Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-08-03
SILVER MEN PROTEST.
A Manifesto Issued in Reply to the
Statement of the Gold
Democrats.

The silver wing of the Wisconsin dele
cation to Chicago has issued an address
to the Democrats of Wisconsin to offset
the manifesto issued by the gold faction.
The delegates held their meeting Satur-
day afternoon and discussed the situation
in all it's various phases. A draft was
made, and most of the delegates left in
the evening, but the address was not is
sued until this morning when e. j.
Dockery of Ashland, who remained for
the purpose, perfected it and gave it out
Tor publication.
merits of the silver question very extern
sively, but is devoted to answering the
allegations of the Vilas-Bragg address,
and refuting the ISLANDERS" therein pro-
Tnulgated. The delegates pronounce the
statement to the effect that they desire
"A debased currency "a wicked SANDER"
and assert that they want only to return
no the honest money that the fathers of
the country favored and for which they
provided. The address ends with an APP
peal to the silverites to work at the eau
cuses and send silver delegates to the
state convention. 1t reads as follows:
The Address.
To the Voters of Wisconsin: An address
has been published by Edward S. Bragg,
William f. Villas, James G. Flanders and ].
j. Hogan, the four delega tes-a t-large, to-
gother with fourteen of the district dele
gates appointed by the last state Democratic
convention of Wisconsin, to represent the
state at the recent national Democratic con-
vention.
In response to the urgent request of rep
TeSentative Democrats throughout Wiscon-
sin, and in the interest of the Democratic
party, the undersigned delegates to that
convention who were, and still are, in ac-
cord with its platform, respectfully submit
this communication to the consideration Of
the voters of Wisconsin. The eminent gen.
tlemen in their address complain of the
personnel, the platform, and the course Of
that convention.
The universal custom in the selection of
the temporary chairman of Democratic ma
tional conventions has been for the national
committee to select such officer and to sub
NIT his name to the convention for accent
ance or rejection. The right of the conven-
ton to accept or reject the person selected
Dy the committee certainly is unQueStOned
and the exercise of that right was no viola
Elon OF Democratic rules of conduct. The
rejection of the gentleman chosen by the
committee as temporary chairman was only
a deciinat1on on the part of the convention
TO authorize an official utterance by him Of
financial views regarded by the great ma
Jor1ty of the delegates to be un-Democratic
To believe that the delegates from the
Fourth and Ninth districts of the state Of
Michigan were unjustly unseated would be
to regard the utterance of prejudiced men
superior to the deliberate Judgment Of
a4ldJOflIy OF the committee on credentials,
the high rank and integrity of whom has
@ot been questioned. That the state of
Michigan acquiesced in the judgment Of the
or the committee on credentials as
by the convention by all it's dele
gates remaining throughout the convention,
and participating in it's deliberations. is
sufficient refutation Of any injustice done
that state.
'9he Wisconsin convention held to select
delegates to the National convention empow-
cred majority of the delegates to control
4 10 NYnf oil Il.
fully recognized by the convention on every
vote taken in the convention. 1t was only
when the chairman of the Wisconsin dele
cation announced that Wisconsin declined to
vote on the nomination of a candidate for
president that the undersigned asked and
obtained from the presiding officer the priv |
siege or casting their votes, and from this
decision of the chairman no appeal was tax 1
en- by any delegate from Wisconsin, but they
all remained in attendance at the conYen-
zion.
Says 1t is Wicked SANDER.
The Democratic party ever has, and to the |
honest money and oppose it's debasement. 1
10 assert that the Chicago convention de- |
clared in favor of compelling the citizens
of tJ1e United States to receive dollars Of |
only ene-haf value is wicked SANDER The I
Ga tional Democratic platform does not sub
nit to the American people new and I'M
tried system Of finance for adoption. The |
great Hamilton and greater Jefferson |
framed the law at the time of the birth of |
This nation, which gave to both gold and |
silver the right of free and unlimited coin
age and made both these metals funda-
mental and redemption money. The integ- |
rfty of this American, this Democratic none |
tary system, was religiously preserved by
all American legislators from 1892 to 1873. |
La fhis latter year, when the attention of the
American people was diverted from the sub
lect, dishonest legislators surreptitiously |
1emonetized siEver-the peoples money. The
great American nation, without it's knOWl- |
alge or consent, had its monetary system
changed from bimetalHsm to gold mono
metdlliSm. The function of measuring |
values, supporting commerce and credit /
imposed upon gold and silver was by the I
of silver shifted to gold I
creased Two fold as the demands upon it |
we're doubled and as a result all commodities /
sf the world declined III value as expressed |
n pyGo1deA dollars
1.-The i1nerchant who has had bankruptcy
slowly but surely creep upon him in spite |
If his every effort and economy; the tiler |
Of the soil who has seen the products of his
farm gradually reach price below the cost
Of production in spite of his ceaseIess care |
and toll; the man who depends upon his /
daily labor to furnish him the necessities
DO work; all ask why in q land Of plenty, |
in nation peopled by willing workmen, in |
4 country OF llmltless resources, why is
there widespread business disaster and cruel
want9 History records prosperity from the
of America to 1873, under BIZ
metallic system of finance. A silver dollar
In fact exceeded gold dollar in value.
The day Congress by law closed the doors
Of our minis on silver and said thereafter
gold shall measure the value Of all things, !
even silver; then it was that gold grew
dear and silver cheap, and as silver depre- |
ciated so has the price of all commodities |
fallen as measured in gold until ruin stares
great and free America in the face. The |
Democratic national convention in response |
TO the call for help from the people has
promised to reinstate the money of the
and thereby lift the golden yoke
from Americas neck.
NIono-Meta 1lism Not Democratic.
We challenge any man to point out where
IN This promise is violation of Democratic
principles. We defy any man to turn to any
wage of Democratic history which records
arid monometallism as a tenet of Demo
.ratic faith.
That the present administration was I'M
Endorsed was not intended to reflect on any
mans honesty or fidelity. To have in
6Drsed an administration so at variance
gyJ4a the conventions financial views would
gave been a manifest Inconsistency.
The greatest convention ever assembled
in America needs no defense, at our hands.
IFS acts have gone into history Each man
WIN Judge for himself if it is good bad
taste for men who remained throughout the
to now east aspersionS upon it.
We cheerfully accord to every, man as we