Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1895 — Proposed National Platform. [ARTICLE]

Proposed National Platform.

Duty to the people requires that the party of the people coutlnue the battle for bimetallism until Its efforts are crowned with success; therefore be It Resolved, That the Democratic party, In national convention assembled, should demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold Into primary or redemption money at the ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the action or approval of any other nation; that It should declare Its Irrevocable opposition to the substitution for a metallic money of a panic-breeding, corporation-cred-it currency, based on a single metal, the supply of which Is so limited that It can be cornered at any time by a few banking Institutions in Europe and America. That it should declare Its opposition to the policy and practice of surrendering to the holders of the obligations of the United States the option reserved by the law to the Government of‘redeeming such obligations In either silver coin or gold coin; that It should declare Its opposition to the Issuing of Interest-bearing bonds of the United States In time of peace, and especially to placing the treasury of the Government under the control of any syndicate of bankers, and the Issuance of bonds to be sold by them at an enormous profit for the purpose of supplying the Federal treasury with gold to maintain the policy of gold mono-metallism. With a view to securing the adherence to and readoptlon of the Democratic financial policy above set forth, by the Democratic national convention to be assembled In 1896, and of the nomination of a candidate for the Presidency well known to be In hearty sympathy therewith, we hereby pledge our mutual co-operation, and urgently recommend to our Democratic brethren in all the States to at once begin and vigorously and systematically prosecute the work of a thorough organization.