The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-09-02
POLITICAL FIELD
News and Comment From Various Sections
eoncernIng the Campaign Against Gold.
BOILERS CONVENTIONS IRRESPONSIBLE
They Represent Nobody But Them.
selSes-A Prediction that Ohio
Will Give Her Electoral Vote to
al Buckeye Farmers Serious.
~ Studying the Money Question.
New York Journal.)

"A number OF gentlemen who believe that
omIntonscy Is u sort of compost of the
hanna are in nyent today al Syra-
fhSe: They call themselves Delegates
nhI nnG they would find difficulty in ex-
oeu, rev were chosen by any regularity,
NJ NJ ved regularly. organized convention.
supposed to represent, and are men Of a
character wholly foreign to those districts.
~ y tHJGaS or tomorrow this convention
~ uIueieSateo delegates will choose a del
Sgaton to represent the State OF New
rUrK IN a convention called to nominate
uent OF the United States.
Without the slightest h%esitancy any one
nt az conversant with the facts will deny
tative character whatever. That II does
not represent the Democratic voters Of
ne state is made apparent by the fact
tlat the regular Democratic Convention
was held In Saratoga some months aro
auopted a platform satisfactory TO the
..uei WHO are now organizing this conven-
ton OF spurious Democrats, and even
nonored some of the participants in this
10 the National Convention at Chica go
Moreover, the call for this Syracure gath
e $ IN was addressed not to a party. but
d iactlon, and in the few districts in which
primaries were held only people agreed
upon a certain code of principles were
political method Of inviting ali IL mem6bers
or the party to vote and permitting the
deieEates thus chosen to adopt the decla-
parison of views. "N eoHh
The method of selecting delegates 10 tho
indianapolis Convention in New York has
not alHered materially from that in other
States. Nowhere has there been a free
expression of the will of any great popu-
iar element. No delegation represenIs
the democratic party of its State. and the
h hoi,tn purpose OF the managers of the
National Democratic Party" means sim
ply. mat they hope to get votes by de
ceit which they could not possibly hone
10 GET othcrwise. 1t is n matter of COM
IN the offices of attorneys for trusts and
IN bank parlorS were real the conventions
by which most of the delegates to India
napolis were chosen.
meet In ordinary convention for lawful
purposes Is observation-disclosures In tho case
OF the poor II has been occasionally de-
nieu, lnc when exercised in n fashion dis
ptensinE 10 gentlemen of the sort now con-
srninE AT syracuse has resulted In ugly
talk about anarchy. But for particlpants
IN n convention to seize Il p~oliticai titIo
TO which they have forfeited ali claim. To
cal themselves. as these conventionists at
indianapolis propose. National Demo.
Gratis when there is already n national
democratic ticket in the field. is sheer
aishohesty. II Is this confession that upon
the merits OF heir cause they can win no
votes, and must fall back upon the ignohlc
device OF making the label of their ticket
SO ike that of the regular ticket that
voters may support II through error
iney are like the cheap tradcsmen who
initiate brands. labels and covers as near.
~ as. may he without violation of Tho
copyright law. In everyday life foil; find
mat goods sold under these spurious Ia
neis ane apt TO be of pretty poor quality,
nv nHu tnere Is every reason to believe that a
pc deceiVed by the Syracuse and Indiana
poiS counterfeit Democracy.