Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-21
Special to the Register.

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| Special to the Register.
Washington. D. c., June 20.-Ex-Gov
James E. Campbell, of Ohio, delivered
an address tonight that excited great
| interest among Democrats in Washing
| ton. The occasion was the annual as
sembly Of the Interstate Democratic
| Association at a nearby river resort,
which was attended by large number
of Democratic office-holders and such
Senators and Representative OF the
| party as remain in Washington.
Mr.. Campbell's speech was character
isticafly vigorous and bold. He at
tackled the st. Louis convention, but
the features of his speech were, first, his
earnest admonition to Democrats not
| to bolt the Chicago convention, and,
| second. his disclosure of his views upon
the money question, exhibiting him in
a conservative position in that respect.
Mr.. Campbell began with an admoni-
| ton to office-ho.ders never to lose their
| party affiliations nor to allow Them
| selves to be corrupted and emasculated
by the somewhat enervating atmos-
phere OF Washington. Every man who
| loved his country must be-could only
| be-a party man.
Turning to the motto Of the Asso-
ciation, The Democratic Party; its
Platform and it's Candidates; its Plat
form, Whatever it is; its Candidates,
Whoever They May be- Mr. Campbell
made it the text of half an hours most
| earnest appeal to the Democracy TO
avoid split or bolt at Chicago. lie
| said that never before had the party
faced a crisis when the ringing call OF
that motto sounded so imperatively as
to-day. He called to snind the
blunder of 1860, when the
Democratic party, with nearly
two-thirds Of the entire vote OF the
country had split upon the rock OF terri
torial extension of slavery. There had
been bolt, and the Democratic party
was wounded nigh unto death-had been
wandering for twenty-four years in
the wilderness of defeat and disgrace
Said he:
rs the lesson worth learning? If so,
apply it now. Another crisis confronts
the Democracy. They are discordant
and belligerent-almos hopelessly di-
vided appearently-over an economic
question that must, in the nature OF
| things, be necessarily remedied in the
near future The quadrennial national
convention draws near and its outcome
| is fraught with the most momentous
! possibilities. OF the delegates who will
assemble there the conservatism OF the
majority and the fidelity of the minor
ity can alone prevent a rupture, more
or less open and avert a disaster be-
yond reparation.
"If a singing and lasting defeat
would be avoided in November, the ma
jority at Chicago must concede and con-
| cilitate while the minority must yield
and concur. If sagacious, harmonious
and brotherly counsel shall not pre-
, vail, we go to inevitable defeat-and to
a defeat like that of 1860, the result
of our stubborn and recalcitrant con-
duct. Let us pray that wisdom, pru-
dence and patriotism may govern the
Democratic hosts when they assemble
on July T."
Mr.. Campbell quoted Chauncey F.
Blacks declaration that the Democratic
party must not be disrupted on the sill
yer question; that it involved no con-
stitutional principle and was a matter
of mere economy and expedience about
which Democrats might differ with per-
fest freedom.
That" said Mr.. Campbell express
| ed the sentiments of every Democrat
who loved his party and believed it TO
be of more consequence to the country,
to humanity and to posterity than any
mans opinion, or any mans ambition"
Mr.. Campbell closed his speech with
an eulogium upon the Democratic party
in the course of which he made this
reference to the party policy as to the
money question:
TT will uphold both OF these metals
for which the constitution prescribes
! the coinage, and it is the only party
which can do so with safety to business,
benefit to the laborer and producer and
honor to the country"