The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1896-08-22
THEIR CALL ISSUED
GOLD DEMOCRATS MAKE AN APPEAL
TO THE PEOPLE.

Anti-silverites Asked to Organize and
Send Delegates to Inaianapolis-Minne-
apolis Man Selected For sergeant-at-
Arms Of the Convention.
CHICAGO, Aug 18.-The executive
committee Of the National Democratic
party was in session during the day and
issued call for national convention
at Indianapolis Sept. 2. The call first
reviews at length the history Of the
Democratic party, which 'has for
nearly century kept its faith without
variableness or shadow Of turning"
OF the Chicago convention the call
says:
The delegates to the convention held at
Chicago were authorized and had the
power to proclaim platform embodying
their views Of the true solution Of the par
ticular problems Of the government now
agitating the nation, but upon the condi-
ton that such platform should be con-
sistent with the cardinal principles held
by the party throughout it's existence.
These principles constitute the essential
element Of the party's life. They dis
tinguish it from all other political organ
izations. If they are abandoned the party
ceases to exist. 1t was, therefore, not
within the power of any majority of the
delegates assembled at Chicago to bind
the Democrats of the United States to q
platform inconsistent with the party's
principles, or to any action that should re-
sulsin their surrender.
Conventiou Do,nos Denonnced.
In violation of the trust committed to
them majority of the delegates assem-
bled in that convention, ignoring the
rights of the minority, unseated regularly
elected delegates to make places for others
in sympathy with themselves. They pro-
claimed a sectional combination of the
South and West against the North and
East They impeached the honesty and
patriotism of President Cleveland, who,
under exceptional embarrassments pro-
duced by past errors of legislation, has
heroically maintained the honor and in
tegrity of the republic. Against the pro-
test of one-third Of the delegates they pro-
mulgated platform at variance with the
essential principles of the Democratic
party.
This platform is in it's policies danger
Gus to the welfare and life Of free govern
ment. 1t is mischievous in it's tendencies.
But even more threatening and mischiev-
Gus was the spirit of the convention that
adopted it, spirit manifested not alone
by it's affirmative action, but as we'll by it's
reckless rejection of every proposition
tending to temper the declarations of the
convention with conservatism and justice.
Regarding the silver Question.
The platform proposes to degrade the
coin of the United States by means of the
free, unlimited and. Independents coinage
of silver by our government and by the
exercise of the power of the nation to COM
pei the acceptance of deprecated coins at
their nominal value, thereby working an
injustice to creditors, defrauding the la
borer of a large part of his earnings and
savings, robbing pensioned soldiers Of q
part of their pensions, contracting the
currency by the expulsion Of gold coin
from circulation, and injuring, if not de-
stroying, domestic trade and foreign COM
merce.
While proposing to advocate policy Of
bimetallism, it censures the present Dem
cratic administration for maintaining the
parity Of gold and silver. 1t proposes to
reduces this country to q condition of sill
yer monometallism, with it's vacillating
and unreliable standard of values, and
tends to bring the farmer, the wageearner
and the salaried man to the wretched con-
dition of the same classes in countries in
which the silver standard prevails, and
where the rewards of agriculture and la
Dor are lower than anywhere else in the
world.