Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE.

Blhtr Democrat* Prepare for th* Campaign of iB6O. The Democratic silver conference In session in Washington adopted a program and platform, and issued an address to the people of which the following are the principal points: i At a conference between a number of Democrats from different States who attendefLthe non-partisan convention recently assembled at Memphis, Tenn.. for the purpose of promoting tlio cause of free stiver cofhage. wbtch conference was held after the adjournment of the convention, a committee consisting of Senators Jones of Arkansas, Turplc of Indiana, and Harris of Tennessee was and authorized to Invite representative Democrats from the several States to meet them at Washington for consultation, with the view of securing co-operation and concert of action among those Democrats throughout the Union who believe In adhering to the cardinal Democratic policy of actuAl bimetallism. Disclaiming all right to bind any person by our utterances, but profoundly conscious that the Democratic party to-day confronts a crisis the most momentous In Its history, and fraught with far-rcuchlng perils to the people and the country, we are assembled as Individual Democrats to take counsel together, and for the undisguised purpose of Inaugurating and promoting a thorough and systematic organization of the Democratic masses, so that they may go forward as one man with a resotute purpose to rescue the old party founded by Thomas Jefferson from plutocratic domination. Therefore, with this object iri view, this convention of American Democrats, composed of representatives from twenty-four of the leading States of the Union, makes the following declaration on the monetary question, which has been forced Into the leading place among the Issues of to-day. The well-known arguments In favor of bimetallism at a ratio of 10 to 1 follow, and the document declares the Democratic party the champion of that bimetallism from Jefferson to the present time. The eharge that the act of 1873 was passed by fraud 1* reiterated, with the claim that falling price* aTe thc'Tesult of the appreciation of gold. The document then says: ''The Democratic party is the.fradltlonal friend and champion of bimetallism. Its strength and power and popularity have been largely built upon It* steadfast opposition to the demonetization of silver and Its record of unwearied effort to restore It to Its historic place as a full money metal equal with gold. The effort at this late day to make it par excellence thechampion of gold mono-metallism, the enemy of the policy It has upheld, nud the defender of the crime It has denounced. Is an effort to dishonor its record, its promises,, and its principles.” Proposed National Platform. Duty to the people requires that the party of the people continue the battlo for bimetallism until Its efforts are crowned withBuecess.; thereforaJie-It. - .. -.—.1—Resolved,'"Ttnrt tirenretiidcra tic party,“Tn. national convention assembled, should demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold Into primary or redemption money at the ratio of 10 to 1, without waiting 'for the action or approval of any otherr nation: that it should declare its Irrevocableopposition to the substitution for a metallic money of a panic-breeding, corporation-cred-it currency, based on a single metal, the suppi)' of which Is so limited that It can be cornered at any time by a few banking Institutions In Europe and Ameiic a. That It Bhould declare Its opposition tothe policy and practice of surrendering tothe 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 lssuingof interest-bearing bonds of the United States In time of peace, and especially toplacing the treasury of the Government under the control of aiiy syndicate of bankers, and the Issuance of bonds to be sold by themat an enormous profit for the purpose of supplying the Federal treasury with gold tomaintain the policy of gold mono-jnetallism. With a view to securing the adherence toand readoption of the Democratic financial' policy above set forth, by the Democratic national convention to be assembled In 1896, and of the nomination of u candidate forthe Presidency well known to be In heartysympathy therewith, we hereby pledge our TButnat- Co-operatf(Tfr, aart "urgently recom■ffieffd to““oiff"T>emoernTTd~ brefliren"Tn~arr the States to at once begin and vigorously and systematically prosecute the work of ft thorough organlzatlon. -