The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-14
DEMAND A NEW CONVENTION.
PARTY OWES 1T TO ITSELF AND
TO THE COUNTRY TO
ACT.
FIRST FORMAL MANIFESTO ISSUED.
Honest Money Democrats of IIIi-
nOis Ask the Co-operation of
Other Anti-Silver States.


IL the union. 1t was the unanimous
opinion of the committee that Sec
ond 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 con-
vened under the constituted authority
Of our party, has just closed It's ses-
sion in the city Of Chicago. 1t entered
upon its work by violating all party
precedents, in the rejection Of a dis
tinguished Democrat as it's temporary
presiding officer; 1t deprived a SOW
ereign state Of voice in its delibera-
tions by unseating without cause or
legal justification, delegates elected
with all the regularity known to party
organizations. 1t refused to indorse
the honesty and fidelity Of the present
Democratic national administration
1t adopted a platform which favors the
free and unlimited coinage Of silver by
this country alone at the ratio Of 16 to
1, and thereby 1t repudiated time
honored Democratic principle which de-
mands the strict 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, it nominated
for president one who is not in his DO
litical convictions and has rot always
been even in his professions, a Dem
ocrat
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-
ton 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 Illinois have fully made
up their minds that new Democratic
national convention should be called
for the earliest feasible day to nomin-
ate Democratic candidates for presi-
dent and vice president, and to adopt
a platform of Democratic principles
and they desire to state to their fellow
Democrats of the other states their
reasons as follows:
Sound money Democrats owe 1t to
the country 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
interests of the people to merely guess
what the sound money Democrats will
do in November, and to wait until
November to find out
The nomination of new ticket is
the logical course. Without it and a
sound money Democratic campaign the
whole educational force of sound
money Democratic sentiment would be
paralyzed from the beginning. Repub-
icans cannot argue the sound money
question to Democratic voters Repub-
lican sincerity on that question is
doubted by the mass Of Democrats.
The tariff question will be put to the
front and insisted upon by Republi-
can speakers and the Republican press,
as 1t has persistently been by Mr. Nc
Kinley himself. Democrats will not
listen to lessons on finance when ac-
companied by abuse Of the Democratic
party. The most effective force at this
time for a campaign, Is the force re-
siding in the sound money Democrats;
for they are profoundly in earnest and
can get hearing from Democrats that
the Republicans cannot possibly get
"A new convention would also pre-
serve for the future the opportunities
of the Democratic party. Unless a
clear cut separation is made between
the genuine Democrats and Democrats
who are
DRIFTING INTO PoPULIsM,
or are already in populism; and unless
that clear-cut separation is supported
by organization and reorganized
Democratic party is the result, the
party has no chance OF regaining public
confidence for years to come The
scCnd money Democrats in the differ
ent states must either make it clear
that they have no association with the
Bryan party, or they must accept as
ISOLATION and ENHANCEMENT with it:
and all state organizations will, in the
public mind, be for it that do not make
1t absolutely clear that they are against
it The sound money Democrats are al
ready sufficiently organized in this
state to be able to meet their fellow
Democrats in a new convention, and are
anxious to confer with representatives
Of other states whenever a representa-
tive conference can be brought about
Communications should be address,
5 cd to Charles A. Ewing, chairman,
Palmer House, Chicago.
John M. Palmer.
Charles A Ewing.
James H. Eckels.
Franklin Mackeagh.
Ben T. Cable.
William s. Forman.
Thomas A. Moran.
John B. Hopkins.
Henry S. Robbins.
A. A. Goodrich.
James T. Hoblitt
-Adolph Kraus
James M. Sheehan.
Charles H. Williamson
-Lynden Evans
-R. E. Spangler.
Executive Committee of the Honest