The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
NEBRASKA DEMOCRATS
The Antt- -Sflrer Faction Has an Innin,
and Afirms aud Resolves.

The Antt- Silrer FG Gctton Has an Inning
and Afirns aud Resolves.
LINCOLN, NEBR., April 29.-Nebraska
Democrats of the ''sound" money school
held their State convention to-day, pri-
marty to elect four delegates-at-large to
the Chicago National Convention, and in
cidentally, as the party leaders announced.
"to declare to the Democracy of the Ma
ton that Nebraska is not wholly silver
mad"
There was a very full representation of
delegates and an absence of bitter strife in
the deliberations. There was no launch
ing of Presidential booms, the only ia
vored son mentioned being Secretary J.
Sterling Morton, who in advance had in
dicated his desire that nothing be said in
that connection so far as he was con-
cerned.
The committee on platform reported in
substance as follows:
The Democrats of Nebraska, in convention
assembled. pledge anew our fealty to the prin-
ciples OF the Democracy. We repel alike the
impudent assumptions of Republican pluto
cratic paternalism and the vagaries of Populist
and socialistic paternalism. We denounce as
dishonest the claims CT the Republican party
to be returned to power on account OF financial
disturbance produced by Republican legisla-
ton, and as equally dangerous the clamor of
Populists and their allies for a more extensive
application for the same pernicious legislation.
We adhere to the time-honored principles of
the party as enuneiated by Jefferson and ex-
pounded by Jackson, Tilden and Cleveland.
We believe, with Thomas Jefferson, that the
market value OF bullion regulates the value OF
the coin, and not its coin value. We accept the
teachings of economic science that under free
coinage the cheaper money will always drive
out better money, leaving nothing but the
poorer in circulation, and that under that
unvarying law the adoption of free coinage OF
silver at 16 to would cxpel from circulation
all the gold and paper money redeemable in
! gold, and leave the country on silver basis,
with paper currency and much less of it.
We believe that common honesty and just
| regard for the rights of our creditors, as well
| as the rights of the wage-earner, require us
| to use all honorable means TO prevent the in
| sertion of free-coinage plank in the National
| platform. We adhere to our previous declara-
! tions on this subject and declare ourselves un.
| equivocally and uDreservedly for the metallic
| money as the standard unit, the bullion and
mint value of which are approximately the
| same, and the purchasing power of which, re-
| gardless of Government mintage, is the least
| 1uctuating in all the markets of the world.
| We insist upon this policy as especially neces-
sary for the protection of the farmers, lsborers
| and property-owning debtors-the most de-
fenseless victims of unstable and fuctuating
currency.
We deny the right of Congress to levy taxes
for any other purpose than the maintenance OF
| the Government and demand fair trial or
| the Wilson tariff law, under which business
and industry have been recovering from the
paraly ticstroke of McKinleyism.
| The platform commends CIeveland,s for
elgn policy, denounces the action of the
so-called free-silver Democrats, classes the
! initiative and referendum as socialistic ex.
periments and deplores the efforts of GER
tain politicians to make religious belief a
test for ofioeholding
Just before adjournment the following
telegram was ordered sent to the Michigan
! Democratic Convention:
Alfred j. Murphy, chairman Democratic
| State Convention, Detroit: Democratic State
! Convention of Nebraska sends greetings. Ne.
| braska Democracy stands for honest money
and repudiates the doctrines OF the Popuiists
| w. D. McHUGH Chairman