The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-07-14
VAIL OF GOLDOCRATS
An Address From Illinois to Voters
Of the United States.
THERE'S A CRISIS COMING
The Chicago Convention Didn't En-.
dorse Cleveland's Admlnlstra-
tlon, II Snubbed Hin and
Adopted a silver Plank.

Chicago July l3-The executive COM
mittee of the gold standard democrats
OF Illinois met In a protracted session
to-day and prepared an address To the
democrats of other states OF the union.
1t was the unanimous opinion Of the
committee that a second national con-
vention should be called TO nominate
candidates for president and vice pres
ident. The address Is as follows: ITO
our fellow democrats OF other states:
A national convention convened under
the constitutional authority Of our par
ty has just closed its session in the city
of Chicago. Ii entered upon Its work
by violating all party precedents In the
rejection of q distinguished democrat
as its temporary presiding officer. IL
deprived sovereign state OF a voice In
Its deliberations by unseating. without
cause or legal justification. delegates
elected with all the regularity known
to party organization. 1t refused to en-
dorse the honesty and fidelity OF the
present democratic administration. II
adopted platform which favors the
free and unlimited coinage Of silver by
this country alone at the ratio OF 16
to ]. and thereby II repudiated n time
honored democratic principle which de-
mands the strictest maintenance OF a
sound and stable national currency.
Finally to make II still palmer, al
though In name II was not I'm fact a
democratic convention, II nominated
for president a man who Is not, In his
political convictions and has not al
ways been even in his professions. a
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 ac-
tion they will take for the protection of
the honor Of the nation. the prosperity
OF the people and the life and useful
ness Of the party.
THE sound money democrats Of I'LL
nois have fully made up their minds
that a new democratic national con-
vention should be called for the earliest
feasible day to nominate democratic
candidates for president and vice pres
ident and to adopt a platform OF DEM
ocratic principles. and they desire to
state to their fellow democrats OF other
states their reasons as follows: First
Sound money democrats owe 1t to the
country to make It certain at once that
their revolt against free silver Is de-
termined and will be organized, 1t Is
unfair to oblige the credit OF the ma
tlon 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
vember TO find out. Second-The NOM
ination OF a new ticket Is the logical
course. Without II and n sound money
democratic campaign the whole educa-
tional force of sound money democratic
sentiment would be paralyzed from the
beginning. Republicans cannot argue
the sound money question to democrat
ic 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 n
press, as II has persistently been by
Mckinley himself. Democrats. will not
listen to lessons on finance when ac-
companied by abuse OF the democratic
party. Thlrd-A new convention would
also preserve at future the oppor-
tunities OF the democratic party.
Unless a clear-cut separation is
made between the genuine democrats
and democrats who are drIting into
populism or are already populists. and
unless that clear-cut separation Ia sup
ported by organization and reorgan-
ICED democratic party is the result. the
party has no chance Of regaining pub
lie confidence for years to come. The
sound money democrats In the different
states must either make II clear that
they have no association with the Bry-
an party. or they must accept asso-
citation with It; and all state organiza-
tions will. In the public mind, be for IL
that do not make II absolutely clear
that they are against II. The sound
money democrats all are sufficiently or
ganized In this state to be- able to meet
their fellow DEMOCRATS In a new con-
vention. and are anxious to confer with
representatives Of other states when
ever a representative conference can be
brought about