The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-25
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The Proceedings.
INDIANAPOLIS, June 24.-The Dem
oc1atic. conrentfnnsmet at o'clock. 1t
is the largest political assemblage in
recent years, !. comprising 1,747 dele
gates. AT least 20 per cent. of this
represented the ultra free silver wing
party.
Robert c. Bell of Allen county. was
unanimously chosen president of the
county. State Chairman Sterling Holt
called the convention to order. Every
county represented had full repre-
ses1tation.
Fer electors at large, the committee
recommended Jason Brown and John
B. SIeil; for contingent electors at
large. Daniel w. Voorhees, and David
Turpie. United States senator, James
.. McCabe, of Williamsport. Chair
man Ben was introduced and made a
speech, concluding as follows:
BELLS SPEECH.
Fellow Democrats: Today we are in
the midst of a great crisis. You will
be expected to give expression to your
views on TIE finallcial question. You
will help to determine whether adher-
ing TO the time-honored principles and
W t4e IepCdl6u u6CldTdllOHS OF the
Democratic party we shall insist upon
a financial. plank which favors the use
of both silver and gold as standard
money at the long established ratio of
is to /: whether we are great and proud
enough 20 direct our own affairs as a
free and independent nation, or wheth-
er we must-s submit to the dictation of
some foreign. power; whether we shall
maintain the honest use of honest
money, which provides for the pay
ment of honest debts in the currency
contracted for or allow the creditor to
demand two dollars for one in salts
faction Of his debt: whether more than
seventy millions of free people shall
remain at the mercy of and in full
subsection to a small coterie of So
called capitalists Of this and other
countries, who can IN a very few days
corner all the gold in this country
and reduce or fix the values of our
property as they please; whether we
all free men or Serfs; whether the
farmers of this country shall stand
Idly by while by the forced increase
of the value of gold, the only money
permitted to be used their farms and
property shall be reduced in value at
least one-ha1f and they shall have to
raise and sell twice as much produce to
pay their debts as when they were
contracted. while their taxes are not
II Hi TRQuCeu- MHClDtT ~ Lie ulcld-
ton of the money power of one small
section of this great land one-half of
our debt-paying money shall be swept
and kept out of existence; whether
prices and wages shall be swept and
kept reduced: whether production shall
be diSeaurag ed: whether the rich shall
continue to be made richer and the
poor poorer: whether we shall be
slaves or masters. and free men.
conjuret you TO speak in no uncertain
terms This issue oYerShadoWS all
others Let rs sink all personal con-
siderations and preferences in defer
ence TO the common good. Other mat
tiers of Importance will come before
Won We seem TO be called upon TO
make special effort to maintain the
Democratic doctrine of President Mon
rec. that we shall not tolerate any
further encroachments of foreign
powers upon the territory OF this
country by way of acquisition, no
matter under what guise; that we are
in favor of raising sufficient revenue
by taxation for the support of the
government. economically administer
ed. and no more; that tax is never
blessing: that good character and
good citizenship are the result and
outgrowth Of individual education and
development. and that you cannot
make good men by statutory or restric-
tive legislation, and that the Democrat
ic party is in favor of now, as it always
has been. the largest degree of per-
sonai liberty for the citizen consistent
with good government and the safety
of the public These are but a few of
the main and chief matters that will
engage your consideration and atten-
tion.
The names of Major G. V. Menzses,
of Mt Fernon and Gilbert Shanklin,
dole
sfes AZ large. Menzies is a. gold adj
vocate Shanklfn favors free coinage.
The convention plainly favored Shank
lin. He made a speech OF withdrawal,
saying he had been informed that Gov
error Matthews favors Menzies, who
may be faithful to the ccnvention's in
stfUc6ions at Chicago. Shanklin was
not further pressed. The committee
on credentials reported in
FAVOR OF FREE SILVER MEN
in the majority of contests The minor
fly report was filed by the goldites.
The minority report Of the committee
on credentials was signed by John W.
Keren, member of the Seventh Indian
apolis district, and diseented from the
majority report, which recommended
the seating OF the contrasting delegates
rrl1rn the Seventh Eighth. Twelfth
Sixteenth and Eighteenth wards of In
dianapol;s, for the alleged reason that
II amounted to the disfranchisecnen of
q thousand loyal Democrats The re-
port protested against the committee
ON Credentials making any report
touching the action of the Seventh dis
tricf convention in selecting delegates
10 the national convention, as this mat
ter was not within the jurisdiction of the
committee. At 1855 the convention tool,
a recess for twenty minutes. Thu
Seventh district withdrew from the
convention fog, the purpose of prepar-
ins a report. For the first time in the