Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-04-20

trusts, the money trust. the industria
trust and the International land
grabbing trust.
Instead of system which would
chain our nation to the gold standard
and compel it to participate in all the
disturbances which come to European
nations, We demand an American
financial system, made by the
American people for themselves, to be
secured by the immediate restoration
of the free and unlimited coinage of
gold and silver at the present legal
ratio of sixteen to one without waiting
for the aid or consent of any other
nation.
The Republican administration has
admitted the gold standard to be
unsatisfactory by appointing q com.
missiO1 to solicit foreign aid in
restoring the double standard, and a
republican congress in making the gold
| standard permanent, has confessed
| judgement against the standard by
attempting to revive the delusive hope
of international bimetallism.
Instead OF the sy stem favored 10y the
republican party under Whlcl national
banks are permitted to- issue and
control the volume of paper money for
their own profit we reiterate our
demands for that financial system
| which recognizes the government y
sovereign right to issue all money,
whether coin or paper, and We
demand The retention of the green,
hacks as they now exist and the
retirement Of national bank notes as
rapidly as greenbacks can be substitut
cd for them.
We believe that private mOnopolies
are indefeusible and intOlerable and q
menace to our form of government,
and we condemn the national admins
tratlOn for it's failure to enforce the
present law against the trusts or to
recommend mere effective law.
We condemn the Porto Rican tariff
bill recently passed by republican
congress, Is bold and open Violation
of the natl ,n's organic law, and
f1agrant breach of good faith.
We assert that the constitution fol-
lows tie flag, aud denOunce the doc.
trine that an executive or a congress
create and limited by the constitution
can exeN;ise lawful authority beyond
that constitution or in violation of it.
Believing that a nation cannot long
endure half'republic and half empire
we oppose wars of conquest and coloni
al possessions.
We recognise the agricultural
industry as the Dasis of all general
prosperity, and We demand that
agricultural products should have an
equal chance in the markets of the
world with manufactured products.
And be it resolved, by the demo
Gratis of the 7th congressional district.
in convention assembled. that we take
this opportunity to express Cur
sympathy for the Beers who are maxi
ing such gallant fight for their
liberty and republican form of
government. against British encroach>
ments, and we 6enounce the re-
publican administration for Its
alliance with Great Britain to conquer
the brave and liberty loving Beers. aud
it's attempt to destroy struggling
republic aud turn it into colonial
possession.
According to the order of busi-
ness an informal ballot for can
didates for congress was the
next order. The names of Hon.
Claud Duval, Rev. Vernon j.
Rose, and Hon. l. P. Campbell
were presented to the convention
by their friends, and an informal
ballot was taken, resulting as
follows: Duval 1O7, Champbell
10, Rose II, Brown 5.
Upon motion, the secretary
was instructed to wait upon the
populist convention and notify
that convention of the first in
formal ballot.
A resolution was then adopted
a1thorising the appointment OF
a committee to wait upon the
populist convention and ask
that there be held a joint conven.
tion of the two conventions,
that at such joint convention
the representation in the popu
list convention be increased to {
number equaling that Of the
democratic convention, and tha
an informal ballot be taken upol
candidates for congress. Thi
lcommittee waited upon the othe
convention and upon returning
reported that the democrati
, resolution had been tabled il
the populist convention by
vote two to one.
, A recess was then taken until
p. m.