The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-27
WARNS REPUBLICANS.
A Member of the Monetary Commits
sion Tells the Party What to Do
to Be Saved.

Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 27.-It was
not expected that the monetary con-
vention would remain in session more
than two days, and this expectation
was realized 1t adjourned last night,
subject to the call of the chairman, Mr.
Hugh Hanna.
The business of the convention was
to indorse the report of the monetary
commission, which is now before con-
greSs in the form of a bill, and when
this was done it promptly adjourned.
Mr.. Bullitt, in a speech, deplOred the
position of the Democratic party on
the money question. He said he was
very much in earnest in the question of
currency reform. Both parties had
done a great deal of coquetting as to
the question of silver and gold. He ex-
pressed the belief that many southern
states had voted for free silver from
fear Of negro domination rather than
from an honest belief in the principles
of free coinage at the ratio of Is to /.
Concluding, Mr.. Bullitt said:
L should be very glad if the honora-
bic chairman of this meeting, or some
other gentleman who stands high in the
Republican councils, could give a
proper warning, which would be heard
and needed, too, that if the Republican
party proposed to themselves to perpet-
uate their power in this country they
muSt-and they must with sincerity of
purpose and earneStness of conviction
and prOmptness and diSpatch-shOW to
the people of this country that they are
gold standard and of proper currency
reform"
Rufus Bullock of Atlanta, Ca, said:
I'm those states in the south where
there is any danger of numerical
strength of the negroes, we are adopt
ing franchise based upon property
and intelligence.
when that danger has disappeared,
you Will md our people as patrlotlc, as
honest, as ready to sustain every good
issue as any people on Gods green
earth"
General Simon Buckner of Kentucky
expressed himself as pleased with the
commissions plan.
John Harsen Rhoades of New York
spoke in favor of the plan Of the COM
mission.
Other prominent speakers were VIM.
z. Dodge of New York, ex-GoV. 0. v.
Coffin of Connecticut and Judge Cra.W-'
ford of Texas.
A resolution was adopted requiring
that copies of the conventions proceed
ings be furnished to members of con-
gress.
A long resolution, prepared and sub
mitted by the executive committee and
which was enthusiastically adopted by
the convention, expressed hearty ap-
probation of the monetary commits
sions report and of the recommends
ton it embodied
The resolution recites the fact that
the eleven members of the commission
who are severaIIy named, gave to their
work without any compensation or re-
ward, except the consciousness of duty
we'll and faithfully done many months
of arduous work at great sacrifice by
each of them, in absence from home
and in valuable time needed for their
OWL serious and important duties" and
declares it to be the earnest conviction
of the convention that there has never
been in the history of our country a
body of men more truly representative
of all that is best in American life,
ASer--, \ nfCa1T1 crEa 1rEa
nor one that undertook and fulfilled a
greater task for the general welfare in
a spirit of more unselfish devotion to
our country
The resolutions and the report of the
commission were unanimously adopted
BY the convention.