People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — BOIES AND SILVER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BOIES AND SILVER.

DEMOCRATS OF lOWA ADOPT THEIR PLATFORM. Friend* of the White Metal Have Full Control of the Convention at Dubuque—Delegate* Instructed to Vote a* a Unit. The democratic state convention met m the city of Dubuque Wednesday in the Grand Opera-House, The silver men controlled every move and the final result is that, with the exception of the delegates from two

districts, the lowa delegation to Chicago Js solid and uncompromisingly for the white metal. Even the districts captured by the gold men are of no

benefit to them because of the adoption of an iron-clad unit rule in the instructions. The following delegates-at-large were chosen: Horace Boies, S. B. Evans, Will Wells and S. T. Genung. Following is the financial plank adopted: “We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discrimination against either metal or charge for mintage. We favor the immediate repeal of ail laws by which silver was demonetized and demand its unqualified restoration to the right of free and unlimited coinage in the mints of the United States as money of final redemption at the old ratio of 16 to 1. “We hereby enter our most earnest protest against all schemes for the retirement of our no-interest-bearing national paper currency, and the substitution therefor of $500,000,000 of inter-est-bearing bonds to become an additional burden upon the producing classes, that national banks may be supplied with interest-bearing capital on which to transact their individual business. And we also protest against the further issuance and sale of government bonds to acquire gold with which to redeem the same with the coin of either metal it may possess in strict accordance with both the spirit and the letter of the law.” ‘Reposing, full faith and confidence in the democracy, patriotism and ability of Horace Boies, formerly governor of the state of lowa, we hereby declare it to be the bounden duty of every patriot in lowa, without regard to former party affiliations, to use all honorable means to secure his nomination at the democratic national convention to be held at Chicago, July 7, 1896, for the high and responsible office of president of these United States.”

HORACE BOIES.