The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-07-24
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Ill,,ois sound Money Democrats Issue an

| Illinois Sound Money Democrats Issue an
Address-Can for a Convention.
CHICAGO, July 15.-The executive
committee Of tho gold standard Dem
ocrats Of Illinois met in a rrotracted
session yesterday and prepared an adj
dress to the Democracy Of the other
states in the union. 1t was the unan-
imous opinion Of the committee that
a second Democratic national conven-
tion should b called to nominate
candidates 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 its ses-
sion in the city Of Chicago. It en-
tered upon it's work by violating all
party presidents in the rejection of a
distinguished Democrat as its tempo
rary presiding officer. 1t deprived a
sovereign state of q voice in
its deliberations by %unseatlug, with"
out cause Or legal justification,
delegates elected with all the
regularity known to party organiza-
ton. 1t refused to indurse the hon
esty and fidelity of the present Demo-
cratic national administration 1t
adopted a platform which favors the
free and unlimited coinage of silver
by this country alone at the ratio of
Is to l., and thereby it repudiates a
time-honored Democratic principle
which demands the strictest mainten-
ance of a sound and stable national
currency. Finally, to make it still
palmer that, although in name, it was
not in fact a. Democratic convention,
it nominated for President one who is
not in his political convictions, and
has not always been even in his pro-
LESSONS a Democrat.
This has made such q crisis, both
for the nation and the Democratic
party, that sound money Democrats
must at once decide what political
action they will take for the protec-
ton Of the honor Of the nation, the
prosperity Of the people and the life
and usefulness Of the party. The
sound money Democrats of Illinois
have fully made up their minds that a
new Democratic national convention
should be called for the earliest FEAST
BILE day to nominate Democratic can
didates for president and vice presi-
dent, and to adopt a platform Of Dem
ocratic principles; and they desire to
state to their fellow Democrats Of
the other States their reasons, as fol-
lows:
THE nomination of a 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. Re-
publicans cannot argue the sound
money question to Democratic voters.
Republican sincerity on that question
is doubted by the mass Of Democrats.
The tariff question will be put to the
front and insisted upon by Republican
speakers and the Republican press, as
it has persistently been by Mr.. Nc
Kinley himself. Democrats will not
companied by abuse of the Democratic
party. The most effective force at
this time for a campaign is the force
residing in the sound money Demo-
Gratis; for they are profoundly in
earnestand car get a hearing from
Democrats that the Republicans can
not 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 a reorganized
Democratic party is the result, the
party has no chance of rsgaining pub
lie confidence for years to come. The
sound 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
association and ENHANCEMENT with it;
and all state organizations will, in
the public mind, be for it that do not
make it absolutely clear that they
are against it.
The sound money Democrats are
already sufficiently organized in this
state to be able to meet their fellow
Democrats in a new convention, and
are anxious to confer with representa-
tives Of other states whenever a rep
Tesentative conference cnn oe brought
about.
communications should be ad.
dressed to Charles A. Ewing, chair
man, Palmer house, Chicago.
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