Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-07-18
MAKE AN APPEAL.
Illinois Sound-Money Democrats
Want a New Ticket.
They Urge the Calling of Another Com
vcntion In AN Address to Their Fell
lows of Other States-Oniy Way
to Preserve the Party.

| democracy of Illinois, through its exec
utive committee, issued an address Mon
day 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 adj
dress was authorized at a meeting of
the executive committee Saturday night
and committee of three was appointed
to write and issue it. This COMMITTEES
met Monday in the law office of Henry
| 6. Robbins, president of the Illinois
Democratic Sound Money league, and
agreed upon the address, which 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 session in the city
of Chicago. 1t entered upon its work by
violating all party precedents in the re-
| lection of a distinguished democrat as Its
temporary presiding officer.
ut deprived n sovereign state of voice
in its deliberations by unseating, without
cause or legal justification, delegates elect
ed with all the regularity known to party
organization.
'It refused to indorse the honesty and
fidelity of the present democratic national
democracy.
"It adopted a platform which favors the
free and unlimited coinage of silver by
this country alone at a ratio of sixteen to
| one, and thereby il repudiated time-hon-
| orcd democratic principle which demands
the strict maintenance of sound and sta
BILE national currency.
FINALLY, to make 1t still palmer that,
although in name, it was not in fact a dem
| ocrat convention, 1t nominated for presi-
dent one who is not in his political convic-
tions, and has not always been even in his
| professions, n democrat.
This has made such crisis, both Tor the
nation and democratic party, that the
| sound-money democrats must at once de-
| eide what political action they Will take Tor
the protection of the honor of the nation,
| the PROSPERITY of the people ana the lie
| and usefulness of the party.
THE sound-money democrats of Illinois
| have fully made up their minds that new
democratic national convention should be
called for the earliest feasible day to NOM
| mate democratic candidates for president
| and vice president and to adopt platform
| of democratic principles; and they desire
| to state to their fellow democrats of the
| other states their reasons, as follows:
| ~ The soundmoney democrats owe 1t
| TO the country to make it certain at once
| that their revolt against free silver isdeter-
mined and will be organized. 1t is unfair
| to obige the credit of the nation and the
business and industrial interests of the
|
| money democrats will do in November, and
| to wait until November to find out.
80 The nomination of a new ticket is the
| logical course. Without 1t and SOUND
| money democratic campaign the whole ed
| Lcational force of sound money democrat
| ic sentiment would be paralyzed from the
| neginning Republicans cannot argue the
sound money question to democratic
voters. Republican sincerity on that ques-
| ton 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 1t has been
| repeatedly done by Mckinley himself.
| Democrats will not listen to talks on
| finance when 1t is accompanied by abuse
| of the democratic party. The most ef-
| fective force at this time for campaign
| is the force residing in the sound money
| democrats, for they are profoundly in ear
nest and can get hearing from democrats
that the republicans cannot possibly get.
| Without n campaign we should not only
| have no speakers, but our press would be
| firing in the air; and the whole force of
| campaign organization and campaign
| workers in campaign literature and the
| great power of constant private discus
sion and appeal would all be lost.
"3. A new convention would also preserve
| for the future the opportunities of the dem
| ocratic party. Unless a clear comparison
| IS made between the genuine democrats
| and the democrats who are drifting into
| populiSm or are already in populism; and
| unless that clear-cut separation is sup
| ported by organization and a recognized
| democratic party is the result, the party
| has no chance of regaining public conf
| dence for years to come. The sound-money
| democrats in the different states must
| either make ii clear that they have no asso-
| citation with the Bryan party, or they must
| accept association and ENHANCEMENT with
| it. and all state organizations will in the
| public mind be for it that do not make
it absolutely clear that they are against it.
| II. Democrats who believe in democratic
principles must have party. They Will
have party sooner or later. The sooner
the better. They now have the opportunity
to reorganize and keep the democratic
| party, and the interests of the nation i'm
| peratively demand that the great demo-
| cratic party shall be rescued out of popu-
lism and kept on its historic foundation.
THE sound money democrats are al
ready sufficiently organized in this state
10 be able to meet their fellow democrats
| in a new convention and are anxious to
| confer with representatives of another
state whenever representative confer
ence can be brought about. We hope that
ont of the responses to this public state
ment of the views of the Illinois democracy
there can be gathered so mucl, of the judg-
ment of the leading sound money demo-
Gratis of the United States as can be formu-
lated into plan of action. Communica-
tions should be addressed to Mr.. Charles
A. Ewing, chairman, Palmer house, Chi
cago."
The address bears the signatures of the
following well-known democrats: John NJ.
Palmer, Charles A. Ewing, James II.
Eckels, Franklin MacVeagh, Benjamin T.
| Gable, William S. Forman, Thomas A.
Moran. John p. Hopkins. Henry S. Rob-
bins AL Goodrich, James T. Hoblitt, Adolf
Eraus, James M. Sheean, Charles II. Will
hanson, Lynden Evans and r. e. Spangler
executive committee of the honest money
| democracy of Illinois
This pronunciamento of the gold demo
cratic party of Illinois sets the pace for the
east, but In the minds of the leaders there
is not an abundance of faith that the party
organizations which sent gold delegations
to the Chicago convention will declare for
another convention. The most that I'LL
no;s expects is that enough gold democrats
outside the regular organization will send
delegations to the new convention proposed
as to make It successful and the middle
and southern states are relied on to give
the new movement much support. 1t Is ir
those states that the gold men expect tc