The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-06-26
WHITE METAL PLATFORMS ADOPT.
ED IN BOTH GEORGIA AND
NORTH CAROLINA.
ONE DELEGATE FOR GOLD.
GEORGIA CONVENTION PERMITTED
HIS SELECTION, TRUSTING TO
THE UNIT RULE.
sEND-oFF FOR SENATOR TELLER
Country by the Silver Con-
vention.


cratic convention of Georgia has met
and adjourned. 1t was probably tho
most expeditions work ever done in
| this state by convention of such Inn
portance. The convention met at noon
and adjourned at o'clock, having
gone through all the routine within
four hours. The convention was called
to order by Steve Clay, the chairman
of the state committee. The conven-
tion hall was crowded from floor to
ceiling. The day was the hottest so
| far this year, and the temperature OF
the house was up to the top notch.
Fortunately there was no excitement
and everything passed off like the
ticking of a clock. After addresses
Of welcome from local representatives,
Clarence Wilson Of Fort Gaines was
elected temporary chairman and the
clerks Of the last house and senate
acted as temporary secretaries.
After the appointment of creden-
tials committee whose work was con-
fined to the seating of three contesting
delegates, Steve Clay was elected per-
manent chairman and the same secre-
taries were continued in the permanent
organization. The committee on reso-
lutions and platform having been ap-
pointed the convention took up the
nomination of governor and state off,
GERS with the following result:
Y. Atkinson, governor; secretary Of
state A. d. Gambler; state treasurer,
A. D. Speer; attorney general J. w.
Terrell; comptroller, w. A Wright;
| commissioner of agriculture, r. T. Nes-
bitt
All these were renominated with the
exception OF the state treasurer who
retires voluntarily. The delegates at
large from the state are: Evan Howell,
Patrick Walsh, Pope Brown and H. t.
Lewis. The platform is as follows:
Congress has no power to discrim-
| mate at the mints against either gold
or silver as metals for the coinage OF
| primary money, or against gold or sill
yer coin Of the United States, as to
their debt paying functions. Such dis
examinations deprive the citizens of the
use of one kind of standard money
provided by the constitution for the
payment of debt, and we demand the
repeal of all laws or parts of laws MAX
| ing such determinations and the res
toration Of the standard silver dollar
to the rank Of primary money, which
1t held prior TO 1873 by opening the
mints to the coinage of silver on per-
feet equality with gold at the ratio OF
16 to 1.
Resolved That we condemn the fin-
ancial policy which necessitates the
increase of the bonded debt of the
country in time of peace, to maintain
an unnecessary gold reserve or to pay
/ the current expenses of the govern
| ment We also condemn policy which
seeks to retire the United States and
treasury notes, as they consttute an
| absolutely safe circulating medium,
based on gold and silver coin and
backed by the entire wealth of the
country. Such a policy would not only
intensity the present evil of contrac-
ton. but place the exclusive right to
| iseue a circulating medium in the con-
! troll of concentrated money power,
above the laws and the will of the
people, and foster the federal doctrine
/ Of Capitalization and class government
through financial control doctrine
| which is a standing menace to our Re-
publican institutions and the liberties
of the people; and we demand the re
peal of laws which clothe a secretary
of the treasury with more than inn
| perial power to issue bonds and In
crease the public debt at his will and
pleasure without specific authority
! from congress.
1--WE favor the payment Of the public
debt as rapidly as practicable; all
moneys drawn from the people by
taxation, except so much as is re-
quisite for the necessities of the gov
ernment economically administered,
should be honestly applied to such
payment, and when the obligations OF
4 the government expressly state on
their face, or the law under which they
hot a ra
payable in coin, or in dollars such OBJ
( legations should be paid in gold or sill
yer coin at the convenience of the gov
ernrnent and not at the option Of the
holder of the obligation"
Resolutions were adopted condemn
! ing as un-American and un-Democratio
any association, political or otherwise.
that is guilty of illegal warfare and
wanton persecution Of citizens on ac-
count of religious faith. A resolution
was adopted recommending the In
| crease of the number of supreme court
| Judges for the state to six.
The only furry In the convention
arose over the selection of a gold stand
ard Democrat as a delegate to Chicago.
The delegate received an overwhelming
majority In his district, but a minority
report was brought in based on the
resolution adopted at the free silver
| caucus last night, to the effect that
none but true and tried free silver men
would be allowed to go from this con-
vention or from any district. Speeches
that threatened to break were made
on both sides, but the counsels of the
conservative element prevailed, and the
! gold standard man was sent rather
than break into the right of each dis
| trict to name its own delegate The
fact that the unit rule will prevail In
all matters coming up at Chicago pre-
vents any fear OF break from the free
| silver delegation at the national con-
| vention.