Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-24
TALKING AGAINST TIME National Silver Men Are Waiting
 on the Pops. 1T WAS A DO NOTHING DAY The Deleg V Rolled as to Former Political
 AZ < S.ions-Interesting Results. MRS OaAR'S CHARACTERISTIC SPEECH sF 5si ants woman's Suffrage and Prohi- os ion Planks, and May Get Them, Des-
 plte the Protest of Wisconsin
 Delegate-Proceedings
1T WAS A DO NOTHING DAY
' UGAR's cHARAc TERlsTIc SPEECH

St. Louis. July 2S.-The national silver o'clock by Chairman St. John. He stated | that the Rev. Dr. Joseph Nichols, who had been asked to open the proceedings with prayer, had been suddenly called | from the city, and therefore the conven- | ton would not have the pleasure of lis- l tening to him. q trust we are all In the spirit of prayer" he added. Affirmative applause.)
 MT. Newlands of Nevada stated that
 he understood the expenses of the conA
 vention had not been provided for and
 moved that committee on ways and
 means be appointed to provide the riecl essary funds. Agreed to.
 Chairman St. John then introduced to the convention its vice chairman. HofE Charles A. Towne of Minnesota. He was
 received with great applause. He said that the condition of the country was most grave. It had been brought, hs charged in pursuance to a plan which had for its purpose to make 1t appear as the result of an orderly and lawful evolution.
 He stated that patriotism had been ai1
 most forgotten; glory had been narrowed
 to success; money has become god (ap-
 plause) but the day of regeneration is
 at hand. (Cheers) We are in the very
 vortex of events; we are making Amert.
 can history today; the American people
 are serving notice that they are about
 to take charge of their own affairs< Great cheering)
 A Tumult of Applause. MT. Towne's allusion to the grand old man of Colorado set the convention ofl It's legs in a tumult of applause. vast majority of the democratic convenUop | at Chicago he said, was in favor of frea | silver "Fortunate democracy! Thus to | become the heir of this great regenera- | tion. Happy democrat! To find himself | thus in possession of the results of thq l great movement without having labored years in its behalf and without being | compelled to forego the aplhable preJu-
 dices of party affiliations" (Applause.)
 tbe worth paa and abes of Bryan, saying that his nomination. dem- l onstrated the truth of the statement that | in the affairs of providence there are no | accidents. Bryan represents an idea; | he stands for a cause.-the cause of hu. manity against injustice; the cause of | the masses against the classes" (Ap- | plause)
 No rest in the campaign was to be- known by the cohorts of silver, MT. Towne said, until the banners of victory had been planted upon every outpost of the enemy. He who three months ago had predicted that victory for free sil- yer was possible in 1896 would have been set down for an enthusiastic dreamer. Now 1t was not only possible, but abso-
 lutely certain. MT. Towne pleaded with
 the convention to make no mistake, but
 to ever hold the cause above all thinge
 else, and closed with an eloquent perora- ton.
 Calls were made for Governor stone
 of Missouri and w. H. (Coin) Harvey,
 but neither was in the hall Ex-Gov,
 J. P. St. John of Kansas responded to
 the demands for a speech and greatly
 entertained the delegates.
 He said no such political revolution had ever been known in America as that
 which followed the adoption of the plat form by the republican convention. The | victory was already won, he assured his
 hearers. There were but two dangers to | be efeared-over-confidenc and the use of | poodle by the gold power.
 | Mrs. Helen N. Cougar | of Indiana addressed the convention, | stating in opening she supposed that this | was not the first time the gentlemen
 present had been talked to by woman | on the subject of finance. Gaughter) l Mrs. Cougar told a story to illustrate l the money question from woman's | standpoint, and charged that the brew I cries and distilleries, nine-tenths of which in this country are owned by Britt ish capital, were doing more than all else combined to degrade American citi- zenship, homes and industries. She charged that never since the days of Bell
 shazzars feast had there been more drunkenness known than was displayed in St. Louis the night before the repub- lican convention adopted its platform last month. In closing Mrs. Cougar took charge of the convention, and calling on the band to strike up "America," asked the audience to join in singing that grand old hymn.
 There were but few in the hail. how ever, who could sing more than the first verse.
 Judge Joseph Sheldon of Connecticut, one of the signers of the silver resolu- tions from Washington last winter, a Dor speech upon the financial question to the convention.
 Vice Chairman Towne took the chair at this point, Chairman St. John tempora- rily retiring.
 Roll of Delegates Ordered. A delegate from Illinois moved that at the next session of the convention the delegations be boiled to show what pro- portion of the delegates were formerly republicans, the purpose being, he said, | to emphasize to the country the extent | of the revolt in that party against the | infamous gold standard. The motion was | agreed to with great unanimity. MT. Towne announced that Mrs. Mary | E. Lease, that tribuness of the people, would address the convention this even- ing; also that the subcommittee on res- olutions had notified him that they were not yet ready to report and that meet ing of the full committee would be held an hour after taking recess. The following resolution was presented by Judge c. J. Hillyer of Washington, D. C., for the consideration of the dele- gates during recess:
 Resolved, Th2t in the present sftua- ton this organization, logically in the | coming campaign, must be the peculiar l representative of independent free silver republicans and that the efforts of the national convention should be directed | chiefly to combining and augmenting | this republican element as an independ- 1 cO-