Show i ii n MID r J r F ALI T boutil 0 i 11 s a at t the H ig vu 1 I f H ye 1 i a THEY M MEAN EAN BUSINESS Dis rates consider the air 1 stion a grave one odether thur man for Uh chairman airman IS I 1 special to TUB ENQUIRER I 1 i Cu icAco aug 1 hundreds of men I 1 i began to toil up the two flights flight of stairs leading to the tha auditorium of the first methodist church at dark clark and washington I 1 I 1 I 1 streets shortly after the doors were opened at nine this morning i they were dele delegates gatea to the national convention call calad ad by ihfe american bir Metallic league forthe for the purpose of considering the tha present crisis in the silver history of the country it ha had d I 1 originally been intended to confine the gathering to delegates api appointed minted b by y i governors of states commercial industrial I 1 I 1 and other associations but a few days ago it was decided to throw the doors wide wida open to ell all who are in favor of maintaining the money of the constitution and opposed to the establish ment of the single gold standard atan dard in the tha united states whether they were the th accredited representatives of an organ iced body or merely representative of thair own individual views the salient points of the national call under which the gathering came together and which was signed by gen A J warner and W M X barrington president and secretary ot of the league were as follows 1 the recent culmination of events of the greatest importance to the people of this country calls for wise counsel and determined action on the part of all patriotic citizens A concerted purpose is is manifest to seize upon the present I 1 opportunity to destroy silver as money I 1 and to ish i ih f brevar tile tae single gold I 1 a jandard tan dard anil ani at ai 0 to ie stroke to change chance 11 debts to gol gojii la debts with a nev never a f rise to gold and fall to prices price s A financial disturbance larzell arti I 1 fici and needless has been created as 1 I a object lesson and falsely attributed to the tha present silver law in order out of it to create a manifestation of X under cover of ef which tha the greater crimo crime of overthrow over overthrowing wing the I 1 nosey money of the constitution and establishing the single gold standard may be consummated As a part ot the same earn great conspiracy the mints of india have been closed and the shock is felt around the tha world congress Con eress has been called to meet in extra ses session on august ath it if at this session the money standard of the constitution is in overthrown and the tha gold standard is finally established estabi hed to be extended over the tha world an economic re revolution wilt will have been bean inaugurated more destructive to the welfare of malkind map kind and especially to the producing and ba boring borin clasiena clas iea than any in the history of the world TUB C it was not until fifteen minutes after eleven 7 that ex congressman I 1 warner accompanied by several of his associates ap p eared u upon on the platform plat lorm their presence bain made the occasion for a round of subdued au av tha audience to which gen warner looked down fille filled d every seat upon the ground floor while the gallery above every inch of even standing borm had been e preempted pre pro empted there wai w ia n no a boisterous enthusiasm permeations atins the convention it looked ilk like a a t tody ody of grave grava men inen assembled ase ambled to consider a graye grave subject and keenly sensible of the responsibility that attached to their de deliberations liberat eions many of them had bad bronzed faces in aal I 1 horny bands indicating long service la ii the field many others were artisans arti and mechanics others again men who haye have been singled out ont from among their fellows to represent them in the national tribune of the people widely scattered sections of tile the country were represented the national I 1 legislature had bad representatives in in the persons of senator peffer of kassa senator vance ance of north carolina senator jones of arkansas senator stuart and jones of nevada teller patterson and representative pence of Co colorado lorade Scat scattered wound around in the airout seats were brinkm kM pix pikey leyo of california edward pierrepont Pierr pont of new naw york LM ramsay of missouri john L cochran of virginia 4 11 B chamber lain isla of colors colorado do thamas H R nelson of indiana ex governors john P st john charles robinson thomas A osborne james M hardev ceorge W glick L 31 all of kansas together with F 13 johnian Joh naon nion frank chase chae W R adams and W D rio ric oey dey the entire ton ten forming formin tho the delua alon from kansas as appointed by go gov v La Lew eUing welling in the colors colorado do delegation were wera seated excenator ex Senator N jf hill ex governors GoTer nors cooper Evans Grant routt and sever al others of equal prominence tho iowa silver delegation had bad a ti estion all to it sell on the tha left main aisle the knights knight s of labor was represented by three olits prominent members S E Ogden Capt D M and ed lindbloom state representative tentative H E Tau benack chairman of the national peoples party darty satin bit in the body ol of the hall and with him neary nearly every member of the I 1 tive cit committee of that ganv of 1 te 1 1 e general national nation a comm committee atee from the south and west gen warner called the convention to order and secretary barring on read the call tor for the gathering atter after this gen warner delivered an address in i D which he said that decided action wis was needed and that it was a time for plain talk allover all over the country alarm was manifested over oter the possibility of the tha single gold standard tan dard the silver men maa I 1 were not by any means on the defensive on the contrary they proposed to take aggressive action against chosse who are attempting to toj jike ake advantage of the conditions which they have created to force upon the country a single gold standard the financial condition is largely amounting almost to a public crime and for it the gold men should be hold held responsible at the conclusion 0 mr gainers Wai Wa nera iners addreen addreal a brief was taken for the purpose 0 of f consultation preparatory to effecting a permanent organization allen alien G thurman of ohio will be permanent chairman COL VIEWS the sentiment pr evading the conven bention cannot more strongly ly be III illustrated as than by houting the views of hon W 11 harvey a noted silver advocate and editor of the or organ an of the bimetallic lea gue ile he says this convention is ia the first gun for financial independence from beritich dictation we want the coinage laws restored as they were prior to 1873 up tip to that date we had free coinage of both zold gold and silver since then we have had free coinage of gold only anere is only about per capita of both gold and silver in the world and it will take both of them for a basis for our oar credit money money free coinage means meana an unlimited d demand and fixes the price or silver as it is now fixed on rold gold and takes this metal out of the market where it is now subject to the kicks of bulls and bears the only way to treat a money metal is to give eive it free coinage the united state can go it alone with a friendly administration at washington there are several way ways 8 that we could protect ourselves against europe elrode to try to continue on n a gold standard means more liquidation and nai national ional bankruptcy gold is ia too scare scarce a aej iia be cornered at any time by a few rich men such as the silver scatters among the people and it is not possible poz sible to ta corner it |