Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1896, Page 11

NOT HELPLESS, No Baby Need Die of Cholera Infantum. No Trouble Where the Diet Was Lactated Food. Hot Weather Fatal to the Carelessly Fed. Baby Should Grow as Much in July as in December. Health and Growth Wholly a Matter of Proper Food. ‘The most pitiable sight in the world is that of a sick baby, that can neither eat. sleep nor hold up its head. In nearly every esse parents o- nurses are re- spensibie, and Lot the hot weather. oe Even those children who are inclined to be sickly aro not helpless in the hottest weather if they are in the hands of parents whe know how very mu: Gepends on the child's food being right. A LACTATED FOOD BABY. Children barn delicate grow to be strang when fod ou an exeluvive diet of lactated food. The rich in- sedients Just suited to a baby's stomach, plump out its tiny frame and make the converting of its feod into salbt fesh and bone an easy matter. In hot weather a baby's entire attmentary syst-m ts quick to be derenged: -its appetite and power of assimilating its food are very apt to flag. Lac- tated food at such trying thes not only Keeps & baby fully nourished, but prevents any pomibiilty of diarrhoeal disorders. The prit«ipal element of mother's milk 1s sugar of milk. This Is the basts of Inctated food. With it is combiced the nutritious elements of the great cereals. wheat and barley, and the necessary bone- forming salts. This makes lictated food a perfect and nataral sabstitate for mother’s milk. Mothers should remember that the best food that can be given to @ boby In semmer, Imctated food, is so in- expens it fs within the reach of every wenty-ve cents @ mother can buy a coutsins enough te make ten pints | foo. auything bat mother’s milk is used, use lac- ated food. It fs prepared vith exacting care, un- the personal supervision of Prof. Boynton of * University, and is recommended by physi- © best porsible diet for infants, tavaltds, ildren getting thetr teeth or being weaued, “ sumimer months. for « especially Mrs. M. Keech of Dorchester, Mass.. recently wrote to the proprietors of lactated food: T Inclse the pleture of our Uttle girl, Eiama Marguerite Koch, aged 18 months. “When she was two weeks olf we commenced to feed her on inctated food. She bas never since | been sick, end f¥ a perfeetly healthy child. This | picturs was tuken when she was fifteen months old. We have a baby «ix months old, whom we feed on lactated food also, and he thrives on it.” THE TEACHER'S SOCIAL LIFE. | it Yields Little Joy to the Stranger in a Large City. Among the “Confessions of Fublic School | Teachers" in the July Atlantfe 1s this glimpse of a teacher's social life in a west- em city: One lady has been a joy to the Taylor School. In my eight years of labor here she is the only patron who, by her presence and gifts and encouragement, has mats herscif known and loved throughout the school. Every year, as her children advance, the teacher who receives them Is congratulated by all the others, and every room that is left behind bears the evidence of their so- journ there. While in my district the school receives the patrons’ hea: support, yet not many feel cailed upon to assist to make it a house beautiful. None burt Mrs. Grace has ever sent her Christmas pine and kolly and mistletoe to decori-e the school room before she used it herself. When she en- tertains the teachers receive an invitation. Th social side of the life 2f a teacher yields Httle joy. When I came here I brought a letter from my miatster. It was @ personal letter from the man who had known all a family’s sorrows and foys for many years to another minister, to whom he committed the family, or what was left of it. One Sunday after service I ¢clivered it. The minister was standing just outsid2 the chancel rail; he read it. threw it down in the front pew, and, with his eves on his departing congregation. extended his hand, saying, hurriedly, “Do [ understand you ar’ @ school teacher? Well, I'll call cn you some time. Excuse me,” and he rushed away, leaving me standing there. In our city we have several very ener- getle women's clubs. They certainly have | not considered what they might give to the teacher, nor what the teacher could give to them, for they hold their meetings at an hour when teachers are at work. SSS A Double Failure. From the Chicago Tribune. Thirsty customer—“Seems to me this mint Julep is mighty weak.” Bartender—“Yes, sir. Mint crop in Mich- igan is a total faflure this year, sir.” Thirsty customer (tasting it again)—Been SAT IN THE DARK No Light for the Evening Session of the Populista. AMONG THE RADICALS SUSPICION St. John Made Permanent Chair- man of the Silverites. OTHER POLITICAL MATTERS SS When 8 o'clock arrived, the hour to which the populist convention of St. Louis: ad- jJourned, the hall was-still in total darkness. ‘The delegates were huddied in the seats in front of the platform, while ghastly groups of faces swayed in the light of the few can- dies that flickered on the press tables. About this time some shrewd middle of the reader thought he discovered that the re- fusal to turn on the lights was part of a scheme of the Bryan people to prevent the straight-out element from controlling. This suspicion that the lights were out in the in- terest of @ faction, as they were turned out at the Cincinnati convention in 1876 by the opponents of Mr. Blaine, aroused a storm of protests and the middle of the roaders were charging about in the dark to discover the cause of the unprecedented situation. “It's a scheme of the Bryan men,” the Texas delegation shouted. Some one mount- ed the stage and yelled, “The Bryan people have put out the lights, but if they nomin- ate Bryan we'll split this convention wide open.”* “You're a disgrace to the party,” came emphatically from the black cavernous depths of the hall, By this time the aisles were choked with delegates pushing and groping their way about in the dark. There began to be some apprehension of some sudden alarm which might stampede the delegates and cause a disaster, and the leaders began discussing the advisability of adjourning the conven- tion until this morning. The band, under instructions, kept up a constant fusillade of airs to allay the fears of any who might be alarmed. Whenever the band played a hymn the delegates joined in the chorus. Some of the other rollicky songs, like “John Brown's Body,” and “Marching Through Georgia,” were also sung enthu- siastically. At 8:20 o'clock “Cyclone” Davis mounted to the stage and tried to secure order, but the crowd refused to listen until some one held a lighted candte in front of his face As his tall form and broad, sweeping som- brero came within the narrow ring of the light from the tallow dip the delegates im- mediately recognized him. and there were shouts of “Shut up!” “Keep quiet,” “Lis- ten to ‘Cyclone.’ When he could make himself heard he an- nounced that the electric wires were “dis- affected,” but that they would be all right W. H. Harvey, Author of “‘Coin's Financlal School. in a few minutes, whereupon there were cheers of approval, and the band struck up another tune. Delegate Webster of St. Louis moved that a committee be appointed to wait up- | on the officers of the convention and as- certain why they were not present. A chorus of voices seconded the motion, but nobody meved and no committee was ap- pointed. One disgusted delegate yelled: ‘Let us go to Chicago and hire a hall.” This suggestion also seemed to meet with approval. Then the band in the gallery broke out with the stirring strains of “Dixie,” and the old southern song was answered by the roar of 1,000 throats. Mrs. Mary A. Lease came to the stage and was appealed to to make a speech, but she declined to talk in the dark. “Wait until they turn on the Mghts,” said she, “and I'll talk to you all night.” At §:45 Chairman Butler appeared on the stage. ie band played “Put Me Off at Buffalo,” and then Senetor Butler called the convention to order. He announced that the committee en credentials was un- able to report, and that as, owing to an accident, there was no light, he would de- clare the convention in recess until 10 o'clock this morning. The delegates, many of them with evident reluctance, then quit- ted the hall. SUSPICIOUS DELEGATES, They Thought the Bryan Men Had Fixed the Lights. The middle of the road populists held an informal meeting after they left the eon- vention last night, and there were many ex- pressions of suspicion regarding the failure to have it Ughted. They pointed out that they had arranged for an adjournment an hour and a half previous to the time set forth for the convention to reconvene. And they would not have interfered with the ccnvention, as the business they had to transact could have been disposed of very easily. It was also pointed out by several delegates that none of the officers of the convention and no member of the executive committee except ‘‘Cyclone:’ Davis appear- ed until within a few minutes of the time when Mr. Butler declared the convention in recess. The Texas men were bitter In their denunciation of the manner tn which the middte of the road men had been treat- ed, although Mr. Davis had made an expla- a fallure in the julep crop, too, hasn’t| nation of the reason why there were no there?” Hghts. The wire connection which lights a _clothes white, work light, forget me not on Monday. FELS-RAPTHA (At Grecers,) FELS & CO., Philadelphia, THE EVENING 8sTAR, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1896-TWELVE PAGES. the halt had been damaged by the rain, and frun dry. Our farmers all over the coun- it was said that it was the only wire that had been damaged. It was impossible for the linemen of the company to fix it, as few men dared to fool with elestric light wires. This explanation was not at all satisfactory to the steering committee of the middle of the read men, whe held an executive session for the purpose of de- termining a plan of action. It was stated that if Mr. Butler did not 2ppear in the convention again the middle of the road men would take charge and run it them- selves. Another explanation made by the middie of the road men indicating that Bryan men did not want a meeting was that # demonstration against Bryan such as might have appeared when the execu- tive committee reported in favor of the nomination of Donnelly for permanent chairman would be disastrous to the Bryan Interests. It was asserted that the Bryan men wanted delay in order to sezure men Cyclone Davis of Texas. from the antl-Bryan ranks. They claim- ed the Bryan men were sending delegates to see Senator Jones, chairman of the dem- ocratic committee, and that these dele- gates, who were slightly wavering, \.ere being “fixed” for Bryan at the democratic headquarters. Another thing was noticed by some of the alert middle of the road men. When Mary Ellen Lease was about to talk to the meeting Gen. Weaver rushed down snd said that she must not do so. He held a whispered consultation with her, ond she then stated that she would not talk until the hall was lighted. All of these things, taken in connection with the fact that the hall was lighted within twenty-five min- utes after Chairman Butler adjourned the convention, and after every delegite had left the building, created a great deal of suspicion in the minds of the middle of the road men that they were not getting a “fair deal.” ‘The impression prevailed among a large number of them that they were practi- cally defeated,and that a nomination would be tendered to Bryan, and the talk among them late last right was to the effe:t that they would not stand it. They did not say they would bolt. A number of the southern delegates said that they cannot stand Bry- an, and there will be no other course open to them but to keep in the middle of the road, which indicates that the middle of the road men will not accept Bryan if he is nominated by the convention. ST. JOHN ELECTED CHAIRMAN. Silver Convention Organized Per- manently—Confercen Appointed. After the silver convention at St. Louis went into recess yesterday afternoon the committee on permanent organization se- lected General C. G. Bradshaw of Mon- tana chairman and R. E. Difendorfer of Pennsylvania, secretary. The following permanent officers of the convention were then selected: Permanent chairman, Wm. P. St. John of New York; vice permanent chairman, Chas. A. Towne of Minnesota; secretary, R. E. Difendorfer of Pennsylvania, with power to select his own asoclates, one of whom will be George P. Keeney; reading clerk, W. Jufferson Pollard of St. Louis. The chairman of the committee was em- powered to select a chaplain. It was 5 o'clock when the convention was called to order after the recess. There were about 500 persons in the hall, incind- Ing the delegates. A Kansas delegate moved that the doorkeepers be Instructed to admit all delegates to the populistic convention. The motion prevailed. A committee of three was appointed to notify the populists that they would be admitied without tickets. The commit- tee on rules reported that the order of business should be the receiving of the re- Port of the committees on credentials, Senator John P. Jones of Nevada. permanent organization, special commit- tees, platform and resolutions, nomina- tion of candidates, and that the rules gov- erning Congress be used so far as possi- ble in the running of the convention. The report was adopted. The committee on credenttals reported that there were no contests, and approved the credentials of all delegates, and that all delegations be allowed to cast full votes. The report was adopted. The committee on permanent organiza- tion recommended that W. P. St. John of New York be selected for permanent chairman, Charles A. Towne of Minnesota be chosen for vice chairman, and R. EK Difendorfer of Pennsylvania for secre- tary. The report was received with cheers and adopted. A committee was appointed to escort Mr. St. John to the platform. In taking his place Mr. St. John was greeted with cheers, He spoke as follows: Chairman St. John’s Address. “Gentlemen of the convention: The skill and efficiency of your labors in the past have been rewarded by the adoption of your demand for legislation by two great organizations of the people, namely, the democratic and the people’s parties. If now you are able to induce a coalition of these two organizations for the one purpose the desired achievement on behalf of the people will ensue. “Assuming, then, that you will prevail upon these patriots calling themselves the people’s party to indorse the nomination of Bryan and Sewall it is advisable to war- rant the desirability of the end in view. “It is among the first principles im finance that the value of each dollar, expressed in prices, depends upon the total number of dollars in circulation. The plane of prices is high when the number of dollars in circulation ts great in proportion to the number of things to be exchanged by means of dollars, and low when the dollars are proportionately few. The plane of prices at present and for some time past is and has been ruinously low. The in- crease of our population at about two millions a year, scattered over our im- mense territory, calls for increasing ex- changes and thereby demands an increas- ing number of dollars in circulation. The increase in the number of dollars when dollars are confined to gold ia not suf- fictently rapid to meet the growth of our exchanges. The consequence is a grow- Ing value of dollars or a diminishing value of everything else expressed in dollars, which is to aay a tendency toward con- stantly declining prices. “The fountain head of our prosperity has try have endured the depression in prices until they get about $8 or $9 per acre for an “expenditure of $t0 per acre, and the like. Their credit Is exhausted at their country stores. The country store ceases to order from the city merchant, the city merchant reduces his demand upon the manufacturer. Manufactures are cur- tailed.” The consequence is that employes and all elements of labor are being dis- charged, and wages are lowered to those who continue in employment. The suf- ferings of the farmers, who constitute nearly one-half of our population are thus nforced upon the city merchant, the man- ufacturer and all forms of labor. These combined elements constitute the over- whelming majority of voters. Their in- telligent conclusion will be felt when ex- pressed at the polls. “The banker also ts without prosperity unless prosperity is general throughout the United States. He must learn to dis- tinguish between cheap monéy and money commanding a low rate of interest. The Gollar worth two bushels of wheat is a dear dollar, and yet it commands interest in Wall street at present of but 2 per cent per annum on call. If the dollar can be cheapened by increasing the number of dollars, so that each dollar will buy less wheat, being reasonably sure of a profit increase the demand for dollars to invest in its production. Then the borrower of dollars to invest in the production of wheat being reasonably sure of a profit from that employment of the money, can afford to pay interest for its use as a part of his profit. In other words, interest is a share of the profit on the employment of money. So that abundant money, money readily obtainable, which is to say really cheap money, 8 the money which commands a high rate of interest as a share of the profit of the borrower in using it. “As we appeal to the country, in the jus- tice of our cause, one or two points of com. mon inquiry must be satisfied, as follow: “The experience of Mexico is held up for our alarm. We answer, first, that Mexico is conspicuously prosperous at home. Her increase in manufactures, railway earn- ings and the lke in recent years is phe- nomenal. Second, Mexico ts no criterion for the United States, for the reason that she has a foreign trade Indebtedness cf about $20,000,000 annually in excess of the value of her exports of cotton, sugar, cof- fee, hides and the like, which must be paid for in the surplus product of her mines. Her silver, therefore, goes abroad as mer- chandise, and at a valuation fixed by the outside world. The United States, on the other hand, is a nation of seventy millions of people, scattered over a territory seven- teen times the area of France. A single one of our railway systems, the Erle, ex- ceeds the aggregate railway mileage of all Mexico. We offer an employment for money to an aggregate greater than the world's spare silver will furnish us. Hence, our silver money, at home and xbroad, will be valued as the money of the United States. “The opposition threatens us with a flood of Europe's silver upon our reopened mints. We answer, Europe has no silver but her, silver money. Her silver money values silver at from three cents to seven cents on the dollar higher than ours, Hence, the European merchant or banker must sacri- fice from three to seven per cent of its full legal tender money in order to recotn it at our mints. Europe's silver ware, like America’s silver ware, carries in it the ad- ditional value of labor and the manufactu- rer’s profit. “They threaten us with a flood of silver from the far east. We answer that the course of silver is invariably eastward, and never toward the west. British India Ignatias Donnelly. fs a perpetual sink of silver, absorbing it, never to return, by from thirty to sixty million dollars’ worth every yeaf. And In- dia’s absorption of sflver will be enlarged by the steadiness of price for silver, fixed by our reopened mints. “They threaten us with a ‘sudden retire- ment of $600,000,000 gold, with the accom- panying panic, causing contraction and commercial disaster unparalleled.” We an- Swer that our total stock of gold other than about $10,000,000 or $15,000,000, cireu- lating on the Pacific coast is already in re- tlrement. Practically, all our gold is in the United States treasury or held by banks. ‘The gold in the treasury will remain there if the Secretary avails of his option to re- deem United States notes in silver. The gold in the banks constitutes the quiet and undisturbed portion of their reserve against their liabilities. It will continue to do money duty as such reserve after free coinage for silver is enacted: Hence, a premium on it will not contract the cur- rency. The utmost possible contraction of the currency will be the few millions cir- culating on the Pacific coast, and this will be retired but slowly. “A similar threat of a flight of gold was made for the Bland act of 1878. President Hayes was urged to veto it, but Congress passed it over the veto. Instead of a filght of gold as had been predicted, we gained by importation $4,000,000 the first year, $70,- 000,000 the next and $90,000,000 the’ third year. During the twelve years that the act was on the statute book we gained $221,000,- 000 of foreign gold. Instead of the destruc- tion of our credit abroad, as had been pre- dicted, the United States four per cent loan, which stood at 101 on the day of the enact- ment, sold at 120 per cent within three years, and at 130 per cent subsequently. Instead of defeating the resumption of specie payments on January 1 of the fol- lowing year, the 24,000,000 silver dollars which were coined in 1878 and circulated by means of the silver certificates reduced the demand upon the government for gold. Hence the threat of disaster“now is without Fistorie foundation. “This, then, is what will follow the re- opening of our mints to silver; the gold al- ready in the treasury will remain there, if common sense dictates the treasury man- agement; that is, if the treasurer exercises the option to redeem United States notes ir. silver. A premium on gold will not occa- sion a contraction of the currency, bank hoards of gold continuing to serve as a portion of bank reserves against bank Iia- bilities. A premtum on gold will tend to Increase our exports by causing a higher rate of foreign exchange; that is to say, by yielding a larger net return in dollars on the sale of bills of exchange drawn against goods exported. A premtum will tend to diminish our imports by increasing the cost of bills of exchange with which to pay for scods imported. The tendency of increas- ing our exports and decreasing our !m- Ports will be, frst, to set our spindles run- ning, swell the number of paid operatives, increase their wages, thereby adding to the number and paying capacity of consumers, and thus enlarge our home market for all Lome products and manufacturers, with prosperity in general as the result assured. ‘The tendency of increasing our exports and decreasing our imports will be, second, to eatablish a credit balance of trade for tne United States. A credit balance of trade means that Europe has become our de)tor and must settle with us in money. Europe's silver money is gvervalued in her gold, compared with ours, by from 3 to 7 cents on the dollar. The European merchant or banker will, therefore, make his trade set- tlements with us in gold, more profitable by from three to seyen per cent than in his silver. With the instant that European trade settlements with the United States are made in gold, parity for our gold and silver money is established in the markews of the world. Therewith, the 37125 grains cf pure sitver in our silver dollar and the 23.22 grains of gold in our gold dollir be- come of exactly equal worth, as bullion, in New York.” Mr. St. John’s speech was loudly ap- plauded. A,motion was made that a special com- mittee, consisting of one delegate from each delegation,be appointed to confer with a like committee of the populists for the purpose of settling the differences between the two factions. Half a dozer: men at once began to de- bate the question and much confusion pre- valled. M. L. Olmsted of Oregon said he was a pcpulist, and the papulists were ready to meet the silver men heif way. The objeet was to unite the free silver forces, Half a dozen other delegates spoke in favor of the committee. An amendment was adopted directing the committee to notify the populists of their appointment and requesting them fo ap- point a similar committee. Mr. Turner of Kansas attempted to talk against the motion, but there were howls of “Sit down” and calls for the question. Twenty men got up and attempted to ad- dress the chair. A point of order was raised that Mr. |Turner had already spoken twice and the chair ruled that Turner must cease. Gen. Warner was callec for and replied that he did not oppose the appointment of & committee to confer with the populists, but he thought it would be wise to have a smaller committee to see if the populists would agree to select a similar committee. Mr. Foster of Missouri said he had been appointed one of a committee by the na- tional committee to confer with the popu- list convention, and it had been decided that a more representative committee be appointed. It had been ascertained that the populists were anxious to confer. The general trend of all the speeches was that the great object was to secure an indorsement of Bryan and Sewall for President and Vice President. At every mention of the democratic nominees the delegates cheered. The motion was at length carried by a viva voce vote. The roll of states was then called for the names of the men selected for the conference committee. The con- vention then adjourned till 10 o'clock this morning. Conference Committee Meeting. The conference committee appointed by the silver convention held a meeting as soon as the convention adjourned and dis- cussed a line of action. It was decided that, should the people's party convention select a like committee and agree to a conference, Chairman W. P. St. John of the committee should act as chairman. As soon as he shall have finished, the people's party com- mittee is to be asked what concessions it fs willing to make. After this the silver committee men will take part in the dis- eussfon. As soon as this Hine of procedure had been decided upon, a motion was adopted direct- ing the chairman and secretary to notify the people's party that the silver conven- tion had appointed a committee with a view to conferring with a like committee froth the people's party, in order that both parties might reach, if possible, a common ground. The following letter then sent to the chairman of the people's party convention: Dear Sir: We beg to advise you that, upon tho suggestion that such action would be valued by yourself and associates in the spirit which prompted it, the national silver conyention has unanimously appointed a member from each state delegation, to con- stilute a committee of conference with the people's party convention, and we respect- fully await a response from you. Faithfully yours, (Signed) WM. P. ST. JOHN, Chairman of the convention. ALEXANDER J. WEDDERBURN, Secretary of the committee. It was expected that an anawer would be received before the adjournment of the evening session, and the committee ad- Journed until 10 o'clock. But as the night session of the people's convention was forced to adjourn on ac- count of darkness in the hall, the answer did not come. SELECTED TWO CHAIRMEN. - Donnelly and Campton Chosen by the Populist Steering Committee. The middle-of-the-road men, through their steering committee, took action last night, which will probably have a very important effect on the convention. Early in the evening they selected Ignatius Don- nelly for thcir candidate as permanent chairman, and sent a committee to notify him of his selection. Mr. Donnelly ac- cepted, and it was given out. Later the steering committee held an- other meeting and selected J. E. Campion of Maine as their candidate for permanent chairman. The committee realized it is in a very awkward position, having notified Donnelly and secured his acceprance, but the reasons given for substituting Campion are that the Minnesota delegation and the delegations which the steering committee represented made a. great protest against Donnelly’s selection, many declaring they would not vote for him. It was also stated by members of the committee that Dcn- nelly was a possible candidate for Presi- dent and ought not to be presented for permanent chairman. It was also stated that his selection was very obnoxious to the anti-Catholic element, as it was be- lieved he was a Catholic. Many of the leaders of the middle-of-the-road, and es- pecially Mr. Branch of Georgia, think a great mistake has been made, and that the action of the committee will cost the middle-of-the-road_men many votes in the convention. Mr. Branch is not a member cf the steering committee but has been Prominent among the anti-Bryan forces. CONTESTED SEATS. Long Session ef the Populist Commit- tee om Credentiais. The popultst committee on credentials was in sesston in the afternoon after the ad- journment of the convention and during the greater part of the night. The Colorado contest, involving the seats of the forty-five delegates from that state, was first considered and disposed of. It resulted In the seating of the Patterson or regular delegation, by a vote of 27 to 14. The principal basis of the fight against this delegation was that it was more democratic than populistic, and direct charges were made to the effect that Mr. Patterson, the head of the delegation, was in the habit of consorting with democrats, and was at heart anything but a populist. Mr. Patterson appeared in his own behalf, and, in the interest of his delegation, main- taining his party fidelity and giving in- stances of his support of the populist cause even where he differed from the nomtnees on questions of party policy. The contests from Cook county, IH., covering twenty-two seats, were compro- mised, after a prolonged hearing, by seating both delegations and giving each of the delegates half a vote. The vote in favor of this proposition was 28 to 18. The hear- ing was an animated one, but the same ground was gone over that was covered in thé hearing Tuesday before the national committee, These are the two principal contests, and, having disposed of them, there is no doubt that the committee wiil be prepared to bring in its report when the convention meets, at 10 o'clock today. At midnight the committee was proceed- ing with the hearing in the minor contests. The result in the Colorado case is a victory for the Bryan men, and that in the Illinois case a draw. SILVER PARTY'S PLATFORM. Committee Refused to Inderse the Demoeratic Money Plank. The committee on resolutions of the sil- ver party convention met last night at St. Louis and a subcommittee was ap- pointed to recommend the platform passed in this city at the bimetallic conference in January last. There was a hard fight on the part of General Warner, the Ohio member, for the indorsement of the demo- cratic silver plank fr toto, but by a vote of 16 to 5 the subcommittee reported the following platform. The national silver party in convention assembled hereby adopts the following dec- laration of principles: First. The paramount issue at this time in the United States is indisputably the money question. It is between the gold Standard, gold bonds and bank currency on the one side and the bimetallic stand- ard, ne bonds and government currency on the other. On this issue we declare ourselves to be in favor of a distinctively American finan- cial system. We are unalterably opposed to, the single gold standard and demand the immediate return to the constitutional standard of gold and silver, by the restora- tion by this government, independently of any foreign power, of the unrestricted coinage of both gold and silver into stand- ard money at the ratio of 16 to 1, and upon, terms of exact equality, as’ they existed prior to 1873; the silver coin to be a full legal tender equally with geld for all debts and dues, private and public, and we faver such legislation as will pre- vent for the future the demonetization of any kind of legat tender money by private contraet. We hold that the power te contrel and regulate @ paper currency 12 inseparable from the power to coin money, and hence that al currency intended to circulate as money should be isaued, and its volume controlled by the general government only, and should be Tegal tender. We are uualtarably opposed to the Isaue by the Untted States of tnterest-bearing Lrrma BUFFALO 21 WATER NATURE'S SPECIFIC FOR MALARIA. A FAIR BONA FIDE. PROPOSITION, Any sufferer from Chills and Fever, of however om ing, using these waters at the § rings under the advice of the Resident Physician for six weeks, without obtai relief, have no bill to pay and the physician will be paid by the ‘proprietor. THOS. F. GOODE, Proprietor, Buffalo Lithia Springs, Virginia, 4y16-théetu,1m W.S. Thompson, Agent, 708 15th St. N. W. bonds in time of peace, and we denounce as a blunder worse than a crime the pres- ent treasury policy, concurred in by a re- publican House, of phinging the country in debt by hundreds of millions in the vain attempt to maintain the gol standard by borrowing zoli, and we demand the payment of all coin obligations of the United States as provided by existing laws, in either gold or silver coin, at the option of the governmen:, and not at the option of the creditor. Second. That over and above all other questions of policy, we are in favor of 1 storing te the people of the United States the time-honored money of the Constitu- tion—gold and silver, not one, but both— the money of Washington and Hamilton and Jefferson and Monroe and Jackson and Lincoln, to the end that the American yeo- ple may receive honest pay for an honest product, that the American debior may pay his just obligations in an honest standard, and not in a standard that hes appre>iated 100 per cent above all the great staples of our country: and to the end further that the standard countries may be deprived of the unjust advantage they now enjoy in the difference in exchange between gold and stlver—an advantage which tariff leg- isiation alone cannot overcome. We, therefore, confidently appeal to the People of the United States to leave 4 abeyance for the moment all other cue: tions, however important amd even momen- tous they may appear, to sunder, if need be, all former party ties and affiliations, and unite in one supreme effort to free themselves and their children from the domination of the money power—a power more destructive than any wiich has ever been fastened upon the civilized men of any race or in any age, and upon the con- summation of our desires and cfforts we invoke the gracious favor of Divine Provi- dence. The platform as General Warner sought to have recommended recited that {t had been adopted at the Washington conference which ealled the present convention, and the democratic party had incorporated a plank in its platform in accordance there- with; and further set forth that the silver party's platform should indorse both the democratic platform and nominees. Judge C. R. Scott of Nebraska was on his feet immediately and offered the platform above as a substitute. Dr. Frank Powell of Wisconsin made a speech strongly urging the adoption of the substitute as a distinct silver party plat- fcrm. He said that many silver republicans would not vote for the Warner platform, inasmuch as the democratic party had pessed it, ani en that account would be prejudiced against it. He was followed by G. W. Baker of Cali- fornia, who contended that the democratic candidates would be indorsed, and that was as much as the democrats should insist on. The silver party platform dealt with none but the financial issue, and the republicans with silver inclinations would not vote for a platform made up from the one !n question. General Warner said the democrats adopted practically the same platform as the conference at Washington, and the only change was in the phraseology. It had been adopted to unify the demecrais ond the silverites, and in, his judgment the democratic platform should be indorsea. There were several other speakers along the same lines when Judge Scott made the motion that a subcommittee of five be ap- pointed and instructed to report as indi- cated, and his motion was agreed to. The same subcommittee was authorized to Issue an address to the citizens of tne United States explaining the at silver party. The committee appointed was: G. W. Baker of California, W. H. Harvey of Illinois, Judge C. It Scott of Nebraska, G. W. Thompson of Wash:ng- ton, Hallett Kilbourne of Washiagton, D. C., and Dr. Frask Powell of Wisconsin. BRITISH FLAGS OPPOSED. Resolutions of a Delegate to the Populist Cenventton. An enthusiastic delegate to the populist convention at St. Louis who had noticed the British flags among the hall decora- tions, called at the Associated Press head- quarters and stated that he intended to present the following the first oppo: He said the resolutions voiced the senti- ments of a majority. “Whereas, the British is the only gov- ernment in the whole world interfering with our domestic affairs and dictating our laws, and “Whereas, British influence is debauch- Gladness Comes Wits better understanding of the transient nature of the many phys- ical ills, which vanish before proper ef- for tle efforts—pleasantefforts— rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge, that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual dis- ease, but simply to 8 constipated condi- a of a 8) = wee ise family laxative, ip ii ip ly Sete That is wh ‘tas: the only remedy with millionsof ilies, andis everywhere esteemed so highly by all who value health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that itis the one remedy which tes internal cleanliness without debilitating the ns on which it acts. It is therefore alti in order to get its bene- ficial effects, to note when you pur- ehase, that siuaen te Pees arti- cle, which is mi by the Cali- ude of the | ing our legislators, controlling our legisla- tion and dictating the course of mosi of our politicians, and, if possible, would debauch our people with gold, and “Whereas, the British influence kas such a hold on American traitors and domestic and forsign conspirators, that in, at least the one great essential of sovereignty und independent government, the question of money contracts, our sovereignty has actually been basely and mons:rously - rendered by venal or corrupt Congresses, at the behest and for the benefit of the British creditor class; therefore, be it “Resolved, That the sergeant-at-arms be directed to remove all British flags from this hall; be it further “ResoWed, That we, the American peo- ple, are and of right ought to be free from all British dictation, rule and laws.” eee Mrs. Fleming to Be an Actress? 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