Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-07-16

Chicago. July IA The executive
committee of the gold standard demo
clats of illinois met in rrotracted ses-
sion yesterday and prepared an address
to the democracy OF he other states in
the union II was The unanimous cpin~
len of the committee that second
/ democratic national convention should
be called to nominate candidates for
president and vice president, The adj
dress is as follows:
/ ITO OR fellow democrats Ii, other
states; The national convention con-
vened under the constituted authority
( Of our party has just closed its session
in Tie city Of Chicago II entered mp
IN its work by violating all party prec-
4 cdents in the rejection Of 4 listin-
puisEed democrat as its temporary pre-
siding ctlieor. 1t deprived 4 sovereign
state of voice in its deliberations by
unseating without CAUSE or legal iusti-
( fcatiol, delegates elected with al the
regularity known to the party organi-
zation. Ii refused to endorse the hon
esty and fidelity of the present demo
cratic national administration, II
adopted Il platform which favors the
4 free and unlimited coinage of silver by
this country alone at a ratio Of l6 To l
and thereby il repuliate the time-hon-
ored democratic principle which de-
mands the strict maintenance Of a
/ sound aud stable national currency.
/ Finally, TO make ii still palmer that,
/ although in name 1t was not in fact
democratic convention, II nominated
\ for president one who IS not in his po-
litieal convictions and las not always
been even in his professions, demo-
cratic. This has made such a crisis
both to the nation and to tho demo
Catic rarity that the sound money dem
ocrats must at once decide what pollt.
ical action they will take for the pro-
lection of the homes of the nation. Tue
sound money democrats of Illinois have
fully made up their minds that new
democratic national convention SHOULD
be called for the earliest feasible day
10 nominate democratic candidates for
president and vice president ana TO
adopt platform OF democratic prinV-
pies, and they desire TO state to their
fellow democrats Of other states their
reasons as follows
'g.-Sound money democrats owe Y
to the country to make II certain at
once that their revolt against free sill
YER Is determined and will be organ
lied. Ii Is unfair to oblige the credit
of the nation and the business and in
terests merely to guess what the sound
money democrats will do in November
and to wait until November to find out.
"2.-The nomination OF new ticket
is logical course. Without II and a
sound money democratic campaign, the
whole educational force of sound
money democrats cannot be brought
into the service. Republicans cannot
argue the sound money question to
democratic voters Republican sin
certify on that question Is doubted by
the mass of democrats. The tarilf
question will be put TO the front and
insisted upon by the republican speak
ers and the republican press at ~ has
persistently been by Mckinley himself
"a new convention would pre-
serve for the future the opportunities
of the democratic party. Unless a
clear-cut separation is made between
genuine democrats and democrats who
are drifting into populism or are all
ready In populism, and unless that
clear-cut separation is supported by an
organization and a reorganized demo-
cratic party Is the result, the party has
no chance of regaining public conf
dence for years to come. Sound
money democrats in the different
states must either make 1t clear that
they have no association with the
Bryan party or they must accept as
ISOLATION and ENHANCEMENT with IT.;
and all the state organizations win in
the public mind be for 1t that do not
make 1t absolutely clear that they are
against It."