Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-27

Senator Villas.
II you be of Israel, we go rather with the
children of Belial.' Others follow blindly
saying. is rot this the party flag; do no.
these wear the uniform of party generals,
but many stand sadly silent, lamenting
the wild confusion. seeking earnestly for
some path of honor to themselves or flu
ture safety for their party.
Il cannot take up and lay down at will
the convictions of my Judgment; they can
be altered by no force but for that reason.
Year in and year out. for now nearly forty
audience in popular discussion. l have al
ways advocated what I believed. What
ever have been my mistakes they were
never the mistakes of dishonesty l shall
coinage of silver has been undemccratic
for so many years. 1t is not less undem-
ccrat1c when become a greater menace
| and peril, and more uufnchingly should it
Eow be encountered. Conscience can toll
crate no excuse. no deyice. no shift for
such tergiversatoa. should not dare to
meet the citizens Of, this state as l have
always met them, in public discussion with
confidence Of sincerity and the assurance
of truth l do not believe a party can
stand or ought to stantl' which will SO deal
with important public questions.
The Plea OF s:Isscsularity."
But with what argument can demo-
! Gratis clothe themselves who have received
no new light but that which shines from
the mere force of numbers in the Chicago
convention? Do they proffer us the plea
of party regularity? All IT'S force is mis-
directed. Regularity relates to methods, to
party usages. to choice of persons not to
fundamental principles. We recognize
without hesitation that the association OF
citizens in party for the promotion Of great
policies OF government must compel the
submission of individuals in subordinate
Drincinlp bu nj fhod
The success of a great cause must not be
jeopardized by differences or incrimina-
tons by venting personal disappointments,
by sticking in the back of methods approx
ed by the party authority. The murmur of
characterization in the ranks cannot be toll
Grated because of dissatisfaction with the
generals plan of battle. But widely diff
ferent stands the case when some enemy
mas put on the generals uniform, when
raise hands have seized the colors. and
ders are issued to march the corps over to
the ranks of the enemy. Resistance to be-
trayal of his country's cause is not insub-
ordination. but the patriots duty. When
the basic principle of a party is overturn-
ed. when its great aims and purposes are
suddenly reversed by the intrusion of enc
mics into its councils. or the false con-
duct of those who ought to guide it to
their accomplishment. then arises the
higher duty of individuals to cast off these
manacles and re-estabish a true associa-
ton to promote afresh the objects their
principles profess.
Not B0lters, but Patriots.
They are rot boilers who stand fast
by their ancient faith. They kick as the
great teacher kicked the money-changers
from the temple. To such kicking. to such
boiling the world owes it's progress, hui
mainly its advancement and elevation.
Where would have been liberty to-
day IL supine submission had gov
erned them who carried the standard
of principle in the struggles of the past?
Where would have been our independence
If America had contained in 1775 only
political followers instead of brave and in
teiligent men? The fires of the revolution,
which warmed the courage and patriotic
hearts of the fathers, would only have
melted the spirits of those who cry out
against independence now as kicking and
boiling.
Should the Silver Men Win.
'If it be- indeed, a possibility that the
sturdy conservatism of our AHglo-Saxon
character is gone and a mercurial insta
blity and fitfulness have come instead, If
not only a convention will forego reason
ard be ruled by silly emotional gales, but
the great steady American mind shall also
surrender its common sense to frenzy, then
surely we nave refrigerated al least a hun
dred years and may find the suggestion of
our peril in the bloody horrors by which
the wild multitude of France made hideous
the expiring years of the last century. If
the people of the United States be capable
of accepting their financial teaching from
hen VINO nave never had financial training
or experience, defytng the accumulated
wisdom of all scientific study and practical
SIKH; II the fiscal policy of seventy-mil-
lion nation Is to be taught from travelling
carts by noisy montebanks as quack nos
trims are vended to the gullible; If men
VINO were never able to Gown a boat on an
interior pond of business shall set the sails
ara take the helm of the ship Of state on
the ocean currents 'of the great worlds
hnance, who can fix :the' limit to our oapa-
Llnty 1or insanity, who put hook in the
NOUN OF thls leviathan. of folly?
.d oeiore us adjournment the convention
ADOPTED resolutions declaring for the gold
standard, condemnihg the action of the
Cnicago convention Fin ignoring the unit
rule and overthrowing 1.-THE Iong-founded
ana Well-knoWn principles of true democ-
racy, and for its adopting a silver stand
ara; 1ndorsing the administra ton of Pres
ident Cleveland, urging the continuation
OF monetary system (which will insure
the payment of government and private
debts of all kinds and of pensions in dol
lars worth 100 cents
Cen r. >. Bragg, on moving the adoption
OF the report, made a strong speech for a
gold standard. and attacking the Chicago
Inc convention named an electoral ticket,
delegates and four MISUNDERSTANDING to the
Indianapolis convention
A resolution was adopted recommending
to the indianapolis convention the name
of General Edward s. Bragg of Wiscon-
sin for the presidential nomination. Gen
eral Bragg made brief speech, thanking
the convention.
The Wisconsin national party organiZa-
ton was then made permanent, and the
state central committee was instructed to
name a state ticketror call a convention