The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-07-10
is offered as a substitute for the financial
report Of the majority:

pendently of the action of the other
| 81 eat nations would not only impern our
finances, but would reIard or entirely
| prevent the establishment of interna-
/ tional bimetallism to which the efforts of
| the Government should be steadily di-
rooted 1t would place this country at
| once upon silver basis, impair con-
tracts. disturb business, diminish the
purchasing power of the wages of labor,
| and inhiot irrepapable evils upon our ma
| tional commerce and industry. Until in
| terhational cooperation among the lead
Ing nations for. the coinage of silver can
| pe secured. we FAVOR a rigid maintenance
| OF the existing gold standard as essen
tial to the preservation of our national
| credit, the redemption of our public
| pledges, and keeping inviolate our coun-
try's honor. We insist that all our paper
currency shall be kept at parity with
gold. The Democratic patty is the party
OF honest money and Is opposed to legal
lender paper money as part of our per-
manent financial system, ana we there
foie favor the gradual retirement and
cancellation of all United States notes
ana treasury notes under such leg,sla-
1--WE provisions as will prevent undue
contraction. We demand that the ma
tional credit shall be resolutely malin-
tanned at all times and under all cir
cumstances
THE minority also feel that the report
make amy recognition of the honesty.
economy, courage and fidelity of the
| present Democratic Admin istraltion. and
they therefore offer the following decla-
rallon as an amendment to the majority
| report: ~
we commend the honesty, economy,
| courage and fidelity of the present Dem,
| ocratic National Administrations.
| lSigned) David b. Hill, New York =.
nniam f: Villas, Wisconsin,; George
gray, Delaware; John Prenitiss Poe
Aa.land; irving w. Drew New Halnpi
sntre, & =. ". Holman, Maine; p. j. Far
| reii' vermont; Lynde Harrison. Connec
| Lieut.; Lieut.; David N. Baker, Rhode Island.
| inomas L. G. Weadock, Michigan; Jas
" Brien, minnesota; John E R,,sSeIl
niassachusetls; Robert +. Wright, Penn
syivama; William X. Steele. South Da.
koIa; Allen McDermott, New Jersey.
| me amendment endorsing the 81 admin
lstration of Cleveland as read hv tho
secretary was cheered Mr.. Whitnnv
rose win the New York delegation ana
!oined IN the cheering, but Mir Hill re-
| tanned his seat.
| The amendments proposed to ba oeeo,.
! eo by Senator Hill were then read nc
| iolloWs: First amendment: Rut n
should be carefully provided by law at
me same time that any change in the
existing contracts. W
| eecond amendment: Our advocacy of
,he independent free coinage of silver
Deihg based on the belief that such
coInaEc VIII erect and maintain a par
| ity between gold and silver. at the ratio
| OF 10 TO l, we declare as pledge of onr
| slnceritysthat IL such free coinage shall
| Iuil 10 erect such parity within a year
rom lts enactment by law, such coin
age snail thereupon be suspended.
Ihe chairman then announced that
senator Illlman. of South Carolina,
| would now offer an amendment and
! would be heard for fifty minutes. This
| statement met the favor of the audience
| an. anu az IL 'So senator Tillman mounted
| the platform amid much applause. He
| SAID that he could no more than make
partlai illusions to the important plank c
In the platform He would begin by
introducing himself to the representa-
tives of the Democracy of the United
states by saying, II am not as the living
] newspapers have taught you to thinl,
me"
He hoped they would carry away
| from me convention different idea OF
the pltchfork man of South Carolina
from that which they now held. He
came from the land of secession. from
South Carolina. "a hiss.)
| said Tillman, turning In the direction
rom Wnich the onense came. there
are but three things in the world that
| hiss-the goose, the serpent and the
man."
| Cheers and laughter.)
| ne ulu not Know whether he could
| say he was representative of all the
Southern States. Shouts of yes" and
mo. He had gone through fourteen
| Southern States since April last an
nouncing O new declaration of inde-
pendence-for silver at 16 to1. Cheers
Since the war the South had been Demo-
| cratic and last election it vas solidly
| Democratic. While the South thanked
the Democracy of New York, Pennsyl-
vania and New Jersey for it's assistance
| and cooperation in the past and for its
| protection. the South had realized long
| since that its people were but hewers
| of wood and drawers of water for the
| North and East, to which they were
| tied in bondage. and We're having their
| substance eaten out. The people of the
| West have also come to realize for the
| last few years that the condition of the
| South and West were identical. Hence
1t was found that the Democratic party
| In the West was here in solid pha-
| lanx to help to relieve the South of that
incubus. (Slight applause)
Senator Tillman went on to give
| figures from the census by way of com
| parison in order to show how
the Eestern States had dominates
| the Western and Southern States for
| the last decade. He said he knew thai
| the newspapers would not publish his
| figures. but he would state them to his
| hearers. 1t had been asserted yester-
! day by a delegate from Massachusetts
| George Fred Williams) that this was
| not sectional issue, but he (Tillmanl
asserted that 1t was. (Shouts of mo
| mo-