
sue by the United States Of interest bear
Hls ponds in time Of peace, and we de-
IoulNe as a blunder worse than a crime
'No present treasury policy, concurred in
W republican House. of pluns-ng the
GouIlly INTO debt by hundreds of millions
- e'e Fdlh attempt to maintain the gold
s 80 ,-,,gatU "a Dy borrowing gold; and we de-
I.dIld the payment of all coin obligationz
81 istsnl' me United States, as provided by ex-
-9'-H5 laws, IN either gold or silver coin
- .-e OpIon OF the government and nor
a 60 s"G opuoh Of the creditor. The demon
cr'-'''Jn OF SILVER in 1873, enormously in
~ -'@seu @ the demand for gold, enhancing
81 - - purchasing power, and loyveriner a Il
t-9 measured by that standard. and
80 mat unjust and sndefensible ACT
81 fa1sr pIlces OF American products have
"a ca1f 1toI an average, nearly fifty per
rio-" gaffylng down with them proDor-
forr.',ely lhe money value of all other
-0.Ha tHa OF property.
rro9.- 9e-h IAN of prices has DESTROYED trhe
Dr6ir73o- W leBlumate industry, inturfng the
dr~Ns1 Tor the benefit of the non.nro
nv ' ~ increasing the burden of the debt-
81 aIr7.. ''.iiS the gains OF the creditor mar
& 49T-Is tne productive energies of tba
last ',Cs.l people, relegating to idIeness
II - numbers Of willing workers Sandi,1fr
-L shadows of despair into rho boraa de
tr5-1-1.H roHesl toiler, filling the land with
n loes. o.u paupers, and building I'm rOI-
"fn -Gj.lunes at the money centers.
s-a7f,rrii9 rii9 eHort to maintain the gold
e-l4ard the country has u,itIi s1Iu t1
me- - o years, in a time of Drofonnd
500 ~, @tlG plenty, been loaded down Win
d.-, ,"3 OF additional interest," aaTinrr
lou. "'-0er such circumstances as To afo
barka.. sghdlcate of native and forei@n
On sipej ~ Ie9lze net profit OF millions
sim stands confessed that the eroid
piaii,',..-i can only be upheld bv so az
tba l-il our paper currency as To foTca
r5D.sr 70 GI our products below the I'm
10 ensf a'iu even below the Asiatic level
TINS - US 10 sell in foreign markers
our IaFatlng the very evils of I,-biol'
Ann. '-e 50 bitterly complain ,Iagrs H..
datfo,s s'h iaDor ana striking al ne So,,e
.TS" u our civilization itself
Il pofsts e9Vocates of the gold s+ar5ous
.9S,ently claim that he ca1,zs s'a!iltird on
A lr6d,,r la oVerproduction-that we 80 t
Witt 30 much that it made ne r-d
c5sa l-nplles that the true renoe5xlp pGoI- ~ =
d thsov. LaElory, abandon the farm, arG
a l0yment. a. 5ue iuue Oh people out of en-
8 la44r,-a-5i d doctrine that leaves M,
II ly 5t'To ana dishea rtened ana ahillelh Iiielh
80 less for the future absolute
4 tl4-s aiilrn 1t to be unquestfo,o7 81,
4 as 9,a7-- Pe no sucn economic naraIr,.
i tens - y, oducucn and at the saT ee.oA atuA
1ns.,u4 Va thousands of our feli-cifiaiIne iIe llme
& an. 7 hdlI-clOthed and haIe'f SIls re-
leeass Giamoring for the con,r,,1r' ~
poa.y "a. aAa above all. other questions
Ye4p.e of rb.. ~ tdgor OF restoring To M.
or-l -,,-,,,,.lle ,le United states the fi1s 'e t4Ie
silver nav OF the constitution. goId 'i0l a,l7
NtsfHlt one, but both. the rooyl, ana
and Ns.2n and Hamilton ana Jafssy-.Sot o.
@'u jackson ana Lincoln, 10