Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-06-11
FRED j. DUBOIS.

FRED j. DUBOIS.
ia, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey,
New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah,
Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming and
West Virginia.
Oklahoma was the territory repre-
sented, and Alexander Del Mar, the
noted English financial writer, came all
the way from London to cheer on the
white metal cause.
There was a sprinkling of populists
in the assembly.
Over 300 delegates and advocates of
the white metal greeted the provisional
chairman.
Without any ceremony he introduced
the business of the hour.
Chairman Towne's Address.
Chairman Towne, in calling the COM
mittee to order, after congratulating
the members upon the good showing
made, and upon the support of the wom-
ans organization of which delegation
was present, referred briefly to the cir
cumstances attending the motives in
stigating the inception of the move
ment, and spoke of the organization of
the provisional national committee at
the suggestion of the republican sena-
tors and congressman. Continuing, he
said:
Motives of the Movement.
"Our motives were these: We desired
above all things else of immediate political
concern the speedy reestablishment in the
United States of true bimetallism; the
same privilege of free coinage at the mint
for both gold and silver, and absolute
when coined, with the option to every
payer, whether the government or an in
dividual, to choose what coin shall be the
basis Of payment In every instance. We
wished to do all in our power to advance
this happy contamination. And we real
ize that If this great cause Is to Sue
coed in the election of 1900 1t can do so
only through the addition to the allied
armies of 100000 that followed the ban
ner of the Joint standard in 1896 of at
least some hundreds Of thousands of the
republicans of that contest.
I'VE have other plans, or may have, and
we believe in other things also; but the
restoration Of silver as basic or primary
money along with gold is the first and
engrossing object Of our activities and
shall remain so until the crescent of prom
Use shall have rounded into the full orb
Of success.
All Si1verites Welcome.
1.-The general method Of our procedure
will be that demanded by the depths Of
our convictions and the dominant impor-
lance Of the issue that has moved US. With
us the cause Is everything. Men and par
ties sink into relative inconsequence. All
armies marching to invest the citadel of
the gold standard are our allies, all their
soldiers our comrades. We will Loyalty
and .irelessly cooperate with all other
organized forces Of bimetallsm that hon
estly profess The faith and resolutely and
undeviatingly kept. Harmony is Of vital
concern to the success .. the cause, and
nothing but consideration of rs welfare
shall limit the burdens we will gladly bear
or the sacrifices we will eagerly make to
advance it. But the sincerity we offer we
shall also require. Our allegiance Is to the
cause alone, and we should as readily
abandon an ally who would imperil the
lican when 1t was false to its duties. Our
allies must recognize that the present crit
ical situation i'll American politics sig
nalizes the interaction of forces preparing
realignment of parties. Old things are
being done away and all things are becom-
Ing new. Let the dead past bury its dead.
Regret for the necessary sundering of ac-
customed ties must be swallowed up in the
satisfaction of forming new ones that shall
link US to the duties of the future rather
ludll W VIC VI tUe past.
Other QuestiOnsAy Awaiting Settlement.
1T would be useless to deny that social
and Industrial evolution is shaping for
political treatment other questions that
will successfully rpep for settlement after
the monetary reformation shall have been
accomplished. and that the underlying
principles on which their wise settlement
depends are such as naturally to place their
achievement in the same hands Many
Of these have been long advocated by the
great advance guard. the populist party,
and some of the most urgent ones are more
| and more commencing themselves to the
| reason and sympathies of men. Is 1t too
| much 10 expect, or is 1t injudicious In me
to express the hope that silver democrats.
populists and silver republicans may by
1900 be welded into one strong and serv-
tceable instrument in the hands of Provi-
dence for the political regeneration of the
country and the beginning or reforms. re.
storing the spirit of the constitution and
contributing to the advancement and hap
piness of mankind?"
In conclusion he said the Immediate
| business in hand was the determination OF
| the time and place for holding national
| convention the membership of which could
principles The discussion and adoption
| of plan of general organiza ton In the
| states and territories would follow.
| After the close Of the chairman s adj,
dress j. B. Manager, of West Virginia
was chosen secretary of the conference
| kilograms of regret were read from
| Senator Frank j. Cannon, of Utah, anc
| Gen. Warner. A feature of the opening
| session was.the. visit of delegation o,
women representing the Woman's Bi
metallic union and headed by Mrs. Til
linghast, of Cleveland.
~ RESOLUTIONS.
Later in the day the following resolu
tons were adopted:
Resolved, That the silver republican
| party of the United States fayors the i'm
mediate establishment of bimetallism b,
| independent action of the United States
through free coinage OF both silver ant
| gold at the ratio of sixteen to one, and cloth