The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-06-20
SILYERITES' APPEAL.
Boilers From the Republican
Convention Heard From.
AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE.

XuestiOh Discusseu fTom lne1r fOlnt OF
view-senator Teller Named as Their
Candidate For the Presidency.
ST.. Louis, June 20.-At the secret
conference of the boiling silver dele
gates, after much careful consideration,
the subjoined address to the people of
the United States was agreed upon and
authorized to be given to the press
While the address contains much in the
nature of silver coinage argument, the
concluding paragraphs show the de-
termination OF the boiling delegates to
bring about the nomination, if possible,
of Senator Henry M. Teller of Colorado
as the candidate for presidency ON a
platform having for its cardinal prin-
ciples the free and unlimited coinage of
silver.
The address in full is as follows:
To the People of the United States:
Obeying the call of duty and justified
by the common citizenship of this repub-
lie, we address this communication to the
people and the forthcoming conventions
of the United States. In doing so we
claim no authority or right other than
that which belongs to every man to ex-
PiOSS pClSOhdl ptlU
fully solicit the cooperation of all who
believe that the time has come for a re-
turn to the simpler and more direct meth
cd of naming men for national service
than has obtained in recent years.
Political party organization is neces-
sary, because without it the individual
voter is dumb; but the party is only the
means, not the end; it is the voice and
tho Ac tho xuorl6 odx in,
this wonderful epoch of intellectual de-
velopment and physical improvement
there is a constant requirement for better
things. The individual feels that require
ment and heeds it, or he fails in LIES en-
deavor. Parties must also obey the same
law. 1t follows, therefore, that the mo-
ment a party shall choose to stand still or
retrogress it is no longer efficient to
achieve the end to which the people are
necessarily destined. There is no sanctity
in mere party name, and the mark of de-
cay is set on individual strength in ma
ton when the absolute rule of political
organization coerces from the truth for
the sake of expediency and establishes in
sincere submission to partisan rule for the
sake Of power.
Recognizing the value and the splendid
achievements of political parties in this
country, as elsewhere, we are not yet con-
strained to believe that for more than 20
years no one of them has been entirely
sufficient for the needs of the people. The
great trend to better things, resting in the
heart and purposes of all men, has been
stayed during the latter part of this gen.
GRAFTON by the failure of parties TO express
in their achievements the slightest hope
and aspiration of the mass of the people
who constitute the parties. And there has
been growing in this country-swelling
with each recurrence of national election
"a great mass of independent thinkers
and voters which, failing within itself to
control, has gravtia ted between the two
parties. Since 1872 Excepting possibly
the election of 1876 the pendulum has
swung from side to side with each four
years. In 1872 the Republican party elect
ed the president; in 1875 the Democracy
claimed the election; in 1889 the Repub-
lican party elected in 1884 the Democrats
elected; in 1888 the Republicans elected;
1892 the Democrats elected; in 1896 (until
within few weeks) it has been conceded
that the Republicans would elect. What
has been the cause of this mighty oscilla-
ton of a mass which this year has prob
ably obtained controlling proportions
every man can answer to himself.
If he has been an observer, If he had In
terests that were affected, If he has felt a
hope to see justice done, and has seen that
hope blasted, he knows that the general
dissatisfaction has arisen from The fact
that party promises made were broken to
the people by party performance, he
knows that so soon as the election was
over and successful candidates installed
they became the servitors of party and the
advocates of a narrow and non progressive
policy within which alone there seemed
to be an assurance of selfish safety and
partisan approval. During all this period
we have lacked a great constructive adj
ministration. No new social truth has
been put forward in an effective way.
While in all the departments of physical
life there have been developments and
achievements of ease and comfort to the
favored of mankind, in the still greater
and more important domain of social re-
form we have stood still or retrogressed
1t is not that the people have not felt
the STRINGS of determination that this
action has endured, but because of the
rule of party which has controlled men in
and out of office. 1t has become source
of reproach to any man that he should
dare to renounce allegiance to organiza-
ton. Men have been expected to submit
their views to the dictation of conventions
although it Is common knowledge that
conventions have been swayed to views
and declarations not the most approved
by the mass of the people nor progressive
for their welfare.
We do not arrogate to ourselves one iota |
more Of intelligence, patriotism or cour- |
age than is possessed by any of our fellow |
citizens. But we feel that the time has |
come for the performance Of duty to the |
and for our part, though we |
shall stand alone, we will make an en- |
deavor in the direction of that duty. |
Parties NAV outlive their usefulness: the