The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-14
Gold Democrats of Illinois Ash
Another Convention.
DON'T Point With Pride to One
Just Held.
ISSUE AN ADDRESS.
Invite Gold Democrats Of Other
States to Jein.
And Have a Gold Convention to
Name Candidates.

Chicago. July 1.-THE executive COM
mittee of the gold standard Democrats
of Illinois met in a protracted session
yesterday and prepared an address to
the Democracy of the other states in
the Union. 1t was the unanimous Opin-
ion that a second Democratic national
convention should be called to nomf-
nate candidates for president andesVice
president. The address is as follows:
To Our Fellow Democrats of Other
States:
A national convention under the con-
stituted authority OF our party has Just
closed it's session in the city OF Chica go.
1t entered upon it's work by violating
all party presidents in the rejection Of
a distinguished Democrat as its tenn
porary presiding officer 1t deprived
sovereign state OF a voice in its deliber-
atiOnS by unSeating without cause or
legal justification delegates elected with
all the regularity known to party or
ganization.
It refused to indorse the honesty and
fidelity of the present Democratic ma
tiOnal administration. 1t adopted a
platform which Favored the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver by this
country alone a the ratio of Is to and
thereby repudiated a time honOrsd
Democratic principle which demands
the strictest maintenance of a sound
and stable national currency. Finally,
to make it still palmer that. although
cratic convention, it nominated for
president one who is not in his political
convictions and has not been even in
his professions, a Democrat.
This has made such crisis, both
for the nation and the Democratic
party. that sound money Democrats
must at once decide what political ac-
ton they will take for the protection
of the honor of the nation, the prosper
ity of the people and the life of the
party, The sound money Democrats Of
Illinois have fully made up their minds
that a new Democratic national con-
vention should be called for the earliest
feasible day to nominate Democratic
candidates for president and vice presi-
dent and to adopt a platform of Demo-
cratic principles; and they desire to
state to their fellow Democrats Of the
other states their reasons. as follows:
First-SOupd money Democrats owe il
to the country to make it certain at
once that their revolt against free sill
yer is determined and will be organized.
Il 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 VIII
Go in November and to wait until No
VEN Der to find out.
Second-The nomination Of new
ticket is the logical course. Without it
and a sound money Democratic cam
paign the whole educational force Of
sound money Democratic sentiment
would be paralyZed from the begin
ming. Republicans cannot argue the
sound money question to Democratic
voters.
Republican sincerity on that ques-
ton is doubted by the mass Of Demo
Gratis. The tariff question will be put
to the front and insisted upon by Re
publican speakers and the Republican
press as it has persistently been by
Mr.. Mckinley himself. Democrats
will not listen to lessons on finance
when accompanied by abuse Of the
Democratic party. The most effective
force at this time for a campaign is
the force residing in the sound money
Democrats, for they are profoundly in
earnest and can get a hearing from
Democrats that the Republicans can
not possibly get.
Third-A new convention would also
preserve for the future the opportuni-
ties Of the Democratic party. Unless
a clear cut separation is made between
the genuine Democrats and Democrats
who are drifting into POpulism. or are
already in POpulism; and unless that
clear cut separation is supported by
organization and a reOrganized Dem
ocratic party is. the result. the party
has no chance of regaining public con
fdence for years to come. The sound
money Democrats in the different
states must either make 1t clear that
they have no associations with the
bryan party, or they must accept assoc
citation and ENHANCEMENT with it, and
all state organizations will in the pub
lie mind be for it that do not make il
absolutely clear that they are against
it. The sound money Democrats are
state to be able to meet their fellow
Democrats in a new convention and
are anxious to confer with representa-
tives of other states when a represen-
tative conference can be brought
about. Communications should be ad-
dressed to Chas. A. Ewing, chairman,
Palmer House, Chicago.
JAMES T. SOBLITT,
ADOLPH KRAUSS.
JAMES NJ SHEEHAN.
CHARLES II. WILLIAMSON,
LINDEN EVANS,
r. E SPANGLER,
JOHN H. PALMER.
CHARLES A. EWING,
JAMES H. ECKELS,
FRANKLIN BIACVEAGH
BEN T. CABLE,
VIM. S. FORMAN,
THOS. A. MORAN.
JOHN P. HOPKINS,
HENRY s ROBBINS,
A, A, GOODRICH,
Executive committee of the gold
money Democracy of Illinois