The AIU attempted to wield influence upon the Democratic Party at its 1896 National Convention, dispatching a three member delegation to Chicago in July to attempt to insert three planks in the party's electoral platform. These included such traditional Republican themes as establishment of a protective tariff to help eliminate the deleterious effects of "imported goods made by cheap foreign labor" and "honest money...sufficient in amount to transact the business of the country" (a euphemism for gold), as well as a plank calling for arbitration as a means of solving labor disputes. The actual platform only gave a minor tip of the cap to the last of these three proposals, declaring the Democrats to be "in favor of the arbitration of differences between employers engaged in interstate commerce and their employees."