Middletown transcript., 1896-07-18

desire to nave them maQo e1octiVe
through legislation for the relief of the
people and the restoration Of the
country's prosperity.
The Minority Report.
To the Democratic Convention:
Sixteen delegates, constituting the
minority of the committee on resolu-
tions. find many declarations in the re-
port of the majority to which they
cannot give their assent. Some of thes
are wholly unnecessary. Some are ILL
considered and, ambiguouslY phrased
while others are extreme and
revolutionary of the well receg-
nized principles of the party. The
minority content themselves with this
general expression of their dissent
without going into specific statement
of these Objectionable features of the
report of the minority.
But upon the financial question, whi. b
engages at this time the chief share of
public attention, the views of the ma
jority differ SO fundamentally to VIII at
the minority think the vital Demo-
cratic doctrine ds to demaLd a distinct
statement of what they hold to as the
only just and true expression of Demo-
cratic faith upon this paramount issue,
as follows, which is offered as a sub
stitHte for the financial plank in the
majority report:
We declare that our belief that the
experiment on the part of the United
States alone of free silver coinage and
change of their existing standard of
value independently of the action of
other great nations would not only i'm.
peril our finances, but would retard or
entirely prevent the establishment of
international bimetallism, to which
the efforts of the government should
be steady directed. 1t would place
this country at once upon silver basis,
impair contracts, disturb business, di-
minish the purcha sing power of the
wages Of labor and infict irreparable
evils upon our nations commerce and
industry.
Until internal cooperation among
the leading nations for the free coinage
of silver can he secured We favor
the rigid maintenance of the existing
gold standard as essential to the pre-
servation of our national credit, the
redemption of our public pledges and
the keeping inyiolate of our country's
honor. We trust that all our paper
and silver currency shall be keep absol-
utely at parity with gold. The
Democratic Party is the party of hard
money, and is opposed-to legal tender
paper money as part of permanent
financial,system, and we therefore favor
the gradual retirement and cancellation
of all United States notes and Treas
ury notes, under such legislative pro-
vision as will pieveit undue contrac-
tiolI We demand that the national
credit shall be resolmely maintained at
all times and vi der all circumstances.
The minority also feel that the report
of the majority is defective in failing
to make any recognition of the honesty,
economy, courage. and fidelity of the
present Democratic administration,
and they therefore offer the following
declaration as an amendment to the
majority report:
"We recomend the honest, economy,
courage, and fidelity OF the present
Democratic administration"
DAVID B. HILL, New York.
WILLIAM F. Villas, Wisconsin.
GEORGE GRAY, Delaware.
JOHN PRENTIss POE, Ma ryland.
IRVING W. DREW, New Hampshire.
C. o. HOLMAN, Maine.
P.J. FARREL, Vermont.
LYNDE HARRISON, Connecticut.
DAVID F. BAKER, Rhode Island.
T. A. C. wEADOCK, Michigan.
JAMES E. o'BRIEN, Minnesota.
JOHN E. Russell, Massachusetts,.
ROBERT e. WRIGHT, Pennsylvania.
W. r. STEELE. South Dakota.
ALLEN M'DERMoTT, New Jersey.
CHARLES D. ROGERS, Alaska.
Feed the Nerves.