The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-10

Ohicago, July 9.-As she doors to the
mammoth Coliseum in jackson Park
were thrown open this morning and the
black streams Of people welled up
through the entrances and broke like o
cascade over the galleries the band
STRUCK up "Massa's in the Cold, Cold
Ground"
The silver leaders entered with light
and buoyant step. In some cases the
preliminary scenes were largely q rope
tision Of those Of the two pre- ceding
days.
AT 1852 Chairman White dropped the
gavel. The indesoribable buzz OF thou
SANDS OF voices gradually subsidized and
the delegates took their seats, while
vacant spaces In the black pie marked
OIL with almost definite accuracy the
location OF tho New Englsnd delega-
tions, which had not, with the excep-
ton OF few stragglers, as ye. arrived.
Tho New York delegation, however,
headed by Whitney and Hill, were in
their places. The bulky form OF Bis.
sell, OF Buffalo, wss. however. absent.
At five minutes before IL o'clock Rev.
DE-. Green, OF Cedar Rsp!ds, Ia, the
Episcopal clergyman who had made the
opening prayer on yesterday. again rose
for the Same Office. He prayed that the
choice Of the convention might be q
man whose work would rebound to the
glory OF his country and his God.
Senator White handed the gavel over
to Congressman Richardson, OF Ten
nessee, tall, slender man, with black
moustsche and tcholarly stoop of the
shoulders. who announced that the
committee on resolutions WAS ready to
report and called to the platform Sena-
tor Jones, OF Arkansas, to make the
committees report. Senator Jones ad-
justed pair Of gold bowed speotscles
and began TO read the platform, which
wss IS follows
THE PLATFORM
We, the Democrats OF the United States, In
national convention assembled, do reafirm our
usos snd 70 bepse gea1 seS OF
are founded, and which the Democratic party has
advocated from Jererson's time to our own
freedom OF speech, freedom OF the press. freedom
OF conscience, the preservation OF personal rig hts
the equality OF all citizens before tho law, and
tions. During all these years the Democratic
party has resented the tendency OF selfish in
tarcsts to the Capitalization OF governmental
power, and sleadfastly maintained the integrity
OF the dual scheme OF government established by
the founders of this Republic of Republics.
Under Its guidance and teachings the great
principle OF local seif government he's found It's
best expression iB the maintenance OF rights OF
the states and In its assertion OF the necessity of
connning the general government to the exercise
OF the powers granted by the Consultation of the
United States,
Recognizing that the money question Is para.
mount to all Others at this time, we invite atten-
ton to the fact that the Federal Constitution
names silver and gold together Gs the money
mctals OF the United States, and that the first
'gSrssaw passed by Congress under the Con.
coin.se,a Illustrated Lataaollar the monetary
unit and admitted gold to frc$S SoiRSss ilatent,
based upon the silver dollar unit.
| we declare that the act OF 1873 demonetizing
| silver without the knowledge or approval of the
| American people, has resulted In the apprecia-
ton OF gold and the corresponding fall in the
on commodities produced BY the people
| all debts, pu bile and private; the enrichment of
the money lending class at home and abroad; the
prostration OF industry and the Impeachment
We are unalterably opposed to monometaliism
which has locked fast the prosperity OF an in
dustrial people in the paralysis lof hard times
Gold monometallism Is British policy and its
adoption has brought other nations into financial
but ntiAmerican, and 1t can be fa=tened on the
United States only by the sitting OF that spirit
| independence in 1915. and won II In the war Ct
the Revolution.
We demand the free and unlimited coinsge of
16 to without waiting for the aid or consent Of
| any other nation: We demand that the standard
with gold for all debts public and private, and
| we favor such legislation as will prevent for tho
future the demOnetization Of any kind OF legal
tender money by private contract
We are opposed to this policy and practice OF
guaranteeing to the holders of the obligations Of
the United States OF the option reserved by law
to the Government of redeeming such obligations
| in either silver coin or gold coin.
We are opposed to the Issuing of interest.
bearing bonds of the United States in time or
| peace and condemn the trafiicing with banks and
| syndicates which, in exchange for bonds at an
enormous profit sto themselves, supply the
] Federal Treasury with gold to maintain the
| policy OF gold monometalism Congress alone
President Jackson declared that this power could
not be delegated TO corporations or Individuals
| We, therefore, demand that the power to issue
| notes to circulate as money be taken from the
national banks and that all paper money shall
te Issued directly by the Treasury Department,
be redeemable in coin and receivable for ali
| debts, public and private.
THE TARIFF.
| We hold that tariff duties should be levied for
the purpose OF revenue, such duties TO be SO ad-
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