The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-05-16

men as is present here to-day. 1t is
not my intention to make a prolonged
address to you. This convention has
matters of vital Importance to the state.
1t is in my opinion the most important
one that has ever been held IN Mon
tana and the results of your delibera-
tions will bring woe and misery or COM
fort. plenty and happiness to the peo-
pie of the state, great applause) and I
feel confident that the latter will be the
result. 1t is not necessary for me to
ask you in your deliberations to look
out for silver or for wool. I thank you
gentlemen, for the honor you have con-
ferred on me-
A. Miles of Park county and Frank
H. Wilcomb were elected secretary
aud assistant secretary. respectively.
The following committees were sell
! ected:
Committee on credentials-W A.
Jones' Walter A. Lewis, S. Stevenson
Chas. H. Barton. Sam Gordon, T. J..
Rowe. o. D. Lesser. Geo. J. Weidman,
F. E. Preston. E. D. Ellis, G. r. Bur-
kett, James Davis. N. J. Isdell, George
Catlln, J. A. MCGOWAN. f. p. Wilber.
r. A. O'Hara. Geo. Pascoe, G. T.
/ Busha. w. H. Gallagher, Chas. Spear,
O. D. Policy.
Committee on permanent Organiza-
tion-M. Berger. w. F. Meyer, G. H.
Bennett, J. w. Harmon, J. w. Strev-
ellie, G. F. Chapman. M. j. Fitzpatrick
John D. Waite, r. l.. Clinton, T. J.
Lynde. George Benjamin, A. J. Selig-
man, w. w. Cheely, J. A. Mcknight,
J. L. Ford, f. H. Talcott. Amos Buck,
G. H. Moore, J. N. Kelly, John Zim-
norman, J. r. Gloss, O. D. Policy.
Committee on resolutions-Lawrence
A. Brown, H. c. Province. H. H.
Nelson, Geo. B. Mclaughlin, T. J.
Porter, H. ]. Haskell, O. +. O'Bannon,
F. f. Smith, Fred Cook, O. B. CHS
holm, w. S. Dodge, A. J.. Bennett,
Richard Jockey, John Castle, J. s.
Thompson, B. F. Sanders. Geo. Irwin,
r. P. Briggs, o. D. Policy.
After the reports of these committees
the matter of conflicting delegations
from Granite county was disposed of.
Platform Unanimously Adopted.
Judge Strevelle of Custer read the
following resolutions and at each men,
tiOn of the names of the silver senators
there was tremendous applause.
eve, the representatives of the re-
publican party of Montana, in conven-
tion assembled, hereby reiterate our
faith in and devotion to the great re-
publican principles of bimetallism,
protection and reciprocity, announcing
as our understanding of bimetallism
the free and unlimited coinage of both
gold and silver at the ration of 16 to 1,
independently by the United States.
In the application of the principle of
protection, we insist that the farmer,
the miner and the shepherd shall re-
ceive equal consideration with the
manufacturer, and that through reci-
procity treaties the products of our
own country, whether of the farm, the
factory Or the range, shall be accorded
just and advantageous recognition at
foreign custom houses in exchange for
stipulated concessions accorded by our
government to the products of other
countries which we cannot ourselves
produce: and that wool. as one of the
important products of the United
States, be accorded duty not less
than that provided by the Mckinley
bill.
''We maintain that these three car
dinal principles of republican faith and
should be the first consideration of the
congress of the United States, and that
ample legislation be enacted upon
these subjects.
"We call the attention of rejecting
men to the recent marvellous develop
ment of productive and manufacturing
enterprises in China, Japan, India and
other silver-using countries, and SUBJ
nit that the competition with which
we are thus menanced imperatlvely
demands the restoration of silver to its
ancient money function, as means of
equalizing the difference in exchange
and the re-establishment of the pro-
tective tariff policy as necessary
means of equalizing the difference in