Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1896-07-10

States Of America TO continue the use of
both gold and silver as standard money and
TO coin them into dollars OF equal intrinsic
and exehangeable value. The Republican
party has now renounced the creed of its
platform and OF our national pledges and
presented to the country the issue of higher
taxes, more bonds and less money. 1t has
proclaimed at last, throwing away the dis
guses, the British gold standard.
We can only expect, should they sue
coed, my countrymen, specimen Of panic
and long -protracted period of depression.
DO not ask US then to join them in any OF
their propositions. Least of all, ask us not
to join them upon the money question and
fight sham battle over settled tariff for the
money question is the paramount issue be-
lore the American people, and it involves
true Americanism more than any economic
issue that ever was presented to the people
at Presidential election.
To pretend that this, the foremost richest
and most powerful nation of the world can
not coin its money without suing for an in.
ternational agreement at the courts of Euro
pean autocrats, who have not but primary
interests TO subserve, have for many years
been held out at every Presidential election.
They have made use of such an agreement
and have foiled it afterward, and we have
never, in our history, had an International
agreement upon money system, and none
OF the founders Of this republic ever dream
ed that such an agreement was essential.
We have had three international confer
ences in order to obtain it, and 10 wait
longer upon them is to ignore the interests
of our own people and degrade our national
dignity, and to advertise to all mankind our
impotence and folly.
The majority of this convention maintain
that thiQ prnat AmnFinan with q
natural base of fixed empire, the greatest
ever established by man, with more territory
and more productive energy than Great
Britain, France and Germany combined
without dependence upon European nations
for anything that they produce and with
European nations dependent upon much
that we produce, is fully capable of restor-
ing this constitutional money system of
gold and silver at equality with each other
And, as our fathers in 1776 declared our
national independence OF all the world, so to-
day has the great Democratic party, founded
by Thomas Jefferson, the author Of that
declaration, appeared here in Chicago to
declare the financial independence OF the
United States of all other nations, and TO in :
yoke all true Americans to assert it by their
suffrages at the polls, that our country may
be placed where she by right belongs, as
the freest, as the foremost, as the most pros
porous and happy nation that ever blessed
the life of mankind upon this globe.
The second day of the National Democrat
ic Convention at Chicago was devoted to per
manent organic ltion. The day session was
spent in waiting for the committee on Gre
dentials to make It's report. The time was
spent in listening to speeches in favor of sill
yer by various speakers.
The committee on credentials finally re-
ported in favor of seating the silver dele
cation from Nebraska, and the report was
promptly adopted by a a viva voce vote.
This reversed the action of the national
committee, which seated the gold men.
AT the evening session the committee on
credentials reported in favor of seating four
silver delegates from Michigan, which, un-
der the unit rule, would change the COM
plexion OF the delegation from gold to sill
yer. The gold men protested and accused
the silver men of attempting to seat these
delegates in order to obtain two-thirds
majority in the convention and avoid abro-
eating the two thirds rule. After a long
debate the report OF the committee seating
the silver men was adopted by vote of $50
to 1868 This also reversed the action of the
national committee.
The permanent officers were then installed,
Senator Daniel yielding the chair to Senator
Stephen NJ. White, of California, the perma
nent chairman. Senator White made brief
speech in assuming the duties of the office.
The convention then adjourned until Thurs
day at 10 o'clock, when the committee on
resolutions will report the platform and the
nominations of candidates will follow.