The herald., 1896-08-18
GOLD DEMOCRATS
CONVENTION GALL
Is Issued by the National
Committee
The PhRlY Of ANCIENT Lineage
Holds Fast by the Old
Doctrines
SHEEP WHICH HAVE STRAYED
Are Invited to Return Forthwith to
Their Fold
And to Cease the Chase After Prosperity by
Legislation
The Convention Which Assembled at Chicago
Alleged to Have Abandoned the Prin.
ciples OF True Democracy-Au.
other Candidate Needed
SHEEP WHICH HAVE STRAYED
Are Invited to Return Forthwith to
Their Fold
And to Cease the Chase After Prosperity BY
Legislation
The Convention Which Assembled at Chicago
Alleged to Have Abandoned the Prin.
ciples OF True Democracy-An.
other Candidate Needed
Associated Press Special wira.

Associated Press Special Wire.
CHICAGO, Aug. II. - The executive
committee of the national Democratic
party was in session here today and is
sued the following call for national
convention at Indianapolis:
To the Democrats of the United States:
The Democratic party is the only exist
ing political organization with his
tory extending back to the birth of She
republic. Party after party has attempt
ed its overthrow. Some have achieved
temporary triumphs. With each tri-
umph was heard the prophecy that the
Democratic party would surely die. 1t
has survived all defeats BY virtue Of
its indestructible principles it has wit
messed the birth and death of every
rival save one, and this, it's present great
antagonist, with history of no more
than forty years, had no part in laying
the foundations of constitutional pop
ular government. For more than GEN.
tury men of high principles, noble ambi-
tions, unselfish and patriotic aims, have
adhered to the Democratic party with
a constancy of devotion unparalleled
in the history of politics. For more than
century, through good and evil report,
in times of prosperity and days of ad-
versity, it has kept it's faith.
without variableness or shadow of
turning" it has held fast to the funda-
mental principles of free government
formulated by its founders and subse-
quently enforced by it's great leaders
from Jefferson to Cleveland. For more
than century no man was ever in doubt
as to what constituted Democracy. He
proclaimed himself a Democrat, defined
his principles. He believed-and this
was the cardinal article of his faith
in the ability of every individual, un-
assisted if unfettered by law, to achieve
his own happiness, and therefore that
to every citizen there should be secured
the right and opportunity peaceably to
pursue whatever course of conduct he
would, provided such conduct deprived
no other individual of the equal enjoy
ment of the same right and opportu-
nifty. He stood for freedom of speech,
freedom of trade and freedom of con-
science, and freedom of contract, all Of
which are implied by the century-old
battle cry of the Democratic party, "In-
dividual liberty"
AS consequence, every Democrat be-
lieved in the rule of law and the rule Of
an impartial law, in the unhesitating
protection, not only of lives of citizens.
but of private rights and property and
in the enforcement of obedience to duly
constituted authority. Every true DEM
ocrat insisted upon strict observance
of the mandates of the Federal consti-
tuition and of the limitations therein pre-
scribed as we'll as upon loyal support
of all the institutions thereby created,
to be guarantees of the liberty tsought
to perpetuate. He profoundly disbe-
lieved in the ability of government
trough paternal legislation or supervis-
ion, to increase the happiness of the ma
ton. He was opposed to all attempts
to conjure comfort into the homes Of its
citizens or wealth into their pockets. He
believed that it is the function of gov
ernment to provide the people with an
honest and a stable medium of exchange.
thus enabling them to transact their
business safely and conveniently in
every mart and market of the world.
He reprobated every attempt to supply
to money by means of legislation that
value which it can possess only by
TeSSUlI Ol tHOSe QudillleS lDdL TeIlQer 1t
acceptable to the world when unsup-
ported by legislative fiat. He believed
in the greatest measure of freedom of
trade and industry compatible with the
necessity to obtain by constitutional
meras an adequate revenue for the sup
port of the government. He believed
in a simple, economical, honest and
efficient administration of the affairs of
the nation. to the end that the prime OBJ
ject of government, the liberty of the
people, should be preserved with the
least possible resulting burden and the
greatest possible certainty.
the president, moreover, being a Demo-
crat, elected on a platform re-aftirming
the sound principles of Democracy the
Democratic party was called upon to Sc
lect delegates to a national convention
The delegates at the convention held
at Chicago were authorized and had the
power to proclaim platform embody-
ing their views of the true solution Of
the particular problems of the govern
ment now agitating the nation, but on
the condition that such platform should
be consistent with the cardinal princi-
pies held by the party throughout its
existence. These principles constitute
the essential element of the party's life.
They distinguish it from all other polit-