The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-08-01
Another State Convention Called.


met at Chicago on Wednesday, pursuant to
the call of c. II. Mccormick lis chairman.
Two years ago, il will 10 remembered, the
democratic state convcntion, called by this
same committee, united with Liberal Re.
publican" convention, called 10 meet at
Springfield the same day the democratic con
vcntOn met, and the two united in nominal
ing ticket with Gov. koerner at It's head.
We believe however, the union of the con-
ventions went no further Than Ia agree on n
ticket, and that the old Democratic State
Committee was continued The committee
consisted Of one member from each congress
ional district and two members for the state
at largc,-C. II. Mccormick was chairman,
and f. L. Merritt, of the Springfield Register,
secretary At tae meeting on Wednesday all
the members were present except six.
The committee after long and full con
conference, in which many prominent demo-
Gratis, liberal republicans, antimonopolists,
&C. not members of the committee, were in
vited to participate like cX-Gov, Palmer,
A. c. Hesing, J. II. Doolittle, jr., $. s. Hays
&c-unanimousy agreed upon issuing call
for state convention, in the following terms:
To the Democracy, Liberals, and all other
Opponents of the Republican Party:
The democratic state central committee, in
pursuance OF the power vested in it by the
democratic convention Of 1872, hereby gives
notice that II state convention will be held in
Springfield, on Wednesday, the 2Gth day Of
August, 1874, at IL Pm
All voters of the state are invited to join in
sending delegates to that convention, who de
sire to promote the following purposes;
/. The restoration OF g)ld and silver as a
basis of the currency of the country; the
speedy resumption of specie payments, and
the payment Of all national Indebtedness in
the money recognized by the civilized world.
2. Free commerce.
3. Individual liberty and opposition TO
sumptuary laws.
4. Rigid restriction of the government, both
state and national, to the legitimate domain
of political power, by excluding thereirom all
executive and legislative intermcddling with
the affairs Of society, whereby nonopolies
arc rostered privileded and aggrandized, and
individual freedom unnecessarily and OPP
prcssivcly restrained.
s. The right ana cc.iuty of the state 10 protect
its citizens from eXtortion and unjust dis
elimination by monopolies.
The committee, believing that opposition
to republican misrulc can harmoni0Q.iy unite
upon the foregoing principles, earnestly in
wife the free cooperation OK all men, regard
less Of past political utilization, in an earnest
effort to place the state and national govern
ments in the hands of men who are actuated
by the principles above enunciatcd
Each county except Cook) will be entitled
to send one delegate from every 500 votes
cast in that county for all the presidential
candidates at the presidential election of 1872.
Each senatorial district in Cook county will
be entitled to send eight delegates in separate
delegations.
The object OF calling this convention is
doubtless to correct the blunder OF the "Indc-
pendent convention at Springfield in the
single matter of undertaking TO unite the OPP
position to repubiicanism on platform con
tanning an ambiguous, lodging sort of half
and half paper.mouey imitation plank, the
of one adopted by the republicans
and also TO give form to some
expression in regard to "sumptuary laws" a
subject which the "Independent" convention
Ignored. The convention can make these
corrections" and yet nominate the same can
didates the Independents have nominated.
We have no doubt Mr. Gore would be entirely
willing to stand upon platform that was
on the subject Of paper money and
laws instead of evading these i'm
portant questions. AS to Mr.. Ettcr, the can
didatc for school superintendent, the office
being entirely non-poitcal, nobody would
be likely to care how he stands on the ques-
tons referred to.
We do not think the proposed convention
at Springfield, which there is no pretcnce of
calling democratic" Aced necessarily place
a third ticket in the field, and thus, instead of
uniting" the opposition TO republicanism,
be the most effective means of dividing it.
The above call is broad enough TO include
men of every shade Of opinion except straight
out republicans, or men craZcd by the teach
inSs of few paper money theorists, and that
class naturally belong TO the Logan Morton
wing of the republican party, IN which all
of them will ultimately muster anyhow.