Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1896-07-04
SOLID FOR FREE COINAGE
NEW PARTY FGHNEs; II. pt,tt -
LiCAN SILVER MEN.
Many Counties Are in it-tou,tr-
fi0n to BE Held and 'Fiel.etS
Put in til" Field.

tion to Be Held and 'Fiel>etS
Put in the Field.
Tacoma, Wash. June 30-A new polit-
ical party for the state of Washington
was born"in Tacoma today Ii is the free
coinage republican par y. and as it was
| ushered into existence at Chickerine han
democrats and populists looked ON and
cheered for the youngster, who showed
considerable strength. and with scarce an
effort managed TO stand on the same plat-
| form with them.
The new party was organized by about
| 100 republicans, representing many coun-
| ties in he state. Immediately after ;,d
! journment Of the bmetallic league. which
| had been in session all day. Attorney
General w. c. Jones of Spokane was the
unanimous choice for chairman. |. u
Spencer of King county was selected as
secretary. On John Wiley's motion the
organization was made permanent until
state convention of the silver republicans
is held.
Enthusiastic speeches in support of the
new party We're made by John Wiley of
Seattle George w. Thompson of Wala
Wala. d. H Carey % t.llensburs and
Charles Fl. Ayres of Olympia Ex-G9y-
ernor Miles G. Moore. the Walla Walla
banker made one of the strongest silver
speeches of the day. He declared that he
was heart and soul with the new move
ment and would work for its success.
1t was decided to have a $ ate conven-
ton, and a central committee composed
of one member from each county Twelve
of these We're selected and the balance
will be appointed by Chairman Jones.
Those selected are as follows: Pierce
county. e W. Taylor; Thurston. Charles
H. Ayres; Cowltz, George ". RoWen;
Whitman, Lake D. Wolford; Spokane,
George Turner; kittitas. u. II. Carey:
Yakima, Leslie Snyder; Mason ". II.
kneeland; Stevens, Z. Nj. Savage; Okla
hogan, d. c. Brit; Walla Walla, Miles G.
Moore, Whatcom, j. p. DemattoS.
King county did not select her commit
teeman, as the free silver republicans
there will hold county convention
Thursday, when a committeeman will he
elected,
The question of electine II delegates to
the ma ional bimetallic convention which
meets at St. Louis July % was discussed
but motion finally prevailed to refer
their selection to a committee OF five, who
will ascertain who can attend and govern
their selections accordingly. The commit /
tee is composed Of a. r. Titelow of Ia
coma, Charles H. Ayres of Olympia d. |
H. Carey of Ellensbure. Miles c. Moore I
of Walla Walla and John Wiley of Seat /
lie.
The platform adopted by the btmetalltc /
league was ndorsed with slight change
in the preamble
During the speaking it was declared the
sense of the meeting that delegates to 81. I
Louis be instructed to use all honorable /
means TO effec. combination of all .he |
for ttI,, fo11
was also decided to try to effect a fusion /
of silver friends in this state and also to
put county tickets in the field
BimetaIiic League.
The meeting Of the Fimetallc league !
Wa attended by 25G people, fully 100 of
whom came from on side Joints. Fourteen .
counties We're represented. Attorney Gen
eral w. G. Jones was made chairman, and
John Harlow Of Seattle secretary.
Speeches We're made by number of /
prominent silver champions, among whom
was John r. Reavis of Yai>ima Miles G.
Moore of Walla Walla. John Harland ANA
John Wiley of Seattle. George \. Thomp-
son and NJ. p. Bulger of Tacoma. Attor-
ney General Jones of Spokane and Farmer
J. H. Todd of Mason.
a committee of 10, composed of Z, W.
Taylor. Colonel A. ]. Williamson. NJ. u. +
Wolf. John Wiley, James NcIElroy f.u-
gene w. Way. Miles G. Moore j. r.
Reavis. Thomas O'Neill J. II. Todd, =. y.
Moore, John NJ. Murphy and W. II. Knee
land. was appointed to draft free coin
age PLATFORM \ o'clock in the after
noon they reported the following, which
was adopted amid wild applause:
The Platform.
The bimetalists of the state OF Wash
ngton. assembled in conference. without
to political party or passed aflilja-
ton. al the city of Tacoma. on this 31th
lay of June. 1895, disclaimin% amy inten-
ton purpose to speak for or bind the
parties of which we are or
may be members, urge UnanmiJE of az
ton for the purpose of restoring silver 10
its place a standard money of the
United States, and hereby submit for the
of the people of the state
Of Washington the following declaration
Of principles:
I'VE believe the financial question to
be a paramount national issue in this
we believe that the power given 70
to coin money and regulate the
value thereof is a high attribute of soy
areignity and should be exercised as such.
I'VE believe that the people Of the
nited States should take their metallic
instead of issuing bonds in
time of peace and mOrt9a9ing poSteritN
to secure their payment.
I'VE believe in the use of both gold and
silver as equal standard money, and that
the government of the United State&
should Immediately open its mints TO free.
unrest tricted. unlimited and independent
coinage of 16 parts of silver to of gold.
We believe that 80 years of frTitless
efforts and the failure of five int@rnat iUn-
al monetary conferences TO accomplish
anything. except to emphasize the um-
alterable opposition of the creditor ma
tions to enter into any compact looking
to the restoration of silver a standard
money has conclusvely proven interna-
tional bmetallism to be a deuSion, and
at the pretended desire of certain class
of politicians to restore silver by interna-
tional agreement is a last refuge of the
foes of silver.
'Whie agreeing with the vivid state
ment made in the national republican
platform as to the distress preyaline
the country, We disagree a.
to the cause producing the
same. We believe that these
conditions are directly traceaDle to the
conditions of the volume Of the standard
money resulting from the decentralization
of silver and not to the slight difference
of six per cent between the Mckinley
and Wilson tariff laws.
And we are unalterably opposed 10 a
of those Carlisle and CIeve-
land measures which have produced this
condition..
NATIONAL RALL GAME SCORES