The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-01


| palo attorneys and those who believe
IN the gold standard. The followers of
grover Cleveland were there in force
| 1hey dld not conceal their identity, but
| made known to all that they were
there for the purpose of taking the
nrst step in this state towards demol-
lshlng the Kansas City platform and
installing in place and power the ad-
| Vocates Of the gold standard They sue
cceded in controlling the convention,
IN making their nominations, ana
drafting their platform, but they will
ran utterly in driving the Democratic
voters or this state into the camp of
the gold contingent in November next,
especially those who believe that the
money question is the paramount one.
we are now asked to swear allegiance
to those who sought to destroy the
| party during the last two CAMPAIGNS.
and to abandon and stamp upon the
| principles for which we fought and
struggled then. Our implacable enemies
nave become our leaders and they are
seeking to become our political mas
| ters III they succeed in their efforts,
1t Will be the fault of the Bryan Dem
ocrats of this state. Those who have
struggled in this cause had done so
not for office, but to secure better con
ditions for the people.
III tne Democratic party were right
| IN 1895 and in 1900 upon the money
| question, and that question is not set
tied, then why should that party in
| ONO abandon it in 1901? If the con-
Vention' were right during those cam
| palgns, 1t is right now. If politics is
| to be carried on for the purpose of Sc
| curing office alone, then. why bother
ABOUT great principles that involve the
wen-oeing of men? The gold standard
advocates, both Democrat and Repub-
lican, tell us that the country is in a
prosperous condition: that the idle are
employed; business is good, and the
people are contented. If this condition
prevail, then why try to push the Re-
| publican party out of place and power
Tor mas not that party furnished this
condition? These statements, however
are not true. They are made to de-
ceive the unthinking This condition
does not exist. That the people of this
| country are apparently prosperous is
true, but that prosperity is not the re-
| suit alone of the increase in the money
volume, but is largely due to the ex-
| pansion of credits in the country.
The Country Not Prosperous.
Can it be said that A country is pros
porous when the debts of the people
are constantly increasing? The in
| crease in the debts of the banks in four
| years of more than six thousand mill
| lions OF dollars is surely not an evil
dence of prosperity. Can 1t be said that
the money question is dead with these
facts staring us in the face? To my
mind these facts alone are conclusive
| proof of the fact that the people of
this country are not only not prosper
GUS, but that they are becoming hope
lessly bankrupt. Debts are not evil
| dences of prosperity; they are evidences
or adversely rather. Governments like
individuals, are on the decline finan-
cially when their debts increase. An
other evidence that tends to prove that
the people are not prosperous is fur
nished by the trusts themselves. The
| great manufacturing industries of the
country have within the past five years
combined for the purpose of preventing
a fall in the prices of the things they
manufacture and control, and in COM
bining they have increased their stock
liabilities and bonded debts
from less than four thousand millions
of dollars to over twenty thousand mil
lions of dollars. This is of course con-
elusive proof that the money question
is dead. The total debt of the people is
more than ten thousand millions of
| dollars more than the assessed value of
all their property, and more than half
they own and control. This is another
evidence that the money question is
dead. II these statements be true can
1t be said that the people are pros
porous? that the money question is
dead? And yet in the face of these
facts every gold advocate and every
plutocrat will tell you with a bland
smile that the country never enjoyed
such prosperity as it does at the pres
ent time
have made the foregoing statements
for the purpose of showing that the
contention of the gold standard men
that the country is prosperous is not
true, and that the money question is
not settled
1--WE are now in this state called up
on to say whether we shall submit TO
the dominion of the same class of peo-
pie who dominated the Democratic
party previous to 1885, or whether we
shall not, in accordance with our CON
vietions, vote for our principles and
select men who are willing to stand
or fall with us in this contest. We
may not elect our ticket, bur we will,
at least, be true to ourselves, to our
country, and to our fellowmen.
To Put Ont a state Ticket.
At meeting held during the morn
ing attended by George A. Groot. Abb
ner Davis, j. w. Lindsay, Bernard HUI
bert. Herbert Inglis and others, it was
decided that full state ticket shall be
nominated at the evening session of
the convention. A state committee will
be named and plans made for an active
campaign on behalf of the independent
movement. The platform adopted at
the Cleveland conference of July II,
and which has been circulated by mail,
was endorsed. This document reaffirms
the Kansas City platform, endorses
William j. Bryan and declares partic-
ularly for the free coinage of silver. It
also includes the following plank:
1--WE demand that all money that is
manufactured to be used in this coun-
try as a medium of exchange, wheth-
err it be gold, silver or paper, shall be
coined by the government and distrib-
uted among the people without the in
PREVENTION of banks, and that every
dollar of it shall be a legal tender for
all debts, public and private"
DIR. ReemeIin Declines the Honor.
1t is customary for conventions al
ways in Ohio to authorize their state
committees to fill vacancies, but this
was not done to-day. After Chairman
Grcot and others left tonight, DR..
Reemelin positively declined the NOM
ination for Governor and it was re-
ported that others would not accept
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