The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-11
NATIONAL wENG OF THE PARTY
To STAND BY IT'S
GUNS.
GENERALIZATION IN ORDER.
FIRST MEETING OF THE LEADERS
SINCE THE VICTORY WAS
WON.
FUTURE OPENS BRIGHT BEFORE 1T
Ringing Addresses Delivered by
Cutcheon, of Minnesota, Chair
man Bynum and Watterson.

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 10.-The ex-
ecutive committee of the National Dem
ocratic party got together late this aft
ernoon. The Eastern and Southern
members of the committee did not ar
rive until noon. Among those who
were here for the first session were:
w. B. Haldeman, Louisville; c. M. Da-
Wis, of Louisville; John P. Hopkins,
Chicago; G. V. Holman, of Maine; c..
B. Clark, Of Alabama, who represents
J. M. Faulkner, member of the COM
mittee from that state; George Foster
Peabody, Of New York; F. w. NJ.
Cutcheon, ST. Paul; Mr.. Spellman, New
Orleans, and William P. Given, of
Pennsylvania, who came as the repre-
sentative of John S. Bullitt, the men,
ber of the committee from that state.
L. G. Krauthoff, of st. Louis, was un-
able to get here, and at his request,
John r. Wilson, Of this city, repre-
sented him in the committee meeting.
1t was the first meeting Of the mem
bers Of the committee since the cleo
ton, and there were naturally a good
many congratulations back and forth.
William D. Bynum, chairman Of the
national committee, was heartily con-
graduated on all sides.
This afternoon the following resolu-
tions, introduced by Mr.. Haldeman, of
Kentucky, were adopted:
That in the death Of the Hon. John
R. Fellows, the nation has lost one Of its
distinguished citizens and greatest orators
the National Democractie party, a wise and
efficient member and an able leader, and that
We extend to the family of the deceased the
profound sympathy of the executive commit
tee Of the National Democratic party.
Resolved, That in the death of the Hon.
Charles A. Wing, a distinguished Democrat
and citizen of Illinois, the people Of his state
and of the country have suffered serious
loss and the National Democratic party a
wise, active and leading member.
The banquet this evening, in ad-
d1tiOn to those who were present at
the after meeting, was attended by q
number Of gold standard sympathizers
in this city. Among those present were
Walter Kessler Louis Rowland, Sterl-
ing Holt, Evans Wolten, Albert Lieber,
George c. Tanner and Allen Conduit.
1t was $50 o'clock when the guests
had done sufficient justice to the elab
crate spread to throw the doors open
to the press. Mr.. Bynum arose and
without preface read the following ad-
dress:
This is the first opportunity we have had
-
upon the result Of the election in Novem-
Der. In glancing over the events of the
past few months, 1t seems almost incredible
that so much history could have been made
on so short space Of time. The reorganiza-
ton of the great national party; the converting
of convention composed Of nine hundred
delegates, representing more than forty states
of the Union; and ths prosecution of cam
paign, unsurpassed in its educational in
huence, within the short space of three and
half months, is certainly an achievement
which q ho
political history Of our country.
We should not, however, congratulate our
selves simply upon the rapidity with which
our ranks were formed; the splendid person
age Of our convention, the magnificent plat
form which 1t has promulgated, and the mach
less eloquence and convincing logic of our
orators at the hustings, but should exult in
the fact that, if not a dominating power We
were an important and
INFLUENTIAN FACTOR.
in staying the wild and frenzied sentiment
which threatened to sweep over the country
like a terrible storm, leaving nothing but
evidences Of devastation and ruin to mark its
course.
We did not, it is true, in the presence Of
this impending danger, stop to consider
whether the road we should travel in de-
Tense of the peace and prosperity of the
great body Of the people and of the nations
honor, might be strewn with the fragments of
a disrupted party; it was enough for us to
know that our duty to our country demanded
of US whatever sacrifice was required to ac-
complish the defeat of the Chicago platform
and Its candidates. Without arrogating to our
rselves superior virtues or exalted patriotism,
we proud to be distinguished from those
who had no higher conception of the duties
and responsibilities of citizenship than to
support policies which they believed and
covertly admitted, if successful would
bring disaster and ruin upon millions of
people, simply because they were promulgated
under the forms of past regularity. We are
warned by self-constituted leaders Of the so
called regular combination of %sisms'' that we
well never be permitted to occupy any other
we shall apply to them for admission they
VIII be begging for some with q smatter-
ing Of political sagacity and sincerity to d.
rect the movements of the struggling forces.
My friends, 1t was not intended at the time
this meeting was called that it should be
anything more than business gathering
Our good fortune. which has attended US in
every step we have taken from the beginning
of our labors, however, still abides with us,
and we are on this occasion favored by the
presence of one who, though absent. from
our shores when the battle was at It's height
was not so far but the sound of his bugle's
blast was heard throughout the land and in
spired the courage of the cohorts of true
Democracy to more heroic efforts. You are
not only impatient, but the people of the
whole country will be pleased to hear him,
and |, therefore, propose a toast to our dis
tinguished guest-Hon. Henry Watterson of
Kentucky, the fearless champion of the prin-
tariff for revenue.
Mr.. Watterson was received with a
storm of applause and in a deliberate
tone spoke as follows:
If it has been given out that am to deliver
what is called address, I am not respon-
sibe for that misconception. for l have no
address prepared. and l am not sure that
much need be said on an occasion like this
am in entire sympathy with the movement
which has brought you. together here. Of
course there are two courses open to those
of us who are embarked in the movement in
augurated here in Indianapolis-one Is to
ally ourselves with the Republican party
by which we were enabled to elect pres
ident. The other is to maintain our own
organization and use 1t to keep us from both
the party extremes
Manifestly we cannot identify ourselves
with the Republican party, because the Re-
publican party Is committed to a policy the
reverse OF that which we ourselves forsook
Assuming that Mckinley Is an honest and
sincere man, I take 1t for granted that he
feels himself under obligations as to tariff,
from which he will be unable to rid himself.
In that event we cannot follow him. On the
had for its aim the preservation Of Dem
ocracy pure and undehled. (Great applause.)
incidentally the election OF Mr.. Mckinley
and the defeat of Mr.. Bryan flowed from
lay down-to raise the serpent in the wilder
ness-to lay down lines which the party
could be reorganiZed after election and
those lines / find in the
ADMIRABLE PLATFORM
which yoy adopted here in indianapolis. II
we are to have a conservative government,
if we are to have a Democratic party, Ii must
be organized on those lines and none other.
I believe that Il we adhere to this or
ganizatien, that IN the next eighteen months,
perhaps million and a half, or Two millions
OF Democrats who voted for Mr.. Bryan will