The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1896-12-11
GOLD MEN DINH.5
Conference as to the Future
Of Their Party.
Henry WattersOn Was the Guest
of the Occasion.
Says Republican Defeat Is But Question Of
Time-Mr Bynum Was Chairman.

Indianapolis, Dec. l1.-The executive
committee OF the national Democratic
party got together late yesterday after
noon. 1t was the first meeting of the
committee since the election, and there
was naturally good many 6ngratula-
tions back and forth. William d. Bynum,
the chairman of the national committee.
was heartily congratulated on all sides
The representatives of the party an
nounce that they are in favor OF main
tanning the organizations. 1t seems
probable that Bynum will be continued
as the head OF the committee, and Will be
authorized To push the work Of the Or
ganization. Mr.. Bynum said that he.
was not certain that he would accept the
trust IL IL should be offered him. He
points out that the work will take all OF
one mans time if II Is done properly
and declares he would not care to remain
at the head of the movement unless he
is authorized to be aggressive.
At the banquet at the Bates House last
night Mr.. Bynum read an address, in
part as follows:
This is the first opportunity we have
had Of congratulating each other and
the country upon the result of the elec-
tion in November.
In glancing over the events of the past
few months IL seems almost incredible
that SO much history could have been
made In 50 short a space of time. The
organization OF a great pational party.
the convening of a convention COM
posed Of 800 delegates, representing
more than 40 states Of the Union, and
the prosecution Of a campaign unsar-
passed In it's educational influence within
No chny-f snacs. of az rn0pfbo fa toi in lv
an achievement which will occupy a
conspicuous page in the political his
tory Of our country
We should not, however, congratulate
ourselves simply upon the rapidity with
which our ranks were formed, the splen-
did parsonage of our convention, the
magnificent platform which II promul-
gated, the matchless eloquence and con-
vipcing logic Of our orators at the hust-
ings, but should exult in the fact that
IL not a dominating power. We were an
Important and influential factor in stay
ing the wild and frenzied sentiment
which threatened to sweep over the
country like a terrible storm. leaving
nothing but evidence Of devastation and
ruin TO mark its course.
We were warned by the self -consti-
tuted leaders Of the so-called regular
combination Of isms that we will never
be permitted to occupy any other than
back seats in their temple. Long before
we shall apply to them for admission
they will be looking for some one with
smattering Of political sagacity and
sincerity to direct the movements Of
their struggling forces.
Mr.. Watterson was introduced and
received with a storm of applause, and
in deliberate tones spoke as follows:
1 am in entire sympathy with the
| movement which has brought you to-
| gether here. or course there are two
| courses open to those Of us who are en-
barked in the movement inaugurated
In Indianapolis-one is to ally ourselves
with the Republican party, by which we
are enabled to elect a president; the
other is to maintain our own organiza-
tion and use it to keep us from both the
| party extremes.
Manifestly we cannot identify our
| selves with the Republican party, be-
cause the Republican party is COM
mitted to a policy the reverse of that
which we ourselves forsook. Assuming
that Mr.. Mckinley is an honest and sin
cere man, 1 take 1t for granted that he
feels himself under obligations as to the
tariff, from which he will be unable to
rid himself. In that event we cannot
follow him.
On the other hand, our movement in
the beginning had for its aim the pre-
scrvation of Democracy pure and un-
defiled. incidentally the election Of Mr..
Mckinley and the defeat of Mr.. Bryan
flowed from our organization, but our
purpose was to lay down to raise the
serpent In the wilderness--to lay down
lines on which the party would be re-
organized after the election, and those
lines i find in the admirable platform
which you adopted here in Indianapolis
If we are to have conservative govern
ment, il we are to have q Democratic
party. ii must be organized on those
lines and none other. st-f
believe If we adhere to this organiza-
tion that In the next is months perhaps
100000 or 1000, 900 Democrats who voted
for Mr.. Bryan Will have no other place
to go than with us, while the rest of
them who followed the Bryan standard
must go over into the camp Of the enemy.
see no reason why In 1900 this organiza-
ton may not be able to dictate terms to
the country At any rate, to that end
we should address ourselves, because IL
the country Is to go on year in and year
out between these two extremes. ram
pant partyism and socialism, 1t is only
a question Of time when this mobocracy
will get into power. / see nothing be-
tween the country and the peril which
menaced 1t in the last campaign except
this.
The Republican party cannot stand
on protection. Protection cannot stand
alone, and never will be able to sustain
itself whenever the country gets crack
at II. And IL the Republican party has
no leader who Is enough like Sir Robert
Peel. 40 or SO years ago, to alter their
lire of policy, II 10 only question Of time
when defeat Will overtake II. Paternal-
Ism is the father OF protectionism. IL is
simply the other horn of the dilemma.
Try Grain-Oi Try Grain-Oi
Al l,dn To al.o a aaaoI.