Show bast BAY of THE conviction ringing resolutions pa passed SS by acclamation WAITE AGAIN HOWLS FOR BLOOD speeches by ex sanator hill newland newlands pierce 0 of f tenn tennessee as se se ju judee dge go goodwin 0 dwin and others cleveland S scored e ored CHICAGO aug 2 the silver convention resumed its session this morning owing to the inadequacy of the rooms used yesterday it wa ivas s decided to ruee meet t in ia central hall b but 1 it the agent stood at the door this morning and refused to open it until anti senator ex congressman ex symes byrnes and C 8 thomas of colorado guaranteed per day rental this done the delegates flocked in it president thurman Thur nian called the conven if lion on t to 0 order A resolution by J S doucherty Doue herty of texas for the Int ment of a commit ointment tee of 0 one ne from each state to devise a plan for imp impressing upon congress and the people P I 1 e of the tile united states the impending peril I 1 threatening to ruin the material interest interests of which we have only had a forecast was referred to the committee on resolutions after discussion then ex benator hill colorado ad breed the convention on the silver question the arguments were chiefly based on statistics tending to show that the adoption ofa of a cold gold standard in any country was invariably followed by br decades of poverty and depression lie he said the divergence between the value of eold gold and silver was now greater than w when e the united states commission made it its fa famous almous report and no boundary can call be set to the divergence that may bo be reached hereafter especially if the foremost sliver silver brodu producing ina country in the world ball shall lend itself to the attempt being made to establish a universal gold standard the scarcity of gold had nothing to do with the present depression The amount of money now locked up tip and nd bidden hidden away is more t than an double the amount ot gold now in fit the country the supposition that by repealing the sherman act thus bringing on a great fall in the price odthe of the metal we could force europe into a bimetallic metal lie treaty is a delusion if we were driven by the conspiracy to revert to a O 0 single ingle a standard we should by all al means use sill silver er if we restore silver to its old pince place as a money metal by unlimited c coinage inage I 1 and if under force of circumstances stances over which we have no control our gold should be drained away we will till still maintain the first position among the n of the tile world and compel england Un gland G germany ermana and arid france at once to adopt bl bimetallism in concluding he declared that if west ern europe perseveres in measures which will raise the value osgold of gold so it will flow from front us and we become a silver country wo willbe will bo carried toabe to the pitch of prosperity transcending aji he pat and western barome will be pounced elul aged III in an abyss of rain at the conclusion of hilla address lion ion J it 11 doolittle of wisconsin presented ell ted a resolution declaring it the duty daty of congress to coin both gold and silver I 1 in n such euc haratio a ratio of weight that the bullion in the silver dollar shall be equal in value to the bd bullion llin in the gold dollar referred to the committee on resolutions congressman F G newlands of nevada followed in an address reviewing the conill con r gressional wess ional legislation on the silver question iceland england be said is the tile greatest eold gold 1 mining power in the world we owe bar er six x hm hundred million dollars in fit gold which she can call for any day ifa if a draft of a hundred millions recently made worked such disaster in fit this country what would it do if fr we should be called on oil for the tile whole lot england bad had the gold of the world and arid knew how to legislate for her ber interests we have the sliver silver of the world and do not know of our own interests As the tax on oil tea led to the ile political independence cle the present blow at silver si ouight lead to financial independence united states senator alien allen produced much enthusiasm by a brief but attarin stirring g speech in which he lie pledged the peoples people a party arty to the e cause of silver the populists t 8 F anthe the senate would not be found wanting fit support of free coinage at the ratio of f 1 to 16 lk he a was followed by lion 0 8 thomas ot ol colorado lorado in fit a briet speech lie ile declared that gold and sil silvers verja the money of history and civilization the tiie silver men were called lunatics and cranks but they were proposing merely to return to the system hallowed ed by y the h history st story of or four thousand years 0 recess was then taken until 2 p ra the first speaker of the afternoon session was john 11 II lemon of new york re representing Pres entin the executive c council the le A american berca federation p ede ration of labor th the a federation people he said are silver men inen because union men of them are the advocates of the free free and unlimited coinage of silver there was tremendous applause when governor walte waite of colorado was introduced a number delegates have been howling for him ita for two days be he was unable to begin his 3 speech for some minutes m 1 he 1 e at great length ll 11 lie a aegert asserted e d that since 1878 no congress has convened but that the majority in fit both houses were in favor of restoring ps the free coinage of silver congress never bad been able to enact such finch a law av f because the president whether republican or democrat has always been dominated by wall street and stood ready to abts veto equal to a two third yote fit in both the tile hou s of congress Con gretS rs the effect of hie the gold bug conspiracy V which has denied free coinage to silver ance 1 1873 has been to increase the purchasing power of a onry or to pu llie tile statement in another form forni to decrease decre aae the value of all commodities abraham lincoln said US if a debt is created with witha pertain certain amount of money iff irk circulation and then the tile government contracts the to money ol 01 ey vol volume urn a befaro the debt Is paid it is the be mo moot zenlous crime which it government can commit against the people und and that eald said governor waite is to exactly what this government has ha been doing since 1873 1973 idoine legislation wit 1 nothing rise else has reduced the price of silver bullion from per ounce in 1873 to 70 cent cents in fit 1893 1803 and the legislation for which the two old parties are equally responsible has reduced the price of wheat in the same tim time from per bushel to cents the same legislation has bas reduced the price of cotton front 19 cents to 7 cents in the same lime the ratio of the value of silver as a bullion as compared with a gold dollar has been increased from 18 16 to 1 to 1 l it has not only diminished the value of silver ilver bullion but hae hat also in almost the tile same proportion the value of wheat corn pork beef cotton and the wages of labor I 1 we bear much about over oyer production the tile lew of supply yay and demand etc but buc with the sing single a standard gold old men of europe who have the reins in their own bands hands there is not t the he same necessity to lie about it and no such dishonest attempt to dodge the issue watte walto then quoted from the speech by balfour at manchester in fit which he is quoted aa as saying the old monetary standard in fifteen or six sixteen tri years ears has 90 bone up IF no ipsa than 1 lit thirty to thirty arty I 1 five pe I 1 a 1 to rw s 11 calpe to man can set tile urn m aff not long lone ago said walte waite gladstone Ola Olad detone stone was told by mr fr Thomp thompson sone in the british parliament that the gold old standard was crushing out the agricultural and eom com I 1 I 1 1 I 1 Y 11 1 I 1 1 I 1 mercial iner cial industries of england b by y corn coin pelting busl business 0 upon falling al ling ala market ket t the a d debtor tr 1 beirl being g reduced ed to indu Ind astria s triai slavery a and the while nom inal anally lyt the he same forces fro from india double the amount mount of her which a few years e a r a ago 0 paid the tax gladstone nn an blushingly 1 u I 1 ag declared that england as a creditor nation could stand any amount of ol 01 appreciation in the value of credit credits and a added ed that governments govern menta were kotcon not concerned about p philanthropy br con side ti the condition 0 of the maws masses in I 1 england L ng 1 a n ng and 1 india N waite ie said this was the most brutal brula rem remark r since cain with the blood of ol 01 his ills murdered brother crying from the around ground insolently asked the almighty A arn I 1 my brothers brothels keeper vilt walte a ayr denied that in n the broad sense silver silveris veris is a local question and said he could prove from official statistics 4 that the loss to the agricultural states from the scarcity of money in a good part occasioned by the tile refusal coffree of free coinage in each state in fit the great mississippi pi valley is from front ten to twenty times ill lie a f 1039 oss sustained by colorado the lie proposal pro poal al by the false friend of silver and t their grope air allies in wall treet street to adopt the present price of ballion silver a as s compared with gold as its the new money ratio would simply cryst crystallize alize all wrong and injuries the money power has inflicted upon the tile people for the past twenty years this asa as a compromise beats beas toe the one the devil proposed to jesus christ on the mountain I 1 waite said that the international conference for the pu purpose rp of settling our money affairs by the be dictation of a foreign money awer power is i s the tile moett contemptible and go godforsaken 1 forsaken idea that ever entered the brain ra n of an american citizen if jf we have bave become under the rule of the tile two old parties onar only a province 0 of f european monarchists t then len we need another re revolution vo another appeal to arms and to the god of posts this this evoked great applause in clasine the governor said who is grover cleveland and who is denja benjamin 1 1 in harrison ll arrison and who are their supporters support e r s I in n wall street and chicago that they dare assume to drive into poverty and exile half a million american freemen there is no use crying peace when there is 13 no peace the most dangerous tyranny in that enforced under the forms of law our weapons are arguments and the ballot a free ballot and a fair counte count if the money pow power shall attempt to 0 o sustain its usurpation E s of our rights by br a strong hand as inether in other lands we will meet that issue if it Is forced upon us it is better jor infinitely better rather than ail that our liberties should be destroyed by fly a thatis that is opposing humanity alt all over thy the world that we hould wado through of blood yea blood to the horses bordes bridles ex congressman pierce of tennessee w ho was blands lieutenant in t last congress was erected greeted with treat great enthusiasm and proceeded to arraign president cleveland in a vigorous manner lie Ile began by asserting the democracy bad no hand in the 0 of silver since 1873 when it was de the democratic representatives from the son south ill and arid west constituting an ail overwhelming majority of tho the democrats on the floor of congress haaf have every time that free silver has been presented cast their votes in the interest of the tile people overwhelmingly for free liver silver A voice from front the audience cried what will cleveland do dot cleveland does not represent the democratic party quickly retorted pierce and then the tile convention broke loose men jumped to their feet and cheered while hundreds of voices ye atre 11 ed tT hat Is so be represents wall 1 11 l say today ai as a democrat 11 resu resumed pierce that drover grover Cle cleveland ibe tha man from the east who claims adda today to represent the democratic party does not riot represent it hut misrepresents its position on this question pierce added that cleveland was nominated because the people throughout the south thought he be was the tile man to protect them against the force bill they also believed ho he was an honest roan mail and would not riot aftem pt to go to against t the lie interests or will of his party upon any question stion TheIr leaders mistaken in se lev elands actions today shows applause and hisses about this time a populist f from born georgia asked pierce bow how crisp stood blood he Ile replied that crisp had stood for twelve years by the people on oil every vote in euphe art of free coinage slid I 1 fi I 1 8 will play us judas now how illow about carlisle yelled another delegate agate if carlisle favors the unconditional dit re repeal eal of the sherman act replied pierce be he has iss gone back on his record and on oil all the people he has represented in congress for years chairman thurman who yesterday expressed in fit his ills speech the greatest personal regard d for president cleveland criticized criticised P pierce er ce for drifting into a partisan discussion lie was wait almost afraid he said to call on another speaker for fear borne some one w would think it necessary to get ap nn and defend the prohibition party we are not here said he lie as partisans in fit any way and I 1 up nope ope wo we will haye bave no hjorpe partisanship judge goodwin of salt lake made a speech of some length the west be he said was prostrated property values have been destroyed over one third of the area of bu bulut but western me men come asking favors they ask merely for the recognition of something which represented labor immortalized and which had served as a perfect measure of val value ill tb through rough the ebb and flow of years they felt they were asking far more for the cast than the west as the tile products of the east exceeded the value of bf those of the west besought everyone present to 0 o become a missionary in a tha cause to work with the be people to appeal to ress and appeal to the tho dent fo for justice to silver the report odthe of the committee on resolutions was then read tile preamble recites that bimetallism tallish is as ancient as human history for certainly during more t silver than an chrep thousand ye gold and stiver have come down through the ages hand in fit hand their relations having varied but a few points in all that time and slid then almost invariably through legislation that both the metals named ii together were in tho constitution of af the states as the money basis of this country that in 1873 without the previous demand demand oray of any political party or any part of the people D e and without public discussion silver was str stricken loken from therace the place it had haa occupied billbe the days 0 of abraham and pharaoh under of euch such secrecy that A 0 thurmal Thur ruit map W M stewart 1 Y V voorhees heeg J 0 ill ulaine ine then of the house J A gar 01 d and ot other evaker er ment nien bere ibers of congress ton cresa voting for th bill subsequently publicly publio ly declared that they did not know until I 1 long 0 n a afterwards ft e r that BO so great ft a change he had gd h been e e n made in the financial system that the tile debet debates bates in congress show that ahn measure was wa partly ascribed to one ernest heyd seyd a london banker who it is claimed was gent sent to Wash washington inkton by the moneyed classes classe of the old world to secure ita its pas sage by secret and corrupt means that president grant who signed the bill declared along 1 time subsequently that he did not know it demonetized silver that the object of this attack on silver was to double the purchasing power of gold thus thas reducing 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