The San Francisco call., 1896-05-10

dard. The only person benefited by the appre-
clation OF gold is the boEdholder, who is not o
producer, but who makes his living by the cut
ting OF coupons. Now that thing has gone far
enough; that plank is eminently just and
proper and hope that it will be adopted.
This platform was indorsed by Campbell
Z. Berry, now Assistant United States
Treasurer; w. D. English, now Surveyor
OF the Port; M. F. Tarpey and the rest of
them.
Daggett as vice-chairman of the State
Central Committee, called 10 order the
convention OF 1890 ct San Jose, when an
other free coinage plank was adopted.
The Democratic State Convention met
at Fresno May IL, 1892. and adopted the
following plank in the platform:
section 8. That we denounce the acts
OF the Republican party against silver,
particularly the act demonetiZing it. and
we believe that there should be kept in
constant circulation full and sufficient
volume of money consisting of gold, silver
and iegaLtender paper currency at par
with each other"
Among the delegates to the conven-
tion anc those who voted for the platform
containing the silver plank were: John
II. Wise, Collector of Customs: o. NJ.
Welburn, Collector of Internal Revenue;
William D. English. Surveyor; John P.
Irish, Naval Officer; Robert Barnett,
United States Mint; Barry Baldwin,
United States Marshal: Max Pepper, Gov
eminent contractor w. II. Kelly, United
States Mint; James II. Wilkins, Prison
Director: Waverly Stairly, Internal Rev
enue Collector, and others, now for gold,
but formerly for silver.
Regarding the convention OF 1894 In San
Francisco the record says:
The Federal office-holders in the State were
all participants in shaping the course and
platform OF that convention containing the
above free silver coinage plank, and are the
same men who are actively supporting the
"Junta" Democratic committee of San Fran
cisco to-day and loudly demanding q gold
delegation be sent to Sacramento in order 10
control in the interest OF the single gold STAN
dard the delegation to the National Conven-
ton, and at one fell swOoD reverse all Cali
fornia Democracy has done and said in the
interest of free coinage of silver since the de-
monetization of silver in 1873. Federal officers
in San Francisco have given their instructions,
and all subordinates and employees know that
they will lose their places if they do not sup
port the ''Junta" and send 16l gold delegates
10 Sacramento.
The position on free silver coinage and other
matters OF the regular General Committee of
the Democratic party of the City and County
OF San Francisco, who will send 161 delegates
to the Sacramento convention on June 16,
1896, will be best understood and explained
by the perusal of the following resolutions aud
pledge, formally adopted on April 16 1896, at
q regular meeting of that body, composed of
40 members OF the representative Democratic
party workers in this City:
w. ID. English and John Daggett were
respectively chairman and vice chairman
OF the State Central Committee which
conducted the campaign of 1886 in plat
form declaring for free coinage. So on
goes the story from the files and old scrap
books of how the leading menb bers of the
present Federal brigade were out for silver
In times when no patronage appointments
had corrected their judgments on the
financial question.
There are other things in the Record.
1t cites State Convention precedents which
bid the Junta delegation stay off the tenn
porary roll until the contest is settled by
the convention.
The State will be flooded with other cir.
culars giving the history of the local split
and giving the Buckley committee the
clear right of it, and when convention
delegates begin to be elected they will be
assiduously looked after
Of course Christopher A. Buckley au-
proves all these moves, and his advice is
kept busy as the 10th OF June seems draw
ing near and the band is getting ready to
play.
There was big council OF war at the
Occidental Club last night attended by
Chris Buckley and all the heavy-weights of
the Buckley forces. One campaign feature
that was discussed was the naming OF
convention delegates, nominations for
which are TO be made on the 10Th inst
The Junta has plan to win prestige by
sending up lot CT big nice men, or at
least their names. The Buckleyites are
going to play That game too. The roll of
the Buckley delegation will get lots of
consideration, too, if it does not inspire
awe by the big names on it.
The Junta rolls will be opened for ad-
ditional names on the 11th and 18th inst,
and then three days will be allowed for
canvassing.
The Junta rolls will be opened on these
evenings at the following places:
I'D
streets.
Twenty-nin th-429 Fourth.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. corner of Sixth and
Minna
Thirty-nrst-Rausch and Folsom, Monday;
Ninth and Mlnna Tuesday.
Thirty-second-514 Fourth.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS third and Folsom
Thirty-tourth-Harmony Hall, Mission and
Erie.
Thirty-ffth-14O4 Valencia, near Twenty
fifth.
Thirty-sixth-Northwest corner of Eight
eenth and Castro.