The evening times., 1896-09-11
Maxwell JOINS 8OLTERs.
Assistant Postmaster General
Will Vote for Palmer.
CONDEMNS CHICAGO TICKET
Convention. He Says, Tranpled ON
Party Usages, and Selected Man
Who Had Declared Himself Not
Democrat TO Become the Successor
of Tiiden and veland.

| Ihicago TICKET and nominees, TO which Sec
reiuries LemoHt and Francis so recent,
added their names, was further heightened
| yesterday by the action of Fourth Asslstan
Postmaster General Maxwell.
Mr. Maxwell wrote a somewhat lengthy
| communication to the Batavia IN. " News
setting forth his views The letter is IL
| part as follows:
| THE Democrats OF Gcncsec county and
western New York have given me too many
| evidences of Confidence and respect dur
ing the past twenty years for me at TIL,
| crisis to be less frank and outspoken than
has hithertoo been my custom or than they
have right To expect. Nearly two IN onths
ago was asked to define III Y attitude and
replied: AS in the past so in the future,
viii follow wherevertrue Dem ocratic prin-
ciples lead
| The Chicago convention from the ont
| set trampled upon party uSages, deprived
sovereign-State its voice in the proceed
ings, assailed with unbridled abuse Grover
| Cleveland. the only Democrat in thirty
| six years who has brought the party into
| power in the nation. and refused to recog-
| nize even the honesty of The national ad-
ministration and of the thousands of Dem
| ocrats who constitute IL.
| NOT A DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
Diverted from the acknowledged pur
| pose or leaders of various new parties,
who believed they controlled 1t, 10 nCm-
| mate for the Presidency a Republican
United States Senator. the convention in
| frenzy turned to man WHO had publicl v
| declared that he was not Democrat
| and selected him as fit in its Judgment
TO lead the party of Mcclellan, Seymour.
| Tilden, Hancock and Cleveland.
Had even that convention placed even
in his hands the old banner, a Democrat
might have followed Mr. BryaD's lead
ersiiip. The convention r.nt the flag of
| the party with the hand of sectionaIism,
| and from the remnants effaccd its IA
miliar creed with Inscriptions of repudia-
ton, paternalism and lawlessness, for
eign to its traditions and perilous to
the integrity OF the country. / have
never believed that the candidates aud
the platform OF the Chicago convention
IN democratic from its temporary or
Sanization to its final adjournment. had
any claims to the support OF Democrats.
PROTESTS AGAINST IT.
II protest against the effort to destroy
the only party with continuous his
tory from the beginning of the govern
nIent, the only party national in its
purpose and in its following. and the
| party the existence OF which, iu SUCCESS
| or defeat. is essential To tie perpetuity
of our Institutions
1.-The way to make that protest effective
and to preserve Democratic principles
| and organization is TO support the candi-
date of the National Democratic conven-
| ton at Indianapolis. which assumed anil
| discharged the trust betrayed by a ma
| jorlty OF the Chicago convention. The
reasscnbled Democracy affirmed Demo
| cratic teachings and nominated Demo
cratic candidates. The Chicago conven-
tion did neither.
My neighbors do not need to be told
where / stand on the currency question.
The free coinage OF silver means u depre-
ciated currency and a deprecated currency
is another name for reputation. Democ-
racy was not established and has not flour
:shed for generators in this country now To
be bankrupted in character and broken i'll
| organization by attacking the validity of
obi cations, public and private. True Dem
ocratic principles do not lead in that di-
rection, and rs a Democrat refuse to fol
low these new and false lights and abandon
the political and personal beliefs of years =
Mr.. Maxwell, as fourth assistant post
master general, discharges duties that
once belonged to the office OF first assist
ant, notably that OF swinging the official
ak and changing the political personnel
OF the fourth-class postmastcrs throughout
the country. He is successor, by cne re-
move, OF AdIai Stevenson, now Vice Presi-
dent OF the United States, but better known
q s the ak man OF Mr. Cleveland's first ad-
ministration-
Mr.. Maxwell, from the nature of his Of
flee, is in touch with Go 900 or 10000
fourth class postmasters throughout the
country This class OF government Of
ficials are usually men of influence in
their immediate neighborhood, and they
are me n likely to pay more heed to the letter
of their imm ediate governmental head
than to those of cabinet officials The In
fluence of these thousands OF postmasters
would be quite factor in the election If
it was directed in one channel