The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-07-30
SILVER MEN MEET.
Indorse Bryan and SewalI, and Hold al
Orderly Session.

Indorse Bryan and Sewall, and Hold an
Orderly Session.
The Silver Convention met at St. Louis July
% by call of J. l.. Mott. Chairman of the Ma
tional Committee. Congressman Francis q.
Newlands, OF Nevada. was introduced by Mr..
Mott as Temporary Chairman. He proceeded
to make his address. The galleries were almost
vacant but the delegates gave him q cordial
reception.
NJ Newlands made lengthy argument in
favor of the free coinage of silver, and eulo-
gized Mr.. Bryan, the Democratic nominee for
the Presidency.
The Committee on Permanent Organization
recommended that w. z. st. John. of New
York, be selected for permanent Chairman
Charles A. Towne, of Minnesota, be chosen for
Vice Chairman, and r. Z. Dufendorfer, of
Pennsylvania, for Secretary. The report was
adopted. Mr.. st. John made q speech.
On the second day Mr.. Stewart made speech.
Mr. Stewart said Bryan was not a Democrat in
good standing. He had said for two years that
if the party nominated candidate on gold
platform he would not support the candidate.
If there could have been manipulation of the
Convention, said Mr.. Stewart. he would not
have been nominated. Other speeches were
made.
Next day the Committee on Resolutions re-
ported the platform and the recommendation
that Bryan and Sewal be nominated. Several
speeches were made in favor of Bryan, and he
was unanimously nominated. Sewalls nomi.
| nation by reclamation followed.
The platform as adopted by the Slverites WAS
The demonstration of silver in 1873 enor-
mously Increased the demand for gold enhanc.
ing its purchasing power and lowering all prices
| measured by that standard and since that un.
Just and indefensible act the prices of American
| products have fallen upon an average nearly sc
1 down with them
tionately the money value of all other forms Of
property.
Such fall of prices has destroyed the profits
of legitimate industry, injuring the producer
for the benefit of the non producer, increasing
| the burden of the debtor. swelling the gains o.
the creditor. paralyzing the productive energies
| of the American people, RELOCATING to idlenes:
vast numbers of willing workers, sending the
| shadows of despair into the home of the homes
| toiler, filing the land with tramps and paupers
| and building up colossal fortunes at the money
| centers.
In the effort to maintain the gold standard
| the country has, within the last two years, in
| time of profound peace and plenty, been loaded
| down with $500, 600 900 Of additional interest
| bearing debt, under such circumstances as t
allow q syndicate of native and foreign ban X
| ers to realize new profit of millions on single
deal.
1t stands confessed that the gold STANDARD
can only be upheld by SO depicting our pape
currency as TO force the prices of our product
below the European, and even below the Asiati
level, to enable US to sell in foreign markets
thus aggravating the very evils of which on
people SO bitterly complain, degrading Ameri
can labor and strik ing at the foundations of on
civilization itself.
The advocates of the gold standard persist
| entity claim that the cause of our distress
production-tkat we have produced s
much that it has made US poor-which implie