The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-10-16

( pertinent of free silver coinage by the
+ United States alone, ana only as re-
( Gently at June % q Democratic Safe
convention adopted this clear and de
I finite declaration in favor OF single
gold standard:
I we believe that the demands of a
commerce built upon the broad and en-
/ Hghtened doctrine of free trade require
4 currency that cannot be discredited
in any civilized country. Realizing the
( logical demand for the best money for
international trade, realizing also the
dangers of a fat currency in domestic
+ use, and we'll aware that the present
condition OF commercial distress calls
for the patriotic and sturdy mainte-
nance OF National honor and financial
integrity, We declare ourselves oppos-
ed to the free and unlimited coinage of
silver and in favor of gold the highest
monetary standard OF the world"
Nothing could be more explicit than
this avowal. Yet barely two months
later, on September ,, another Demo
cratic State convention met and pass
ed this surprising resolution:
I'VE, the Democrats of Wisconsin
in convention assembled, hereby ratify
and indOrse the nominations and plat
form made by the Democratic National
convention held in Chicago in July last
and pledge to the support of our stan
dard bearers, William j. Bryan and
Arthur Sewall, the entire strength and
/ integrity of the Democracy OF this
State. We declare that the interests
of the people of the United States i'm
peratively demand the restoration of
the free coinage of silver as it existed
at the time of the decentralization in
1873, and that too without waiting for
the consent of any other nation on
earth
Important leaders like Ex-Governor
Peck and National Committeeman
Wall have remained in the organiza-
ton and actively cO-operated in the
party'S recent extraordinary change of
face.
South Dakota's Democratic organiZa-
ton has been controlled for some years
past by the Federal office holding eIe-
ment in the State. It's influence was
consequently cast for sound money in
the fight for the control of the Demo-
cratic National convention. The State
convention which met on May 20 took
this view of the financial problem
1.-The Democratic party of South Da-
kota is in favor of the present stand
ard of value in our money system, and
| the use of full legal-tender silver coins
and paper, convertible into coin on de-
mand, in such quantities as can be
maintained without impairing or en-
dangering the credit of the Govern
ment, or diminishing the purchasing
or debt-paying power of the money in
the hands of the people; and it is not
in favor of the free and unlimited coin
age of silver"
But on the return of the delegation
from Chicago arrangements were made
at once to repudiate this declaration
and fuse with the Populists and the
Pettigrew Silver Republicans in sup
port of Bryan-Sewall, Bryan Watson
electoral ticket. A recent State Con-
vention effected this fusion and carried
the party definitely over to the support
of the reputation platform and nomi-
neeS.
The Minnesota Democrats have
plunged as deadlong into the mire of
the free-coinage heresy as their breth-
rem across the South Dakota border.
At a State Convention on June II last
they formally declared:
I'VE are unqualifiedly in favor of the
present gold standard of value
Yet on August the Minnesota Dem
ocracy, following the lead taken by
other States, pledged itself to a fusion
with the Populists and other miscella-
neous political elements on PRESIDENT
al electors, each faction to have prere-
sentatiOn on a mixed Bryan-Sewan,
Bryan-W Watson ticket, and enthusiast
cally Endorsed that plank in the Chi
cago platform which says:
I'VE demand the free and unlimited
of silver and gold at the present legal
ratio of Is to 1 without waiting for the
aid or consent of any other nation"
CONNECTICUT AND NETWORK