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Show THE SILVER CONVENTION. A Delegate who Prefers Queen Victoria to Grover Cleveland. Washington, May 27. The silver convention conven-tion met again this morning. Addresses yvere made by Shinn of Kansas, P. K. Thomas of Pennsylvania. The latter said ten years ago his farm was yvorth $10,000; by the labor of himself and family he has been able to save 500 a year since, but the farm continually depreciated in value. It is noyv worth only $5000. This shrinkage, he said, was due entirely to the pernicious financial system operated in the interest of BOO y lenders, corporations aud monopolies. monopo-lies. He denounced both political parties ! nnd said rather than vote for Cleveland yvith his free trade ideas he would vote for Queen Victoria for president, and rather than vote j for that hypocritical, yveak-kneed republican ' party he yvould vote for Cleveland. Merrick Mer-rick of Colorado explained the constitutional point in the case recently decided by the supreme su-preme cojurt of the District of Columbia against the application for mandamus to compel the Secretary treasury to receive coin in silver brick tendered him. Recess. |