The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-25
FOR BRYAN AND SEWALL
NATIONAL sILVER CONVENTION IN D0RSES POPOCRATIC NOMINEES.

Both Nominations by Acclamation-En
 thusiasm Reigns-Circus Tactics Re-
 sorted To-Little of Kansas, Asks, els
 Life 80 Dear, is Peace so Scarce, That It
 Mnst be Purchased at $26a 100000 n
 Year?"-Other Speakers Ring the
 Changes on the Stereotyped Phrases--In
 AII'Twas But Side Show to Democratic
 Convention.
 St Louis, July 24.-The afternoon session of the national silver convention
 attracted the largest attendance of
 spectators that had honored the con-
 vention. At 3:55 o'clock Chairman St.
 John called the convention to order.
 Rev MT. Haggerty invoked the divine
 blessing
 Mir Baker of California, chairman of
 the silver convention committee of con- ference, reported the resolution adopted
 in connection with the conferees from
 the populist convention The reading
 of the resolution adopted was received
 with applause. The report of the com
 mittee was adopted without debate or
 division.
 The report of the committee on reso-
 lutions was presented by Senator Jones
 of Nevada, who read the platform and
 address to the people of the United States, as previously reported in these columns.
 The declarations in favor of free coin-
 age and denouncing bond issues pro-
 voked much applause. The recomnaen-
 dation that Bryan and Sewall be nom-
 mated brought the whole convention to its feet with cheers and many demon-
 strations of delight Francis c. Laia- ed of Oregon moved that the resolu- tions be adonted as read
 Mr. Hess of Illinois asked whether or not the recommendation of the com mittee meant another nomination of Bryan and Sewall. The chair stated that being in doubt, he would with hold the recommendation and rule that the convention would vote upon the resolutions alone.
 Mir Hess started to speak, but was taken off the floor by a point of order Before yielding the floor MT. Hess nov ed to amend the motion to adort the resolutions by substituting the f1nan- cial plank of the democratic platform. No second was heard and the motion was not entertained.
 MT. Pare os Nebraska moved that
 the convention proceed to the nomina-
 tion of candidates for president and vice president. General Warner ex- plained why the committee on resolu- tions had recommended nomination in- stead Of endorsement, which was to meet the exigencies of the situation in several states, where nomination was necessary to enable the silver electors to be voted for.
 Mir Faces motion was adopted. and
 E. c. Little of Abilene, Kan, placed
 Mir. Bryans name before the conven- ton. He said the honor had been ac- corded Kansas of presenting the name
 of the next president. "Is life 50 dear
 Is peace so scarce, that 1t must be pur chased at the rate of s262 ,OOo00 a J riod portraying the evils of the gold standard. He spoke of the products of the farming going, like salvation. without money and without price. The
 republican party he said, had McKin- ley upon its platform, but 1t had Grover Cleveland in It.
 God loves 8 man who does his own
 thinking" he remarked, "and we pro- pose this year to earn Gods affection and good will" The savior, he said
 scourged only the money changers That duty was again to be performed and William J. Bryan was the man to do It. In a few days he would stand in Madison Square Garden, New York, the representative of Lazarus at the feet of Dives.
 Thirty-six years ago the people of this country looked to the west, and 1t gave them Abraham Lincoln. Again the people look to the same section and again the west gave them a man, the product of it's highest civilization and development. a man like Lincoln, the friend of man.
 [. c. Pace of Nebraska seconded the nomination. He spoke of the circum-
 stances surrounding the nomination of Bryan at Chicago, and said that the contest between the money power and people was now on. Nine out of ten similar contests in the past had result ed in favor of the money power. Chi cago had developed a man. however; a young man, full of character, firm for the right, born of the people. The re- suit in this case could not be in doubt Senator Maginley of Michigan, whose name was received with applause and laughter because of Its resemblance to that of the republican candidate, made a happy seconding speech. The next speech was by Mrs. Stansberry of Col orado. whose statement that the "pro- tected" women of this country received seven cents for making a shirt that a Chinaman was paid ten cents for Iron ing. and that the women of Colorado would vote for the silver dollar, letting those who would vote for the gold dol
 lar, rice and rats, evoked the widest
 applause of the convention. Mr Basher of Waterloo, Iowa, said
 it took the Mark Hanna syndicate two
 wears, at an expense of $75,000 to nom-
 mate Mckinley for the presidency, while a twenty-minute American
 speech nominated Bryan for the same high office at Chicago.
 MT. Groot of Cleveland, the populist candidate for United States senator against Foraker, wanted every man to constitute himself committee of one