Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-14
GALL FOR 4 CONVENTION By SeIf-StyIed Sound Money
 Illinois Democrats TO PUT FORTH A TICKET The PreambIes and Set of Why's and Where
 fores Highly Sensational. SOUTH TO BE THE FIGHTING GROUND Hill Gives the Honest (p) Moneyites Black Eye-The Hayes Steal Suggested as
 Precsdent-Sewall Quelches
 Lie.
SOUTH TO BE THE FIGHTING GROUND

Chicago, July 13.-The honest money democracy of Illinois, through it's exec utive committee, issued an address to- night to the democrats of other states, calling upon them to nominate another national ticket and adopt a platform of "sound money" principles, upon which the nominees can appeal to the people of that opinion. This address was author ized at a meeting of the executive com mittee Saturday night and committee of three was appointed to write and issue 1t. This committee met today in the law office or Henry s. Robbins, president of the Illinois Democratic Sound Money league and agreed upon the address, when is as toiows:
 To our eiiow DemocratS Of Other states; A national convention, convened under the constituted authority of our party, has just closed it's session in the city of Chicago. It entered upon Its work by violating all party precedentS in the re- jection or a distinguished democrat as its temporary chairman. It deprived sov- ereign state of voice in it's deliberations by unseating, without cause or legal jus tifcation, delegates elected with all the regularity known to party organization. It refused to indorse the honesty and fidelity of the present democratic na- tional administra tion
 It adopted platform which favors the free and unlimited coinage of silver by this country alone at a ratio of 16 to l, and thereby it repudiated time-honored democratic principle, which demands a strict maintenance of sound and stable national currency.
 Finally to make it still plainer, that although in name it was not in fact a democratic convention, 1t nominated for president one who is not in his political convictions and has not always been even in his professions, democrat,
 This had made such crisis, both TOT the nation and the democratic party, that the sound money democrats must at once decide what political action they will take for the protection Of the honor of the nation, the prosperity of the peo- pie and the life and usefulness Of the barty The sound money democrats or illinois have fully made up their minds that a new democratic national conven- tion should for called for the earliest feasible day to nominate candidates TOT president and vice president and to adopt a platform of democratic prlnci- ples, and they desire to state to their fellow democrats of the other states their reasons, as follows:
 1. The sound money democrats owe it to the country to make it certain at once that their revolt against free silver IS determined and will be organized. It is unfair to oblige the credit of the nation and the business and industrial interests Of the people to merely guess what the sound money democrats will do in NO yember and wait until November to ma out, ,
 2. The nomination of new ticket is the logical course; without it and souno democratic campaign the whole educa- tionai force of sound money democratlc sentiment would be paralyzed from the beeinning Republicans cannot argue the sound money question to democratic voters. Republican sincerity Of that
 4N1 1arr ha masses The tariff question will be put to the front and insisted upon by repup- lican speakers and the republican press, as it has been repeatedly done by MIG Kinley himself. Democrats will not lis ten to the attacks on finance when It IS accompanied by abuse of the democratic party. The most effective force at this time for campaign Is the force residing in the sound money democrats, Tor they are profoundly in earnest and can get a hearing from democrats that the republi- cans cannot possibly get. Without campaign we should not only have no speakers, but our press would be firing in the air and the whole force Of cam paign organization and campaign work CTS in campaign literature and the great power of constant private discussion and appeal would all be lost.
 & new convention would also pre- serve for the future the opportunities of the democratic party. Unless clear comparison is made between the genuine democrats and the democrats who are drifting into populism or are already in popuhsm, and unless that clear cut sepa- ration is supported by organization and a reorganized democratic party is the result the party has no chance of regain ing public confidence for years to come. The sound money democrats in the dlf- ferent states must either make 1t clear that they have no association With the Bryan party or they must accept asso- citation and entanglement with it; and all state organizations will in the public mind be ior it that do not make 1t abso- iutely cluar that they are against 1t.
 4. Democrats who believe in demo- cratic principles must have party. They will have a party sooner or later. The sooner the better. They now have the opportunity to reorganize and keep the democratic party and the interests of the nation imperatively demand that the great democratic party shall be res cued out of popul.sm and keep on it's his toric foundation Tho sound money dem- ocrats are already sufficiently organized in this state to be able to meet their fel- low democrats in a new convention, and are anxious to confer with representa- lives of other states whenever a repre- sentative conference can be brought about We hope that out of the responses to this public statement of the views Of the Illinois democracy there can be gathered so much of the Judgment of the leading "sound money democrats of the United States as can be formulated into plan of action. Communications should be addressed to MT. Charles A. Ewing, chairman, Palmer house. Chicago.
 John M. Palmer, Charles A. Ewing. Franklin Macveagh. Ben T. Cable W. s. Foreman. Thomas A. Moran, John F. Hopkins, Henry s. Robbins. A. A. Good rich. James T. Hoblitt, Adolph Kraus, James M. Sheehan- Charles H. William son, Lyden Evans, R. F. Spangler. exec utive committee of the honest money de- mocracv of Illinois
 This pronunciamento of the gold party of Illinois set the pace for the cast, but in the minds of the leaders there. Is not