The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-30
THE PROCEEDINGS

state central committee, called the con-
vention to order. The large hall was
crowded and many more were strug-
Cling to get in. Alderman Martin b
Madden of Chicago was named as tenn
porary chairman. In concluding his
speech he said
Il win say, in the language of the
distinguished presiding officer of the
national house of representatives-th
the proudest part of
THE PROUD RECORD
OF the Republican party has been its
steadfas7t devotion to the cause Of
sound finance. When this country was
uempted to pay its bonds in depre-
ciated currency, the Republican party
responded with loud acclaim to that
noble sentiment of General Hawlev
that every bond was as sacred as a
soldiers grave.
What we were in our days of vic
tory. the same are we in our DAYS of
defeat. champions of sound and solid
finance, and when the time comes. as
st surely viii come. for US to lead this
country back to those paths of pros
perity ard fame. which were trodden
under Republican rule for so many
Years, we shall take back with us our
ancient glory, undimmed by adversely.
our ancient honor unsullied by defeat"
When the applause following the
speech had died away. a resolution was
adopted which referred all resolutions
tc THE committee on resolutions without
reading, save that the question of in
strdoting the delegates at large
HOW TO VOTE
at the national convention was to be
made a special order Immediately after
the nomination of an attorney general
and the debate on it should be limited
to thirty minutes on each side.
The committees were then anuounc-
ed, after which recess was taken un-
Ill 2 o'clock.
When the convention reassembled the
Commute on credentials and perma
nent organization reported that there
We're no contesting delegates.
O f. Berry of Carthage was named
fer permanent chairman. He delivered
q long and eloquent address,
The financial question" he said. sis
ore That we must and will meet. The
Republican party believes in bimetal-
Iism-in the use of both gold and sill
yer, side by side, as money; that the
dollar, whether gold, silver or paper.
shall be as good as every other dollar
The party that in forty years has
NEVER BROKEN A PLEDGE
or failed to redeem a promise can sure
ly be trusted to solve this problem. and
If trusted will solve it to the entire
satisfaction of all the people in the in
teres. of AM
In conclusion. he expected all to
promise thu whoever the nominee of
the national convention might be. he
should receive their earnest. unanimous
and hearty support and thu electoral
vote of Illinois.
At the conclusion of Chairman Rer-
rvs speech, nominations for governor
were declared in order. Ex-senator
Hagle Of Clay county, after reviewing
the situation of the country under
Democratic rule, placed John r. Tan
ner in nomination In the course of a
glowing eulogy he said of Tanner:
In his boyhood he was a pupil in
the school of adversely. With his fam
lily broken UP by the cruel hand of
WARMTH his father and two brothers
sleeping in graves on southern soil-he
began the struggle of life, ana how
Wei he has succeeded is attesteG by
THE HOSTS OF FRIENDS
he has Il. the state and in the nation
M. B. Madden of Chicago seconded
Tanners ominasion.
Albert J. Hopkins of Aurora was