Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-06-09
CLEVELAND'S FRIENDS.
New York Democrats in Line for
HIM at Syracuse.
Anti-HfI Men Condemn the February
Convention and Resolve to Sup
port the Ex-President at
Chicago.

York held an anti-Hill convention at
| Syracuse on May 81, and proclaimed
| their determination to work for their
candidate at the coming national con-
vention, and denounced the Hill con-
vention in February last as an abuse
| of trust and violation of democratic
rights in the state. During the meet
| ing John ID. Herman, of Oneida county,
temporary chairman, spoke as follows:
This convention is halt in the march TO the
| national democratic convention at Chicago of an
| army OF 10000 New York democrats. and Of as
| many more enlisted sympa thizers. They go TO
| wage war against their disfranchisementin that
convention by leaders who have made unwise
| and crafty use of party machinery for personal
| ends, and who have overridden time-hOnored
customs and usages of the democratic party.
We claim that the call for and manipula ton
! OF the February convention was an abuse of
trust and violation of democratic rights in this
state: that its proceedings then misrepr esented
| a large clement of DISTINGUISHED democrats and
| now misrepresent an overwhelming sentiment,
| which since then has grown TO vast proportions
| throughout the state. II our strength did not
lie in the will Of the people the sun would shine
at midnight before the loyal democratic rank
and file of this state would don the garb Of con-
testants and give to this cause its unprecedent-
| ed growth and its clearly marked intensity Of
purpose.
The February convention was mistake from
every standpoint; in some respects ii was a
crime, indictable at Chicago Such conventions
according party usage, are held in April, late
or more usually in May; none in modern times
was ever held 50 early. No one before ever at
tempted to put the party in a hole by such a
device as February convention.
AT that season of the year caucus material is
scarce and generally confined TO the bad quality
that does some ones bidding When days are
short nights long. roads drifted, and the ma
tional convention four months distant, the duty
and political occupation OF democrats in this
state. as elsewhere, is TO watch ard weigh the
drift of events to be students OF every phase Of
passing political history, to seek conviction and
to draw inspiration from the air currents of
democratic sentiment that sweep over the
country.
The delegates Of that convention go to urge
what the politicians wanted in February; the
delegates of this convention TO state what the
people in New York want now They will
shout for sham regularity, and the forms,
shadows and coverings of things. We will
plead that justice, equity and the substance of
democracy be recognized as having the better
title They will suggest that danger of defeat
in November will darken the pathway which
they do not dictate. We will insist that the as
surance of certain victory will brighten the
road whereOn democrats will march after that
convention. behind its banner, upon which shall
be written in letters of living light sound demo-
cratic principles and the name of a candidate of
whom those principles shall be bone OF his
bone anu Htsl Oh his HtSEr whoever NE may Dt
II we to fight guns for Ill they are
worth. who but Cleveland should command the
battery: Who should stand at the helm when
the old ship sails into safe and pleasant waters
in November next, with victory's flag flying at
her mas thead, hut he who stood upon her Prov
in the midst of danger. when the winds and
waves of tempestuous days sought her destruc-
ton.
As drove one night with Gov Seymour from
a political meeting asked him whether he ever
l-t,s foil
ure. Speaking with that earnestness which has
so often aroused democrats when he stood be-
fore them in this very city in all the genial
grandeur. of his magnificence manhood, he
said:
NO, sir have no such fear the ballot box
under universal suffrage, is the safest tribunal
for the decision Of political questions ever de-
vised by the wit of man: the people are slower
in their perceptions, but, in the end, are nearer
right in their conclusions than any selected body
of men ever can be
That is the kind OF democratic faith that actu-
ated Grover Cleveland when he trusted the peo-
pie in 1897
The demands Of those who believe in these
democratic principles, which are century old
and have been forged in contests from Jefferson
to Cleveland, are these:
They demand sound currency. in which silver
shall have fair play, but not policy which
shall attempt to protect against gold bugs" by
creating silver bugs, nor pay such a bounty
to silver producers as to force a day laborer to
accept sl.20 worth of coin for work worth
ECO. Labor must be paid par in value, no mat
ter what metal is used
They demand not the prayerful and sniveling
pretenses of Wanamaker, but practical civil
service reform, wherein fitness shall be the
chief recommendation for official position;
wherein offensive partisanship shall be cause
for removal, and whereunder administration.
subject to these limitations, shall be in the
hands of its friends and not of its enemies.
They demand broad and just pension policy
which shall, however, protect the treasury from
frauds and sharks
A striking difference between the republican
and the democratic party is this: The republic
an press and party sang hymns of praise and
during the orgies of the billion
dollar congress, because the policy of the party
was being carried out, the surplus left by Cleve-
land vanishing, the need for tax reduction
was disappearing and the conscience of the
party approved, and was serene. When, how
ever, a democratic congress takes step in that
direction the democratic press and its followers
growl and call a halt.
Such extravaganza goes against the grain of
democracy and is regarded a sin to be re-
pented of: for this reason is it that the demo
cratic party is at heart treasury guardian
against extravagant tendencies in or out of
itself.
After denouncing republican fraud,
corruption. political tyranny and the
tariff the platform says:
The recent change in the policy of the repub
lican party from a general system of high tariff
taxes to the reciprocity system is admission
Of the vast benefits to re derived from the
tension of our foreign trade and of the justice
Of the tariff reform principle
We approve the use of both gold and silver as
money, and we demand that all dollars, whether
gold or silver. shall be equal in value to each
other in fact well as by declaration of law.
We are opposed to the free coinage OF silver by
the United States alone at the existing rate OF
sixteen to one. because believe that free
coinage at that ratio will result in the immedi-
ate disappearance of gold from the business of
this country, and the of silver will entail
loss TO every wageearner and every savings
bank depositor, with impairment of credit and
disastrous disturbance of business of every
kind We demand the repeal of the Sherman
silver bill of 1890 obstruction of interna-
tionsl bmetallism and because it Is rapidly
bringing this country to silver monometalllsm,
with all of its attending evils
We recognize the necessity of an organization
through which the party may direct its energies.
but when such an organizatio claims to be the
party itself instead Of its instrument, when il
supFresses the voice and represents the desire
Of the party when il calls the caucuses at unac-
seasons and upon insufficient notices,
when, regardless of the votes cast, it places |
upon the convention and admits to the conven-
ton only those who, without respect to the |
voice and wishes OF their constituents will |
agree in advance to support the scheme and |
olgarchy it has established when il gives no |
tees in advance that they who will not agree to
be as subservient will not be admitted-then it |
ceases to be representative, creates discomfort |
arouses resentments and imperils the success of |
the party. In this emergency ii becomes the |
duty of the original elements of the party to |
take such notice will restore to it just rela-
tons between its members and their agents. |