The record-union., 1897-06-30
The convention will assemble at 10

AliC COiiNeIHllOn Will aSSSIlDle DIT ~
a. m. tomorrow.
COLUMBUS (O), June 29-At the
meeting of the committees tonight it
was decided to make the temporary or
ean1zation permanent, so as to proceed
with business without delay. Hon.
Uric Stone will preside during the day
and Colonel Taylor win be Secretary.
The Committee on Credentials decided
all the contests in favor of the Mclean
delegates.
The new State Central Committee
was organized by the Mclean men.
Daniel McConnville was reelected
Chairman of the State Executive Com
mittee by vote of 20 to 1, which indi-
Gated the strength Of the Mclean dele
gates on all the committees.
The Committee on Resolutions was
organized with General A j. Warner
as Chairman. The following sub-com-
mlttee was appointed to draft a plat
form:
A. J. Warner, f. B. Finley, Allen o.
Meyers, George Moore, w T. Hook
ney. The committee reported its work
to the full committee. and after dis
cussing the resolutions till after mid
night they We're adopted.
The resolutions in part are as fol-
lows:
The Democrats of Ohio, in conven-
ton assembled, reaffirm and indorse
the declaration of principles contained
in the platform adopted by the DEM
ocratic party in the national conven-
ton at Chicago in 1896, which plat
form declares the money question para
tn all of fIcy@r,
We declare that the Act of 1873,
demonetizing silver without the knowl
edge or approval of the American peo-
Pile has resulted in the appreciation of
gold and corresponding fall in the
price Of commodities produced by the
people; a heavy increase in the burden
of taxation and of all debts, public and
private; the enrichment of the money
lending class at home and abroad; the
prostration of industry and impover-
ishment of the people.
We are unalterably opposed to mono
metallism, which has locked fast the
prosperity of an industrial people in the
paralysis of hard times. Gold mono
metallism is a British policy, and its
adoption has brought other nations into
financial servitude to London. 1t is
not only un-American, but anti-Ameri-
can, and it can be fastened on the
United States only by the sitting of
that spirit and love of liberty which
proclaimed our political independence
in 1116 and won the war of the Revolu-
ton. We demand the free and unlim-
tied coinage of both silver and gold at
the present legal ratio of 16 to / with
out waiting for the action or consent
of any other nation. We demand that
the standard silver dollar shall be a
full legal tender equally with gold for
all debts, public and private, and we
favor such legislation as will prevent
in the future the demonetization of
any kind of legal tender money by pri-
vate contract
We are opposed to the policy and
practice of surrendering to the holders
of obligations of the United States the
option reserved by law to the Gov
ernment of redeeming such obligations
in either silver coin or gold coin.
We are opposed to the issuing of in
terest bearing bonds of the United
Eat ss In time of peace, and condemn
the trafficking with banking syndicates,
which in exchange for bonds and at an
enormous profit to themselves supply
the Federal Treasury with gold to
maintain the policy of gold monomet-
allism.
Congress alone has the power to coin
and issue money, and President Jack
son declared that this power could not
be relegated to corporations or individ-
uals. We, therefore denounce the is
suance of notes intended to circulate
as money by national banks as in de-
rogation of the Constitution, and we
demand that all the paper which is
made a legal tender for public and
private debts, or which is receivable
for duties to the United States shall
be issued by the Government of the
United States and shall be redeemable
in coin.