Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-04-17
STATE CONVENTION.
A FULL REPRESENTATION PRES
EMIT AT TACOMA TUESDAY.
Adopted a Free silver Platform.
but Elected Several GOld.Bug
Delegates-A Qualified Endorse.
ment of the Administration.


but Elected Several GOId.Bus
Delegates-A Qualified Endorse
ment of the Administrations.
Notwithstanding the short time as
signed by the Democratic State Com
mittee for securing an adequate repre-
sentation in the State Convention
held at Tacoma, Tuesday, the interes
felt on the currency question brough
out full representations from all tn,
nearer counties and the usual numbe
OF proxies from those more remote.
1t was two o'clock before the Con
vention was called to order by Chair
man Drum OF the State Commute,
and introduced Fred MOttet, Presi
dent of the Tacoma Chamber of Com
merce, who in brief speech extended
the inequalities of the city and ex
pressed the hope that the proceeding
would be marked with that careful
deliberation which might be produc
tive OF public good.
Stephen O'Brien, of Pierce, Their
placed James Hamilton Lewis in nom
ination for temporary chairman, who
was elected by reclamation amidst
much enthusiasm, and a committe.
was appointed to conduct him to the
chair. On taking up the gavel, which
for this occasion was stick of wood
resembling very much a Paddy's shil.
lalah. Mr.. Lewis began one of his
brilliant displays of pyrotechnic ora.
tory which kept the convention in a
perfect tumult of enthusiasm for three.
quarters of an hour. The concluding
sentences, which will give fair idea
OF the fervid address, were as follows:
"There remain but two main prin,
ciples at this time to be considered
first the taxes of the people and the
money for the people. AS to the first
We are as by tradition opposed to any
tax levied upon the great masses OF
the people for the special privilege OF
a select few. We deny the right oil
that sort of protection which protects
the manufacturer against the con-
sumner. We arc in favor of the levy
of such tariff as shall be sufficient to
meet the necessary revenues of the
government, properly regulated and
adequately administered, realizing tina,
it is in the abuse of the uses of the
tariff wherein lies its vice and in the
proper administration of it wholly lies
its virtue. This we assert is the policy
of the party since Jefferson announced
it in his message of 1904 and it was
reiterated by President Jackson in his
letter to the Senator of South Carolina
June, 1882, and literally adopted in the
letter of acceptance OF Samuel J. Tilden
in July, 1876.
"Thus we are for tariff reduction
not tariff destruction.
"As to the second and last, the
money for the people. Surely we are
for sound money. They who charge
us with being for money that is un.
sound, money that is unstable and in.
secure, revile our past history and
SANDER our present record. We are
for q money so sound, so permanent
and wiIhal so expansive, that it will
serve its fullest end from the silver.
stranded sands of the Incas to the
golden-hecked land of the Eldorado
and from the land of the midnight
snn the home of tho Norseman in his
fumed isles of classic Greece,
"'where burning sappho loved and sang
Aye! So sound that the Pam Coded
junks of China will empty their
cargoes of oriental mysteries in the
royal harbor OF a Briton sea in ex.
change for its eagle shield. A money
so sound, so permanent and 80 univer-
sal that not a mountain refuses it
homage or a land of God denies il
birthright. That sound money which
Thos. Jefferson concurred with Alex
ander Hamilton in the letters of De-
cember, 1871, and February, 1892, was
the only sound money. That sound
money which Daniel Webster in his
famous Senate speech of April l. 1916,
said was the only standard of value )"
that sound money, advocated by Lin
coin and Blaine, the constant creed OF
Jackson and Tilden; that sound
money OF our fathers transmitted to
their children; that sacredly sound
money, which Father Abraham paid
to the children OF Isaac in the house
of Heth, gold and silver according to
the law CUSTOM, the very tribute of
God himself"
1t will be observed that, while it is
known that the Colonel is an ardent
silver man. his Chesterfieldian polite
ness and thorough command of Ian
guage enabled him to say as much
without giving offense to the Gold
Worshipers, who constituted a respect
able minority of the convention.
r. H. Simpson of Lewis was elected
Secretary; Philip Sternberg of Spo-
kane Assistant Secretary, and Mr..
Randolph, colored delegate from
King. Sergeant-at-Arms.
Committees on Credentials, Perma.
nent Organization and Order OF Bust
ness, consisting of q representative
from each county, we're then ap.
pointed. Gwin Hicks was named by
Thurston on the first named commit
tee and VIM. McLane on the second.
The Committee on Platform and Res.
olutions, similarly formed, stood as
follows:
Chehalis. w. L. Adams; Clarke,
Geo. w. Stapleton; Clallam, J. w.
Troy; Columbia, H. L. Bowmer; Cow
litz, ]. +. Van Name; Douglas, r. w.
Starr; Franklin, Robert Geary; Isl
and, M. P. Neuman; Jefferson, r. w.
Jennings: King, L. C. Gilman; Kick
itet. Sam Van Vactor: Kittitas, E. E.
Wager; Lewis. w. w. Robertson
Lincoln, N. T. Cation; Mason, Thomas
O'Niel; Pacific. A. ]. Ferrandini
Pierce, F. c. Robertson; San Juan,
John c. Clinton; Skamania, Geo. H.
Stevenson; Snohomish. w. J. GILES.
pie; Skagit, w. d. O'Toole; Spokane,
John B. Slater; Thurston, P. NJ. Troy
Walla Walla, F. A. Garrecht; Wah-
kiakum, J. J. Brown; Whitman, c. H.
Warner; Whatcom, f. J. Hill; Yak