The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-25


unsuccessful efforts for free silver at
former Democratic state conventions
in Ohio and reviewing eloquently the
contest of the past few weeks in the
state, he closed 9 follows:
There is but one great issue before
the American people, compared with
which other issues are as mole hills
with a mountain, and that is the issue
between the American people and the
allied money powers Of the world
whether the metallic basis of our cur
rency shall be so compressed and con-
secrated that it may be
HELD BY THE FEW
to the detrinent, debasement and en-
slavement of the many, or whether the
products of our mines shall be used to
break the icy letters that have closed
up the channels of commerce until our
harvents have. become almost a mock
cry, intensified by their plentitude.
Upon this question you are to make
deliverance in plain, terse and unmls-
takeable terms. You have been in
structed thereto from every county,
from every city, from every town,
from every hamlet, from every cross
road and from the shadow of every
school house in Ohio. For weeks
every zephyr which has blown from
every corner of the state to this con-
vention has borne an unvarying mes
sage: The free and unlimited coinage
of gold and silver at the ratio of Is to l
without awaiting the action or con-
earth. That is the recipe from which
You are to frame the commission of
the delegates to Chicago. The
DANGER WHICH THREATENS
THIS COUNTRY
is not her rich mines of gold and sill
yer, but that grasping financial policy
which has made England the home
of landlords and tenants, and which,
being surreptitiouely engrafted on our
own laws by the Sherman act of 1873
has made it possible to turn the Uni
ted States treasury into a. broker shop
and enrich foreign syndicate with
unpatriotic American connections by
compelling the issue of the bonds of
the people to keep intact stock of
gold which 1t ,urrs to its own sinister
account at pleasure. You have no
war to make on capital. You will
make no war upon it. You intend, to
respect its rights and you intend that
did more or did less than these things,
you would be unworthy the title of
Americans. You did not array a Sec
ton OF the country against all the
rest, on this financial question. Others
Gid that against your earnest and I'M
availing appeals for the recognition of
the mutual rights Of all. So shape
your actions so as to send Ohio to
Chicago as the leader Of the peoples
rights. for what you declare here to-
day will be declared at Chicago for
the whole country, and that in turn
will be ratified by the people on the
3rd of November.
TURMOIL AND Kisses.
After Taylor finished. Reuben T.
Turney, OF Tuscarora county, was rec
ognized. He threw the convention into
a turmoil of Kisses and derisive shouts
when saying:
Looking down on this convention is
that arch-traitor that Benedict Ar
mold of Democracy, Grover Cleveland.
He wanted the portrait removed. For
some moments Turney was Kissed. He
finally moved that a. w. Patrick, who
represented the minority report on the
resolution for silver last year be in
vited to the stage This caught the
silver men and the motion was car
ried.
Judge Patrick made a free coinage
speech. The gold men fought the re-
port on rules because it referred all
resolutions without debate. The re-
port was adopted after the amend
ment and dilatory measures were de-
feated.
GENERAL WARNER.
After the report of the committee On
permanent organization had been pre-
scented General A. j. Warner was es-
corted to the chair as presiding Off
Ger and was received with an ovation.
Warner was introduced as the apostle
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| their personal preferences and all other
| matters for the silver issue. The peo-
pie made the issue and the ST Louis
convention emphasized it by adopting
a single gold standard The lines were
| so distinctly drawn that there was no
| longer any doubt about what is to be
/ done at Chicago on the issue. He
urged all advocates of the bimetallic
| standard of the fathers and of the con-
stitution to unite on one ticket as we'll
| as on one issue. He insisted that this
union of the people, regardless of party
! allegiances, against the gold standard
money power was now the duty of
| the hour. 1t would save the people
| from becoming a homeless tenantry,
while the rich are becoming richer by
| the increasing value of gold The val
ues of ell the people possess were de-
creaSing, while the values of foreign
money was increasing.
When Warner concluded, Judge
Patrick led
THREE ROUSING CHEERS.
| Warmers speech was interrupted con-
tinuously by applause, and especially
| his reference to the bankruptcy and
| distress OF the masses, and the heavy
tributes being levied on them by the
money lenders.
Warmers indictment of the admin
| istration for issuing bonds to maintain
/ the gold standard was intensely Sc
we're and greeted with a tumultuous
demonstration. After the report on
credentials had been adopted without
opposition. the following majority re-
port on resolutions was presented:
I'VE, the Democrats of Ohio, in con-
vention assembled, hold that the
money question is the vital and nara
mount issue nov before the people of
this country, and that its early and
correct settlement is necessary 20 the
revival of business and the return of
prosperity; therefore,
Resolved, We are unalterably op-
posed to the single gold standard and
demand the immediate return to the
constitutional money, gold and silver
by the restoration by the government
independent of other nations, Of the
unrestricted coinage of both gold and
silver as standard money at a ratio
of Is to l, and upon the terms of exact
equality existing prior to 1873, such
coin to be
FULL LEGAL TENDER EQUALLY
WITH GOLD
coin for all debts and dues, public and
private.
Resolved, That the delegates al
large chosen by this convention ant