Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-06-19

Of Staunton, delegates are already
in st. Louis.
At Basic City Mr.. e. NJ Tucker of the Fifth
district, got OH, and he was joined by his col
league, MI. q. T. Barksdale. at Staunton.
g. Scheffer who is delegate. from the Tenth
district, got on at Staunton, as we'll as Col S.
Brown Allen and Editor A. P. Funkhouser
Of the State Republican of Harrisonburg.
There were quite number of other Repub-
lican statesmen who joined the procession.
and by the time they reached this point the
Virginia band-wagon was pretty we'll filled.
THE VIRGINIA DELEGATION ORGANIZED
| AT CHICAGO.
| The Virginia delegation elected George E.
Bowden National Committeeman Gin place of
Col. VIM. LAMB, Judge Edmund Waddill
chairman of the delegation, with A. w. Har-
ris (col.) Secretary. j. N. Mclaughlin for
Committee on Credentials; Stith Boiling for
Committee on Permanent Organization: VIM.
Lamb for Committee on Rules; j. e. Scheffer
for Committee to notify Presidential nominee:
j. s. Browning for Committee for notification
of Vice Presidential nominee. John Acker
Of Rockingham, for Vice President of the
convention.
The Opening of the Convention.
The convention opened at noon Tuesday.
After prayer by Rabbi Sales, j. H. Fairbanks
OF Indiana, the temporary President, made
speech in which he said:
1.-The Republican party has not been un-
friendly to the. proper use of silver. 1t has al
ways favored and favors to-day the use of sill
n Yior RI of
it fayors that use under such provisions and
safeguards as shall not imperil our present
national standard. The policy Of the Repub-
lican party is to retain both gold and silver as
part of our circulating medium, while the
policy of the free coinage of silver leads to
certain silver recommendation. 1t is the i'm
mutab1e law that two moneys of equal value
will not circulate together. and that the poor
er always drives out the better.
''ThOse who profess to believe this govern
ment can independently of other great conn.,
mercial powers open its minis to the free and
Independent coinage OF silver at the ratio of
16 to when the commercial ratio in all great
markels is thirty to one, and at the same time
not drive every dollar of gold out of circula-
ton, but deceive themselves. Great and splen-
cannot accomplish the impossible. 1t cannot
create value uor can it, by omnipotent fiat,
make fifty cents worth one hundred cents.
The attempt to compel unlimited dollars of
such unequal value to circulate at parity is
bad in morals and is vicious in policy.
When the speaker said that the party be-
lieved in the maintenance of the present
Standard
'Solid gold, " shouted some of the enthusiast
tic Massachusetts delegation. The demon
stration reached its climax when he announc-
ed the unalterable opposition of the party to
'fftycent dollar" The silver people from
the West headed by Senator Teller, however,
took no part in the demonstration. They sat
perfectly silent. Senator Teller's lip curled
with Scorn.
At the close of Mr.. Fairbanks address the
convention adjourned till 10 a. m. Wednesday,
THE FINANCIAL PLANK FINALLY AGREED
ON.
The text of the financial plank of the plat
form was agreed to Tuesday morning at con-
ference held Immediately after breakfast by
MI. Hanna ,Senator-elect Foraker and Senator
Lodge. 1t is as follows:
1.-The republican party is unreservedly for
sound money. 1t caused the enactment of the
law provided for the resumption of specie
payments ia 1879; since then every dollar has
been as good as gold. We are unalterably
opposed to every measure calculated to debase
our currency or impair the credit of our coun-
try. We are, therefore, opposed to free coin
age of silver except by International agree
ment. and until such agreement can be OBJ
tanned, the existing gold standard must be
preserved. All our silver and paper now in
circulation as currency must be maintained
at parity with gold, and we favor all meas
ures to maintain inviolably the obligations of
the United States and all our money. whether
coin or paper, at the present standard, the
standard of the most enlightened nations of
the EARTH
WHAT TELLER OFFERED.
Senator Teller, of Colorado, offered four
propositions in the snb- committee. First,
for free and unlimited coinage at the ratio of
16 to l; second, for the free coinage of the
American. product third, that protection is
impractlcable unless free coinage of silver is
adopted, and the fourth, for the coinage of
the American product and for a tariff on all
foreign silver imported into this country. All
of these propositions were voted down, Mr.
Teller being the only man who voted in the
affirmative On any proposition looking to the
recognition of silver.
TIE SILVER MEN TO LEAVE THE CONvEN-
TON.
The conven ton rea ssembled on WEDNESDAY
morning and elected Charles NJ. Thurston
permanent President.
Tho committee on resolutions announced
that its sub committee had gotten through and
that the full committee would report that
afternoon. The report would be for the gold
standard. Senator Teller and the other sill
yer men gave notice to the committee if that
was adopted they would leave the conyen
ton.
Misdemeanors in County Courts.
[From the Lynchburg News.
Judge Adams, at the recent term of Camp
bell County Court, was called upon to pass
his judgement on case involving the law