Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-07-18
HONEST MONEY DEMOCRACY
They Tell a Most Narrowing
Tale o. Woe.
Like SanchO PAnza fitting at the
Windmill, They viii Endeavor TO
do Something which Common
Sense should LOnE Ago Have
Taught Them was Impossible -
Haste, Left We PerIshI''

Chicago, July I3.-The executive
committee of the gold standard Demo
Gratis of Illinois met in a protracted SEES.
sion today and prepared an address 10
the Democrats of other states of the
Union. 1t was the unanimous opinion
of the committee that second national
convention should be called to nominate
candidates for president and vice presi-
dent. The address is as follows:
ITO our fellow Democrats of other
states:-
"a national convention, convened un.
der the constituted authority of our par
ty, has just closed its session In the city
of Chicago 1t entered upon its work
by violating all party precedents in the
rejection of distinguished Democrat
for temporary presiding officer
alt deprived sovereign state of a
voice in ITS deliberations by unseating
without cause of legal justification dele
gates elected with all the regularity
known to party organization.
ut refused to endorse the honesty
and fidelity of the present democratic
national administration.
alt adopted platform which favors
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
by this country alone at the ratio of 16
to and thereby 1t rcpudiated time
honored democratic principle, which de-
mands the strictest maintenance of a
sound and stable national currency.
"Finally, to make 1t still palmer that,
although in name it was not in fact a
democratic convention, 1t nominated for
president one who is not in his political
convictions and has not always been
even in his professions democrat.
This has made such a crisis, both for
the nation and the democratic party
that sound money democrats must at
once decide what political action they
will take for the protection of the honor
of the nation, the prosperity of the peo-
pie and the life and usefulness of the
party. The sound money democrats of
Illinois have fully made up their minds
that new democratic national conven-
ton should be called for the earliest
feasible day to nominate democratic
candidates for president and vice presi-
dent, and to adopt platform of demo-
cratic principles---and they desire to
state to their fellow democrats of other
ha foti
"First-Sound money democrats owe
1t to the county to make 1t certain at
once that their revolt against free silver
is determined and will be organized 1t
Is unfair to oblige the credit of the ma.
ton and the business and industrial in
terests of the people to merely guess
what the sound money democrats will
do in November and to wait until No
yember to find out.
"Second-The nomination of new
ticket is the logical course. Without 1t
and sound money democratic cam
paign, the whole educational force of
sound money democratic sentiment
would be patalyzed from the beginning.
Republicans cannot argue the sound
money question TO democratic voters
Republican sincerity on that question is
doubted by the mass of democrats.
The tariff question will be put to the
front and insisted upon by republican
speakers and the republican press as It
has persistently beer by Mr.. Mckinley
himself. Democrats will not listen to
lessons Oh finance when accompanied by
abuse by the democratic party. The
most effective force at this time for a
campaign Is the force residing In the
sound money democrats for they are
profoundly In earnest and can get
hearing from democrats that the repub-
licans cannot possibly get.
"Third-A new r.
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