Show COLORADO S1 IL VER LEAGUE A Great Mass Meeting Held in Denver FREE COINAGE ALWAYS Hon Charles Thomas Is Selected as Permanent Chairman He Declares That Wo Aro Face to Face with a CrlslsAxi Ovation Is Given to Governor Waite Who Delivers Delv ers an Address DENVER July 11The mass meeting called by President Merrick of the state silver league was held at Coliseum hall today The building was crowded with thousands of delegates from every sec tion of the state who came to see what could be done toward crystalizing sentiment senti-ment in Colorado for the establishment of free and unlimited coinage of silver There appeared to be but one feeling in nil the gathering and that was for free coinage or nothing In his address calling the meeting to order President Merrick said We ask for justice for our rights We will accept nothing less The crime of 1873 has gone on all these years unpunished We are here to demand early and speedy settlement of the silver question FolloVing his remarks a committee on organization was appointed anda motion to take a recess Ac this point some extremist ex-tremist attempted to introduce a resolution resolu-tion This created an unroar which came near terminating in a not Quiet was finally restored and the recess taken On assembling it could be seen that tho spirit which controlled the delegates at the morning session was not under con trol but only awaiting opportunity to break out again Hon Chare Thomas member of the Democratic national committee com-mittee from Colorado was made permanent perma-nent chairman In assuming the c airmanship air-manship he said We are face to face with a crisis which has had but few parallels in the history of the country so deep so broad and so far reaching that it does not involve exaggeration I ex-aggeration to predict that it means I another phase of the old question of slavery I slav-ery over again It is stagnation of business paralysis in commerce This stagnation Mr Thomas went on to show was from the failure to restore silver to its legitimate ratio of 16 to 1 At the conclusion of Mr Thomas remarks re-marks there was a call for Governor Waite The echo was taken up in a mighty shout from one thousand lungs which was carried to the galleries whereas where-as many more joined in the demonstration demonstra-tion As the old gray haired governor started down the aisle to the platform the scene presented is beyond the pens description descrip-tion Men whose future depended on the cause for which they were lighting stood in their seats and yelled until exhausted The executive who comes from Aspen one of the leading silver mining camps in the state confined his remarks to the question of silver and its demonetization and to those in the east and Europe who were not only tho ruin of the west but the entire country by forcing snch u policy and concluded by saying 4 I the money powers stall attempt to sustain its usurpation by a strong hand we will meet that issue when it is forced I upon us for it is infinitely better that I blood should flow to the horses bridles rather than our national liberties be destroyed de-stroyed I itis true that the United States is unaole to carry out its governmental policy without the dictation or consent of foreign powers i we are the province of European monarchies then we need another revolution another appeal ap-peal to arms and we have won that battle I war is forced upon us we will send to Halifax far greater army of British tore according to our population than our forefathers fore-fathers sent there after the revolutionary revolutonarv war had begun It is the same war which must always be waged against op presion and tyranny to preserve the liberties lib-erties of man The address created a sensation and n scene of great confusion followed the applause being deafening Judge Kerr of Pueblo got the floor and spoke in the same inflammatory vein as Governor Waite He endorsed the recent revolutionary revolution-ary telegrams sent east in which it was declared that i the war upon silver ver continued it would result in the west repudiating all obligations that 150000 men would be paupers and 500000 people be on the verge of starvation and a revolution would be the final result It was then moved that the convention endorse the remarks of Governor Waite and the motion was carried amid the greatest enthusiasm The convention adjourned till tomorrow when the committee com-mittee on resolutions will report |