Show SILVER convention contention salt lake city had her holiday at tire on OD for the 1311 allver ver convention fronk from the head of f east tom temple ale street to 10 isis foot in the business bubines a least and OU on all the tag MISS streets in the same ame section edtion eo tion buildings are gaily decorated in the national colors after the be procession on wednesday the dt delegates legates convened ii i the tabernacle the band rendered a lively selection and at 1220 governal Go vernoi vernol Rio karda callej the conference to ox 01 der del governor vernor west week bore bere de deliver livert d j happy beoh of wel welcon coude lOi saying that all local condition wera were favorable tavo rable to the silver liver sentiment iu in this territory governor Alo Alok karda artia here bore introduced ex govermor prince of now new mexico an aa that bat prince of good follows fl low that gentleman responded ed heartily on be halt half of the outside delegates delegate to the speeches of welcome by governor west and mayor barkin bakin hon HOD thomas G merrill Merrl lJ of mon tans tana father of the conference wae unanimously chosen temporary chmil chaix man and hon henry W laugenour of california was maue temporary eo rotary in a similar manner A committee of three 0 OB a credentials was appointed as followay lol fol lowe lowa hon H P F bartine Bart ioe nevada senator clark wyoming and captain john plummer idaho A committee on permanent organ leation and order of business was named as fol folloni follo lowi wt E B light colorado J 0 young oregon hilp Nev nevada ads R C U T J ajunie tJ unie california george V 1 bryan idaho governor prince now new mexico B C kingsbury washing too ton W M bigford montana F w mondell wyoming at the conference took a recess until to meet in the joint city and county building the following report from the committee on credentials was wag reported unanimously hon thomas G merrill temporary Tempora rr chairman sir the committee on credentials beg bee leave to report that they find the follow ing named gentlemen to be entitled to heats eats and VOLOS voies la in the silver conference called by hon J E R Bick ards governor of montana to be held at salt lake city utah may 16 15 1895 viz california hon thomas J clunie hon henry longenour Lange nour and hon A L I 1 holt colorado hon alva adams IF B light esq and hon bon john F Slin froth idaho idabo G V bryant J W plummer W E borah and joseph hutchinson montana hon th thomas 0 m as Q G merrill hon F E sergeant an and d hon walter waller P bickford nevada H F bartine sol hilp and B F leete now new mexico governor L B prince hon antonio joseph and judge hewitt oregon hon P nHon JC ic young and sydney dell washington hon patrick henra winston B C kingsbury and nelson bennett wyoming hon C D dark clark hon F E warren PM foote fooie proxy and hon F W mondell utah B R 0 chambers hon C C goodwin and john seamen the following named gentlemen being duly accredited altern alternates ateo we recommend that they be given seats in the conference the question of their right to be determined by the conference itself idaho W watt and john myers washington J J brown W TT plummer CW C W bushnell and wm W M welch montana F P sterling robert smith and george haldorn the report of the committee on per m nent organization and acid order of bue bua iea wf was next leo elved it was wag as follows ol lowe 1 that the officers aers of the conference be a president two vice presidents a secretary and an assistant secretary and we further recommend the election of the lol lowing president hon david thompson of oregon vice presidents hon T J clunie of california and hon alva adams of colorado colorado secretary H W longenour Lange nour of ca california if orals assistant secretary joseph H hutchinson Huto hinson ot of idaho I 1 the conference will meet each day at a m and take a recess from 1230 to 2 p in unless otherwise ordered 8 the business meetings meeting shall be held in the anteroom ante auto room of the city council chamber and only members of the conference shall hall attend such meetings except by special invitation from time to time 4 when a definite plan for an edu educational aa campaign or other work shall hall have been adopted an organization shall ahall be perfected lor for carrying the same ame into execution 5 the delegates from each of the states mates and territories to lo which the call was extended shall have power to fill the vacancies vaoa noiea in its membership and each of such states and territories shall be entitled to three votes in the conference 6 the evening meeting of the conference shall be open to the public in executive session the following committees were appointed calif california ornia general J T chunie colorado J F idaho colonel 0 V bryan montana judge bickford Bio kford nevada H F bartine new mexico governor prince washington P H winston wyoming F W mondell utah C C goodwin later a committee consisting of bartice Bartl ce goodwin and dell was appointed to draft the address and report it to the full committee california H W colorado E B light idaho J W plummer Plu moier montana C 0 merrill merrall ll nevada sol hilp new mexico governor prince oregon E B thompson washington washing tou nelson bennett Be wyoming frauk frank M tools toole utah ulab R C chambers on motin moti in of winston the conference adjourned at ton ten minutes past 10 o the the second day the f aiming iming 1 wang bulletin came irom from the committee room ad dressed to the newspaper meo men thursday am convention called to order by hon D P F thompson permanent chairman on motion of clunie california the reading of the minutes was dispensed with senator mondell moved to take a recess until 2 pm motion withdrawn laugenour moved to admit all reporters to the meeting this morning motion lost 6 5 aves 16 noes 9 absent mr bartine moved that all members keep their seats while speaking motion lost the aye votes to admit newspaper reporters reporter were young borah borab dark clark plummer laugenour the committee on arrangements through chairman auerbach Auerba ob sent bent she following communication to the committee room gentlemen we the committee on arrangements range ments have made arrangements for a special train to leave the rio grande western depot at this afternoon for saltair beach we will have conveyance at the city hall to leave about 4 we would kindly ask it you would accept this invitation before you vou adjourn for lunch as an we wish to notify the railway people to have the train in readiness for us hoping that you will accept this invitation we are yours your with respect etc in a short time tim me following reply was received city council chamber MV may 16 1210 p amr F H the mem hers ben of the silver conference in open assembly accept unanimously the kind invitation of your honorable committee and will adjourn their meeting in time to take carriages for your special train for saltair Sal tair shortly before 2 the executive session ended a recess being taken until the time was wai taken up in discussion in the evening there was a large at ton dance of the general public at the tabernacle where there was waa an organ I 1 recital and able silver speeches po oches the third days session culminated in the adoption of the following address following to la the declaration ot of principles laid down by the bimetallic union friday evening after its if three days conference in this city ro the people of the united station states the members of the bimetallic conference assembled ansem bled at salt lake city utah on the lath day of may 1895 representing the states of california colorado idaho montana nevada oregon washington and wyoming and the territories of now new mexico and utah deeply impressed with the importance of the subject which we have been considering believing that the vital interests Interest of every stake and every section of at this great country are involved in we the speedy and proper solution of ef what is in known as the silver VOIr questions question and being painfully oon con nolous of the fam that the most moist strenuous efforts of our opponents are now and have ever been directed to a concealment ceal coal ment of the real issue and a misrepresentation of the be position occupied by the advocates of silver restoration feel it our duty to state with such clearness as we may the precise nature ot of the issue and what our position actually to i in the first place we desire to say that the people whom we represent are seeking to swindle honest creditors with 60 50 asat dollars there are no wore more patriotic elt citizens izenas of abe tb american republic than chuse active earnest irnest eM energetic men and women who have left the me comforts of their eastern homes to build the highways of national progress in the far west it if we believed that the complete restoration ot silver would operate as an an injury to the country as a whole or an injustice to any elan class regardless of its local effect in this western region they would at once and forever abandon we be demand the greatest good to the greatest number 12 to IS their motto and it 16 is in this spirit that they irrespective ol of party affiliations present themselves almost as an a unit demanding the free coinage of at silver and gold at a ratio of of silver to I 1 ounce of gold with full legal tender functions accorded to each and no discrimination against either it to is not as silver miners but as an citizens of at the she republic mindful of its every interest terest ia that we take this position the representatives of california oregon washington and wyoming which produce little or no sliver silver feel that their heir people have been as deeply injured by the of that metal as those jiving in any state or territory in iii which silver mining Is a loading leading industry in making this demand we are ask ing aag for nothing now the monetary system of this thin country wax was founded not upon gold alose alon enot not upon silver alone but upon both gold and silver at a ratio in each other with no limitations limitation upon the coinage of either and each standing landing upon an equal tooting footing before the be law the system was founded by hamilton sanctioned aa by washington and jefferson its ito wisdom and justice questioned by none until the year 1878 1879 in that year without notice to the people the standard silver dollar was dropped from the coinage system of the country and every debt therein existing public and private aggregating thousands of millions million of dol dollars Jars was waa made payable in gold alone men that have intelligence enough to comprehend KB its significance and till still oppose the undoing of that wrong should be exceedingly careful how lh they ey accuse other people of dishonesty it was the great money power of the world that thus stealthily do dee troyed the time honored monetary system of our country these men who own and control vast sums of money understood that if silver could be destroyed by stopping its ito coinage and limiting lis its legal tender their claims thus becoming payable exclusively in gold or its ito equivalent the gold itself would become more valuable ablo they understood perfectly that a gold ingold dollar with a silver dollar by its side ride sharing its if junctions notions tu and meeting part of the th demand was an entirely different measure of values from what that gold jolliss would be standing alone they know knew that by the inexorable law jaw of supply and demand the value of gold must inevitably rise while the value of ever every other species of property must lust as an certainly fall this Is exactly what has taken place the business of the world is in done upon a money basis it is measured its ia terms of money every man who contracts a debt must pay that debt out of the products of his labor or his business that debt is ia computed in dollars dollare no matter how much they raise in value no matter how much the price of big bi product fall he must pay the same flu number ibor of dollars the advantage has been entirely upon the side of atie be money lender the injury alto gother upon the side of the toller toilet sod and the producer the most careful hinves show bow that since 1878 in gold standard countries prices of commodo oum com modi ties have fallen flallen at least fifty per cent upon an average which at simply means that gold has ban don doubled bled in value A miser who in that year tild hid away in gold who has ban done nothing with it for the good of man can now withdraw it from its ito biding place and with it be can command twice as much of the products of other mense mens toil in every line of industry to as he could when in his lear fear be b laid aid it away we submit that the he monetary policy which roust must necessarily produce such a result Is a violation of every principle of natural justice and we say fur fuehr glier that the gold dollar of that alser the honest dollar of which we hear bear so much to le not only a dishonest extortionate torti tort onate ionato dollar but the worst wont inspru moot of oppression over ever devised to sap the prosperity of a country and destroy the liberty of its ito people aside from any question quention of morals the effect of such snob a policy cannot be otherwise than disastrous in the high eat degree never lo in the history of the world has ha there been sulah a de st ruction of money values in the be same bame length of time as since booe 1873 1878 never in the history of our country have there been business depressions depres sione and bard times so 0 o widely extended and so long continued and never mines anoe the first glimmer of civilization lit the of the east easl has baa there been such inch a massing of coll wealth in the bands band of a few men in the great money centers of the world in our country the weight of debt has baa increased through a fall in the prices of products product out of which all debts must be paid until now the aggregate loss ions exceeds the total wealth of the greatest empire of the earth sod and production to lo all the more important of the nations industries has ceased to yield a profit this has ban so eo reduced the employment of labor that the land is filled with idle men and despair bas baa settled upon millions mill looB of hearts heart and it if much longer continued will mean the transfer of all the he woolda wealth into the bands banda of the few who compose the creditor aisa to the people of this country these une unnatural aural and undesirable conditions have beso been Itte literally rally created since 1873 we believe trial the prime cause overshadowing all others was wa the great monetary revolution oy by which every struggling debtor in the land was compelled to pay his debts by that golden measure that was all the time increasing in purchasing power we demand that the monetary system which was born with the republic itself be restored reb every objection to this demand comes from the same class of men at whose instance the change was made macie and those whom they bey control every argument employed against it is in either a mere technical quibble or an absolute misstatement statement mie of acts facts in I 1 n one breath they say ary that the effect of free coinage will be to enable silver misers to ket 1 for 50 cents worth or of sigvel to in the next they insist that it will flood the country with 50 dollard two argument as aa directly op to each other as are the poles of the earth the only way the miner can got get one dollar with half a dollar dollars Is worth of silver is for the metal to rise tj V par the moment that takes place the dollar must also be at par they argue that it Is din bonest coin a dollar from sliver silver which can be bought for fifty cents in this thin they assume that the market price of bullion excluded from the mint imant an j oon con from use |