The sun., 1896-08-07
NArERToWx AeAIxsr BRYAN

Protest Against tho Chicago Ticket aAd
Piatform-EE-Gov. Flowers Speech.
WATERTowN, n. Y. Aug. e.--About $50 Dem
ocrAts attended the meeting called By ex-Gov.
Flower. D. G.. Grimm, aud other prominent
Democrats of this city tonight to protest
against the silver plank IN tho Chicago plat
form. One hundred well-known names are on
the list attached to the call. Former County
Judge Henry Purcell called the meeting to or
der. S. F. BagR. Secretary of tho watertown
Steam Engine Company. ono OF the leading
manufacturers of this section. was elected
Chairman. He spoke vigorously against fres
coinage from q business and industrial stand
point. Gov. Flower responded to calls and
made . speech In which he said:
The Democratic party has always opposed the
concentration of power In the general Govern
ment. This has always been the Democratic
tenet. But the Chicago Convention says they
desire the general Government to issue Treas
ury notes in lieu of the people issuing them
through tho banks. They say that the powers
OF the Interstate Commerce Committee should
be enlarged, while the Populist Convention
the twin Rister OF the Democratic, comes out
boldly and says that the Government should
buy all the railroads and telegraph lines
and operate them. The Democratic platform
says that we should have free coinage of silver
at the ratio OF 10 to without regard 20 its In
trins!c valne. Jefferson Gays that the prop
osition Of value between gold and silver Is
mercantile problem altogether, and further
observes that wisdom will lead us 10 disregard
entirely legal proportions of value and inquire
into the market price OF gold with the several
countries with which We shall be engaged In
commerce. In the Chicago Convention they re-
fused by more than q two thirds vote to incorpo-
rate In the platform a resolution to maintain the
BacredA ess OF existing contracts, and are here
tonight to protest agains. that platform as un-
Democratic aud as opposed TO all the PRINCIPLES
OF Democracy. from the foundation OF this Gov
eminent TO the present time. aud to form our
selves into body protesting against the action
of the Chicago Convention. and ready to tho
utmost OF our abilities TO defeat It's nominee and
the principles which he seeks to inculcats."
Mr.. Flower explained the decline in property
values In the Eastern and Middle States by at
tributingit to the opening OF the great West
the great productiveness OF the SOIL cheapened
transportation rates. and improved facilities.
Other agricultural nations have had similar
development.
"Our silver friends" he said, forget that
hay Is 81 per ton here to-day, where IL was 81 o
last year; Do they lay that 10 the demonetiza-
tion OF silver In 1872 The price OF coffee to-
day II II cents Der pound in 1855 it WAS 7
cents. DO they also asori6e this TO the demone-
say ana tell the truth that II is because there Is
. small crop or hay in the United States and q
small crop OF coffee In the world. That is the
true snswer, II would DO well for the farme rs OF
this State 70 inquire into the supply and demand
of butter and cheese. May be they will ind thai
there 10 an oyerproduetion OF these. They say
that such organizations as NO are here TO inAu-
kSrAte tonight are not regular, and AnAWsI