The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-14
All Party Precedents Violated
at the Convention Held
in Chicago.
TALK OF PROTECTING THE GOOD
NAME OF THE NATION.
Secretary Carlisle Said to Be the
Ideal Candidate of the Dis.
SenterS.

CHICAGO, ILL, July 13.-The honest
money Democracy OF Illinois, through its
executive committee, issued an address to-
night to the Democrats of other States,
calling upon them to nominate another
National ticket and adopt platform of
''sound money" principles upon which
the nominees can appeal to the people of
that opinion. This address was author
lied at a meeting of the executive COM
mittee Saturday night and committee of
three was appointed to write and issue it.
This committee met to-day in the law
Office of Henry S. Robbins, president of
the Illinois Democratic Sound Money
League, and agreed upon the address,
which is as follows:
| To our fellow Democrats of other States:
National Convention, convened under the
| constituted authority of our party, has just
closed its session in the city of Chicago. 1t
| enters upon its work By violating all party
precedents in the rejection of distinguished
Democrat as its temporary presiding officer.
II deprived sovereign State of a voice in
| its deliberations by unseating, without cause
or legal justification, delegates elected with
all the regularity of party organization.
! 1t refused to indolse the honesty and fdel-
| ity OF the present Democratic National admin
IStEdt1Ou II auOpteQ WHICH IdVOIS
| the free and unlimit tied coinage OF silver by
| this country alone at ratio OF 16 to l, aud
thereby it repndiated me-honored Demo-
cratic principle, which idczRapds the strict
main ntenance of sound and stable National
currency.
Finally to make it still palmer that al
| though in name it was not in fact Demo-
cratic convention, it nominated for President
one who is not in his political convictions and
/ has not always been even in his professions q
| Democrat
This has made such crisis, both for the
| Nation and the Democratic party, that the
| sound money Democrats must at once decide
| what political action they will take for the
protection of the honor of the Nation, pros.
perity of the people and the life and useful
ness of the party.
| The sound money Democrats of Illinois have
| fully made up their minds that g new Demo-
cratic National Convention should be called
| for the earliest feasible day to nominate Demo-
| cratic candidates for President and Vice -Presi-
dent and to adopt platform of Democratic
principles; and they desire to state to their
| fellow-Democrats OF the other States their
| reasons, as follows:
| First-The sound money Democrats owe it to
the country 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 Nation and the business and
industrial interests of the people to merely
| guess what the sound money Democrats will
do in November, and wait until November to
find out.
Second-The nomination of q new ticket is
the logical course; without it, and sound
| money Democratic campaign, the whole edu-
eational force of sound money Democratic
sentiment would be paralyzed from the begin
ming. Resolutions cannot argue the sound
money question to Democratic voters. Repub-
lican sincerity on that question is doubted by
the Democratic masses. The tariff question
will be put to the front and insisted upon by
Republican speakers and the Republican
press as it has been repeatedly done by Nc.
Kinley himself Democrats will not listen to
talks on finance when it is accompanied by
abuse of the Democratic party. The most
effective force at this time for campaign is
the force residing in the sound money Demo-
Gratis; for they are profoundly in earnest, and
can get hearing from Democrats that the
Republicans cannot possibly get.
Without a campaign we should not only
have speakers, but our press would be
firing into the air; and the whole force Of
campaign organization and campaign workers
in campaign literature and the great power of
constant private discussion and appeal would
all be lost
Thlrd-A new convention would also pre-
serve for the future the opportunities of the
Democratic party. Unless a clear comparison
the Democrats who are drifting into PopuIism
or are already in Populsm, and unless that
cIear-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 no
association with the Bryan party or they must
accept association or ENHANCEMENT with it;
and all State organizations viii in the public
mind be for it that do not make it absolutely
clear that they are against it.
Fourth-Democrats who believe in Demo-
. cratic principles must have party. They now
!. have the opportunity to reorganize and keep
the Democratic party, and the interests of the
Nation imperatively demand that the great
Democratic party shall be rescued out of Pop
ulism and kept on its historic foundation.
The sound money Democrats are sufficiently
organized in this State to be able to meet their
. fellow Democrats in new conven ton and are
anxious to confer with representatives of
| another State whenever representative con.
ference can be brought about. We hope that
out of the responses to this public statement
of the views OF the Illinois Democracy there
can be gathered so much of the judgment Of
the leading sound money Democrats of the
United States as can be formulated into q plan
t of action. Communications should be ad.
dressed to Charles A. Ewing, Palmer House,
Chicago.
John A. Palmer, Charles A. Ewing, James H.
Eckels, franklin MacVeagh, Ben 7. Cable,
: William S. Forman, Thomas A. Moran. John
P Hopkins, Henry S. Ro bblns, A. L. Goodrich,
} James T. Hoblitt, Adolph Kraus, James M.
Sheehan. Charles Il. williamson Lyndeu