The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-07-13
FREE COINAGE OF SILVER.


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FREE COINAGE OF SILVER.
ave affirm and endorse the princi-
pies Of the national Democratic plat
form adopted in Chicago in 1896, and
we reiterate the demand OF that plat
form for an American financial system,
made by American people for them
selves, which shall restore and main
tain a bimetallic price level and as
part Of such system the restoration Of
the free and unlimited coinage Of sill
yer and gold at the present legal ratio
of is to l, without waiting for the aid
or consent of any other nation.
"We denounce the currency bill en-
acted in the last session of congress as
a step forward in the Republican pol
icy, which aims to disoredit the SOW
ereign right of the national govern
ment to issue all money, whether coin
or paper, and TO bestow upon national
banks the power to issue and control
the volume of paper money for their
own benefit. We are opposed to this
private corporation paper circulated as
money, but without legal tender quail
tiles, and demand the retirement Of
the national bank notes as fast as gov
ernmentpaper or silver certificates can
be substituted for them.
eve favor an amendment to the
federal constitution providing for the
election of United States senators by
direct vote Of the people, and we favor
direct legislation wherever practicable.
''We are opposed to government by
injunction. We denounce the black
list and favor arbitration as a means Of
settling disputes between corporations
and their employees.
''IH the interest of American labor
and the uplifting of the workingman
as the cornerstone of the prosperity Of
our country, we recommend that con-
gross create a department of labor.
"We are proud of the courage and
fidelity of the American soldiers and
sailors in all our wars; we favor liberal
pensions to them and their Deepen
dents, and we reiterate the position
taken in the Chicago platform in 1896,
that the fact Of enlistment and service
shall be deemed conclusive evidence
against disease and disability before
enlistment.
"We favor the immediate construc-
ton, oFnership and control of the
Nicaragua canal by the United States,
and we denounce the insincerity of the
plank in the national republican plat
form for an isthmian canal, in the face
of the failure of the Republican ma
jority to pass the bill pending in con-
gress. We condemn the Hay-Paunce-
J fote treaty as a surrender of American
rights and interests not to be tolerated
by the American people
"We denounce the failure of the
Republican party to carry out its
pledges, to grant statehoods to the ter
: ritories Of Arizona, New Mexico and
} Oklahoma, and we promise the people
} of those territories immediate state
5 hood and home rule during their con-
= dition as territories, and we favor
Q home rule and territorial form of gov
= eminent for Alaska and Porto Rico.
: owe favor the continuance and
= strict enforcement of the Chinese ex-
e clusion law and its application to the
same classes of all Asiatic races.
: SYMPATHY FOR BoERs
!. believing in the principles of self
government and rejecting, as did oul
8 forefathers, the claim of monarchy, W,
# view with indignation the purpose 0
England to overwhelm with force tn
South African republics. Speaking, q
we do, for the entire American nation
except its Republican Office holders
y and for all free men everywhere, W
Il extend our sympathies to the heroi
t, burghers in their unequal struggle t.
l. maintain their liberty and independ
It ence.
IS "We denounce the lavish appropri
70 atoms of recent Republican con
If crosses, which have kept taxes hig
and which threaten the perpetuatio
" of oppressive war levies. We oppos
!, the accumulation of surplus to b
D. squandered in such barefaced fraud
rs upon the tax payers as the shippin
ID subsidy bill, which, under the falls
4. pretence of prospering American ship
b. building would put unearned million
to into the pockets of favorite contribu
a. tors to the Republican campaign funC
s. We favor the reduction and speedy n
r peal of the war taxes and return
Id the time-honored Democratic policy {
le strict economy in governmental e,
te penditures.
he BELIEVING that our most cherishe
IL institutions are in great peril, that tI