People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATS. [ARTICLE]

CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATS.

Temporary Chairman Carry Urges Unequivocal Gold Plank. Hartford, Conn., June 10.—The democratic state convention to select delegates to the national convention at Chicago and presidential eectors met here to-day, with a full attendance of delegates. M. B. Cary was made temporary chairman and other temporary officers were elected. In his speech on assuming the chair Mr. Cary scouted the proposition to reopen the fight on the tariff issue, and declared that the fight now is and must be on the currency question. He asked that the convention’s platform be made to contain an unequivocal declaration for the single standard, and that bimetallism in all its forms be disavowed. He spoke in praise of President Cleveland and ex-Governor Russell as uncompromising opponents of a debasement of the currency, whose leadership the democracy could safely follow. Ex-Governor Waller, who was made permanent chairman, spoke briefly. On the subject of the currency the platform says: “As a necessary consequence the honest payment of public debts and the preservation of the public credit require that the gold standard of money as a measure of value shall be maintained. Under existing circumstances to pay public debts in silver coin is repudiation; to pay private debts in coin is to rob the wage-earners; and to provide for the free coinage of silver means the destruction legitimate business and great suffering among the laboring classes. “We believe that the safety of our > national finances requires a system of sound banking by which a bank-note currency ample to supply the needs of the whole country shall be created, safely secured and always and everywhere redeemable in gold.” The platform also indorses the administration of President Cleveland and especially approves his “firm support of the public credit and his exemplification of the Monroe doctrine.” The delegates were not instructed on the subject of presidential candidates.