Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1896 — THE SILVER PARTY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE SILVER PARTY.

White Mctul Men Holl u Convention of Their Own in St. Louin. The delegates to the national silver convention in St. Louis were slow in assembling at the Grand Music Hall Wednesday. and there were not enough visitors to fill the galleries when J. J. Mott, chairman of the naTiohnl committee, called the convention to order. Ht>, too. was tardy, and it was long after 12 o'clock when he stepped to the platform and rapped for order. It was not surprising that t..e delegates, the visitors, and the chairman should have beeu slow la coming together. The weather was intensely tiot. It was of that variety of heat that one finds in the steam room at a Turkish bath.

When the call for tne convention had Iteen read, Congressman Francis G. Newlands, ot Nevada, was introduced by Chairman Mott ns temporary chairman of the convention, and the delegate* gave him a vigorous reception. In his speech 'ie urged the silverites to support the uomnee of the Democratic party. Win. I*. St. John, of New York, was chosen for jsrmnnent chairman. ami when escorted to the platform addressed the convention. What he said was quite in accord with the sentiments of the assemblage and he got several salvos of applause. The platform declares In favor of a distinctly American financial system, opposes the single gold standard and demands the immediate return to the constitutional standard of gold and silver by the restoration by this Government, independently ot any foreign power, of the unrestricted coinage of both gold and silver into standard money, at the ratio of 10 tol, nnd upon terms of exact equality, as they existed prior t0■1873: the silver coin to be a Tull legal tender equally with gold for nil debts mid dues, public and private, and we favor such legislation a® will prevent for the future the demonetization of any kind of legal tender money by private contract. It holds that the power to control and regulate a paper

currency is inseparable ftUhCrtle power to coin money,, mid. hence tUnt aU currency intended to circulate as money should be issued and its vohitne controlled by the genera] only, and should be a legal tender. The, declarationunalterably opposes the Issue by the’L’ulted States of infcrost-beAringbotids in tiine of pence, nnd appeals th the people'of the United States;-to leave-in abeyance for the moment all other .-gucatjana, raud-unite in one supreme effort to free themselves and their children from ths : domination of the money power. ' In a celebration .bf the thirty-eighth anniversary of the birth o-f’tht- Queen Regent of Spain, Capt. Gen. Weyler has liberated eighty-two political prisoners held, in Cuba, arid twelve of the sathe class of prisoners detained at Artcqias. Eight somiers at Matanzns, ■ accused of infraction of regulations, havealso been purdoned.

PERMANENT CHAIRMAN W. P. ST. JOHN.