The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-29

the Wrapper, and Though There Is
Prize In Each Package, That Makes n.
Difference; So Long There is a Future
to Dread They Turn to It With Tearfu
FearfuIness, Dreading the Day When
Wheat, Now Estranged, Shall BE Re
conciled tn Silver
Worcester, Mass, Sept. 2S.-The Mas.
saciusetts Democratic state convention
assembled in this city today to nominate
candidates for the various state offices
from the governorship down, TO be filed
at the election in November. A motion
THAT the Democratic party OF Massa-
chusetts indorses the platform adopted
al the last national convention of the
party held at Chicago and will welcome
u its ranks all supporters Of that plat
form and will have no political fellow
ship with those who do not support it,
vas passed unanimously.
The platform, which is a lengthy docu-
ment, opens with reaffirming Of alleg-
lance to me principles enunciated by
the Democratic national convention at
Chicago in 1896, and expresses appreci2-
ton Of the campaign Waged by Mr..
Bryan. 1t says:
Whether ii is judicious 10 abandon
half OF the money in the world, is the
supreme question. The demonetizatioa
Of silver, begun in 1873 with little or no
thought in Europe and America, has
the disastrous depression Of the last
twenty years, not uniform, but with ups
and downs, each level being lower than
the last. Gold has appreciated in pur-
chasing power more than 8 per cent
year, demoraliZing the producing classes
with paralysis Of trade through falling
prices and causing cruel unemployment
Of labor and reduction of the wage fund.
The destruction OF silver money already
in process viii, if completed, nave doub-
led the demand for gold, its price and
lis purchasing power, while all other
prices viii have suffered an enormous
decrease, with burden of debts doubled,
debtors bankrupted and vast shrae Of
the worlds wealth transferred from
debtors 10 creditors by the malignant
magic OF an approaching standard of
value.
1.-THE Democratic party opposes the at
tempt TO fasten on the country gold
nlonometallism and demands the re-
monetization of silver az the ratio to
gold Of 16 to l.
The demand for silver would be SO
enormous and the demand 70 gold so re-
lnnal hot no ,r.-a
main al parity, and the paralyZing bat
tie OF the standards cease and the world
enter upon a period Of assured pros
perity.
Just now a shortage OF the worlds
crops, eliminating in widespread and
easily Asiatic famine, has raised prices
for our products. These abnormal con-
diti0ns have largely eliminated the
competition Of silver-using countries
But recurrence of good crops will re-
new the fierce competition of these
countries, which will again underbid
the American farmer and reduce the
worlds prices of agricultural products.
While Republicans may place their
reliance upon temporary distress abroad, |
Democrats demand such just and broad |
basis OF standard money as will main |
tain a stable standard Of value and |
stable prices. with steady employment /!
of labor and capital
The sreenbacks issued by the govern |
meni have proved the country's best pa
per money and should not be cancelled. /
There can be no privilege more danger |
Gus than the control of our currency |
supply by private bankers and we /
stoutly oppose their attempt to strength |
en- such a monopoly by the substitution |
or bank notes for our national notes"
In a subsequent plank of the platform |
is passed upon govern
ment by injunction" This plank says:
The country has seen with indigna-
ton the logical result of this judicial
tyranny, which, after an unequal strus-
gle lasting nine weeks, conducted with
self-control and long suffer-
ing by thousands of starving miners ap-
pealing in free land for a living wage.
men unarmed and in peaceable process
sion are shot down on the public high
way. Let the people remember this
at Lattimer and resolve that
government by Injunction shall not be
tolerated, and that American liberty
shall no: perish"
The platform also characterizes the
Dingley tariff as "a measure enacted on
the impeTiOus demands OF the corpora
ions which contributed to the scandal
9us Republican campaign fund