The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-06-18
The Silver Men Defeated In Convention by
. Vote of 40 to 323-M. Doran IL
Elected Delegate at Largo
and then Resigns.


P. B. Winston of Hennepin county
nominated E. T. Champlin the silver
candidate, for chairman and E. w.
Durant of Saltwater, nominated o. M.
Hall, the gold candidate. Mr.. Doran
seconded the nomination of Hall who
explained that the vote on temporary
chairman was test of the gold and
silver strength here, and E. C. Gridley
of Duluth in seconding the nomination
of Champlin emphasized the same
point. After number of very warm
speeches covering wide range and
la sting till past noon the vote was
taken. The ballot resulted in Hall re-
ceiying 454 out of IA and before the
Champlin vote could be given, the con-
vention went wild.
The afternoon session proved one of
the most exciting and interesting in
its Development of any democratic con-
vention ever held in the state of Min
nesota. It witnessed the remarkable
spectacle of Michael Doran resigning
from the delegation to the national
convention at Chicago. When the
election of delegates at large was taken
up, Doran was elected without much
opposition. He then surprised all by
resigning. Daniel Lawler was elected
unanimously to fill his place.
The other delegates at large and the
district delegates elected are as follows:
Delegates at large: Daniel w. Law
Ter, Ramsey; Philip B. Winston, Hen
nepin; Chauncey R. Baxter, Otter Tail;
Logan Breckenridge, Olmsted.
Alternates at large: J. J. McCafferty,
Ramsey; T. C. Kuntz, Clay; NJ. E..
Mathews, Lyon; C. A. Quist, Hennepin.
District delegates: First District
John Moonan, Waseca; J. H. McGov-
ern. Wabasha; alternates, ]. M. John
son, Winona; George A. Love, Fill
more.
Second District-B. F. Voreis, Martin
county; C. w. Shultz. Mobiles; alter
mates, j. A. Hulscher, Blue Earth; Jas.
A. Gray, Rock.
Third District-Albert Schaller, Jno.
Sheehy, Dakota; alternates, G. B. Do
Ian, August True.
Fourth District Brady, Geo.
J. Mitsch, Ransom; alternates, J. w.
'DeCamp, Daniel Aberle.
Fifth District-A. D. Smith, w. Fl.
Donahue, Hennepin; alternates, E. w.
Murphy, Albert Christello, Hennepin.
Sixth District - The mas R. Foley,
Aitkin; w. r. Remer, Stearns; alter
mates, E. c. Kilcy, Grand Rapids; w.
Garner, P. Hemstead, Crow Wing.
Seventh District-M. F. Noonan, Big
Stone; j. E. OBrien, Polk; alternates,
w. Stanton, Swift; Ed. Russell, Mar
shall.
The committee on resolutions report
ed as follows:
We, the democrats of Minnesota, in
convention assembled, heartily COM
mend President Grover Cleveland for
his veto of the outrageous river and
harbor bill, his economical and just ad-
ministratfon and his answering in
tegrity, and reiterate our confidence in
and our admiration of our leaders.
= We maintain our allegiance to the
cause of tariff reform, and are uncom-
promisingly opposed to any change in
our tariff laws that will tend to re-
intrench the cause of protection. Our
motto is, No step backward!
We are unqualifiedly in favor of the
present gold standard of value. We
favor the use of both gold and silver as
money and believe that our govern
ment should command and keep in cir
culation as part of the circulating
medium as large an amount of silver as
can be employed without destroying or
threatening to destroy the existing
parity of value between the unit of sill
yer and the unit of gold.
We are opposed to descent to
monometalism, of any kind and par
ticularly to silver monometalism with
its deprecated and depreciating stand
ard of silver.
We therefore oppose the free coinage
of silver by our government at the ratio
Of 16 to 1, without the cooperation on
the part of the other commercial ma
lions of the world. It would reduce
the country to a condition of silver
monometalism, entailing upon US finan-
cial panic and commercial and indus
trial disasters. We are utterly and ir-
.revocably opposed to the adoption OF
my such policy.
The minority presented the following:
Resolved, That we, the democrats of
Minnesota, in convention assembled,
hold to the use of both gold and silver
Is the standard money of the country,
and to the coinage of both gold and
silver without discrimination against
Dither metal or charge for mtntage, and
the restoration of the coinage of gold
and silver at a ratio of 16 to l.
The majority platform was adopted.
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