Show THE METALLIC St-METALLIC METALLIC SI-METALLIC LEAGUE LEAGUE Meeting of cC lending Silver Men en at lt Wash ington uton The BI- BI BI Bt League Lazo met at Washington on the 2nd General Warner the president ent In I ills hIs opening address stated the aim attn of the thel l league ae to t be the tho securing of 01 legislation for forthe forthe the tho free treo and unlimited coin coinage ago of silver Ilver This question ho lie said aad was waa the most Important taut tant tnt one ono now before the American people or before ti the civilized worl world It It over shadowed over d the tho tent tariff question which in isis his 11 opinion was WI but a result of the restricted restrIct coinage of silver Ilver and it was wa really rely at lt the bottom of the Irish question It I was wa also at the tho bottom of the labor question queston and was wai Wa responsible for the condition of the tho laboring men He lIe urged the tho league leage to t fight not only against the repeal repel of the e Sherman act but to t labor labor until silver was wn put on a 4 parity with wit gold The two t o political parties partes during the campaign denied that the tho silver siver question queston was wa an Issue Isue but as soon lon as 1 the election electon was as over it was wa the only issue that the he president elect had bad given serious consideration to Atthe evening session speeches were delivered de dc- de livered by Colonel Colonel A. A C. C Shinn of 01 Kansas Kansa Mardon Butler of South Sout Carolina Representatives Bland Band and Hatch of Missouri and Chief Justice Huston of Idaho Idabo Mr r. r A. A C. C Fisk of 01 Denver and Senator of Nevada delivered the tho principal speeches of the convention Thursday Mr Jr risks risk's address was a very able argument argent in favor of free tree coinage Senator Jones Jones' Jone speech was exceedingly able and was 8 conspicuously m moderate moderate- derat in tone tone There was wn also a notable absence of that intense intense in in- tense bitterness which characterized some somo of tho the speeches both bOUl ThO and Friday The senator told x Df f the work of the International conference Before the to conference began ho bo hown was wn to a degree opposed to t it It He ne that hat this tbt government should do Its It own thinkIng thinking think think- Ing ing and Ind should also regulate Its It own monetary monetary mone mone- mone tary nod and other affairs affair and In addition additon to t this bo 10 was as not at all 11 sanguine as n to the tle result result Jut Bat he be was wa thoroughly convinced t that at the conference had bad done a I great geat work for tor silver siver en the session beran an there them was the strone est opposition to t tb the tho expressed expressed expressed- P purposes of f ho tho i conference especially on the part of Great Britain but that tat determined opposition lad had ba been In ID a measure succeeded by a I feeling m much ch more moro favorable t to b el silver vcr Since the conference adjourned he be had bad re- re re elved letters from Mr lIr Balfour and other nt leaders In England which showed that bat the ibo conference hid bad hA set the naton nations to t thinking upon this subject and the feeling In lu tavor avor of silver was WM surely becoming widespread siver more The Thu senator was wa much encouraged by the outlook and there tere Is not the th least leat doubt th that t his ils speech was wa much of a surprise to t many ol of the te d legates delegates They were no not t l prepared r pared to t hear icar from so ao able ablo and strong stong I a Senator Jones of such unqualified Indorsement In- In tit f the be International agreement pr t His speech listened to with the f t s W. W Jt f N X r. ol 11 ui ui MJ v. v rj He Te said ald that tat 16 10 per cent population of ff London was va living upon charity and yet the English commissioners loner asked the United States Stats delegates to agree in their estimation of the te value of silver and adopt tho the policy that tat brought about this wretched condition The proposition now before congress to t Issue more bonds he be sald wasa a deceptive trick trIck It I meant simply that at the banks wanted to toI control the te circulating medium of 01 the coun coun- try I R. R R E E. E Kolb Kob candidate of the Populists for iorI forI I governor of Alabama In the el election In a short address indorsed the te alma aims ama of the convention Henry Jones of Atlanta Atlanta Georgia Georgia declared that the president elect had ha a a larger following follow follow- ing log In this congress than he be would have In Inthe Inthe inthe the next General Field of Georgia Georgia candidate for Vice president on the Peoples People's party ticket spoke sC severely criticising th tb the president elect for trying to t defeat the election of candidates before the various state legislatures who represented represented represented rep rep- resented the wishes of the people on the te silver Ilver question were adopted denouncing the attempt to t repeal the law lw of 1800 1890 and the Issue of new bonds and demanding the free tree and unlimited coinage of silver siver At the opening of Fridays Friday's session speeches rere vere Tere made mae by T. T H. H l. l of Nebraska and Mr Dean of New York York Representative Lafe Lae Pence Penco of Colorado made mae a speech The state stat of Colorado ho said was wn for free silver at all al times but It was wasa vs a mistake to t suppose that the mining interests interests inter inter- ests of the state stat were were more important than the tho agricultural The Tho agricultural products product of were more moro in 1802 1893 than both silver all sil al- al ver Tc and gold old It I Ims was ms therefore apparent that Colorado had bad no selfish h motive in its It advocacy advocacy ad ad- of free freo silver alver Ho Ue would ask ak nothing of 01 President elect el Cle Cleveland nd and expected nothing but would oppose and denounce him whenever an opportunity presented Itself Itel Old Od party lines Unes were being rapidly wiped out out We Wo did not forget in II June he ho said sid what WAS 1 taught us in May and we wo carried it I in our memories until November when the ballot ballot ballot bal bal- lot created if In American politics tic Lie contrasted General Weaver In la his hi campaign campaign campaign cam cam- with wih Fremont and said that four years yean hence bence ho he would be the A Abraham braham Lincoln of the American people He held beld that the most encouraging signs for tor or the tho success of the tho Populist party was fa the tho selection of Judge Gresham to be bo Cleveland's secretary of 01 state This ThU gentleman genteman he lie said eight years ago was postmaster general and secretary of tho the treasury under a Republican President President Four years year ago ao he bc W was pl placed ced in nomination as 1 a candidate t for President in inthe inthe the national Republican convention to t run rn against Cleveland Only eight months a ago o ohe he was wa supposed to be in sympathy with wih the tho to toOma Omaha Oma convention and four months ago ao he be voted Toted for tor Mr lr Cleveland nd A resolution was va unanimously adopted providing providing pro pro- pr viding for the tho to appointment of a committee to Invite tho the attention of every labor and industrial indus Indus trial organization in the United States and to Invite such organizations to t send end delegates to t the tho to future meetings of tho the association General Warner was wa elected re-elected president j for the tho ensuing year The time and place for I holding the te next annual meeting was wa left to tote the te discretion of the te executive committee The Tho league leage then adjourned sine alno die die I |