The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-18
AN ADDRESS ISSUED.
Illinois Sound Money DemOcrats Repaid,
Tn. LIZ. tix..I c.<.--a.a-

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| the Lato National Convention.
CHICAGO, July 14-The executive
committee of the gold standard demo-
Gratis of Illinois met in a protracted
session yesterday and prepared an ad-
dress to the democracy of the other
states in the union. 1t was the unani-
nous opinion of the committee that
second democratic national convention
should be called to nominate candi-
dates for president and vice president
The address is as follows:
To Our Fellow Democrats Of Other States:
A national convention. convened under the
constituted authority of our party has just
closed its session in the city of Chicago. 1t en-
tered upon its work by violating all party
precedents in the rejection of a distinguished
democrat as its temporary presiding onicer.
IL deprived sovereign state Of voice in its
deliberations by unseating, without cause or
legal Justification, delegates elected with all
the regularity known to party organization.
1t refused TO indorse the honesty and fidelity
Of the present democratic national adminis-
tration.
1t adopted q platform which faVors the free
and unlimited coinage OF silver by this country
alone at the ratio of sixteen to one, and
thereby it repudiated q time-honored dem
ocratic principle, which demands the strictest
maintenance of a sound and stable national
currency.
Finally, to make it still palmer that. al
though in name, it was not in fact democratic
convention, It nominated for president one who
is not, in his political cOnviotions, and has not
always been, even in his professions. DEM
ocrat.
This has made such crisis. both for the ma
tion and the democratic party that sound
money democrats must at 6nce decide what
political action they will take for the protec-
tion OF the honor of the nation, the prosperity
Of the people and the life and usefulness OF the
party The sound money democrats OF Illinois
have fully made up their minds that new
democratic national convention should be
called for the earliest feasible day to nominate
democratic candidates for president and vice
president. and to adopt a platform Of demo-
cratic prin ciples, and, they desire to state to
their fellow-democrats Of other states their
reasons, as follows:
First-Sound money democrats owe it to the
country to make 1t certain at once that their
revolt against free silver is determined and
will be organized IL Is unfair to oblige the
credit of the nation and| the business and in
dustrial interests Of the people to merely guess
what the sound money democrats will do In
November, and to await until November to find
out.
Second-The nomination of q new ticket is
the logical course. Without it, and sound
money democratic campaign. the whole educa-
tional force of sound money democratic sentt-
ment would be parnlyzed 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 repub-
lican speakers and the republican press, as it
has persistently been done by Mr. Mckinley
himself. Democrats will not listen to lessons
on finance when accompanied by abuse OF the
democratic party. The most effective force at
this time for q campaign Is the force residing
in the sound money democrats: for they are
profoundly in earnest and can get a hearing
from democrats that the republicans cannot
possibly get
Third-A new convention would also pre-
serve for the future the opportunities Of the
democratic party. Unless a clear-cut separa-
tion is made between the genuine democrats
and democrats who are drifting into populism,
are already in populism, and unless that
clear-cut separation is supported by organiza-
tion and a reorgnnized democratic party is the
result, the party has no chance OF regaining
public confidence for years TO come. The sound
money democrats In the different states must
either make it clear that they have no as
ISOLATION with the Bryan party, OF they
must accept association and entanglement
with it and all state organizations will in the
public mind be for it that do not make 1t abso-
lutely clear that they against It. The
sound money democrats are already sufficiently
organized in this state to be able to meet their
fellOw-democrats in q new convention, and are
anxious to confer with representatives Of other
states whenever "A representative conference
can be brought about Communications should
be addressed to Charles A Ewing, chairman.
Palmer house Chicago.
James 4. Sobltt, Adolph Kraus. James NJ.
Sheehan, Charles II Williamson, Lynden Ev-
ans, r. E Spanger. John NJ Palmer, Charles
A Ewing, James H. Eckels, Franklin Mac
Veagh, Ben T. Cable, William s. Forman,
Thomas a Moran, John =. Hopkins, Henry S.
Robbins A A. Goodrich executive committee
of the honest money democracy of Illinois