Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-07-17
They Tell a Most Narrowing
Tale Of Woe.
like sSnnchO tSanza fitting at the
windmill, They VIII Endeavor TO
DO Something which Common
sense should Long Ago Have
Taught Them was Impossible -
Haste. Left We Perish.v

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committee Of the gold standard Demo-
Gratis of Illinois met in a protracted ses.
sion today and prepared an address 10
the Democrats of other states of the
Union. 1t was the unanimous opinion
of the committee that second national
convention should be called to nominate
candidates for president and vice presi-
dent. The address is as follows:
ITO our fellow Democrats of other
states:-
"a national convention, convened un-
der the constituted authority of our par
ty, has just closed it's session In the city
of Chicago It entered upon its work
by violating all party presidents in the
rejection of distinguished Democrat
for temporary presiding officer.
alt deprived a sovereign state of a
voice in It's deliberations by unseating
without cause of legal justification dele
gates elected with all the regularity
known to party organization.
at refused to endorse the honesty
and fidelity of the present democratic
national administration.
at adopted a platform which favors
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
by this country alone at the ratio of 10
to I and thereby it repudiated a time
honored democratic principle, which de-
mands the strictest maintenance of
"Finally, tc make it still palmer that,
although in name it was not in fact a
democratic convention, it nominated for
president one who is not in his political
convictions and has not always been
even in his professions democrat.
This has made such crisis, both for
the nation and the democratic party
that sound money democrats must at
once decide what political action they
will take for the protection of the honor
of the nation, the prosperity of the Peo-
pie and the life and usefulness of the
party. The sound money democrats of
Illinois have fully made up their minds
that a new democratic national conven-
ton should be called for the earliest
feasible day to nominate democratic
candidates for president and vice presi- |
dent, and to adopt platform of demo-
cratic principles---and they desire to
state to their fellow democrats of other
states the reasons, as follows:
"First-Sound money democrats owe |
it to the county to make it certain at
once that their revolt against free silver
is determined and will be organized. 1t |
is unfair to oblige the credit of the ma
ton and the business and industrial in
terests of the people to merely guess |
what the sound money democrats will |
do in November and to wait until No
vember TO find out.
"Second-The nomination of new
ticket is the logical course. Without it
and sound money democratic cam
paign, the whole educational force of
sound money democratic sentiment
would be paraly zed from the beginning.
Republicans cannot argue the sound
money question to democratic voters.
Republican sincerity on that question is
doubted by the mass of democrats.
The tariff question will be put to the
front and insisted upon by republican
speakers and the republican press as it
has persistently beer by Mr.. Mckinley
himself Democrats will not listen to
lessons OF finance when accompanied by
abuse by the democratic party. The
most effective force at this time for
is the force residing in the
sound money democrats; for they are
profoundly in earnest and can get
hearing from democrats that the repub-
licans cannot possibly get.
"Third-A new convention would
also preserve for the future the oppor
tunities of the democratic party. IN
less a clear-cut separation is made be
tween the genuine democrats and dem
ocrats who are drifting into popnlism
or are already in Populism; and unless
that clear-cut separation is supported by
and recognized party is
the result, the party has no chance OF
public confidence for years to
come. The sound democrats in the
different states must either make it clear
that they have no association with the
Bryan party, or they must accept asso-
citation and ENHANCEMENT with it, and
all state organizations will, in the public
mind. be for it that do not make it abso
lutely clear that they are against it.