The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-07-22
LIND FOR GOVERNOR.
The Republican Bimetalists So De-
clare Themselves.
Fully Three Hundred Were In Attendance,
Among Them Being Many Faces
Well Known to People and
Voters Of the State.

men of Minnesota were in attendance.
Charles A. Towne of Duluth, John
Day Smith, d. F. Morgan and S. B.
Howard of Minneapolis, Governor
Frank A. Day of Paramount, Burt Day
of Hutchinson. 81. E. Hoard of Monte
video, w. H. Mitchell of Duluth, Roger
Mungo of Duluth, Senator Reishus OF
Lyon county, and hundreds of others
of lesser note composed the body Of
republican leaders who have deserted
the party and devoted themselves to
the cause of the silver people.
E. s. Corser of Minneapolis, from the
platform, opened the proceedings in the
convention by announcing to the body
that the delegates from the various
congressional districts would come to-
gether and select members for the va
rious committees-resolhtions, creden-
tials, permanent organization, etc.
In response to this request the dele.
cations met in separate corners of the
hall and finally settled upon members
for the various committees.
Mr.. Corser of Minneapolis moved that
Lieutenant Governor Frank A. Day OF
Martin county be chosen temporary
chairman. Adopted.
Governor Day was introduced by
Chairman Griffin and delivered brief
but very telling speech, in which he
alluded to Frank Nye as ''the William
j. Bryan of Minnesota"
At 1:3O the convention took a recess
until o'clock p. M, adjourning to the
auditorium in the Exposition building,
so as to have plenty of room.
1t was after o'clock before Chair.
man Day raped for order.
The chairman of the committee on
permanent organization reported rec
ommending that the temporary officers
be the permanent officers. The report
was adopted unanimously.
Chairman Day again returned his
thanks in appropriate terms, and ex-
pressed his satisfaction that so many
Grand Army badges were to be seen
among the delegates.
Senator Morgan from the committee
on resolutions presented the platform
of the convention.
The financial plank is as follows:
We therefore declare our fixed pur-
pose to work for the restoration of sill
yer to its time honored place as money,
side by side with gold at the ratio of
sixteen to one.
Believing. moreover, that it is Amer
ica's place to command, and not to fol-
low, we spurn to wait upon Great
Britain or any foreign nation, espe-
cially as we see that Great Britain is
ruled by the creditor classes, among
whom one convert to bimetallism is
made at the cost of dozen renewed
producers In America and other debtor
nations.
To this end we pledge ourselves to
the prompt repeal of all laws by which
silver has been demonetized and its use
abridged to prohibit all Determinations
by the government, or any Of its Of
icers. or by private individuals against
either gold or silver, and to admit both
metals to the right of free and unlim-
tied coinage at our minis at the ratio
of sixteen to one, with full power, for
all the money thus coined, as legal ten
der for all public dues and in all trans
actions of the citizen.
The chair was about to put the ques-
ton on the adoption Of the platform,
when Mr.. Child, of Waseca, offered the
following amendment:
'We demand the retirement of all
bank issues of currency and the main
tenance Of our greenback money in
connection with the free coinage of sill
yer and gold"
The amendment was adopted viva
voce, and then the platform went
through by rising vote.
It had been intended to postpone the
naming of John Lind for governor I'M
til the evening session, but delegate
who had not been taken into the conf
dence of the managers, here offered a
ringing resolution recommending that
"John Lind be declared the choice Of
this convention for governor of Mime.
sofa"
The resolution provoked discussion
not as to the propriety Of the action, but
as to its timeliness.
1t seemed to be the unanimous wish
OF the delegates present that the reso-
luton be put to vote at once, and
Chairman Day called for rising vote.
The convention surged to its feet as
one man, and amid great and pro-
longed cheering the name of John Lind
of Brown county was placed before the
people of the state as the unanimous
choice of the Bimetanic League of Min
nesota.
In the evening an immense audience
gathered at the exposition end was ad-
dressed by f. M. Nye, John Lind and
others.
A Badly Broken Spine.
James Stiles is in the hospital at
Easton, Pa, suffering from a broken
back. A year ago h. fell and broke his
spinal column, and in spite of the doc