The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-06-20
They Issue An Address to the American
People Settling Forth Their Principles.
TELLER NOMINATED FOR PRESIDENT.
Sae Go Set Forth as n NOu.SeetIonal
Man of the People, nnd Deserving
of the support of All Who he
licvc I'm Free Silver Coinage-Sena.
COR Dubois Is I'm Control.

st. Louis, June 19-At the secret con-
ference OF the boiling silver delegates
yesterday and hast night, after much
careful consideration, an address to the
people of the United States was agreed
upon and authorized to be given to the
y; ess. Whildt the address contains much
in the MANURE of silver coinage argu-
ment, the concluding paragiapns show
the determination of the boiting dele
gates to bring about the nomination II
possible of Senator Henry NJ. Teller, of
Colorado. as the candidate for the Pres
tdency on platform having for It's, car
dinal principles the free and unlimited
colrage of silver. The address is as
follows:
To the People of the United States:
Obeying the call of duty and justified
by tho common citizenship of this Re-
public, we address this address to the
people and the forthcomME conventions
of the United States. In doing So we
clai's no authority or right other than
that which belongs 10 every man TO oX-
press personal conviction, but we re-
spectfully Solicit the cooperation of all
who believe that the thine has come for
return 10 the simpler and more direct
method of naming men for national SER
vice than has obtained in recent years
Political party organization iS neces-
sary because without 1t the Individual
voter is dumb, but the pan.y is only
the means, not the end; 1t is the voice
and not the serse.
AS the world advances In this wonder
ful epoch of intellectual development
and physical Improvement, there is a
constant requirement for better things.
The individual feels that requirement
and heeds It, or he fails In lifes endea-
Nors. Parties must also obey the same
law. 1t follows, therefore, that the
moment party shall choose to stand
still or rdtrogres; 1t IS no longer efficient
IA 30, ,4..l. q l.
are necessarily destined. There Is no
sanctity in mere party name. and the
mark of decay Is set on individual
strength In a nation where the alb solut e
rule of political Organization forces men
from the truth for the sake of eXpedien-
cy, ana establishes insincere submission
20 partisan rule for the sake of power
recognizing the value and the splend-
Id achievements of political parties in
this country as elsewhere we are yet con-
strained to believe that for more than
twenty years no one of them has been
entirely sufficient for the needs of the
people. The great trend to better
Things, resting In the heart and purpose
OF oil men. has been stayed during the
latter part of this generation by the
1allure or parties to express in their
achievements the highest hone and aspi-
ration Oh the mass of the people who con-
stitute the parties. And there has been
growing in this country-swelling with
each recurrence of national elections
great mass of independent thinkers and
voters, which failing within Itself to
control. has gravltated between the two
great parties.
Since 1872 excepting possibly the cleo
non OF 1870 the pendulum has swung
Iiom side TO side with each four years.
IN lef2 the Republican party elected the
PRESIDENT; in 1876 the Democracy claim
ed the election; In 1880 the Republican
party elected; in 1884 the Democrats
eiected; In 1883 the Republicans elected ;
III lS92 the Democrats elected: In 1896
luhNi within few weeks) It had been
conceded that the Republicans would
eject. What has been the cause of the
Hiishty oscillation of mass which this
year has probably obtained controlling.
proportions? Every man cam answer
10 himself During all this period we
nave lacked great constructive adj
mlnlstration. No new social truth has
been put forward in an effective way.
While In all the departments of physical
lie there have been developments and
achleVements or ease and comfort to the
favored or mankind, in the still greater
and more important domain of social re-
form we have either stood still or RET
rogressed
After arguing at considerable length
the Justice of sivcr's cause. the improve
heip. IN the condition of the masses
which would be effected by its rehabI-
tatlon, the address continues:
With this In view we offer to the
lorthcomsng convention and to the peo-
PIE the name of n man for the Presi-
saency of the United States whose life
IN public and in private represents those
virtues which adorned the days and
oeeds OF the earlier time of this Republic,
d return to which virtues Is requisite fo,
ohe prosperity and contentment OF The
peopie, and the perpetu.ty and COM
nhamurhg example OF free institutions.
fhat man Is Henry NJ Telle,.-a man
OF the people and for the people. He is
VI. no section. His experience and SER
VICE his devotion to the common tus-
tice ana the commons cause of his fellow
ellIHenS mas been as wide as the coun-
Try: We believe that the people of the
united States have him in their hearts
as ne has had their interests in his pur-
life" VI OIL eNai'eu
Dated at st. Louis. June 49, 1896.
(Signed)
FREDERICK Dubois, Idaho: r T.. Petit
grew, South Dakota: Frank ]. Cannon.
Otah; Charles s. Hartman, Montana.
clarence 10. Allen, Utah; Ben Rich.
Idaho; A. s. Robinson, Idaho: r. a.
Cleveland, Nevada Wills Sweet Ida
no; a. b. Campbell, Idaho; Archie M
stevenson, Colorado; Enoch Strother.
nevada; James NJ. Downing, Colora do !: