The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-30
PRAYER FOR
THE FILIPINOS.
Ohio Democratic Convention
Opens With Petition
To the Throne of Grace For
Their Deliverance
FROM BRUTE FORCE.
Sentiment Is Greeted With
Rounds of Applause.
Bryan Men In Complete Control
of the Assemblage.
Free Coinage Given Front Place
In the Platform.
FROM BRUTE FORCE.
Men In Complete Control
of the AssembIage.
Free Coinage Given Front Place
In the Platform.

Convention Hall. GAINESVILLE, O., Aug.
30 Memorial hall was packed when
w. S. Thomas, chairman of the Demo
cratic state committee, today called the
state convention to order. Very many
were unable to gain admittance. The
decorations were elaborate. over the
stage there was a Hfe-sized portrait
of Bryan and others were placed
throughout the hall.
In the opening prayer Very Rev. l.
F. Kearney, Catholic. prayed for the
deliverance of the Filipinos from the
brute force now being inflicted upon
them The prayer was so radical and
fOrcible throughout that it brought
forth rounds of most vociferous ap-
pIause.
A J. Andrews then presented a gavel
from timber on the lands in this coun-
ty, where Thomas A. Hendricks, S. 5.
Cox. Lewis Cass and Hugh ]. Jewett
were born and reared.
Chairman w. S. Thomas accepted the
gavel and made an address on the
work of the last campaign and the
great contest that was to be waged in
the year preceding the presidential
election.
Judge w. P. Mooney, temporary chair
man of the convention was then intro
duced and received with a great ova-
tiOn.
MONEYS ADDRESS.
The temporary chairman said in
part:
There will be today no contest as to
the platform declarations which our
party shall make There is no differ
ence of opinion The Democratic party
of Ohio stands Squarely upon every
plank of the Chicago platform of 1896
We believed it then and we believe it
now.
The people who sent us here do not
believe in a double standard of Democ-
racy. In 1896. the test was. Are you
lOVaI 70 the platform p and that is the
Ohio test today.
The party in Ohio is too thoroughly
honest too completely convinced. too
desperately in earnest, to desire to be
misunderstood. The reaffirmatiOn of
the national platform does not elini-
nate and does not fail to both recog-
nize and emphasize that we demand
the free and unlimited coinage of both
gold and silver, at the ratio of 16 to
l. without waiting for the consent or
assistance of any nation on earth.
I'VE believe that the decentralization
of silver in this country in 1873. was
accomplished by fraud and crime; that
the action was taken without any de-
mand from or consent by, the people
of the United States, and we decline to
believe that blessings have flowed or
will flow from legislation so procured
and so enacted. We still distrust the
new found SOlicitude of England to pro-
mote our material welfare and we deny
the right of the British Parliament to
participate in the government of this
union, in monetary or other matters.
The leaders of the Republican party
are committed to a bank currency.
Not being able to go into partnership
with Europe on the silver question, and
recognizing their inability to cope with
the question themselves, the RepubI-
cans have resolved to appoint a re-
ceiver for the money question, and their
selection for a receiver not inappro-
priately, to be the banks of the coun-
try All honest men, however, may be
amazed at the effrontery of a party
which one moment contends that this
government is unable to sustain an
American financial policy and the next
moment asserts that the American
banks can be relied upon to formulate
and carry out a safe and proper finan-
cial policy And we are at a loss to
charged with this exercise of govern
mental power, they did not. in some
manner. demonstrate their fitness for
the trust in the money famine of 1894,