Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-18
SILVER MEN BOLT
Money Plank Adopted by the Con-
VentiOn.
SENATOR TELLEh'S EARNEST PROTEST
Farewell Address Delivered by Sen-
ator Cannon.
y OMIN ATING PEE G. II E S
NOMIN ATING SPEECHES

ST. LOUIS Mo. juno 1S.-The Conven-
ton Hall promised to be very warm today.
Every arrangement had been made to keep
the building cool as possible, but with the
boiling beating down with intensity
there was every prospect of a sweterinG
time. The spectators and delegates pro-
vided themselves with fans, which were
freely used.
Before the hour for calling the convention
to order arrived the wilderness of seats in
the galleries was black with the same dense
crowd of people, and the vast hall roared
with the dull. Undesirable uurmur OF
thousands of human voices
The third and probably the last day of
the convention began at 1870 o'clock.
when. in response to the gavers rap, the
delegates arose for prayer. The officiating
minister was DIR. John r. Scott of Jack
sonYille. Fla, the second colored pastor
who has conducted the devotional pre-
lude. Although DIR. cotts voice was a
strong enc. so great was the confusion of
entering delegates ana spectators 1t could
be told only from the movement of the
minister's lips that he was praying.
Then the first opportunity fer delegates
to use their voices fresh after a nights
rest was afforded when Chairman Thurs
ton. without any preiminarses, plunged
into business by announcing that the first
thing on the program the report of
the committee on resolutions.
Senator-eIect Joseph b. Foraker of Ohio
crowded 20 the front and climbed the steps
to the stage, while the crowds sent up d
shriH yell The platform, which he be
gan to read was with q few imma terial
amendments in its verbiage tine one tele-
graphed throughout the country by the
The Platform.
The platform was follows:
The republicans of the United States, as
sembled by their representatives in ma
tional convention. appealing for the popu-
lar and historical Justification of their
claims TO the matchless achievements of
the thirty years of republican rule, earn
estly and confidently address themselves
to the awakened intelligence. experience
and conscience of their courtrymen in the
following declaration of facts and princi-
Piles:
For the first time since the civil war the
American people have witnessed the ca
lamitous consequences of full and unre-
stricteG democratic control of the govern
ment. 1t has been a record IF unparalleled
incapacity. dishcnor and disaster. In adj
ministratiye management it has ruthlessiy
sacrificed Indispensable revenue. entaled
an unceasing deficit, excl out ordinary
current expenses with borrowed money,
piled up the public debt by S2G2,pO.wU in
time of peace. forced an adverse balance
of trade. kept a perpetual menace hanging
over the redemption fund, pawned Ameri
can credit to alien syndicates and reversed
all the measures and results of successful
republican rule. In the broad effect of its
policy it has precipitated panic, blighted
industry and trade with prolonged depres-
sion. closed factories, reduced work and
Woges, halted enterprise and crippled
American production while stimulating for
eisn production. for the American market