The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-17
ST. LOUIS DELEGATES
Chosen BY the NOnpartisan Free
Silver Convention.
The Large Majority of Them
Were Republicans.
Resolutions Adopted Instruct the
Delegates For VIM. J. Bryan
For President.

The convention of the friends Of sill
yer continued throughout the after
noon yesterday and adjourned shortly
before six in the evening.
The committee on resolutions report
ed and the report was adopted unani-
meusly by a rising vote Afterwards
some of the delegates thought that the
resolutions were not strong enough in
their endorsement by Bryan and mo-
ton by Judge Fitzgerald to reconsider
the vote on the resolutions was after
some debate carried. When the recon
sideration of the resolutions was taken
UP the only thing changed was to sub
stitute the word instruct for recon-
mend. The resolutions as finally adopt
ed are:
we the delegates of the non partisan
free silver voters of the state OF kan
sas who find themselves unable to Sc
cure the success of bimetallism in the
political parties with which they have
heretofore associated believing it to be
automatic that the American people
from tradition and interest favor BIZ
matallism and demand the use of both
gold and silver as standard money at
the ratio of 16 to 1, and realizing that
the people imperatively demand imme
date affirmative action, and that the
past declarations of the great political
parties of this nation, favoring and
promising year after year the use of
ey have been made to blind the eyes
and stop the ears of their respective
followers to the real and ultimate pur-
poses 83d intentions of such parties
the money question, and further believ-
ing that recent platforms have torn
away all masks and disclosed the real
purposes to be the establishment of
single gold standard.
Therefore, with full faith and con
hdence in the ability of this great ma
ton to legislate for US on this as on all
other questions without dictation from
foreign hnanciers or without awaiting
the action of foreign parliaments, be it
Resolved That we are unreserVedly
in favor Of honest money; unalterably
opposed to every measure calculated to
double the purchasing power of one
part Of our currency and destroy the
debt paying power of another: that we
favor all measures desig0ed to main
tain inviOlate the coin obligations of
the United States; that we denounce
all parties who ask for the suffrage OF
the people upon the argument that the
money question IS beyond the cOmpTe-
hensiOn of the masses; parties and in
dividualS who in the secluSiOn of gold
boarding privacy, assume to dictate
to q free people a money system, which
IN It's now evident consequences means
bondage and dependence more direful
in its effects upon the happiness, pro-
gress and prosperity of humanity than
tory record
Resolved. That this greatest deores-
sion of business the world ever saw
commencing in 1873. reaching and in
vading every department of industry
ana every avenue of commerce. de-
pressing every quarter of Europe and
America, is due to the vicious financial
policy which refused silver admission to
the minis as standard money and with
out warrant of constitutional law dis
continued its use as redemption money
thereby destroying one-haIf OF the
volume of the money Of ultimate pay
ments
Resolved, That we indorse and com
mend the course of Henry M Teller and
his heroic associates who in the la
republican convention were strong
enough, brave enough and wise enouei7
to sunder party ties and lifelong ass0-
Citations rather thar be disloyaI to the
truth, honor and traditions Of their
party, and who, true to the partv Of
the great emancipator. refused to bow
down and worship the golden idol Of
un-American interest and un-AmericaD
sentiment.
Resolved, That we pledge them our
earnest support and co-operati0n in
bringing to successful termination the
battle they 50 CALAMITY commenced. and
that our delegates to St Louis are
hereby instructed to confer and work
with them for the most effectuaI 11nfoD
of all voters who favor the nnItrnjte5