The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-07-08
PLATFORM MAKING
Gov. Hogg Argues Against
Protection.
TWO GOLD DELEGATIONS UNSEATED
Hill Asked Speak. but Was Too
Much Disgusted to Attempt
to Respond.

CHICAGO, July s, Ii 80 a. m.-The
business of the day is platform making.
The tariff plank was vigorously argued
by Gov. HOgg, who denounced protec-
tion as being only in the interest of the
wealthy and against the farmer and
working man.
IL 80 a. ma minority report is be-
ing prepared by some of the credentials
committee, protesting against unseating
the Michigan and Nebraska gold men.
II 81 a. m.-Gov. Hogg, continuing
mis- remarks, said Republican corrup-
tion fund was being formed for carrying
Illinois, Ohio and other states.
IL :40-Monroe of Mississippi moves
that Blackburn of Kentucky be request
ed to address the convention [cheeringl.
Motion carried. Blackburn responds
and says: "The majority of the people
are looking at this convention in the
wrong light. The people want free sill
yer. Christ drove from the temple a
better set of men than those who have
given us our money laws for many
years. [Cheering.l Hill was called for,
but would not respond.
IL :36 p. m.-Altgeld advocates bimet-
alism. LOUDLY applauded.l Conven-
tion adjourned till p. m.
THE PLATFORM.
CHICAGO, July THE following will
be presented to the convention as the
money plank of the platform.
We, the Democrats of the United
States, in national convention assembled,
do reafirm our allegiance to those great
upon which our institutions are founded,
and which the Democratic party has
maintained from Jefferson's time to our
own-freedom of speech, freedom of the
press, freedom of conscience, the preser-
vation of personal rights, the equality of
all citizens before the law, and the faith
full observance of constitutional limita-
tions.
Recognizing that the money question
is paramount to all others at this time,
we invite attention to the fact that the
federal constitution names silver and
gold together as the money metals of the
United States, and that the first coinage
law passed by congress under the consti
tuition made the silver dollar the unit O
value and admitted gold to the free coin
age, at ratio measured by the silver
dollar unit.
We declare that the act of 1873 demon
etizing silver without the knowledge ol
approval of the American people has re
suited in the appreciation of gold and {
corresponding fall in the prices of com
modities produced by the people; {
heavy increase in the burden of taxation
and of all debts, public and private; th'
, enrichment of the money-lending classe
at home and abroad; paralysis of indus
tries and impoverish ment of the people
We are unalterably opposed to tn
single gold sta ndard, which has lockeC
fast the prosperity of an industriou
people in the paralysis of hard times
Gold mono-metalism is British policy
founded upon British greed for gain an,
power, and its general adoption ha
brought other nations into financial ser
vitude to London. It is not only an IN
American, but anti-American, and
can be fastened upon the United State
only by the sitting of that indomitabl
spirit and love of liberty which pro
claimed our political Independence il
1776 and won it in the war of the Revo
luton.
We demand the immediate restoration
of the free and unlimited coinage c
gold and silver at the present legal rati
of 16 to l, without waiting for the aid o
consent of any other nation. We de
mand that the standard silver dolIa
shall be full legal tender, equally wit