The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-20
SHOUTING FOR BOIEs.
Free silver Has the Iowa Convention
"A Geld Ghairn1rr

DUBUQUE, Ia, May 20, 1Ss6.-N Yearly
l,000 delegates to the Democratic State
Convention, two-thrds of them wearing
sWhlte silk badges, with a picture Of ex-
Governor Boies and the inscription: Free
Coinage. is to /. and Horace Boies for
President," " trooped into the Grand Opera
House this morning. 1t had originally
been intended to house the assemble re
IN Sangerbund Hall, which has a seating
eeapaGlly on 1000. but the delegates pro-
tested when they learned that this struc-
stlfe was four miles distant, and the
tneatre was substituted at the last mo-
menf It has accommodations for but
J, i,1uV, ana after the delegates had taken
their seats room remained for but q
handful of the throng of spectators that
clainored for admission, and it was found
necessary to close the doors
AT 1915 State Chairman c. r. Rank call
ed the convention to order, and prayer
was offered by the Rev. DR.. W. D. Ben
ton "a oI the Episcopal Church. s. S. Wright
OF IApton was then introduced as tenn
porary chairman.
At the conclusion of his address Com
mattees on Resolutions and Credentials
We're announced and the convention took
recess Until the afternoon.
When Temporary Chairman Wright
was presented, the gold standard advo-
Gates gave him a frantic greeting. while
the silver majority kept silence. The
same conditions prevailed while he de-
gl1yeTed, with emphasis, and tone of de-
nance the sound money portion of his
ADDRESS, The gold men cheered and
stamped for seconds at the rounding of
every period, white the only interruption
came from a delegate on the platform,
Sherman's sentiments. He said all that
years. ago. Nevertheless the speaker
was cheered when he concluded.
The sub-committee of the silver caucus
plank for submission to the COMMITTEES on
esolutions. The draft has been seiidors-
ed Approved by ex-governor Boies:-
National Democratic Convention, the Iowa
Democracy in State Convention assembled
hereby declares.-
We hold 70 the use of both gold and
eIfner metal or charge for mintage
In the judgment of this convention,
This explIoit pledge of the National Dem
ocratic Party, if fairly and honorably
kept, requires the constant effort of ev-
cry loyal Democrat to accomplish the re-
peal OF all laws heretofore enacted
through the instrumentality Of the Re
plpIcan party, which do, in letter and
sptrit alike, discriminate against silver
and in favor Of gold and the substitution
therefor OF Affirmative legislation which
shall upon some terms or other restore
silver to equal rights with gold in The
mints and coinage of the country
Second, we hereby affirm as a delib-
crate conviction of this convention that
the act. Of 1873 in SO far as itSdemone-
tlzed silver and established gold as our
single unit of value, issa fagrant viola
tion of one of the most important pro-
visions of the Constitution of the United
States, Which every political party ought
70 coriaenn and every good citizen ought
to assist in expunging from the statutes
Of the Republic. We, therefore, favor
the immediate repeal of all laws by
which silver was .demenetized and its
unqualified restoration to the right of
free and unlimited coinage in the mints
of the nation as money of final redemp-
tito at the old ratio of 16 to l. We recog-
nize that upon this question the country
has reached a crisis that can no longer
be evaded or postponed"