The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-10
Sacred Heart, MINI.
A FEW SUGGESTIONS.

Editor Representatives:
| am not platform maker-neither
can l always be depended to stand on
any kind of platform, which platform
experts may construct; and from my OBJ
servation of late l think that there is
vast number of electors scattered around
who are in the same condition.
AS platforms and nominations are to
be the order of the day for this and the
ensuing month, l wish to make a few
suggestions for the consideration of sill
yer national conventions, and to this end
address myself personally, so far as l
can. to the individual delegates
assume that it is desirable to unite
;; nppn one candidate for the presidency
and vice presidency, with electors, the
16 to l silver advocates throughout the
United States. To divide is to disheart-
EN- our friends, and to give up the fight
to the epublican-Democratic gold
standard men. To unite, and to avert
this catastrophe, will demand the sacri-
flee of prejudices but not of principle.
The Democratic national convention
which is to meet at Chicago on the eth
of July, so it seems, will be controlled by
large working majority of white metal
supporters. What will the Cleveland
Carlisle ring do?
Will the silver majority nominate can
dates for president and vice presidents
And if yea, will the dual conventions
which are to meet at St. Louis on the 22d
of July, join the procession, and agree
upon one set of presidential electors?
Will the Republican and Democratic
silverites, which meet at st. Louis on the
22d of July, go with the Peoples PARTY
or will it fuse with the Chicago silver
ticket, If one is placed in the field? And
will the Peoples Party go it alone? or
not?
These are questions which naturally
arise, and they are causing intense anx-
iety among our friends.
Mr.. Editor, allow me to suggest plan
at once feasible and easy to carry out
which at least, for a few days, will ease
the situation, and perhaps in the end
prove satisfactory
At the Chicago 7th of July convention
let the delegates meet at the appointed
rendezvous, and organize If the silver
men secure the organization (Which we
assume will be the fact) let it put forth
a financial plank representing the views
of the convention, with an address to the
Democracy of the United States; appoint
a committee Of, say Is, of the representa-
tive delegates who shall be empowered
to meet the conventions at St. Louis on
the 22d day of July, and, in consultation
there, fuse in the choice of national
standard bearers, and on an electoral
ticket for each state. In case of a fail
ure to agree, the committee of Is can
complete the work of the convention or
re-convene it, by placing candidate for
president in the field,-and his name will
be Dennis" to a certainty.
So, too, with the two silver candidates
in the field, the name of each will be
Dennis" after the November election.
The gold standard men are on the run.
A vast responsibility rests on the leaders
OF the silver factions. If personal ambi-
lions and party pride are not subordin-
ated to the cause now, the future is with
out hope. believe that if a union of
our silver strength can be had. that we
can elect our president and a silver con-
gress.
Then the nation will spring into life
under the wise laws which will lift off
the intolerable burden of domestic and
foreign monopoles, -reciprocity and
trade with the world will revive. and we
shall no longer be compelled to go into
the money market to borrow money to
defray the daily current expenses of the
government and to save the national
treasury from collapse. Yours for
HARMONY.
Minneapolis, June, 1896.