The position of Populists is shown
by the following preamble and reso
lutions which were endorsed:
Whereas the American Bimetal
lic League has inaugurated a move
ment to sclidifv into one body or
rjartv all individuals favoring bi-
metalism in me
meaning thereby the free coinage of
silver, at the raito of 1G to 1, and
Whereas, the free coinage cf
diver at the ratio of 16 to 1 is i a
principle demanded by the Populist
party, believing that it is ab
solutely necessary to the solution
of the financial difficulties by which
the Government and the people of
the United States are confronted, and
Whereas a number of the so
called leading Democrats, m meet
ing assembled in the City of AN ash
ington, have also issued a manifesto
in which they declare in favor of the
free coinage of silver at the ratio of
16 to 1, and in which they express a
iw,i;f in tliAi-iffhfc of the maiority of
hthe Democratic party in the umt3d
K . . . . . i rf that.
