The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-10

ouceu to silver basis and to a very cheap sil. yer basis at that
 After showing all the evils which ne thought would result from the free coinage of silver he concluded by say. ing:
 Asainst such threatened calamity we have uiee us democrats. as patriots. to protest Our purpose IS too serious to permit differences on nihor matters or personal jealousies to divide our couhcis or weaken our influences. We have come nere as democrats to exert such influences os ~o may nave among democrats for the good oi our country and the preservation of our party organization for other periods of useful- ness. fenouncing as undemocratic the work oi tne party organization at Chicago let us be true to every democratic instinct Ut Ind,anan- oiis. Let no man say that in this convention ahy raise note Of democracy was sounded We stand TOT all that should inspire good citizen- ship-for honest money, enforcement o, law and order. respect for authority, tue preservation of the national credit the just payment of debts, ,he ognlty and welfare of labor. the prosper ity and fair name of America. United in such cause we can go forward with the American nag as our banner and the words National Democrats" inscribed on It's folds We know no sectional issue or class We stand behind the broad shield of patriotism and in that sign we shall conquer.
 Gov. Flowers speech was concluded atl:45 Its delivery occupied 45 minutes. Gov. Flower then assumed the payel. and by his direction the states were called for members of the committees on resolutions, credentials and the se- lection of national committeeman and vice presidents. After an announce ment that the committees would meet immediately, the convention at 2:Os took a recess until four o'clock.
 It was 4:25 when Temporary Chair man Flower rapped for or1er. The re. ports of the committees were called for. The report of the committee on credentials was first presented by Chairman Brennan, of Wisconsin. The statement in the report that there were present SPA delegates to the con. vention, representing Al states and three territories, was heartily sp- plauded.
 Then the committee on permanent organization reads its report. It recommended Senator Caffery, of Louisiana, for permanent chairman; John H. Wilson. of Indiana, for secretary, and Walter Kessler, of Indiana, for sergeant-at-arms. It also reported an order of business. The re- port also recommended that the or ganization of the party be made per. manent, and that the national com. mittee be empowered to call future conventions. This portion of the re- port met with Q warm response from the delegates. The report was adopt ed and Mir. Built, of Pennsylvania, and Mir. Lawler, of Minnesota, escort. ed Senator Caffcry to the platform.
 In assuming the Cavel, Senator Caf- fiery made speech in which he re. ferred to the Chicago convention in these words:
 Charged by our party with the functions of ministering in its temple of faith and teach- ing the people it's true doctrines, our priests have desecratcd it's altars, broken its shrines and taught false doctrine to the people. We now enter the sanctuary of the temple and take possession of the ark of the covenant of our faith, which we will hereafter vigilantly guard, protect and defend We will purify its desecrated altars and rebuild it's broken shrines. And lest the hearts of the people be stolen away from true democratic faith-the faith of our fathers and founders-we must separate from our brethren who have wrought this evil. and from those who have followed their evil teaching. We cannot follow them in the road they have taken, for their feet arc swift to destruction, and their way is to death The ties that bound us were as strong as hooks of steel, and we part from them in sorrow.
 John P. Irish, of California, took the platform and made speech, during which he paid his respects to the Chi cago platform, Mir. Bryan and Mir. Me Kinley. After Irish had finished the convention adjourned until Thursday morning.
 The Second Days Proceedings.
 It was ll:3s o'clock Thursday when Chairman Caffery called the convention to order and, as the committee on reso- lutions was not ready to report, ex- Congressman w. C. P. Breckinridge made short speech in which he de- nounced the Chicago platform and scored MT. Bryan. A resolution was then passed deploring the death of ex- Gov. William Russell, of Massachu- setts. Then John De Witt Warner, of New York; F. w. Lehman, of Missouri, and W. D. Bynum, of Indiana, ad- dressed the convention, followed by brief speeches from MT. Eckels, of Hi nois, and Mir. Hammond, of Georgia, after which Senator Villas, chairman man of the committee on resolutions, mounted the stage and read the plat. form to the convention, which was as follows:
 The Platform.
 This convention has assembled to uphold the principles, upon which depends the honor and welfare of tho American people, in order that democrats throughout the union may unite their patriotic efforts to avert disaster from their country and ruin from the party.
 The democratic party is pledged to equal and exact justice to all men of every creei and condition: to the largest freedom of the indi- vidual consistent with good government to the states in all their just rights; to economy in the public expenditures to the mainte- Lance of the public faith and sound money: and 1t is opposed to paternalism and all class leg islation The declarations of tho Chicago convention attack individual freedom, the right of private contract. the independence of the judiciary and the authority Of the president to enforce federal laws. They advocate q reckless at- tempt to increase the price of silver by legis- lation to the debasement or our monetary standard and threatened unlimited issue of hay nh