Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-18
THE THIRD DISTRICT.
Free Silver Resolutions Adopted-A Hot
Speech by Ex-Governor Wilson.
THIRD DISTRICT
James II. sHller.
Lawrence E. Tierney.
J. w. st. Clair.

day and selected Hon. James H. Miller,
of Summers, and Hon. Lawrence z.
Tierney, of Mcdowell, district dele
gates, and Gen. j. w. st. Clair, of Fay
cite. delegate-at-large to the Demo-
cratic National Convention.
John McGrath, Of Mercer, and Gen. B.
H. Oxley, of Kanawha, are the district
alternates and James T. North, of Lo-
gan county, alternate to the delegate
at-large.
1t was a large and wildly enthusiasts
tic gathering OF representative Demo-
Gratis and the resolutions which give
forth no uncertain sound on the ques-
ton of currency, were adopted without
a dissenting vote.
The convention was called to order
by Hon. James H. Miller, chairman of
the Compassionate mmittee, who called
TO the chair Major Joe Chiffon of
Charleston, and Hon. Thomas H. Den
mis-, editor of the Greenbrier Independ-
ent, as temporary secretary. The tenn
porary oranization was made perma-
nent.
Ex-Governor Wilson delivered one Of
his characteristic speeches in which he
lauded the free silver idea amidst. the
widest applause. and it was clearly
evident that the white metal advocates
reigned supreme.
Governor Wilson was followed by
Judge Houston, of Kanawha, who an
nounced himself a new convert to the
free silver cause but none the less an
enthusiastic one. His eloquence caught
the convention. He deprecated the at
titude of President Cleveland and Post
master General Wilson, and the con-
vention plainly showed that it was in
sympathy with the speaker.
Hon. John w. Arbuckle, of Green
brier, who, it is said, will contend with
Governor Wilson for the Congressional
nomination, and General st. Clair, of
Fayette, made rafting free silver
speeches and when the latter mention
ed the name of Vice President Steven
son for the Presidency the convention
went wild.
In fact, nothing other than silver was
tolerated and if single delegate was
present who espoused the cause OF the
yellow metal, he kept remarkably quiet.
IL is safe to say that the Third district
Democrats never were more harmonious
and united on any question than they are
to-day on the magic words 16 to l. The
resolutions in full are as follows:
1.-THE Democrats of the Third Congress
ional district of West Virginia, in conven-
ton assembled. at Hinton, on this. the
18th day Of June, 1895, for the purpose of
electing three delegates to the national
Democratic convention to be held at Chi
cago in next month declare:
"First-We adhere to the principles
of Democracy as announced by Jeffer-
son, Madison, Monroe and Jackson and
the patriots of their day. that this is
the government of and for the people
and we deprecate the growing influence
of trusts and great combinations of
capital as dangerous to the welfare of
our people and fraught with disaster to
our institutions.
"Second-We are opposed to McKin-
leyism which proposes TO tax the poor
man for the benefit of trusts and capt.
talists. and we favor tariff tax for rev.
enue, limited to the necessities of an
economically administered government
and adjusted so as TO throw its burdens
most lightly upon the great producing
classes of our country.
"Third-We reaffirm the declaration
Of the constitution and the time hon
ored doctrine of the Democratic party
that both gold and silver shall be the
standard money of the country. We
condemn the destruction Of silver as
money of final payment, and we deplore
its melancholy consequences plainly
visible in the injury to trade and the
fall in prices and the lamentable de-
preston in values which have contin-
ued since 1873. Accordingly, we de-
mand the free and unlimited coinage Of
both gold and silver at the ratio of i6
to /, without dependence upon the ac-
ton of other countries, and we hereby
instruct our delegates this day appoint
ed from the Third Congressional Dis
trict of West Virginia, to the National
Democratic Convention, at Chicago, to
vote for a platform declaring for the
free coinage of silver and gold at the
ratio of 16 to l, and TO vote for and use
all honorable means to nominate can
didates for President and Vice Presi-
dent who openly advocate that princi-
pie.
'Fourth-We instruct our delegates
to vote for the change of the two-third
rule heretofore adopted in the national
convention and to use their influence in
providing for a majority of the dele
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