The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-15
WILL CONTINUE THE FIGHT.
INTENDS TO CALL A CONFERENCE
OF MINNEsOTA's SOUND MONEY
DEMOCRATS.
TO DISCUSS ONE OF THREE ACTIONS
Either Another Ticket, Support Nc
KinIey or Stay at Home, What
He Says.


turns as thorough a Democrat and as
little Of Populist as he was before
he went to Chicago as delegate-at-
large to the national Democratic coz
vention. He returns denouncing the
platform adopted by that convention
and likewise denouncing the convention
itself for it's violation of the rules and
precedents that have governed all pre-
ceding Democratic conventions since
the second election of Andrew Jack
son.
II cannot" said Mr.. Lawler, when
seen at his home last evening, support
the platfrm adopted by the Chicago
convention, nor the candidate nomi-
mated. am most heartily III accord
with the position taken by the G / oil
upon this momentous question. That
platform does not express the views Of
the Democratic party of this country.
1t is essentially and entirely Populist
platform. 1t Is unnecessary to elab-
crate upon this point.
What do I think of the candidate?
Well, the impression I formed Of Mr..
Bryan Is that he is an able, conscien-
tious, honest man, wholly sincere in his
convictions. That he Is able, there can
be no question. But his nomination
was purely the result of sentiment. His
eloquence captured the convention He
is magnetic man. I might add that
Mr. Bryan Is also Populist. His affili-
ations and surroundings In the state of
Nebraska have been Populistic. He is
imbued with their chimerical and vi
sionary theories. He believes that the
government ought to. loan money on
land. So loyal IS he to the creed Of the
free silverttes, so 1 am credibly in
formed, that within few weeks prior
to the convention he declared that he
would bolt its nominee if such nominee
were not free silver man"
Mr.. Lawler waxed indignant as he
proceeded to review the high-handed
manner in which he said the free sill
yer men domineered over the convent
ion.
Such a violation of the rules govern
ing Democratic national conventions
since the second election of Andrew
jackson in 1927 think it was-was
never witnessed before" continued Mr..
Lawler. The rule that a two-third
vote of all voting should be required to
nominate a president and vice presi-
dent was the first precedent the silver
IL,
though as it turned out, this course
did not become necessary. The silver
men served notice that If it should
prove necessary to abrogate this rule,
they would do SO, as they had a ma
jority power.
What did they do next? They went
into the national committee and nomi-
mated their candidate for temporary
chairman, Mr.. Daniel of Virginia, the
choice of the committee fell upon Sena-
tor David B. Hill. Instead of abiding
by the action of the committee which
has been the invariable rule hereto
fore, they bolted and elected their own
candidate. They then threw out
enough Michigan delegates to give them
Of the state of Michigan, in order to es-
cape the odium Of directly abrogating
the two-third's rule"
Mr.. LAWYER related in detail the tao
tics employed by the silver men in get
ting rid of the sound money delegates
from Michigan.
when the silver certificates from
Michigan presented their case to the
national committee the day before the
national convention met, although
there were twenty-three silver votes in
the national committee, there was only
one vote in favor Of seating the con-
member of the committee from Michi-
gan who was also chairman of the con-
testing delegation. With this sole ex-
ceptfon, the evidence presented by the
contestants was considered farcical and
ridiculous. The first vote of the COM
mittee on credentials, controlled, Of
course, by the silver men, was to throw
out the entire sound money delegation
Fearing the odium that this would
I'M of dnIo ovo6 -
several hours, they came to a termina-
ton to throw out only such a number
as would be sufficient to enable them
to control the delegation under the unit
rule AS under the law Of the state Of
Michigan and the practice of the DEM
ocratic party in that state all of the
delegates, both at large and district
are chosen by the state convention, 1t
is apparent that If the election of a
single sound money delegate was fraud
ulent, the election of the entire dele
CATION was fraudulent, and all or none
Of the delegates elected by the state
convention should have been seated
The whole action Of the convention re-
lating to the state of Michigan was q
frank and brutal theft and outrage.
The state of Wisconsin was equally
insulted and outraged It's delegates
to the national convention were under
binding Instructions from the. state
convention to vote as a unit when and
how the majority Of the delegation
should direct. The free si1verites held
that under this instruction the major
ity Of the delegation had no right to
determine that the vote of Wisconsin
should be withheld. The only. pretext
for this action was that 1t increased the
free silverite vote by FIVE
NOW when I consider these out
rageous violations Of rules and pre-
cedents on the part of the convention"
continued Mr.. Lawler, when / behold
that platform with it's financial plank,
it's refusal to endorse the integrity Of
the administration, its threat to re-
construct the supreme court Of the
United States and to abolish the life
tenure of the Federal judiciary, when
/ contemplate the revolutionary and
un-Democrat1c character of that con-
vention-as revolutionary and un-
Democratic as ever was any of the
conventions of the Southern states be-
fore the war, when think of all this,
I know that it Is enough to absolve
every true Democrat from allegiance
to such a convention"
What viii the sound money Demo-
Gratis of Minnesota do, Mr. Lawler?'
Il don't know, but I will tell YOU
what I am going to do propose, as
soon as possible, to issue call sum-
moning to a conference in this city all
of the sound money Democrats In this
state The object OF that conference
VIII be to decide upon one Of the three
possible courses Of action open to us.
namely, shall we nominate an indie
pendent sound money ticket, support
Mckinley, or abstain from voting at
all.