The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-08-22
THE GOLD DEMOCRATS
GALL OF THE NATIONAL PARTY
FOR A CONVENTION.
NtII he Held at Indianapolis for the
Purpose of Nominating An
other Ticket.

Chicago, Aug 1.-THE executive COM ,
mittee of the national democratic party !
was in session mere today, and issued the /
following call for national convention
at Indianapolis September 2:
ITO the Democrats of the United States:
The democratic party is the only existing
political organization which is in history
extending back to the birth Of the repub-
lie. Party after party has attempted It's
overthrow. SOM nave acnIeved temper
airy triumphs. With each triumph was
heard the prophesy that the democratic
party would surely die. 1t has survived
all defeats. BY virtue of its indestrucuDie
principles it has witnessed the birth and
death of every rival save one, and TINS
its greatest antagonist, with history Oh
no more than 40 years, which had no
mart in laying the foundation of the con-
stitutional popular government.
For more than a century men OF high
principles, noble ambitions and unselfsn
and patriotic aims, have adhered to the
democratic party with constancy Oh
devotion unparalleled in the history Oh
politics. For more than a century,
through good and evil report, in times Oh
prosperity and days of adversely 1t has
kept it's faith without variableness or
shadow of turning, it has held fast to the
fundamental principles of free govern
nent formulated by its founders, and
subsequently, enforced by It's great lead.
ers, from jefferson to Cleveland.
For more than century no man was
ever in doubt as to what constituted de-
nocracy. He who proclaimed himself
democrat, defined his principles. He be-
rteved, and this was the cardinal article
OF his political faith, in the ability OF eV-
= cry individual, unassisted, unfettered py
law, to achieve his own happiness, and
therefore that to every citizen there
should be secured the right and opportun-
ity to peaceably pursue whatever course
of conduct he would, provided that such
conduct deprived no other individual OF
the equal enjoyment of the same right
and opportunity. He stood for freedom
of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom
OF trade and freedom of contract, all OF
which are implied by century-old battle
cries of the democratic party, individual
ffberty.'
"As a consequence, every democrat be-
neved in the rule of the law, and the rule
Of an impartial law, in unhesitating pro
lection not only of the lives of citizens
but of private rights and property, and il
the enforcement of obedience to duly con
stituted authority. Every true democra
insisted upon a strict observance of thu
mandates of the federal constitution, an'
OF the limitations therein prescribed, al
well as upon the loyal support of all insti
buttons thereby created to be guarantee
OF the liberty it sought to perpetuate. IL
profoundly disbelieved in the protection
of government through paternal legisla
ton or subversion, to increase the happl
ness of the nation. He was opposed t
all attempts to conjure comfort into tn
homes of it's citizens or wealth into til
pockets He believed it is the function O
the government to provide the peopl
with an honest and stable medium of eS
change, thus enabling them to transao
their business safely and convenient
IA every mart and market Of the world.
HE deprecated every attempt to de
priye money, by means of legislation, {
that value by which it can only posses
those qualities that render it acceptabl
10 the world, when supported by legislf
tive fiat. He believed in the create:
measure of freedom of trade and indus
try, compatible with necessity, to oil
tain to a platform inconsistent with ii
party's principles or to any action ths
should result in their surrender.
In violation of the trust committed
them, a majority of the delegates a
sembIed in the convention, ignoring Il
rights of the minority, unseated reg
larly elected delegates to make plac
for others in sympathy with themselve
The proclaimed a sectional combinatiC
of the south and west against the nor
and east. They impeached the homes
and patriotism of President Clevelan
who, under exceptional embarrassment
produced by past errors of .legtslauo
has heroically maintained the honor a.
integrity of the republic. Against Il
protest of one-third OF the delegate
they promulgated a platform at varian
with the essential principles of the dem
cratic party. This platform is, IN
policy dangerous to the welfare and Ii
of free government. 1t is mischievous
its tendencies. But even more threateni
and mischievous was the spirit OF t
convention that adopted it, a spirit mai
tested not alone by it's affirmative acti
but as we'll by it's reckless rejection
every proposition tending to temper
declarations of the convention with &C
servatism and justice.
THE platform proposes to degrade
coin of the United States by means
the free and unlimited and independe
coinage of silver by our government, a
the exercise by constitutional means
an adequate revenue for the support
the government. He believed in 81
ple, economical, honest and efficient