The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-14

! CHICAGO, July 13.-The executive com
mittee of the gold standard Democrats of
LIMOS met in protracted session today
and prepared an address to the Demo-
Gratis OF other states OF the Union. 1t was
] the unanimous opinion of the committee
that second national convention should
De called to nominate candidates for pres
-dent and vice president The address is
as follows:
TO Our Fellow Democrats of Other
| States
"A national convention, convened under
! the constituted authority of our party.
has lust closed its session in the city of
| Chicago. 1t entered upon its work by
violating all party precedents in the re-
lection of distinguished Democrat as its
| Temporary presiding officer
1t deprived a sovereign state of a voice
IN It's deliberations by unseating without
cause or legal Justification delegates
elected with all the regularity known to
party organization.
1T refused 10 endorse the honesty and
| fidelity of the present Democratic ma
tional administration
1t adopted platform which favors the
Tree ana unlimited coinage OF silver by
I tnls country alone at the ratio of 16 to /
and thereby it repudiated
A TIME = HONORED DEMOCRATIC
PRINCIPLE,
which demands the strictest maintenance
OF a sound and stable national currency.
FINALLY, to make 1t still palmer that
although in name it was not in fact a
Democratic convention, il nominated for
president one who is not in his political
convictions and has not always been even
IN his professions a Democrat
This has made such a crisis, both for
the nation and the Democratic party
that sound money Democrats must at
VIII take TOR the protection of the honor
OF the nation, the prosperity of the peo-
PIE and the life and usefulness of the
party. The sound money Democrats of
illinois have fully made uD their minds
( that a new Democratic national conven-
ZION should be called for the earliest
feasible day to
NOMINATE DEMOCRATIC CANDI-
DATES
for president and vice president, and to
adopt platform of Democratic principles
and they desire to state to their fellow
Democrats OF other states their reasons
as follows:
''F1rst-Sound money Democrats owe it
to the county to make it certain at once
that their revolt against Tree silver is
determined and will be organized 1t is
unfair to oblge 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
Yernber and to wait until November to
find out.
'-Second-The nomination of a new
ticket is the logical course. Without it
and a sound money Democratic campaign,
Lli5 wnole educational force of sound
money Democratic sentiment would be
paraiyzed from the beginning. Republi-
ton to Democratic voters. Republican
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 speakers and the Republi-
can press as it has persistently been by
Mr.. Mckinley himself. Democrats will
not listen to lessons on finance when &C
companied by abuse of the Democratic
party. The most effective force 4at 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 Re
publicans cannot possibly get.
Third-A new convention would also
preserve for the future the opportunities
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 populsm; and unless that clear-cut
separation is supported by organization
and a, reorganiZed party is the result the
party has no chance of regaining public
confidence for years to come. The sound
Democrats in the different states must
either make it clear that they have no
association with the Bryan party, or they
must accept accociation 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. The sound money
Democrats are all sufficiently organized in
this state to be able to meet their fellow
Democrats in new convention; and are
anxious to confer with representatives of
other states whenever a representative
conference can be brought about Com
nunications should be addressed to
Charles A Ewing, chairman, Palmer
House, Chicago.
JAMES T. SOBLITT,
"ADOLPH KRAUS,
JAMES NJ. SHEEHAN,
"CHAS. H. WILLIAMSON,
'LYNDEN EVANS,
'R. Z. SPANGLER,
JOHN NJ. PALMER,
'CHAS. A EWING,
JAMES II. ECKLES
FRANKLIN MACVEAGH,
"BEN T. CABLE.
"WILLIAM S. FORMAN,
THOMAS A MORAN,
"IGIN P. HOPKINS
''HENRY S ROBBINS,
"A A GOODRICH.
Executive Committee of the Homes
Money Democracy of Illinois,