The San Francisco call., 1896-07-23

lists among those to the Populist Conven-
zion. but in the case of the former it re-
lates to the Endorsement OF the Chicago
nIatform and not to the lndorsement OF
one or both of the candidates.
AS was expected, Senator Jones OF Ne
vada was made permanent chairman OF
the committee and ]. ]. Miller OF Kansas
secretary. General Warner OF Ohio sug-
pested that a sub-com mittee be appointed
To take into it's possession the various
propositions made by the members OF the
committee regarding the platform and put
them into shape for the consideration OF
the full committee tomorrow.
General Warner read the following draft
of proposition which Senator Jones said
had been prepared by himself and several
other members of the party, and was
thought by them to be about what the
convention should adopt. The last part
of the paper was covered in these dis
patches last night. Its full text follows:
The paramount issue at this time in the
United States is lndisputably the money ques-
Iion. 1t is between the gold standard, gold
bonds and bank currency on the one side and
the bimetallic standard, no bonds and Coy
On this issue we declare ourselves to be in
favor of distinctively American financial
system. We are unalterably opposed TO the
single-gold standard. and demand the 1mme-
diate return to the constitution standard OF
gold and silver, by the restoration by this Gov
eminent, independently Of any foreign
power of the unrestricted coinage of both gold
and silver into standard money at the ratio
of 16 to 1, and upon terms of exact equality
as they existed prior TO 1873, the silver coin
to be full legal tender equally with gold Tor
all debts and duties, public and private.
We hold that the power 10 control and regu-
late paper currency is inseparabie from the
power 70 coin money, and hence that all cur
rency intended to circulate money should
be issued and its volume controlled by the
General Government only and should be legal
tender.
We are unalterably opposed to the issue by
the United States of interest-beariug bonds in
time OF peace, and we denounee as a blunder
worse than crime the present treasury pol
icy concurred in by Republican House, of
plunging the country into debt by hundreds
of millions, in the vain attempt to maintain
the gold standard by borrowing gold, and we
demand the payment OF all coin obligations of
the United States, as provided by existing
laws, in either gold or silver coin, at the op-
ton of the Government and not at the option
of the creditor.
That over and above other questions of
policy we are in favor of restoring to the peo-
pie of the United States the time-honored
money OF the constitution, gold and silver
not one, but both; the money of Washington
and Hamilton and Jefferson and Monroe and
Jackson and Lincoln-to the end that the
American people may receive honest pay for
an honest product; that the American debtor
may pay his just obligations in an honest
standard and not in standard that has ap-
preciated 100 per cent above all the great sta
pies of our country, and to that end, further.
that silver-standard countries may be deprived
of the unjust advantage they now enjoy in the
difference in exchange between gold and sill
yer. advantage which tariff legislation
alone cannot overcome.
The declarations. the general explained,
were adopted at the Bimetallic conference
held in Washington on January % and %.
The document which be presented went
on to state that the main purpose of call
| ing the Silver convention was to make
| sure the determination reached at Wash
| ing would be carried out, and the Demo-
| cratic convention at Chicago, having
practically adopted all of these decara-
| tlons In its plank on the money question,
he, therefore, suggested that this conven-
tion indorse ana ratify the financial plank
| OF the Democratic convention and indorse
also the nomination of Bryan and Sewall.
In conclusion the document contained
al appear 10 the people OF Lae united
| States 10 support those nominees, holding
IN allegiance for the time being all other
/ issues, inaSmuch as the silver question
was not only the param ount, but the only
| question involved in this campaign.
| The discussion that ensued took wide
| range and was participated in by nearly
| every one of the tYenty-one gentlemen
present. The position taken up was that
of the Endorsement of the Chicago nomi-
nees or of nominating Bryan and Sewall,
which brought up the question OF per-
petuating the American Bimetallic League
Representatives from Republican States,
those west of the Mississippi especially,
who had been themselves formerly allied