Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-07-11
B R Y A n
NominatedO on
the Fifth
Ballot.
An UNEQUIv0CAl FINANCIAL
PLANK ADOPTED.
Biography Of the Brilliant Young
Nebraskan.
The Convention Adjourned Last
Night Till 10 -. nm. Tomorrow,
when n vice President VIII he
Nominated.

The Democratic National Convention
met at Chicago last Tuesday. Senator
John W. Daniel Of Virginia was selected
as Temporary Chairman, defeating the
gold bug candidate, Senator David B. Hill
Of New York.
Senator Stephen NJ. White Of California
was subsequently, chosen Permanent
Chairman Of the Convention. Wednesday
and Thursday were taken up by the Com
mittees on Credentials and Platform and
Resolutions in preparing their reports,
and it was late Thursday night before the
names of Presidential candidates were
presented in that body. The balloting
began yesterday and the names of four.
teen gentlemen we're placed in nomination.
On the fifth ballot Bryan OF Nebraska was
nominated.
The Nevada delegation voted solidly
for Bryan.
The nomination of Mr.. Bryan was re-
ceived in Eureka with the greatest sat-
isfaction.
THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE,
William Jennings Bryan, was born in
Salem, Marion county, Illinois, March 10.
1860, and attended the public schools un-
til Is years Of age, spending his vacations
on the farm. In the fall OF 1875 he en-
tered Whipple Academy at Jacksonville,
Illinois, and Illinois College, in the same
place, In 1877. He completed q classical
course and graduated with highest honors
in 1881; attended Union College Of Law,
Chicago. for two years, during which time
he was connected with the Office of ex-Sen-
ator Lyman Trumbull. Mr.. Bryan began
the practice Of his profession in Jackson
vile, but removed to Lincoln, Nebraska.
October l, 1887, and became q member OF
the firm of Talbot * Bryan. He never
held an elective Office prior to his election
TO Congress; was elected to the Fifty,
second Congress as q Democrat, receiving
32,376 votes, against Is, 1893 votes for
William ]. Connel, Republican.
In politics Bryan has always been a
Democrat, but he is a great ~favorite with
the Populists.
II FINANCIAL PLANK.
The platform adopted indicates that it
was drawn with great care and mature de-
liberation; it is also terse, vigorous and
concise. Especially is this the case with
the financial portion Of il, which reads as
follows:
Recognizing that the money question Is
invite attention to the fact that the Federal
Constitution names gold and silver to-
getber ss money metals of the United
States, and that the first coinage law
passed by Congress under the Constitution
made the silver dollar the unit Of value
and admitted gold to free coinage at 9 ratio
measured by the silver dollar unit. We
declare the Act OF 1873, demonetizing
silver without the knowledge or approval
Of the American people, has resulted in
the appreciation of gold and a correspond
ing fall in prices of commodities pro-
duced by the people. The heavy increase
10 the burden OF taxation and Of all debts,
public and private, the enrichment Of the
money-lending classes at home and
abroad, the paralysis Of industry and the
impoverishment OF the people. We are
unalterably opposed to a single gold stand.
ard, which has locked fast the prosperity
Of the industrious people in a paralysis Of
hard times. The gold monometallism is
a British policy, founded upon British
greed for gain and power. and its general
adoption has brought the other nations in
10 a financial servitude to London.
at is not only un.Americsn but anti
American, and it can be fastened upon the
United States only by the sitting of that
indomitable spirit and love Of liberty
which claimed our political independence
in 1776, and won it in the var Of the
Revolution.
"We demand the immediate restoration
of the free and unlimited coinage of gold
and silver at the present legal ratio Of 16
to /, without waiting for the aid or consent
Of any other nation. We demand
that a standard silver dollar shall be full
legal tender equally with gold for all debts,
public and private. and we favor such legis-
lation as will prevent the demonstration
of any kind of legal tender money by pri-
vate contract.
ave are opposed to the policy and prac'
tice Of surrendering to the holders Of OBJ
legations of the United States the option
reserved by law to the government Of re
deeming such obligations in either silver
coin or gold COIN"
CHICAGO, July 10, 10 P. M.-The con
vention adjourned till 10 O'Clock to-mor
row morning, when a Vice-President viii
be nominated.
Mr. Vim Smiley. of Deeth- Nevada