Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-07-30
THE SILVER PARTY.
They Get Through Their BUSINESS
and Adjourn Sine Die
BRYAN AND SEWALL NOMINATED.
No Other Candidates Mentioned In the Con-
ventIon Platform Adopted Makes
the Money Question the
Paramount Issue.

ST. LOUIS July 25.-The silver part
convention did very little at their SEES.
sion Friday morning as they we're
waiting on their conference committee
with the peoples party and the con.
vention, after listening TO some
speeches, adjourned until $3.50 In the
afternoon.
1t was nearly four o'clock when
Chairman st. John raped for order
The report Of the conference commit
tee was read and adopted and then
Senator Jones read the platform the
chief part being as follows:
Flrst-Thc paramount Issue at this time In
the United States Is indisputabIy the money
| question II Is between the gold standard,
gold bonds and bin'i currency on the one side
ard the bimetale standard, no bonds and gov
ernlncg. cgrrency On the other
On this issue We declare ourselves 10 be In
ayor Of distnctlvely American financial
system. We are unulterably posed to the
single gold standard and demand the mme-
dato return 10 the institutional standard OF
gold anu silver. by the restoration by this gov
| eminent, Independently Of any foreign power,
Of the unrestricted coinage OF gold an silver
as the standard moncg ut the ratio OF sixteen
to one, and upon terms Of exact equality, as
they existed prior 10 1873 the silver coin to be
full lega tender, equally with gold for oil
debts and dues, public and private, and we
favor such legislation US will prevent for the
future the decentralization Of any kind Of legal
tender money by private contract
We hold that the power Ia control and regu-
late paper currency is inseparable from the
power to coin money! and hence, that oil cur
rency intended to circulate as money should be
issued and It's volume controlled by the gen.
eral government only and should b. legal
tender.
The platform then goes on to say
that II is opposed to the issue Of bonds
in time Of peace; 1t is against allowing
ssyndicate Of native and foreign bank.
efs TO uphold the gold standard and
letting them make large profit; de-
MES that there can be such an economic
paradox as overproduction; favors re.
storing both gold and silver appeals
to the people Of the United States to
make one supreme effort TO free them
selves from the money power, and rec
commended the convention to nominate
the democratic nominees for president
and vice president.
The platform was adopted after some
debate.
Mr.. E. G. Little, OF Kansas, then
nominated William J. Bryan, OF Ne.
braska, for president After a num-
Der OF speeches Mr.. Bryan was nomi-
mated by reclamation.
Mr.. Troup, OF Connecticut, then
placed the name OF Arthur Sewall, of
Maine, before the convention for vice
president and the nomination was
unanimously agreed to.
Col Pace, of Nebraska, offered
resolution declaring it to be the sense
Of the convention that us the demo-
cratic party had arranged to notify
Bryan and Sewall in New York. the
silver party notify them in Bryan's
rome at Lincoln. The motion was
lgreed to. Tllereupon the convention
sine die. ,