The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-19
A Split at Chicago Would be
Suicidal.
SO GOV. CAMPBELL THINKS
Democrats Are Urged to Stand
Together.
AND LET THE MAJORITY RULE
The Distinguished Ohio Leader Draws
a Practical Lesson From the
Result of Boiling in
Kentucky.

Kentucky.
ssAre YOU to be candidate for the
Presidential nomination at Chicago?'
was asked ex-Gov James E. Campbell,
of Ohio, yesterday, as the Post re-
porter encountered that distinguished
Democrat at the Capitol.
You may say with all the clear
emphasis that English is capable OF
that [ am not and will not be can
didate for the Presidential nomina-
ton at Chicago; nor will my name be
placed before the Democratic conyen-
tion.'
That settled the point. One glance
into the clear. frank eye of Ohio's once
Governor showed the sincerity of his
words and the firmness of the pur-
pose he announced. Ex-Gov. Camp
bell is not candidate for a White
House nomination.
Continuing on the general condi-
ton of the Democratic party. Gov.
Campbell said:
every true Democrat should, how
ever. rally at this crisis about the
standard of the party. This talk of
a possible split should cease. These
be trying times for the Democracy.
The party has met three bitter de-
feats since the victories of 1892. Its
skills not to ask why, or blow in the
ashes of the past for reasons now.
Those defeats have torn and strained
and weakened us. liz they are to be
followed by split in the convention
and desertions at the polls then are
the days of Democracy numbered and
the end is at hand. / say it with
firmness, for it is my unqualified be-
lief that should the party be split at
the ChicaW convention the party has
met its death.
ut is for that reason that | exhort
every true man of the faith TO stand
by the Democracy throughout the
next campaign. We may fail, but let
us fail and fall together Do not let
rs annihilate the party in advance by
the suicide of split.
GO TO CHICAGO PLEDGED.
Every man who goes as delegate
to the next convention should go
there pledged to support the candi-
date and accept the platform or that
convention. No matter who may be
named to make the canvass: no mat
ter what the platform may contain,
they should be accepted, and the only
hope of party continuation lies in
their acceptance. A delegate who
goes to Chicago with the intention to
stay If the majority agree with him
and accept his candidate or make his
platform. whether on finance, tariff,
or what else: who means to bolt it
his notion Of men and measures is
voted down, is a traitor In advance.
He has no business in the convention.
He should stay at home.
II prescribe no medicine / will not
take. For myself / will say through
the Post that, whatever the Chicago
platform and whoever the candidates,
I will support both with heart and
strength and vote the ticket without
a mark. + have my views on finance
as full and clear as any man. Yet
say to you that If next summers
Democratic convention declares for
gold recommendation and against sill
yer in any form for all time, and then
names an utter gold bug as the candi-
date for the Presidency, / will give
my full and faithful support to the
ticket and do my best to put II
through.
IF. on the other hand. the platform
declares for independent free silver
coinage 10 10 1--siIver recommendation,
if You please and the utter death Of
gold as d money metal, and selects can
dislates TO correspond, yet will | give
my heartiest support to the ticket and
work with zeal and ardor to secure
q victory.
"Yet j believe both of these propos-
ais of finance would be wrong. | do not
agree with either. But il the party is
10 live. If it ii ever to see national
success again, men must learn that
rninorities must yield TO majorities, and
that the treason of bolt and split must
be done away.
LESSON FROM KENTUCKY.
.'Take the situation at Frankfort as
d sample do not agree with Black
burn, we will say, in his views on fin
ance But had | been Democrat in
the Kentucky Legislature / would have
voted for him And those Democrats
who refused to vote for Blackburn af-
ter he was made the caucus, and there
fore the party nominee, to put it mild
ly, did wrong and mistook their mis-
sion mlgntilN IL the same IacIlcS are
TO obtain at Chicago that We're fash
ionable with certain so-called Demo
Gratis at Frankfort, if men are to bolt,
if split is to follow because the candi-
date or the platform does not meet the
hopes Of some hot minority, whether
it be gold or silver minority, the
destruction of the party has come.
Il was born Wing and raised q Re-
publican, and became Democrat with
my eyes open'and with reasons for the
hope within me. / became q Democrat
because / believed and still believe that
it II the party Of the common people
as against party of an aristocracy
and has within its keeping that ark o.
political covenant which guarantees
70 tie people Of this country the rights
and liberties granted by the Constitu.
tion The Democratic party is the par
tY of the people as against the Repub