Evening journal., 1896-07-10
CONVENTION IN DETAIL.
The Tree silver Platform Adopted by a
Two-thirds Majority.

IWO-tnlrus MuJofit1s
CHICAGO, July 10.-The third session
of the Democratic national convention al
the Coliseum in this city was even more
wildly exciting and turbulent than those
that had preceded it,
The session opened with the presenta-
tion Of the majority report Of the commit |
tee on resolutions, which, with the excep- /
tion OF some minor matters Of phraseology,
has already been printed in these dispatch 1
es.
Senator Hill presented the minority re
port of the committee on resolutions, pro
testing against the financial plank Of the |
platform as presented by the majority. On
behalf Of the minority he presented the
following and moved its adoption by the
convention:
"Wo commend the honesty, economy,
courage and fidelity of the present Dem
ocratic national administration.
Senator Tillman submitted a statement
denounoing President Cleveland and the
Democratic administration and moved its
Incorporation in Che platform but it was
subsequently Withdrawn.
The discussion of the platform lasted
six hours and was one of the most spirited
political debates that has ever been heard
in a national convention Senator Till
man Of South Carolina, Senator Jones of
Arkansas and W. J. Bryan of Nebraska
were the speakers for the silver coinage
cause, and Sepator Hill of New York and
Senator Villas of Wisconsin spoke for the
gold standard.
Upon the call of states Senator Hills
motion TO substitute the minority report
for the majority report was defeated by
a vote of 626 nays against S08 yeas
The minority report Of the committee
on resolutions was adopted by q vote Of
628 TO 3Oi The convention then took q
recess
Making the Nominations.
Upon the reassembling Of the conven-
/ tion tho roll Of states was chilled for the
nomination OF candidates for president
/ Alabama was first TO be called, and the
/ chairman announced that the state would
pass for the present Arkansas came next
"Arkansas yields TO Senator Vest Of
| Missouri, shouted Senator Jones. and
there was a wave Of applause from the
/ Bland adherents Senator Vest first men
\ tion Of the name Of Bland brought out o
| short demonstration. MI Vest said:
" Revolutions do not begin with the
rich and prosperous They represent the
/ protest Of those who orc suffering from
| present conditions and whose demands for
relief are denounced by the benehciaries
| Of unjust and oppressive legislation. When
| profound sense Of wrong, evolved from
/ years of distress, fastons upon the public
mind In a free country and the people are
determined to have rodress, a leader is al
ways found who is a platform in himself
to whom they instinotively turn as
the logical exponent of their hopes The
people are noticonOclasts nor false TO their
convictions. They followed Jefferson when
he assailed the centraiizing and monarch
ical doctrines of the old Bederalists and
was denounced as a communist and level
er by the wealth and culture of New Eng
land and New York.
"They followed jackson when he took
the United States bank by the throat and
was proclaimed tyrant and rui1ian 10y
the usurers and money kings
"They followed Lincoln when he attack.
ed the slave power and declared that this
country could not exist half slave and
half free
"The great movement Of bimetallism-
the free and unlimited coinage of gold and
silver at the ratio of 16 TO and the res
toration Of silver TO its constitutional stat
us-has come TO stay. 1t is a protest
against the wrong and outrage Of 1873
when, without debate and with the
| knowledge OF only a few men in congress
the silver dollar was stricken from tn,
coinage and the red despot of gold mad
supreme as TO all values
''It Is a declaration by tho freemen o
America that tho United States mus
Withdraw from tho conspiracy which wa
formed TO destroy one-half the metalli
money of the world in order to establish
the slavery of greed and usury, more dc
grading than the tyranny Of armed forces
1t is the stern demand from unrequite,
toll, bankrupt enterprisD and ruine'
homes for a change in the money system
which for years has brought disaster an'
desolation.
"In this crisis of our country and part
we must take no step backward in plat
form or candidate We want no uncor
tain nor doubtful leader no latter da
/. silver saint, but grizzled and scarre
veteran, who has borne the heat and bur
a den Of the day and whose breast is mark
, ed from edge Of sword and point Of lane
on a hundred fields.
Twenty years ago tho battle for silye
was begun in the halls Of congress by
+ modest unpretendnR, brave man, not a
Q iridesoent nor meteorio statesman, but q
Q the people and from the people, who Ia
a never faltered for an instant In tho grea
u struggle. Others doubted and wavered
= some yielded to blandishment and patron
= age ana are now holding office under q
} gold power; others misrepresented the
y constituents and have been provided for
70 the national infrmary of the present a.
IS minlstration, but Richard Parko Blar
2 stands now where he stood then, the Ii
y ing, breathing embodiment Of the silly
y cause Ho struck with steel point &
I. golden shield Of the money monopolis
y as did Ivanhoe that of the proud Tempt
= In the lists at Ashby and has neither as
= ed nor given quarter Nor Is no narro'
. . one ideaed man. For 22 years In congre
~ !. he fought in the front ranks for Del