Show THE PLATFORM PLEDGE in the midst of all this excitement ment on oil the silver question let us pause to read the platform of the democratic party adopted at the chicago convention ii ID says upon this subject we denounce the republican legislation known as the S herman act of 1890 as a cowardly makeshift fraught 0 with possibilities ties of danger in the future which should make all of its supporters as well as its author anxious for its speedy repeal we hold to the use of both th golland gold and silver as the s standard money of the country and to the use of both 10 gold old and silver without discriminating 0 against either metal or ch charge ar r for mintage but the dollar url enof it T tg cl C J lw t 0 ir equal intrinsic and exchangeable e value or be adjusted inter international agreement or by such safeguards or of le legislation isolation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the equia power of every dollar it at all times in the markets and in the payments of debt and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par with and rede redeemable emble in such coin coin |