. Review of reviews and world's work. The Question r. * . J of a committee had contained the follow-Goid piank. -^ pian]c Up0n the money question : The discoveries of gold within the last few years,and the greatly increased production thereof, adding$2,000,000,000 to the worlds supply, of which $700,000,000falls to the share of the United States, have contributedto the maintenance of a money standard of values nolonger open to question, removing that issue from thefield of political contention. When the full committee had finished itswork, there was left no allusion whatever to thegold standar
. Review of reviews and world's work. The Question r. * . J of a committee had contained the follow-Goid piank. -^ pian]c Up0n the money question : The discoveries of gold within the last few years,and the greatly increased production thereof, adding$2,000,000,000 to the worlds supply, of which $700,000,000falls to the share of the United States, have contributedto the maintenance of a money standard of values nolonger open to question, removing that issue from thefield of political contention. When the full committee had finished itswork, there was left no allusion whatever to thegold standard or to any phase of those questionsof currency, banking, and the like that in recentcampaigns had been made so prominent inDemocratic platforms. Since the money ques-tion had formed the one recognized distinctionbetween the Cleveland Democrats and the BryanDemocrats, it was a marked victory for to secure the omission of the gold the sub-committee, this plank had been sus- 134 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF HON. WILLIAM JENNINCiS HltYAN. tained by a vote of 7 to ;>. In the lull commit-tee, on report of Messrs. Hill, Bryan, and Wil-liams, it was rejected by a vote of 35 to 15. The formal proceedings of the conven- PrVcledings iun na oclock the nextmorning, an opening ballot was taken, with theresult that Judge Parker received 658 votes ;Mr. Hearst, 200 ; Senator Cockrell, 42 ; , 38 ; Mr, Wall, 27, and there were a fewscattering votes for several other names. JudgeParker lacked only a few votes of the requisite two-thirds, a
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