The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-19
WILL PILE UP SIGNATURES.
SOUND MONEY CLUBS DOCUMENTS
BEING CIRCULATED.

strong Ome-lne tluu VIII oppose
Several PIanks of the Chicago
Platform. But Principally the FL
nanciaI PIank-Mr. Anderson says
There l. Nothing Political About
the Movement, But sound Money
Men Are simply Going to Put
Themselves On Record.
savannah's sound money democrats are
already getting In their work. Their doc
ument or agreement was drawn up yes
terday. and those leading in the mOve-
ment will begin circulating II 10 secure
signatures to-day.
There has been no effort made 10 get
signatures 70 the paper. Mr. John r.
Young, however, secured twenty-four sig
natures to the document in as many min
utes without going far outside Of his Of
flee. Among others who will have copies
OF this document and who viii take sig
natures are Messrs. John r. Young. J.
Randolph Anderson and f. b. Papy. Mr..
Young says they can secure 100 sigma
lures TO the paper with little or no effort.
Mr.. Anderson one Of the prime movers
in the organization OF the sound money
club. an account of which was given IN
the Morning News some three or four
weeks ago. said yesterday the club would
be organized the latter part Of this week.
probably Thursday or Friday.
The club will not be a political one, Mr..
Anderson said, and will hold no big meet
ings, nor Will st endeavOr TO stir up any
political enthusiasm. The objects Of
those who VIII compose IL Is simply to en-
roll themselves against the Chicago plat
form, more especially against its finan-
cial plank. 1t will be composed to the
greater extent Of business men, and any
others who are opposed to the free silver
movement. The members of the club will,
no doubt to a large extent, vote the Nc
Kinley ticket, but It is likely also that
some OF them, as between the two tickets,
viii not vote at all. as many have no love
for either platform. The members Of this
club will simply take their stand on the
issues as indicated, and there Is no pledge
or obligation on their part to vote for any
candidate. The document which is being
circulated is as follows:
Savannah, Ca, Aug. IS 1S96-We, the
undersigned, democrats of Savannah, do
hereby declare our unalterable opposition
to the platform adopted and the candidates
nominated by the recent, sO-called, nation
al democratic convention at Chicago We
deny the right Of any convention to sur
render the time honored principles OF our
party, and we declare our conviction that
the action taken and the platform adopt
ed by that convention constitute such a
complete abandonment Of some Of the most
vital and fundamental principles for which
the party has stood since its inception, that
Its results are not entitled to the conf
dence or support of true democrats.
The earliest platform Of the party. as
enunciated by Jefferson, declared for 1.-THE
preservation Of the general government
in Its whole constitutional vigor. as the
sheet anchor of our peace at home and
safety abroad" and to this principle the
party has always steadfastly adhered
We denounce as undemocratic and as dam
gerous to the welfare and safety Of our
country, those planks of the Chicago plat
form, which, II carried to their logical con-
clusion, would make of the supreme court
of the United States a football Of politics
and which would deprive the general gov
eminent OF the constitutional power and
duty OF enforcing the DEGREES Of its courts,
and of protecting the lives and property
of its citizens.
We denounce also that plank Of that
platform which, If II means anything. is
either an attack on the provisions of the
constitution relating to judicial tenure of
office, or else is intended to throw omen
the door to the restoration of the spoils
system through the destruction of those
wise and salutary measures Of civil service
reform, which have heretofore been in
dorsed and upheld by the democratic par
ty.
The Chicago platform has declared its
belief that the money question Is para
mount to all others at this time. on that
question its action was wholly subver-
sive of everything that the democratic
party has stood pledged for during it's en-
tire history and was a complete BETRAYAL
OF the party into the hands of the populists
and silver mine owning republicans
Thomas Jefferson, in announcing the prin-
ciples on which our party was founded
laiu down as one of its cornerstones 1.-The
honest payment of our debts and the sa-
cred preservation of the public faith We
believe also that Jefferson correctly stated
the true democratic faith when he said
the proportion between the values Of gold
and silver Is a mercantile problem alto
gether; just principles will lead us to dis
regard legal proportions altogether. to in
quire into the market price of gold in the
several countries with which we shall
principally be connected in commerce and
to take an average from them" For these
principles of sound and stable money. and
honest preservation of ouI countrys credit
the democratic party has always stood.
an ardent champion, until they were sur
rendered and abandoned by its supposed
representatives at Chicago.
We denounce the silver free coinage
plank adopted by that convention as being
certain to debase our country and reduce
our finances to the standard Of silver mon
ometallism, if the candidates of that con-
vention are elected. Universal experience
has demonstrated that it is beyond the
power of any government to make goIu and
silver circulate on q parity in unlimited
quantities at an arbitrary ratio that differs
materially from the market values of the
two metals, and we assert that any at
tempt on the part of this government. I'M
der present conditions, to carry through
such an undertaking can only end in fail
ure and must result in disaster and dis
tress to all classes of our people; and par
ticularly to those who are dependent upon
wages and salaries We deny that the
free coinage Of silver, as proposed. would
benefit the farmer or is needed by him. 1t
is known to US that the farmers of this
state are, as a whole in better financial
condition at present than at any time in
the past thirty years. The present need
of the farmer and other classe in this sec
ton is not a dollar that viii buy less goods
or clothing. or farm implements. but a
monetary change that viii give a more
elastic quality to our currency and will
tend to prevent it's concentration in the
larger centers of trade.