The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-02

lincoln. Neb.. Sept. THE trinarti+a
a'l4liee OF the Nebraska free silver
forces was given good headway today
by three large conventions. held re-
| specAYeiy by the Democratic, PopulisaS
and Free Silver Republicans. Tbese.
gatherings, conducted under sepa7ata
organizations. acted in perfect har-
HloIly' and Wlhan routine work had been
disposed of, the representatives of the
united parties gave their attention IN
addresses by leading free silver adyo-
Gate9- The nomination Of a fusion
state ticket seems assured.
During the morning the Democratic
| state central committee agreed rpon. g.
| A, SchalIenberger of Alma, for temunr-
/ airy chairman, Jhe silver Republicans
! selected r. F. LOOnlfs of Omaha for
| the same position, and the PoDuIjet
state central committee decided TO leave
| lne election of temporary chairman
| to the convention.
| Inc three conventions were called to
| order a. O'clock this afternoon. the
| Po9uitstS meeting in the Lansing
| thsatre. the Democrats in the Public
| hall, and the Silver Republicans in the
| I. M. G. a. auditorium. Had there
been a hall in the city large enough to.
! accommodate the crowd. the three con-
| venuons would have been merged into
| one.
! ENTHUSIASTIC DEMOCRATS.
| The Democratic convention was prob
/ ably tine most enthusiastic of the three
The hall was filed to its utmost ca
Pdc1ty- The feature of the opening was
! the declaration of the state chairman.
! DahernCn, relative to the terms of
fusion. He said
! I'VE want the Popuhsts to understand
! that the Democrats demand their share
of the fruits of fusion We have con-
! eeded THE bgglk of the offices TO the
! POpuESts, but we think we have
| right 30 the supreme judgsshiD, and
\ when this convention appoints It's con-
/ ference committee and adjoUrns for TIE
/ AFTERNOON, L insist on every delegate
{ working With the POpulist brethren and
! urging upon them the necessity Of
| granting us this Office"
! BY these remarks il is apparent that
/ Mr.. Dahlnlan ANTICIPATED some dtfn-
! cJIltCr in effeC6ing a fusion that would
| be satisfactory to his patty, but mig
I fears did not appear to be generally
| shared.
Temporary Chairman ShaIIenberger
made a lengthy speech. He asserted
! that ttla mission Of the Democratic
party is to combat the doctrines Of
protection and the gold standard. and
{ corltinued:
For the past ten years the cld-time
! leaders of the Democratic party in this
/ state have so led the party away from
/ the principles and teachings of the great
! founders of Democracy and converted the
4 name TITO a synonym for organized greed
/ of Office and into q bureau Tor the dis
/ tribution OF federal patronage and nave
I delivered the rank and file either into
I other political parties or compelled them
{ to withhold themselves entirely from the
councils of their own party. 1 nave been
I challenged to state any fundamental
! principle of the Democratic party that IS
/ a living issue today. In answer 70 that
I Will saw that u years ago there were
born TWO WhelpS of the Republican party,
I while that party was overwhelmingly IN
/ power. the high protective tariff and the
| gold standard. So long as they snail
| exist upon the statute books Of our cOun-
! try it shall be the mission of the Demo-
! cratic party to STAY them both what IS
| the position of our opponents, the Re
! publican party upon this great question?
! What defense do they Offer What
answer can they make to our petitions
! for relief? Not that it is right; not that
| it is Just; for today they have dis
/ tinGllfshed citizens of our country in
( foreign lands, kneeling humbly at the
proud England. asking for the privilege
/ of removing the evil that they themselves
/ have fastened upon US. We are told by
our opponents that the advance IN the
price of farm products. with the pros
| perity that has come in its train. rings
/ the death knel of the cause of silver in
I America but [ want to tell you that
the fact that whatever measures of pros
[ neritv we have VIII come from the in
{ creased price in the products of the farm
claims made by the advocates OF BIZ
metallism- We are in favor Of a 30 cent
dollar. If q 80 cent dollar means any
! thing it means a dollar with One-hdlf of
civ q certain other dol
lar The doubling in price of every
buShel of wheat in America means that
every dollar, SO far as wheat is con-
cerned has become a so cent dollar and
that the Republican party is rejoicing
with the rest of the country over the
fall in the value OF the dollar and the
rise in value of the farmers products.
/ ''Rimetallists are advocates of high
| prices. The gold standard carried to its
most distinguished supporters means a
dollar of the greatest purchasing power
and consequently the lowest possible
prices for the products Of labor.
The PoDuHst convention was char
acterized by confusion as the delegates
| insisted on cheering for their party and
| their leaders Temporary Chairman
/ Howers made a short speech, in which
he urged harmonious action by the al
he'd parties, and coungelled q spirit of
! Cancellation ON the part of the PoDu-
| lists
The silver Republican convention ex-
fibited very little spirit in exllausing
their lung power, and there were empty
seats throughout the hall Temporary
Chairman Il w Loornis made a, short
speech, urging the forces to keen to-
! ge,ther and ioin hands in cooperating
with the other two parties in the con-
vention-
The three conventions then appointed
their committees and tookta recess.
BRYAN SPEAKS
At d o'clock the delegates gathered
in the shate house and listened TO a
I number of addresses by William J.
Bryan Congressman Charles a
ToWne, and General Weaver and others.
Mr. Bryan said in substance:
THE Democrats, PopulistS and silver
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