The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-23
NOMINATION OF PALMER AND
BUCKNER RATIFIED AT MADI-
SON SQUARE GARDEN.
DEFENDED BY Mr.. PALMER.
NEW PARTY AND THE SILVER
QUESTION DISCUSSED BY THE
CANDIDATE.
"FIFTY CENT? FACTION RULED OUT
Gov. Flower Furnished the Enthu.
siastic Meeting the Excuse for
an Outbreak of Applause.

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.
NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-"This is one
of the peculiar meetings of peculiar
campaign" said a man entering the
big auditorium in Madison Square
Garden tonight, and he spoke the
truth, for while the Democratic state
committee was busy, two blocks away,
Strengthening out a tangle, in an al
legged endeavor to aid the Bryan cam
paign. men who had grown gray in the
service of the party argued against
Mr.. Bryan and his policies and begged
for the salvation of the country from
alleged threatened ruin.
Had the managers of this meeting set
out to make every incident of it at
variance with the notification Of VIM.
j. Bryan, they could not have been
more successful. The thermometer
marked it cool. in distinction to the
fever heat Of the Bryan meeting; the
audience that filed every nook and
corner Of an edifice that, partitioned
off as it was, accommodated fully 5000
people remained in their seats until
the end of the session; the platform
was filled with representative men Of
the old Democratic party, faces famil-
lar to all, and a picture of President
Cleveland held a prominent place
among the decorations.
The big hall was beautifully adorned
with the national colors and there were
huge pictures over the highly elevated
stage, Of President Cleveland, Samuel
j. Tilden. Messrs Palmer and Buckner,
the candidates of the party holding the
meetingS Andrew jackson and
Thomas Jefferson. In the center Of the
stage decorations was a large picture
of the national Democratic party's
emblem in this state, a full-rigged
ship. A band played national airs, the
audience heartily applauding each eff
fort.
The presence upon the stage of men
like Roswell P. Flower, w. D. Bynum,
Charles B. Fairchild, E. E. Anderson,
Robert Greer Monroe, in addition to
the speakers, gave a dignity to the af-
fair that was carried out in the
audience.
At first 1t was quiet, but the brief
remarks Of Chairman Flower seemed
to awaken the audience, for in a mo-
ment they were shouting their ap-
proval of the statement, I'VE are not
flfty-cent Democrats" The other
pointed but brief remarks Of the ex-
governor We're also vociferously ap-
plauded and by the time Mr.. Bynum
began his remarks all were very hearty
in their reception.
The meeting was called to order by
Robert Windeman, chairman of the
Syracuse conventions state commit
tee. who introduced ex-Gov. Flower as
the presiding officer. Mr.. Flower waited
until the hearty reception accorded
him had subsided, when he said:
Fellow citizens: We are met to ratify the
nominations and the platform of the Nation
al Democratic convention held at indianapolis.
We are Democrats and not Populists; we are
In favor Of liberty regulated by law; we are
not revolutionists. We believe in dollars of
of the world; we are not fifty cent Demo-
crats,R We favor a tariff for revenue only.
We declare that the government should not
engage in the banking business. We are
opposed to fat money. We indorse the admin
tstration Of President Cleveland. Our prin-
ciples point the way to stability, not doubt
panics. 1 now take pleasure in introducing
the tall hickory Of the Wabash my old col
league in congress, William d. Bynum, of
Indiana.
BYNUM'S REMARKS.
l have supported for thirty years Demo-
cratic platforms. but l cannot support the
Chicago platform and ticket. applause
The political situation is somewhat unique
and the condition of the political parties
somewhat anomalous. While there are many
questions involved in the result of the cleo
tions, one great question predominates all
Others and that is the question as to whether
this country shall maintain a sound financial
system or whether it shall degrade its pres
ent value of money to the level of that of
the semi civilized countries of the world The
magnitude of trade and commerce. the
development and growth Of our resources
REQUIRE and demand that we should have
the most rapid transit the quickest commun-
ication, the most convenient form of ex-
change and as sound a financial system as
any nation on the face of the earth.
While our silver dollar is worth 100 cents
at home and abroad, the Mexican silver
dollar, containing about six grains more sill
| yer than ours, is worth and commands in
the markets Of the world only about 50
cents. The American silver dollar is worth
| two Mexican dollars in this country and
Europe, and will purchase two Mexican dol
lars in the government of Mexico. Why is
it that our silver dollar. containing only 4121a
grains, the standard is worth nearly twice as
much as the Mexican dollar, containing about
AIS grains of standard silver? 1t is because we
maintain all of our money at the standard OF
measurement of values recognized by all the
great civilized countries of the world while
Mexico is upon a lower standard While our
silver dollar is not by law redeemable in
gold coin the policy of the government in
accepting 1t in payment of government dues
/ and in making payments OF its obligations in
! the character of money which the creditor
may demand, keeps all OF our coin and paper
on an equality with gold. While the none
| tary value of our silver dollar is 100 cents
! its bullion price is only about 80 cents
| In all history there cannot be found a
single instance where the two metals have
| concurrently circulated as money, except when
the coinage ratio was practically the com
mercial ratio In no country today upon the
face of the earth where they have the free
! and unlimited coinage of silver is the none.
tary value of the silver coined any greater
| than the bullion which 1t contains In no
! country in the world today where thew have
| free coinage of silver does their money nos
sess any greater stability than the value CT
| the commodity of which it is composed, and
! to assume that the United States. single
handed and alone, could by the mere force
| of law bring the commercial value of gold
| and silver together at the ratio of 16 to /
| when the market ratio all over the world ia
| about 81 to l, is bold assertion, unsup-
! ported by a single reason, but eontradicted
| by the history of every nation which has
undertaken the maintenance of the bime-
| tallic standard.