Evening star., 1896-08-18
FOR A THIRD TICKET
Address to / the Democrats, Of the
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APPEAL TO THE SOUND MONEY MEN
Urged to Send Delegates to the
indianapolis Convention.
JUsTTF1CAT1oN,,@' OF BoLTING


JUSTrF1CAT1ON,,"" OF BOLTING
The executive committee of the national
democratic party met at the Palmer House
in Chicago yesterday, and prepared an ad-
dress to the democracy of the country.
The address prepared by the committee
is as follows. and is call for the conven-
ton to- be held at indianapolis ISeptem-
Der 2: ,.lr ~ -
To the Democrats of the United States:
The democratic party is the only existing
political organization with a history ex-
tending back to the birth of the republic
Party after party has attempted its over
throw. Some have achieved temporary
triumphs. With each. triumph was heard
the prophecy that the democratic party
would surely die. 1t has survived all de-
feats. BY virtue of It's indestructible prin-
ciples it has witnessed the birth and death
of every rival save one, and this. its pres
ent great antagonist with history Of no
more than forty years, had no part III lay
ing the foundations of constitutional pop
ular government. -
For more than a century men of high
principles, noble, ambitious, unselfish and
patriotic aims have adhered to the demo-
cratic party with constancy of devotion
| unparalleled In the history of politics.
For more than century, through good
and evil report, in times of prosperity and
days of adversely, 1t has kept it's faith.
without variab)eness Or shadow Of turn
ing" it has held fast to the fundamental
principles of free government formulated
by its founders. and subsequently enforced
by its great leaders from Jefferson to
Cleveland
Definition of Democracy.
For more than d century no man was
In, hat
mocracy. s-
He who proclaimed himself democrat
defined his principles. He believed, and
this was the cardinal article of his polti-
cal faith, in the ability of every individual,
unassisted, if unfettered by law. to achieve
his own happiness: and, therefore, that to
every citizen there should he secured the
| right and opportunity peaceably to pursue
whatever course of conduct ne would, pro-
vided such conduct deprived no other indi-
vidual of the equal enjoyment of the same
right and opportunity.
He stood for freedom of speech. free
dom of conscience, freedom of trade and
freedom of contract. all of which are i'm
piled by the century-old battle cry Of the
democratic party, Individual liberty AS
consequence, every democrat believed i'll
the rule of law, and tie rule of an impair
tial law, in the unhesifating protection not
only Of the lives of citizGns. but of private
rights and property a1t IN the enforcement
of obedience to duly eoIktituted authority.
Every true democrat -, insisted upon a
strict observance of Lne mandates of the
federal Constitution add of the limitations
therein prescribed, as well as upon a loyal
support of all the iiIstitutions thereby
created to be GUARANTEES of the liberty it
sought to perpetuate.
He. profoundly disbdreRed in the ability
of government through aternal legislation
or supervision to iaciFtasst the happiness of
the nation.
He was opposed I'd all" attempts to con-
jure comfort into the homes of its citizens
or wealth into their pockets
HE ns10ea o THAT it i of
est and stable medium tbf exchange thus
enabling them to transact their business
safely and conveniently ln every mart and
market of the world.- o. ~. >,
He 4eprobated every attempt to supply 10
money by means of Legislation that value
which II can possess only by reason of
those qualities that render 1T acceptable to
the world when unsupported by legislative
fiat.
He believed in the greatest measure of
freedom of trade and industry compa tible
with the necessity to obtain by constitu-
uonal means an adequate revenae for the
support of the government.
de believed in simple, economical. HON
est and efficient administration, to the end
that the prime object of the government
the liberty of the people-should be pre-
served with the least possible resultant
burden and the greatest possible certainty.
With such a record and such a creed, the
President, moreover, being a democrat
elected on platform reaffrming the sonnd
principles of democracy, the democratic
party was called upon to select delegates
TO national convention.
The delegates to the convention held at
chicago We're authorized and had the power
to proclaim a platform embodying their
views of the true solution Of the particular
problems of the government now agitating
the nation, but upon the condition that
platform he Nh
the cardinal principles held by the party
throughout its existence.
These principles constitute the essential
element of the partys life. They distin-
guish 1t frem ali other political organiza-
tions. If they are abandoned the party
ceases to exist.
The Chicago Convention.
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 platform inconsistent with the
partys principles or to any action that
should result in their surrender.
In violation of the trust committed to
them, majority of the delegates assembled
in that convention. ignoring the rights of
the minority, unseated regularly elected
delegates to make places for others In sym
pathy with themselves
They proclaimed a sectional combination
of the south and west against the north and
east.
They fmpeached the honesty and patriot
ism OF President Cleveland, who, under eX-
ceptional embarrassments produced by past
errors of legislation, has heroically MAIN
tanned the honor and integrity of the re-
public
Against the protest Of one-third of the
delegates, they promulgated a platform at
variance with the essential principles of the
democratic party. :-.
This platform is in it's policies dangerous
10 the welfare and life of free government.
1t Is mischieEous in it's tendencies.
But even more threatening and mischiey-
Gus was the spirit of the convention that
adopted 1t, spirit manifested not alone by
its affirmative action, but as well by its
reckless rejection Of every proposition tend
ing to temper the declarations of the con-
vention with conserva tsrn and justice.
The platform proposes tic degrade the coin
OF the United States by means of the free,
unlimited and independent coinage of silver
by our government, and by the exercise of
the power of The nation 10 compel the ac-
ceptance of deprecnSeb. coins at their
nominal nc value, thereby working an injustice
to creditors. defrauding the laborer of
large part of his earnings and savings, rob-