The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-06-13
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
The Disciples Of Jefferson Solid
For Silver. ~

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Blaine county democrats met al
HALEY Monday 10 select delegates
to the State convention which will
be held at Pocatello Tuesday, June
10th. The meeting was called tc
order by S. B. Dilley of Bellevue.
Frank E. Ensign was made chair
man and Frank j. McGuinness sec.
rotary. After the various commit
tess were appointed, the following
resolutions we're adopted:
We, the Democrats of Blaine county,
in convention assembled, renew our al
lcgiance to the principles taught by
Thomas Jefferson and cOurageously de-
Tended by Andrew jackson and demand
that the great prnblems now before the
people shall lie solved by the application
Of these principles to present conditions
We note with heartfelt qualification the
earnest efforts Of our brethren in other
states to make free and unlimited coinage
ut the established ratio the paramount
issue of the coming national campaign.
And, believing as we do, that the pros
pcrity of the country demands that all
other issues shall besubOrdinated to Sc.
curing the enactment of this principle
into law, we are in favor of instructing
delegates from the state to the national
Democratic convention to devote their
entire, exclusive and undivided Efforts to
secure the adoption Of a declaration IN
the platform Of the party demanding the
g tx,1 <&f 1,nfh ,su1
aud gold at the ratio of Is to 1, and the
complete restoration of silver to the
functions given it by the constitution as
money, without equivocation, qualitica-
ton, Limitation or hesitation, regardless
of international agreement and without
the assent or concurrence of any other
nation, and to vote for candidates for
president and vice president who openly
advocate that principle.
Resolced, That the history Of the Dem
ocratic party, its record in congress in all
attempts to restore silver to its former
position in our national currency, the
declarations of most all of its state con-
ventions, and the vig0r, determination
and success with which our brethren in
all sections are pushing the matter, all
proclaim that it is the party in which
rests all of the hopes of the blmetallists
of the nation.
Resolced, That free coinage platform
and candidate will insure victory at the
next national convention, and their rejec-
ton is an equal assurance of defeat and
the continued supremacy Of the money
lenders of the country. who are the only
ones benefited by the present monon.e-
tsllic system.
GEO. H. ABBOTT,
w. H. WATT,
P. E. FuREY,
g. V. BRYAN.
MINORITY.
We, the minority, beg leave to ask that
the following he added to the majority
report:
We are absolutely and unqualifiedly
opposed to President Cleveland and his
cabinet in their financial policy and We
hereby denounce them as traitors to the
principles of the Democratic party and
enemies of the producing and toiliag
millions of tue people Of the United
States.
WIN. MCCAIN.
G. II. HARVEY.
B. r. GRAY.
V. Bryan and W. II. Watt were
chosen delegates to POcatello.
A county central committee was chosen,
consisting IF three from HALEY, two
from Ketchum, two from Bellevue, and
one from each remaining precinct.