The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-07-16
AN ADDRESS ISSUED TO THE
GOLD STANDARD DEMO
Gratis OF THE UNION.
.NFW DEMOCRATIC TICKET WANTED.
A Step Looking to the Calling of Sound
Money Democratic National Con-
vention Taken by Sound Money
Democrats of Illinois.

Chicago, July 13.-The executive COM
mittee of the gold standard Democrats of
| Illinois met in prOtracted session today
and prepared an address to the Demo-
cracy of other states in the Union. Ii
was the unanimous opinion of the COM
mittee that Il second Democratic 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
under the constituted authority of our
party has just closed its sessions in the
city of Chicago. 1t enters upon its work
by violating all party precedents in the
rejection of distinguished Democrat as
temporary presiding officer. 1t deprived
Il sovereign state OF voice in its delibera-
| tons by unseating without cause or legal
| justification delegates elected with all the
! regularity known TO party organization.
| 1t refuses to endorse the honesty and
| fidelity of the present Democratic ma
| tional administration. 1t adopted plat
| form which favors the free and unlimited
coinage of silver by this country alone at
| Il ratio of 1G to |, and thereby it repudiat-
ed time-honored Democratic principle
which demands the strictest mainten-
| ance of sound and stable currency.
FINALLY, to make it still palmer that,
although in name, it was not in fact II
Democratic convention, it nominated for
president one who is not in his politics
and has not always even in profession
| been a Democrat.
This has made such crisis both for
the nation and the Democratic party that
sound money Democrats must at once de-
| eide what political action they will take
| for the protection of the honor of the ma
| ton, the prosperity of the people and the
| life and usefulness Of the party.
THE sound money Democrats of Hi
nOis have fully madeup their minds that Il
new national Democratic convention
should be called for at the earliest feast
| bic day to nominate Democratic candi-
dates for president and vice president and
| to adopt platform of Democratic prin-
ciples, and they desire to give to the
Democrats of the other states their
reasons as follows:
"First-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 obige 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 No
vember and wait until November to find
out.
"Second-The nomination of new
ticket is the logical course. Without it a
sound money Democratic campaign, the
whole educational force of sound money
Democratic sentiment would be paralyzed
from the beginning.
Republicans can not argue the sound
money question to Democratic voters. Re
publican 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 speak
ers and the Republicans as it has been
persistently by Mr.. Mckinley himself.
Democrats will not listen to lessons on
finance, accompanied by abuse of the
Democratic party. The most effective
force at this time for Il campaign is the
force resting in the sound money Demo-
Gratis. for they are profoundly i'll earnest
and can get hearing from Democrats
which the Republicans can not possibly
get.
'Third-A new convention will also
preserve for the future the opportunities
of the Democratic party. Unless a clear
| cut separation is made between the gen
uine Democrats and Democrats who are
drifting into Populism or are already Ill
Populsm and unless a clear-cut separa-
ton is supported by organization the
party has no chance of regaining pubic
| confidence for years to come. The SOUND
money Democrats in different states must
either make it clear they have no asso-
citation with the Bryan party or they
must accept association and entangle-
ment with it, and all state organizations
will, in the public mind, be for it that dc
not make it absolutely certain whether
they are against it. The sound money
Democrats are already sufficiently organ
| lied in this state to be able to meet their
felloW-Democrats in new convention
and are anxious to confer with represen'
tatives of other states whenever repre-
sentative conference can be brought
about. -
JOHN M.PALMER.
CHARLES e. WING.
JAMES II. ECKELS.
FRANKLIN MVEAGH.
BEN Y. CABELL
civilian S. FOREMAN.
THOMAS MORAN.
John HOPKINS.
HENRY s. ROBBINS.
a. A. GOODRICH.
JAMES r. HOBLITT.
"ADOLPH KRAUSS.
JAMES SHEEHAN.
"CHARLES II. WILLIAMSON
"R. Il. SPANGLER.
Executive Committee of the Hones
SC,