The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-13

party are as potent and essential to
 the well-being of the country to-day as
 they have always been and as they
 ever will be. But the overshadowing
 Issue before the country now, made dominant by the distressed conditions prevailing throughout our land, is the
 monetary system. Our party, and we
 believe a great majority of the Amerl-
 can people are convinced that the legis- lation of '73, demonetizing silver was a
 wrong inflicted upon our country which should and must be lighted. "We believe that the single gold
 standard has so narrowed the base of
 our monetary structure that 1t is un- stable and unsafe, and so dwarfed 1t
 in it's developement and in it's power to furnish us necessary financial blood to the nation that commercial and industrial paralysis has followed. We believe that we need and must have the broad and expanding foundation of both gold and silver to support mon etary system strong and stable, capa- ble of meeting the demands of grow | ing country and an industrious, ener-
 getic and enterprising people, system
 
 stricken by every foreign draft upon
 us, a system that will maintain a pari- ty of just values and the nations mon | ey and protect us from the frequent | fluctuations of to-day so disastrous to
 every business and industry of the | land
 We demand the free coinage of sil- ver the opening of our hints to both l money metals without discrimination, the return to the money of our fathers, | the money of the constitution-gold and silver. We believe this is the remedy, and the only remedy for the evil from which we are now suffering, the evil | that is now so fast devastating and l impoverishing our land and people, | bringing poverty to our homes and | bankruptcy to our business, which if | allowed to continue will grow until our | very institutions are threatened. The | characterization of silver has thrown | the whole primary. money function to silver, and silver will appreciate and it's | purchasing power increases. Take from
 gold it's monopoly, its value will be re- | duced and in due course the parity of the two metals will again obtain under l natural causes.
 We shall then have a broad and un- | limited foundation for monetary sys- | tenn, commensurate with our country's
 needs and future development, not the
 unsafe basis of to-day reduced by one- half by the removal of silver and con- | tinually undermined by foreigners car | rying from us our gold.
 This is the reform to which we are pledged, the reform the people demand, l the return to the monetary system Of | over eighty years of our national ex-
 istence.- The democratic party has al-
 ready given it's approval and it's pledge. Our opponents admit the wisdom of the l principle for which we contend, but ask
 us to await permission and cooperation
 of other nationas. Our people will not | wait. They will not ask permission of | any nation on earth to relieve them-
 selves of the cause of their distress. | The issue has been made. The people
 stand ready to render their verdict next l November.
 1 MT Chairman unequivocally and | through sincere conviction l endorse | the platform on which I have been | nominated 1 believe we are right, the people are with us and what they de- clare in is always right and must pre-
 vail. I accept the nomination, and with | the peoples confirmation every effort Of
 which God shall render me capable will | be exerted in support of the principles" When MT. Sewall sat down there was
 great confusion Chairman Danforth
 announced that the meeting was ad-
 journed.
 MT. and Mrs Bryan ran the gauntlet
 of handshaking admirers and with MT.
 St. John were driven to the Hotel Bar
 tholdi, where a crowd was in waiting.
 MT. and Mrs. Bryan and Mir. Sewall
 appeared on the balcony and were
 loudly cheered. Both MT. Bryan and
 Mr. Sewall spoke briefly. Afterwards
 the party held a reception in one of
 the hotel parlors. MT. Sewall then
 went to the Fifth Avenue hotel and
 MT. and Mrs. Bryan were driven to Mr.
 St. Johns house.