The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-07-01
DECLARE FOR SILVER.
Illinois Democracy Names Delegates to
Chicago-State Platform.

LIMOS democracy Names Delegates TO
Chicago-state Platform.
Peoria, ILL.,, June 24.-The state dem
ocratic convention Tuesday put up the
following ticket:
Governor-John p. AItgeld.
Lieutenant Governor-Monroe c. Craw-
ford.
Secretary of State-Finis c. Downing.
Auditor Of State-W. F. Beck.
State Treasurer-Edward c. Pace.
Attorney-General-Geo A. Trude.
The following were selected as delegates
at large to the Chicago conventions: Gov
John P. Altgeld, Secretary of State w. II.
Hinrichsen, ex-Congressman George W.
Fithian and cx-Judge Samuel P. McCon-
nell.
The. district delegates are as follows:
First district, A. s. Trude. Jesse Sher-
wood; Second. Edward Tilden. Thomas
Bryne; Third. Charles Martin. ]. c. Shu-
bert; Fourth, John Powers, William Loef-
her; Fifth, John ]. Brennan, NJ. G. Nc
Donald; Sixth, Henry F. Donovan, Joseph
| A. Martin; Seventh, William Prentiss.
James Burke; Eighth, Mark w. Durham,
J. D. Donovan; Ninth, Frank M. Barron.
Samuel Ray; Tenth. C. K. Ladd. James
y. K Knox: T Ts: pr. N; Gushing, Free
F. Hefferman; Fourteenth, N. G. Worth
fngton, H. w. Masters; Fifteenth, Dr. W.
Register, B. P. Preston; Sixteenth, Frank
Robinson. A. H. Bell; Seventeenth, T. U.
McNeely, J. T. Beach: Eighteenth, A. w.
Hope, c. w. Bliss: Nineteenth, R. N.
Stottler. H. s. Tanner; Twentieth. Will
| liam H. Green, ]. R. Williams; Twenty
| first, ]. N. PENN. w. A. ]. Sparks: Twen-
| ty-second, L. o. Whitewell. William w.
| Clemens:
Following are the principal points
in the platform adopted by the con-
vention:
1--WE favor the soundest and safest money
known to man, and as experience has
shown that this consists of both gold and
silver, with equal rights of coinage and
full legal tender power, we demand the
repeal OF that republican and plutocratic
legislation which demonetized silver and
| reduced 1t to the basis Of token money,
destroying by one-half the stock OF real
| money. and by doubling the work to be
done by gold doubled its purchasing power
| SO that the farmers and producers had
to give twice as much work to get dol
| lar as they formerly had, and found it
hard to meet the debts, interest, taxes and
fixed charges, which were not lowered.
| I'VE believe in the greatness and pa
| tr!otism Of the American people, in their
| energy, industry and thrift, and that such
a people, with the unlimited resources of
| our land, are strong enough to sustain q
| monetary system without the aid of foreign
| governments.
| 1--WE believe that the bimetallism which
| has done the work Of the world since the
| dawn of civilization and which was made
the basis of monetary system by Ham
ilton and Jefferson is absolutely neces-
sary at present to the prosperity of man
kind, and that its reestablishment will
check the present business paralysis, will
| give to the country safe and honest cur
| rency of adequate volume, will restore
prices Of agricultural commodities will en-
! courage enterprise and give our people
steady and profitable employment. Hav.
ing learned through bitter experience that
| Wall street has controlled the financial
legislation of Washington, and knowing
that every effort will be made to defeat the
will of the people, we deem it proper to be
explicit in our declarations.
sActuated by the foregoing principles
and desiring the prosperity of the people
we demand the immediate restoration Of
| the free and unlimited coinage of both gold
and silver as standard money at the rate
of sixteen ounces of silver to one of gold
OF equal fineness, with full legal tender
power to each metal, without waiting for
or depending on any other nation on earth;
and the delegates from this convention tc
the national democratic convention are
| instructed to use all honorable means tc
secure q similar declaration by said ma.
tional convention. and to support only such
|
pronounced sympathy with these princi-
| pies"
| The platform opposes contraction OF the
| currency by the retirement Of treasury
notes; favors a tariff for revenue only
| opposes revival of the Mckinley law,
which it declares produced a deficit in the
| treasury for the fiscal year ending June
go 1894, of 900, under which wages
were greatly lowered, and which gave
proprietors monopoly while 1t permitted
them to fill their shops with the cheapest
| kind of labor brought from all parts Of the
| earth. The resolutions demand the aboli-
| ton Of government by injunction, whereby
federal Judge at once became legislator
judge and executor, and denounces this
| new form of oppression" as destructive
of republican institutions, robbing the citi-
zen Of the right of trial by jury and of all
| protection by the constitution: 1t declares
| that arbitrary interference on the part OF
the federal government in local affairs by
| ignoring lawful authorities is not only q
violation of the constitution of the United
| States, but q crime against free govern
ment The platform favors a constftu-
tional amendment permitting the levyine
and collection of an income tax. Delegates
to the national convention are instructed
to support only such men for the presi-
dency as are in full and pronounced SYM
pathy with the declarations of this plat
form, to vote upon all matters, including
nominations for candidates. to vote as q
unit.
The platform indorses the administra-
ton of Gov. Altgeld, criticises the recent
republican; national convention as having
yielded to the iron hand of the barons Of
monopoly and nominated as president the
author Of the most Ubiquitous tariff bill
ever enacted, and, bowling down to the
money power. declared in favor of single
gold standard. 1t demands such legisla-
ton as will require all property not exempt
and oil men to pay their fair share of
taxes, and favors a constitutional amend
ment which will allow local taxation for
local purposes. 1t upholds the industrial
arbitration law, and demands legislation
that will put an end to child labor; de-
nounces the flag law as unconstitutional.
unpatriotic and unwise, and demands it's
rcpeal; declares against prison labor being
brought into opposition with free labor;