The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-11

FRIDAY
of the enemy. / see no reason why, in 1900,
this organization 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, rampant party
ism and socialism, it Is only question of
time when mobocracy will get into power.
| see nothing between the country and the
peril which menaced it in the last campaign
except this,
protection. Protection cannot stand alone
and never will be able to sustain itself when
ever the country gets crack at it. And if
the Republican party has no leader wise
enough, like Sir Robert Peel, forty or fifty
years ago, to alter its line of policy, it is
only question of time when defeat will over
lection. 1t is simply the other horn of the
dilemma. We cannot follow the Republican
party on those lines, and therefore I see
way by which we could cooperate with the
Republicans as the Liberal-U -Unionists CO.
operated with the Conservatives. Therefore,
1t is, that heartily agree that this particular
organization, which you have assembled here
TO perfect. should be perfected and that
we should stand by our guns and fight on
that line as long as we are the men we are,
as long as we have following and l be-
lieye that following will increase from dan
to day.
/ have Just returned from long absence
Gnu nave uOI perfected IN my own MIND aQV
details of the work to be done. Doubtless
you yourselves have done So but / shall
throw myself into this fight as warmly and
as earnestly as l ever did in any fight in
my life.
Introducing F. w. M. Cutcheon, of
Minnesota, chairman of the sub-com-
mittee to draft the address, Mr.. Bynum
said:
During the campaign there were few
states tnat were considered doubtful and
In focf s,n4o
among those states was the state of Mime
sofa, the first one that elected delegates to
the indianapolis convention. In fact the del
egation from the state of Minnesota was
chosen on the day the conference first met
In the city of Chicago. We have with us
tonight one of the gentlemen enlisted IN this
l know that you will be pleased to hear
from him and / therefore introduce to you,
Mr.. Cutcheon.
MR.. CUTCHEON HOPEFUL.
Mr.. Cutcheon said: Minnesota was,
as, Mr.. Bynum says, one of the first
states that elected delegates; before it
knew the convention was to be held
1t elected them because-and princi-
pally because-it could not support Will
liam Mckinley for president, not be-
cause it could not support Bryan, for
1t went without saying that it could
not support Bryan. And the Democrats
OF Minnesota, gentlemen, stand today
just where they stood on the 21st of
last July, when they elected their
delegates to the Indianapolis conven-
ton. They are no more willing to-
DAY than they were then to follow the
nag OF socialism, and they are no more
willing than they were then to follow
the banner of paternalism.
don't think anybody can say at
this time, what will be the future
course, what will be the destiny of
this organization. Parties are not made
by the designs of men, they are the
resultant of the kaleidoscope of cir
cumstances. shaken by the hand of
providence and 1T will only be when
the kaleidoscope Of events of the~nex
feW years has been turned and we
have seen it that we can tell what we
can do. We can devise plans for ten
tatdve action. We can determine to
Keep up this organization. There is
nothing else for us to do. We can de-
te1mfne we shall stand by the prin-
clples that were enuciated at Indian
apolls. But as to what the result will
De; as to whether there will be that
reunlting of hands, that gathering to-
gether of the old clans upon some
sound PLATFORM reunion which
know the hearts of all of us are set
upon-whether by the force Of circ,1ni,
stances the great, stubborn Republican
party can be brought to it's knees or
whether we must go on fighting
through the years to come the almost
hopeless battle that some of us have
fought in the past, no one can tell for
the present
We are here to promote our princi-
pies. 1t is not anything to boast about
when we say it, it is merely a fact.
have had a great many bitter hours
over the breaking up and sundering Of
the old ties, and I have not yet aban-
doned all hope that we may yet get
together; that reason may assert
itself in the ranks aof the Bryan De-
mocracy and that a part Of them and
ourselves may come together and
form the old Democratic party once
more. Some of them have gone to the
Populists, few Of them have gone to
the Republicans. but there Is q lot of
them whose hearts are true and who
have always been with US, and I be-
leve that all we have to do is to fight
on with the same old resolution in our
hearts and that, four years from now,
we will be once more a great army
capable Of dividing the SuffrageS of
this country into three parts at least.
1 believe that because it is right and
because / can see in the immediate
future that the policy of this coun-
try will have resolved itself into an
arraignment Of conservatives and
socialists, and if that is true, I care
not where our recruits come from
they have got to come. And SO I be-
lieve that we have a future. and ulti-
mately 1t will be a successful future
and I emphasize that, because 1 be-
1ieve that success to us means the
prosperity of the nation. But if we are
not right why, at least we believe in
our principles and it is our duty to
fight for them.
Others who spoke briefly were j. P.
Hopkins, Of Illinois; Mr.. Peabody, of
New York; w. B. Given, of Pennsyl-
vania; Thomas H. Clark, of Alabama;
Chairman Davies, of the Kentucky
state-~committee; Mr.. Holman, Of
The committee then went into busf-
ness session.
The executive committee at / O'Clock
issued the following:
STATEMENT ISSUED.
The executive committee of the National
Democratic party this evening decided not
to issue an address at the present time, but
gave out the following statement:
The National Democracy will permanently
maintain its organization in full vigor in
the states in which party machinery already
exists and will endeavor to perfect organiza-
tions in those states in which such DO not
exist 1t will at once open and maintain
permanent national headquarters in the city
Of New York
These headquarters will be in charge of
the chairman of the national committee, who
will give his immediate supervision and so
much of his time as may be required to the
work that may be undertaken by the commit
tee. That work will comprise not only the
perfecting and extending Of the political or
ganzation, but the disseminating Of infor-
nation and the forming Of opinion upon po-
prepared and circulated under the direction
of the committee, and of addresses to be de-
livered by prominent speakers under its
auspices. 1t will be the endeavor of the
moi nr1xy In nr1f7r1 n1,@a