The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-03
WISCONSIN DEMOCRATS.

General Bragg and Senator Villas are
not the only Democrats in Wisconsin.
Thev are at the head of the bolt in
that state and are making a great deal
of noise, which noise scares nobody. The
free silver delegates from Wisconsin
who voted for silver have put forth an
address to voters of the state. They
recite the fact that an address has been
published by Edward S. Bragg, Will
liam F. Villas, James Y. Flanders and
]. j. Hogan, the four delegates-at-large,
together with fourteen of the district
delegates, appointed by the last state
Democratic convention of Wisconsin to
represent the state at the recent ma
tional Democratic convention. Then
they say that in response to the urgent
request of representative Democrats
throughout Wisconsin and in the inter
est of the Democratic party, they sub
nit their communication to the con-
sideration of the voters of Wisconsin.
The address is in part as follows:
The eminent gentlemen in their adj
dress complain of the personnel, the
platform and the course at the conven-
ton. The universal custom in the Sc
lection of the temporary chairman of
Democratic national conventions has
been for the national committee to Sc
lect such officer and to submit his name
to the convention for acceptance or re-
lection. The right of the convention to
accept or reject a person selected by the
committee certainly is unquestioned,
and the exercise of that right was no
violation of Democratic rules OF con-
duct. The rejection Of the gentleman
chosen by the committee as temporary
chairman was only a declination on the
part of the convention TO authorize an
official utterance by him of financial
views regarded by the great majority
of the delegates to be undemocratic.
To believe that the delegates from
the Fourth and Ninth districts of the
state of Michigan were unjustly un-
seated would be to regard the utteranee
of prejudiced men superior to the de-
liberate judgment of a majority of the
committee on credentials, the high rank
and integrity of waom has not been
questioned That the state of Michigan
acquiesced in the judgment Of the ma
jority of the committee on Credentials
as approved by the convention by all
its delegates remaining throughout the
convention and participating in its de-
liberationS is sufficient refutation of any
injustice done that state.
The Wisconsin convention held to Sc
lect delegates to the national conYen-
ton empowered a majority of the dele
gates to control the votes of all and
such authority was fully recognized by
the convention on every vote taken in
the convention. 1t was only when the
chairman of the Wisconsin delegation
announced that Wisconsin declined to
vote on the nomination of a candidate
for president that the undersigned ask
ed and obtained from the presiding
officer the privilege of casting their
votes, and, from this decision of the
chairman no appeal was taken by any
delegate from Wisconsin, but they all
remained in attendance at the conyen-
ton.
The Democratic party ever has, and
to the end of its existence ever will,
advocate honest money and oppose its
debasement. To assert that the Chi
cago convention declared in favor of
the citizens of the United
States to receive dollars of only one
half value is wicked Islander. The ma
tional Democratic platform does not
submit to the American people new
ana untrleu system OF Hnance iof adOp-
tion. The great Hamilton and the
greater Jefferson framed the law at the
time of the birth of this nation which |
gave to both gold and silver the right
Of free and unlimited coinage and made |
both these metals fundamental and re-
demption money. The integrity of this |
this Democratic monetary |
system was reiigiously preserved by all |
American legislators from 1882 to 1873. |
In this latter year, when the attention |
Of the American people was diverted |
from the subject, dishonest legislators /
surreptitiously demonetized silver-the |
peoples money. The great American |
nation. without its knowledge or con-
sent, had its monetary system changed I
from bimetallism to gold monomstal-
ism. The functions Of measuring VAL