The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-23

/ NfaluSH WAS crowded TO over
flow tonight when the candidates of
the National Democracy" faced a met
ropolitan audience and opened the cam
paign for the sound money Democ-
racy in the empire state.
An hour before the time set for the
meeting the best seats were taken and
at 7:SO thousand people were standing
at the back of the seats in the main
floor and in the galleries.
The audience was one of the best-ap-
pearing that has been drawn together
by political meetings in this city. A
number Of ladies were present The aud
! fence recognized Roswell P. Flower,
| William D. Bynum, Colonel Fellows
and others and cheered them as they
made their way to their seats. Among
THOSE ON THE PLATFORM
were: Rev. Theodore Cuyler, William
| B. Hornblower of New Jersey; C. A.
Henriques, Captain Hugh Gordon, Peter
b. Terry, Theodore Sutro, Colonel Thos.
! Hurley of Texas, Colonel j. M. Faux
ner of Florida, Charles Canda and Ev-
erett p Wheeler and DR.. William Ev-
erett of Massachusetts,
Promptly at o'clock Robert A. Wide
man, chairman of the state central COM
mittee of the National Democratic
party OF New York, stepped to the front
of the platform and opened the pro-
ceedings. He said that the good old
! ship Democracy was going on the rocks,
when the Indianapolis convention took
her in charge. placed competent men
at her helm and was now manning
her for the fight which would bury
Organism, wisconsin and Sewallism
/ so deep that
GABRIELiS TRUMPET
would have difficulty in resurrecting
them. He then introduced Ex-Governor
Roswell P. Flower, the chairman of
the evening, who said:
Fellow Democrats: We are met to
ratify the nomination and platform of
the National Democratic convention
held al Indianapolis. We are Demo-
Gratis, and not Populists. We are in
favor of liberty, regulated by law. We
are not revolutionists. We believe in
maintaining our form of government
in its full vigor; the legislative depart
ment to make the laws, the judicial to
eXpound them, and the executive to en-
force them. We believe in law and
| order; not in riot and disorder. We be-
lieve in dollars of full intrinsic value,
measured by the markets of the world.
We are not 50-cent Democrats. We
favor tariff for revenue only. We
! declare that the government should not
go into the banking business. We are
opposed to fiat money. We favor the
merit system; the fewer spells
THE LESS CORRUPTION
in party politics. We believe in
economy in every department of the
government. We endorse the admins
tTafion of President Cleveland. Our
principles point the way 10 stability in
government, not to doubtful expert
ments to confidence in business. not
to uncertainty; 20 prosperity, not
panics.
Fellow Democrats, let us take no
step backward, but march in solid
phalanX for the preservation of our
glorious republic and with it the grand
old Democratic party.
Its ark of the covenant for 1896 is
safe in the hands of our standard
bearers nominated by the Indianapolis
convention-Palmer and Buckner-and
l now take pleasure in introducing tine
tail hickory of the Wabash, my odd
colleague in congress, William d. By
num-
Congressman Bynum was received
with cheers. He started in by saying
that after thirty years in political life
as a Democrat, he found himself I'M
able to support the ticket nominated
at Chicago for he did not believe the
candidates TO be Democrats. Congress-
man Bynum
WENT ON AS FOLLOWS:
'If there is any principle that is
cardinal with the Democratic party it
is the belief of that party, from the
very foundation of its organization
down to the present time, in the MAIN
tenance of sound money This ques-
ton is the all important question: in
this campaign.
Our volume of money consists today
of $500. COX, 900 in gold coin, of more
than $500, 600. 600 of silver coin, OF $685.
900, 900 of greenbacks and about $210,-
600 900 or more of national bank cur
rency. of 500, 900, 900 of treasury nrteS
issued under the Sherman law and
about $S1 900, 900 currency certificat e~.
issued under the act of 1872 ALI this
money circulates not only throughout
the United States, but all over the
world, on a parity With gold and what
the National Democratic party which
assembled at Indianapolis and promul-
gated platform and nominated a.
ticket insists On is that all
this money shall be maintained
alt a parity with gold. Our
silver dollar today is worth not only
100 cents in the United States, out
worth 100 cents all over the world, and
what we Democrats that oppose the
free and unlimited coinage of silver in
tend, is that it shall be maintained at
parity with gold all over the world.
While the monetary value of our silver
dollar is 100 cents, the bullion value, or
the value of the silver contained in that
dollar, not only in the United States,
but everywhere, is only So cents. If the
policy of the platform at Chicago is
carried out, and our minis should be
opened to the free and unlimited COIN
age of silver, the effect would be to
bring the monetary and bullion value
of the silver dollar together. Either
the monetary value of that dollar would
come down from 100 cents to so cents, or
the bullion value of silver in that dol
lar would rise from so cents to 100
cents, or one would come down and
the other would go up until the two
met at some point between the bull
lion and monetary value"
Mr.. Bynum went on in an extensive
presentation of the arguments against
free silver He said that before the
indianapolis convention, Democrats
were afraid to mention the gold stand
ard, but that since the convention they
SPOKE OUT OPENLY.
He said that a good way to cure the
free silver people would be to retire all
the one and two dollar bills in the
country and force the use of silver dol
lars. He declared that the statement
of the Bryan supporters that free coin
age would advance silver is a fallacy.
AS Mr.. Bynum was closing his re-