The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-07
SILVER TO ORGANIZE.
Plan For the Thorough Organ
izatiOn of the State
Adopted By the Hutchinson
Convention August 4.
Miscellaneous Political News-Con-
ventions, Meetings and Other
Kansas Political Matters.

To the Free Silver Clubs of the State
of Kansas:
At Hutchinson, Kan, Aug. 4, 1896, the
following address and resolution was
adopted by the Democratic state con
vAntion there assembled:
ITO the voters OF the state of Kansas
who viii vote for Bryan and Sewall
presidential electors. the Kansas state
Democratic convention comes, greet
ing:
organization of the silver votere in this
state, for the ultimate supremacy of
the cause of constitutional bimetalism,
as il is embodied in the presidential
candidacy of William J Bryan, the fol-
lowing method is proposed:
Il That there be formed in every
township of every county in this state
distinctIvely organized Bryan and Sew
all clubs. and that the conditions for
membership in such clubs shall only be
that the applicant is a voter and that,
as such. he intends, in the impending
presidential election, to cast his vote
for Bryan and Sewall presidential elect
crs.
- That such township clubs shall
thereafter form themselves into a coun-
ty club having its distinctive Organiza-
ton, with it's home at the respective
county seats, which county club shall
be the governing and executive agent
for the subordinate township branches
g. That the county clubs so formed
shall send representa- tiVes to Topeka,
Kan, upon a call hereafter to be issued,
for the organization of the respective
clubs into the Bryan State league, to
be the supreme governing and executive
agent OF all the subordinate branches.
For the purpose and proposition
herein set forth it is suggested, by this
convention, that upon the formation of
the county clubs a statement of the
facts relating thereto, including the
name of the club, the name of its Of
ficers and its mem bership roll, be for
Warded to William P. Waggener of
Atchison, Kan, or to William A De
Ford of Ottawa, Kan, who will keep
a record thereof pending the formation
of the state league.
This proposed organiza ton is intend
ed to be directed, and its powers ex-
erted, purely and solely for Bryan and
SeWan and silver
Though this proposition emanates
from the Democratic state convention,
it is proposed that the organizations
herein set forth shall be nOn-partisan
in their character; that they shall ere
ate their own constitutions, elect their
own officers and otherwise provide for
their government, in the proposed sub
ordination, as they may determine.
1t is urged that the action herein
proposed shall be immediate, as the
general call for the state convention of
the representatives from the respective
counties will b issued in the name of
the chairman of the Democratic state
central committee on or before the 25th
day of August 1896.
THE above is issued by the resoIu-
ton of the Democratic state conven-
ton assembled in Hutchinson, Kan,
August 4, 1886, in the name and for the
cause of silver for victory-in and by
union"
Pursuant to the provisional authority
therein delegated to US, and to effeetu-
ate the plan therein proposed we do
now urge upon every free silver organ
izatiOn within this state which has
given its allegiance to the presidential
candidacy of William J. Bryan, to or
ganize at once in accordance with the
plan promulgated in the above address,
and that. when the county clubs shall
have been organized, they will stand
ready to send their full quota of rep
resentatiyes to a general convention
to formulate and perfect the orgaaiza-
ton of the state league. The organiza-
ton herein provided for, if promptly
and enthusiastically adopted, viii be a