Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-09-04
SOUND MONEY MEN MEET
To Save the Nation from I'm
pending Peril.
Great 6 Gathering or yellow Fellows
at indianapolis to Name - Ticket
Nearly Every state Represented by
self Constituted Patriots.

Convention Hall, indianapolis Sept
2.-The first days session of the national
democratic convention called by the
advocates of "sound money" and the
opponents of the Chicago platform, to
meet in Indianapolis today, was marked
by unanimous action and favorable
surroundings of wind, weather and
enthusiasm. Eight hundred and twenty
four delegates were present. These
represented forty-two states and three
territories. In many instances the
delegates were supplemented by full
sets of alternates, so that the attendance
was equal to and almost surpassed the
seating capacity of the hall. AS body
the delegates presented the appearance
of substantial business men, well dressed,
and exceedingly courteous, some Of them
so unaccustomed.to the ways of political
conventions that they had to he IN
structed as to the simple matters of
procedure. To leaven this lump of
political innocence there was quite
sufficient admiXture of veteran poll
ticians, old wheel horses of the democ-
racy, in fact, including three United
States senators-Palmer, Gallery and
Vilas-four or five governors and ex-
governors of states-Jones of Alabama,
Stockridge of Delaware, Buckner of
Kentucky and Flower of New York,
besides several prominent ex-congress-
men, among them d. Everett of
Massachusetts, and Perry Belmont of
New York. The convention went to
work with CELEBRITY effected both a tenn
porary and permanent organization and
got down in one day to that important
point in its order of buciness where its
platform comes in.
SENATOR PALMER
of Illinois. chairman of the committee
which issued the call, raped the con-
vention to order. Elk governor Flower
was made temporary chairman and
read a very long address, many points
of which were cheered He was sue
ceeded, as the permanent chairman, by
Senator Gallery of Louisiana, whose
speech was much shorter than the tenn
porary chairman's, but was equally in
cislve
The oratorical effects of the day were
secured by d. E. Everett of Massachu-
sets, and Mr.. JOHN P. Irish of Cali
fornia. DR.. Everett boldly declared
that Massachusetts, was for gold and
uot for bimetallisn by international
agreement, asserting that every nation
whose views were worth having had
adopted the standard. He also repudia-
ted any alliance with the Mckinley
protectionists, and proclaimed "regu
larity" for the present convention,
which he believed would be the pre-
cursor of long line of regular dem
ocratic conventions. The Chicago con-
vention and platform were ignored as
democratic institutions BY the sperkers
and by the convention. Mr.. Irish was
very aggressive in his remarks. He
spoke of McKinley's protection and
Bryan's free silver populism as "twin
sisters of the horse leech," working in
concert, each to produce
A DEPRESSION OF PRICES
for which free trade or free silver was
to be the remedy. He opposed an in
come tax and called upon all true dem
ocrats to protect the United States ST.
preme court from the degradation
which would be thrust upon it by the
'puppet of the silver syndicate" All
hese remarks were vigorously cheered.
ct the most noticeable feature of the
lays gathering was the reception
which met Mr.. Cleveland's name.
Whenever it was mentioned it was
greeted with an uprising demonstra
ion of applause, the heartiness and
incerity of which seemed beyond
question. The convention adjourned
Until II o'clock tomorrow, when the
Committee on resolutions are ready the
,latform will be adopted