The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-09
LOYALTY OF THE GERMAN
AMERICAN CITIZENS.
SOUND FOR SOUND MONEY,
AS IS SHOWN BY THE ATTENDANCE
AT THEIR STATE MEET
ING.
GREAT ENTHUSIASM is SHOWN,
and It's Financial Plank in
Particular.

Any one doubling the enthusiasm of
the German in the cause of
sound money should have been present
yesterday at the sessions Of the Ameri-
canized Teutons, who gathered from
nearly score of counties for the pur-
pose of forming German-American
Sound Money league
The convention was held at Mozart
hall, and If the reports presented from
the different counties are criterion,
the gold sentiment in Minnesota has
advanced to a most gratifying degree
1t was all one way. In all the re-
ports submitted there was not a single
county where the conditions were I'M
favorable to an overwhelming sound
money victory 1t was the unanimous
expression that the German farmers in
the great Northwest were open to con-
victiOn through the use of logical ar
guments, and that band wagon cam
paign methods, as utilized by the Bry-
an forces, had no place in their search
for information. For this reason the
situation is still more favorable, as
there are dozens of very eloquent and
convincing speakers of German birth
who are now starting out on tour
of every congressional district.
Yesterdays convention was called to
order by President Emil Schrader, in
a speech in which he enthusiastically
called attention to the large represent
alton present. President Schrader said
the German-Americans had q big bat
tie before them, and that each could
do a vast amount Of good in his own
district. If the election in November
was successful, as it gave every prom
Use Of being, the results could be large
ly attributed to the efforts of the as
ISOLATION. Only by a decisive and
overwhelming victory could panic be
averted President Schrader called at
tention to the encouraging reports
from every county, and asked each
delegate to renew bis efforts in behalf
of stable currency.
Immediately after the organization
of the session, DR.. Henry Hahn, Hon.
Henry Feig, P. C. Schmidt, Otto Keuf-
ner and Henry Hoeffken were appoint
ed a committee on constitution and
resolutions, with instructions to report
at the afternoon session.
A motion was passed authorizing the
chair to appoint an additional vice
president for each of the seven con-
gressional districts. President Schrader
made the following appointments:
First District-John Ludwig, Winona.
Second District-A. w. Schweppe, St. James
Third Distribution. Henry Hoefken, Nor
wood.
Fourth Dissatisfaction schermuly. Still
water.
Sixth District-Percy S. Annecke, Duluth
Seventh DISQUALIFICATION Hoefiing, Fergus
Falls.
Each Of these additional vice presi-
dents was instructed to appoint an ex-
ecutive committee consisting Of one
gressional district.
Reports were then received from diff
ferent portions of the state. A letter
was read from C. E. Schultz of Wash
ington, in which he stated that there
was an enthusiastic German-American
Sound Money club there of 1853 mem
bers, mostly farmers. The people in
that section who were not sound
money advocates were only waiting for
good speakers to make their appear
ance and tell both sides of the story.
A member from Rice county made a
similar report in which he stated that
the people in that section were five to
one in favor of sound money.
One-half of the voters of ST. Louis
county seem to be on the fence, but a
few conscientious and honest speakers
in that district could win over half Of
the doubters. The Southern portion of
the state is believed to be secure.
Hon. Henry Feig addressed the con-
vention in a rousing sound money
speech and was roundly applauded.
Mr.. Feig's address was also full of
hope and encouragement.
The resolutions committee reported
the following at the afternoon session:
Whereas, 1t is not the purpose Of legis-
lation to create values; and
Whereas, The gold standard is the standard
of this country and Of all civilized countries,
with whom we have commercial relations
whereas, the free and unlimited coinage of
silver at the ratio Of 16 to l, would imme-
diately drive all the gold and all the gold
values out of the market, and whereas, all
silver money coined under such law would
Immediately sink in purchasing power to the
value given to 1t by the markets Of the
| world;
Whereas Such a law would infict this
country with silver monometalism;
Whereas, The attempt to repay creditors in
this country and in foreign countries in
silver, worth only one-half the amount prom
ised in gold. constitutes nothing less than a
crime and a fraud, and consequently a
defamation of the fair name of our country
and,
Whereas In the end the perpetrator of a
crime must suffer for 1t; and,
Whereas The credit of our government
and all private persons would be seriously
damaged;
Whereas, No one has more personal inter
est in the soundness of our monetary sys-
TEN than the workingmen and those less IA
vored with riches, as the rich are always
able to take care of themselves, and to profit
from the instability of the circulating medium
be it, therefore,
Resolved, That it is the duty Of every good
citizen to use all honorable and legal means
to bring about the defeat of the Populistic
and pseudo Democratic candidate Bryan, and
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Gated by him-the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to l.
The resolutions were unanimously
adopted amid cheers.
The evening session of the associa-
| ton was given over to a grand sound
money mass meeting All the dele
! gates from other counties were present
and the hall contained a great many
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