Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-08-01
BRYAN DEMOCRATIC CLUB.
Above is the Name OF an Organization
Effected in santa Fe Last Evening
Under Most AuspiciOus Cir
cumstances.

ciple of American blmetallism was bel
last night at the spacious and pleasar
Oxford club rooms for the purpose of o.
ganizing the Bryan Democratic club {
Santa Fe county. Fully seventy-fve req
resentative Democrats were in attendanc
and all seemed to be inspired by the loft
and patriotic purpose to lay aside al
personal and factional differences an
labor together as one man to prom ote tn
grand cause of the people in the pending
struggle.
temporary organization was effecte,
by the choice of Mr.. W. h. Pope as chair
man, j. l.. Zimmerman, secretary, and j
P. Delgado, interpreter.
Upon assuming the duties of the chair
Mr.. Pope briefly stated that the meeting
had been called by the seventy odd sign
ers of petition to the secretary of tn
National League of Democratic clubs
Washington, for a charter authorizinl
the organization of Bryan Democrat,
club in the city OF Santa Fe, that the ap
plication for charter had already been
forwarded to Washington and that fav.
oIuolO lCbPohbC hdu Ooou TtColS6us
After some preliminary discussion per
manent officers of the club were elected
by reclamation as follows: George P
Money, president; Pedro Delgado, VIC
president; John L. Zimmerman, score
try; Marcelino Garcia, treasurer; Camille
Padilla, interpreter.
Upon being escorted to the chair, Mr.
Money expressed his thanks for the higt
honor conferred upon him with mucl
feeling and pledged his best efforts tt
promote the harmony and usefulness o
the club as an active factor in promoting
the cause of Democracy and silver il
New Mexico.
A motion was then adopted clothing
the president with authority to appoin
an executive committee of fifteen mem
bers of the club, the membership thereo
to be announced at the next meeting.
Messrs. Charles F. Easley, Al. Loomi
and W. H. Pope were appointed as com
mittee on constitution and bylaws.
Messrs. E. T. Weber, Charles M
Dreamer, Camilo Padilla, P. M. Dolan ant
J. L. Zimmerman were entrusted with thu
duty of securing permanent headquarters
for the club.
Messrs. M. P. Moore, H. s. Lutz ant
George W. Knaebel we're appointed as {
temporary committee on finance.
In response to loud calls, Hon. A. B
Fall, of Las Cruces, then addressed tn,
club in his happiest vein. After con
graduating the Democrats of Santa f,
upon the successful organization of tn,
first Bryan club in the territory, and OK
pressing the earnest hope that the new
club and the Frank Chavez club and al
other Democrats at the capital would
earnestly work together for the common
cause, he proceeded to make several tell
ing points in favor of the free and I'M
| limited coinage of both silver and gold Al
the legal ratio of 16 to l. Among Other
good things, he said that he had never
been able to comprehend the significance
of the goldbug argument, advanced ever
by such an authority as Secretary Carlisle
wherein it was commended in one breath
that the silver movement was in the in
terest of the silver barons, who sought BY
free coinage to double the value of theil
silver product, while in the next breath
it was seriously maintained that free
silver coinage would result in a 50 cent
dollar, contentious that impressed him Of
being absurdly conflicting. Touching
the oft repeated claim that the United
States could not maintain the proposed
parity without the aid of the nations OF
Europe, he called attention to the fact
that the price of silver fell % cents in
one day as result of the closing of the
India mints to its coinage. If the clos
ing of the India minis had such marked
effect upon the silver market, he thought
it not unreasonable to suppose that the
opening of the minis of such great and
powerful nation as the United States
would Immediately add so cents an ounce
to the value of silver.
Hon. Felix Martinez, of Las Vegas, IN
response to urgent calls, next favored the
club with an eloquent, timely and fitting
address. He was glad that Bryan club
had been organized at the capital and
urged united action with the Frank Cha.
vez Democratic club. He predicted 9
grand triumph for the national Demo.
cratic ticket and said there was no earthly
reason why the Democrats of New Mex.
leo should not share in the glory of that
triumph. If, under existing circum.
stances, they failed to elect their candi.
date for delegate in November, it would
be their own fault. All internal dissen.
tions must be suppressed, the factional
spirit must be stamped out, and each in
dividual must make up his mind to yield
something to the opinions of others in
the party for the sake of the common
cause. 1t was especially important that
the Democrats of the capital city should
set good example in this respect and he
earnestly hoped that this would be real
lied in time to avoid mischievous results
in the pending campaign. He had no
doubt that Mr.. Bryan would be elected
president of the United States. He stood
for a great principle-the free coinage of
silver-that intimately concerned the
masses of the people and they would take
care that the right man was placed in the
White house to guard and advance that
principle.
In closing, he said that, while the
people of New Mexico unfortunately
could not vote for Mr.. Bryan, they were
deeply interested in his election and the
success of the principle for which he
stood, for the practical reason that the
of silver had deprecated
all property values in the territory fully
36 per cent, money was not procurable
for any purpose, and the present distress
among the people would continue and in
crease 50 long as the gold standard was
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