Omaha daily bee., 1896-05-16
IOWA DEMOCRATS WILL BOLT
Gold Standard Element Will Not Abide
by the Convention.
FREE SILVER MEN IN FULL CONTROL
Preparations Completed by the OPP
posing Forces TO Organize ut Du-
buuue nnd Put n ContcstinE
Delegation Forward.

DES MONIES, May 15.-(Special Tele-
gram.)-The gold democrats of the state
are getting ready to bolt the convention
at Dubuque Wednesday. There is no longer
a doubt that the convention will be over
! whelmngly for free silver. 1t will instruct
! the delegation to Chicago for free silver;
| 1t will place Horace Boies at the head Of
the delegation, and 1t is very likely to in
struct for him as a presidential candidate
The sound money men have not been so
active OF late as the silver faction, but
they are not disposed to accept the inevit-
able. Leaders in this city and elsewhere
| In the state declare they will not stand by
a silver platform, and freely predict bolt
| ing convention. That there will be two con-
| Ventions in progress at the same time, one
OF silver and the other of gold men, and
that two delegations will be sent to Chi
cago, is freely predicted.
j. II. McConlogue Of Mason City. who was
two years ago the democratic candidate
Tor secretary of state, the head of the ticket
has issued an address to the democrats of
the state. He is sound money man and
he attacks Governor Boies bitterly for al
rowing MS name to be used in an effort to
disrupt the party in this state, and calls
attention to the fact that the party has
done more for Boies than it has ever done
Tor any other man in Iowa. OF the gov
t, oinoi present position as leader of the
silver faction he says:
He heads political faction which con-
tains the populistic and anarchistic element
OF not only the democratic party but other
parties, and has at the behest of the secre-
tary Of the democratic state central commit
zee, who dsregarding the trust imposed in
MN by hi9 party, has turned the machinery
OF the party to the PRONUNCIATION of his own
pessimistic views and attempted to force upon
the party doctrine foreign to the party and
Inn %
say that all those of the democratic party
who believe in honest money, who believe in
a stable currency, who believe that the pro-
ducers and laborers of the country should be
PAID In the best money in the world. should
organize in the state and stand by the true
old democratic doctrine of sound money |
do 1t only to save my party from falling into
an error which, as l look at it., will certainly
ruin 1t.
"No delegate to the Dubuque convention
should be bound by its platform for free sill
yer. If he is not for that faction. 1t would
be humiliating to do so and would be dis
grace. not only to the individual democrats,
but would also seriously affect the standing
of the party with the people. Let the sound
money men gather at Dubuque and perfect
an organization. 1t is demanded by the peo-
pie who are not in sympathy with the silver
fad. The life of the democratic party is
threatened and 1t must be saved from utter
ruin, no matter what the cost may be-"
McConlogue demands that the democrats
hold sound money convention separately
of the silver convention. The pronuncia-
mento from which the foregoing quotations
are made has caused great sensation here
and is generally indorsed by sound money
democrats
OTTUMWA, Ia, May 15-(Special Tele-
gram.)-Secretary Walsh has information
that federal officehoders have thrown up
their hands on the Dubuque convention as
far as free silver is concerned and now are
endeavoring to defeat Captain S. B. Evans
for delegate-at-large. Evans, who was Cleve-
lands postmaster here during his first term,
incurred the displeasure Of federal Office
holders by writing an open letter to the
president last year criticsing their action at
Marshalltown. The administration men de-
clare they will be for harmony if Evans is
defea ted, as he is distasteful to them.
DUBUQUE, May 15.-(Special Teegram.)-
Today the delegates were elected to the
democratic state convention here next
Wednesday. Stand for silver 551 against |
1872 The silver men have eight districts |
the opposition and two are doubtful. A |
bolt Is considered certain.