The record-union., 1896-08-18

CHICAGO, Aug. ia meeting of
the Executive Committee of the gold
Democratic party was held at the Pal
mer house to-day. Chairman Bynum of
Indiana presided and all the members
Were present. except Mr.. Tracey, who
was detained by party work in the me-
tropolis. The principal work which
called the committee together was the
preparation and adoption of an ad-
dress to the Democratic voters of the
country. A subcommittee Senator
John II. Wilson of Indianapolis and F.
NJ. Cutcheon of Minneapolis, was chosen
to draft the address. The sub-com-
mittees on transportation and hall ar
rangements for the convention reported
one-fare and ample accommodations
being provided for by the Indianapolis
Civic Committee in Tomlinson Hall.
Three hundred tickets We're allotted to
the Citizens Committee
Assurances have been received by the
committee that the organizations in the
following States which were not repre-
sented at Indianapolis are sufficiently
advanced to make certain they will
have full delegations at the convention:
Louisiana, North Dakota, Georgia Mis-
sissippi, Colorado, Wyoming, South Caro-
lima Nothing has been done in Idaho,
Utah or Nevada towards organizing.
and Mr.. Bynum said he did not expect
to see those States represented at In
dianapolis- The expectation is there
VIII be forty-two States to answer to
the roll-call on September I'd.
The committee appointed Walter
Kessler of indianapolis as Sergeant-at-
Arms for the convention. He is a young
man who graduated from Yale and read
law, and is now in the stone quarry
business
Hugh Wallace, who recently resigned
his membership in ths National Demo
cratic Committee from Washington he
cause Of the silver plank, called when
the committee was in session and was
invited inside. Chairman Bynum said
to a reporter for the United Associated
Presses: New York is the best city for
the national campaign headquarters
and I shall work for it. The committee
could command more assistance in New
York than in Chicago. There are to be
so many headquarters here that we will
get mixed up
The committee went into session on
the address as drafted by the sub-com-
the following:
ITO the Democrats of the United
States: The Democratic party is the
only party with history dating back
to the founding of the Republic. Party
after party has had its overthrow Some
have achieved temporary triumphs.
With each triumph We're heards the
prophecy that the Democratic party
would surely die. 1t has survived all
defeats BY virtue of it's indestructible
principles it has witnessed the birth
and death of every rival save one, and
this, its present great antagonist, with
3 history Of not more than forty years
had no part in laying the foundations
OF constitutional popular government.
For more than a century men of high
position, of noble ambition, of unselfish
and patriotic aims, have adhered to the
Democratic party with consistency of
devotion unparalleled in the history of
politics. For more than q century
through good and evil report, in times
of prosperity and days of adversely, it
has kept its faith. Without variable
ress of shadow of turning it has held
fast to the fundamental principles of
free government formulated by it's
founders, and subsequently enforced by
its great leaders from Jefferson to
Cleveland. For more than century no
man was ever in doubt as TO what con-
stituted Democracy. He who pro-
claimed himself Democrat defined his
principles He believed and this was
the cardinal article of his political faith,
in the ability of every individual un-
assisted, unfettered by law, to achieve
his own happiness: and therefore that
to every citizen there should be Sc
cured the right and opportunity peace
fully to pursue whatever course of con-
duct he would. provided such conduct
deprived no other individual of the
equal enjoyment of the same right and
opportunity. He stood for freedom of
speech. freedom of conscience, freedom
Of trade and freedom of contract all
Of which are implied by the century-old
battle-cry of the Democratic party, In
dividual liberty AS a consequence,
every Democrat believed in the rule of
law and the rule of an impartial law, in
the unhesitating protection not only of
the lives of citizens. but of private rights
and property and in the enforcement of
obedience to constitutional law.
Every Democrat insisted upon a
strict observance of the mandates of
the Federal Constitution and of the linn
itations therein prescribed. as well as
upon a loyal support of all the institu-
tiops thereby created to be guarantees
of the liberty he sought to perpetuate. He
profoundly disbelievd in the ability of
the Government through paternal leg
isiation or supervision to increase the
happines of the nation. He was OPP
posed to all attempts to conjure COM
fort into the homes of its citizens or
wealth into their pockets. He believed
that 1t is the function of government to
provide the people with an honest and
stable medium of exchange, thus en-
abling them to transact their business
safely and conveniently in every mart
mo arI.af IF he world