The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-07

delegates and six alternates having
received the majority of the votes
cast, shall be declared elected, and
the chairman of each delegation hav-
ing the privilege of announcing the
number of votes of their delegation
for the respective candidates voted for.
A. F. HAMMOND, Chairman.
ALMA GREENWOOD. Secretary.
HADLEY D. JOHNSON.
Judge Norrel asked permission to
amend the report by adding the name
of Hadley D. Johnson as vice-chair-
man. He was the chairman of the hrst
Democratic committee in the territory
and was a pioneer in the fight
DR.. Faust seconded the motion ana
paid high tribute to Mr.. Johnson 8
ability and effort in the cause.
The motion prevailed, and the report
was adopted.
Mrs. E. H. Nye of Weber and James
as a committee to escort the permanent
chairman to the stand.
Mr.. Evans upon assuming the duties
of his position said:
MR.. EVANS SPEECH.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
A condition confronts US which never
before existed in the history of our
country. The question with which we
have to deal is, shall this nation
establish a system of finance which
will fasten upon US a permanent gold
standard, or shall we have a double
standard consisting of gold and silver
coined without discrimination against
either at the existing ratio, as money
OF final redemption? There is cause for
congratulation because the question at
this time overshadows and subordin-
ates all others, and will therefore &C.
cupy the necessary attention on the
part of the people. That a diversity of
opinion exists makes the question all
the more interesting, important and
difficult. The question thus sharply
presented must be settled; it must be
solved by the masses of the people by
the registration of their will at the
ballot box. Those of US who believe
that the free and unlimited coinage of
silver would be for the best interests
of the people at large, should unite
with determined effort to secure that
result; every honorable method should
be adopted to accomplish it. The peo-
pie of this nation have formulated the
issue, which must be met without
equfvocation or compromise The en-
isaries of gold have already resorted
to questionable methods to rivet upon
this country a single gold standard and
thereby make the people the financial
slaves of the money kings of the
world. This work will be continued by
them in the hope that the last friend
of the white metal may be silenced. By
them the assertion is falsely made that
our policy, If adopted, will furnish the
people with a deprecated currency,
we'll knowing that the low price of sill
yer is occasioned by discriminating
legislation in favor of gold. Strenuous
efforts are made by them among the
WORKING classes to allure them into
the belief that their wages, already
inadequate, would be paid in dollars
worth only so cents, while they conceal
would thereby be furnished, and at
the same time having for a direct OBJ
Ject the contraction of the currency of
the world and it's apprecia ton in value,
the better to enah le them to exact, at
regular intervals, higher rate of in
terest, and likewise depress the values
OF productions in order to give their
gold a greater purchasing power
owing to the prevalent idea that the
Democratic party has always been ia
vorably inclined to bimetallism, based
upon traditional and well-founded prin-
elples, and because of the adoption of
the national platform of 1892, we were
lured into the delusive hope that, if
successful, the administration and
congress would by wise legislation
correct the error of 1873 and return
to sound constitutional system of
finance. Vain, delusive hopel At every
stage the administration for nearly
four years has exerted all its great
power and influence to fetter the
people with chains of gold monometal-
ism Within that time the gold barons
of the world have been permitted to
manipulate the treasury OF the nation,
with which to carry on their ruinous
scheme to permanently destroy silver
as money metal, and in doing so, true
to their own selfish interests, they have
caused to be loaded upon the people a
large additional interest-bearing in
debtedness, payable in gold, for the
ostensible purpose of replenishing a
depleted gold reserve, but which, I'M
der that system, is gradually dimin-
ishing. A great movement, designed
for the welfare and liberty of the peo-
pie, is converted into an instrument
of merchandise preyed upon at the
will of financial vultures. The secre-
tary Of the treasury, once the friend
but now the enemy of the white metal,
has stolidly refused to protect the gold
reserve by exercising his legal option,
by making payment in silver to those
holding treasury obligations. Every
effort is eXerted, by recommendations
to congress and otherwise, to place this
nation upon gold basis regardless of
the best interests of the masses of the
people.
Truly, the people by whose votes
the administration was installed in Of
flee, have been deceived and betrayed
1t is source of congratulation, how
ever, that the position of the admin
istration upon the monetary question is
not approved by a majority of the
members of our party, nor by the toll
ing industrial hosts and the rank and
file of the American people.
The Democratic party, true to it's
traditional principles of liberty and it's
undertaking stand for independence,
must and will renounce those whom it
has honored, when they prove them
selves recreant to the trust imposed
upon them. The trouble with the pres
ent administration is that it is thor
oughly inoculated with the virus of
eastern Republicanism upon the finan-
cial issue. It's aid and comfort come
from that direction. Cleveland is
lauded by Sherman, Depew and other
leading Republicans for using the pow
er of his great office in the interest of
gold recommendation, and the firm
stand which ne habltually takes
against silver. the money of the people
They have confederated together in the
interest of gold for the purpose of com
pletely debasing the white metal. II
| is, therefore, high time for the friends
of silver, of whatever political faith
to unite and present solid front il
opposition to such scheme.
| What has the Republican party tC
offer US as a remedy for existing evils
A gold standard and higher protec
tive tariff. Mckinley, the standard
bearer of the party for presidential
honors, is the embodiment of both