Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-18
AN ADDRESS ISSUED.


the Late National Convention
CHICAGO, July 14-The executive
committee of the gold standard demo-
Gratis of Illinois met in a protracted
session yesterday and prepared an adj
dress TO the democracy of the other
states in the union. 1t was the unani-
nous opinion of the committee that a
second democratic national convention
should be called to nominate candi-
dates for president and vice president
The address is follows:
To Our Eellow-Demecrats of Other States:
national convention convened under the
constituted authority of our party. has just
closed its session in the city of Chicago 1t en-
tered upon its work by violating all party
democrat as its temporary presiding officer.
1t deprived a sovereign state of q voice in its
deliberations by unseating, without cause or
legal 1ust1fcation, delegates elected with all
the regularity known to party organization
1t refused to indorSe the honesty and fidelity
of the present democratic national admins
tration-
1t adopted platform which favors the free
and unlimited coinage of silver by this country
alone at the ratio of sixteen to one, and
thereby it repudiated tlme-honored dem
ocratic principle. which demands the strictest
maintenance of sound and stable national
currency.
though in name. it was not in fact democratic
convention, it nominated for president one who
is not. in his political convictions, and has not
always been, even in his professions. a DEM
ocrat
This has made such crisis. both for the ma
ton and the democratic party that sound
political action they will take for the protec-
tion of the honor of the nation, the prosperity
of the people 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 convention should be
called for the earliest feasible day to nominate
president, and to adopt a platform of demo-
cratic prin ciples, and, they desire to state to
their acknowledgements of other states their
reasons, as follows:
FirSt-Sound money democrats 1t to the
country to make it certain at once that their
revolt against free silver is determined and
will be organized. Tt is unfair to oblige the
credit of the nation and the business and in
dustria1 interests of the people to merely guess
what the sound money democrats will do in
November, and to await until November to find
out.
Second-Tho nomination of ticket is
the logical course. Without it, a sound
money democratic campaign. the whole educa-
t1onal force of sound money democratic Sentf-
ment would be paralyzed from the beginning
Republicans cannot argue the sound money
question to democratic voters. Republican
sincerity that question is doubted by the
mass of democrats. The tariff question will
be put to the front and insisted upon by repub-
Gcan speakers and the republican press, ii
has perSistently been done by Mr.. Mckinley
himself. Democrats will not listen to lessons
on finance when accom- panied by abuse of the
dem ocratic party. The most efectiye force at
this time for a campaign is the force residing
in the sound money democrats for they are
profoundly in earnest and can get hearing
from democrats that the republicans cannot
possibly get
Third-A convention would also pre-
serve for the future the opportunities oil the
democratic party. Unless clear-cut sepa
tion is made between the genuine democrats
and democrats who are drifting into populism
are already in populism- and unless that
clear-cut separation is supported by organiZa-
tion and reorganized democratic party is the
result, the party has no chance of regaining
public confidence for years to come The sound
money democrats in the different states must
either make it clear that they have
ISOLATION with the Bryan party. they
must accept association and entang lement
with it and all state organizations will in the
public mind be for it that do not make it abso-
lutely clear that they against it. The
sound money democrats are already sufficiently
organized in this state to be able to meet their
fellow-Gemocrats in new convention, and are
anxious to confer with re representatives of other
states whenever representative conference
can be brought about Com unications should
be addressed to Charles A Ewing. chairman
Palmer house, Chicago
James L. Soblitt, Adolph kraus, James M
Sheshan, Charles H Williamson, Lynden Ev-
ans R. E Spangler. John NJ. Palmer, Charles
A. Ewing. James H Ecl1els. Franklin Mac
Veagh, Ben T. Cable, William S Forman
Thomas A Moran. John 2. Hopkins, Henry S
Robbins A A Goodrich executive COMMITTEES
of the honest money democracy of Illinois