The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-07
NEW TICKET in FIELD
LITTLE OPPOSITION AMONG GOLD
DEMOCRATS TO THIS PLAN,
But Every State I'm the Union Will
Not BE Expected to Put Out sep
arate Set of Electors for 1t.
THE CONFERENCE TO-DAY
THE CLEVELAND ADMINISTRATION
is HOLDING ALOOF.
Expressions from Commit eemen Who
THE CONFERENCE TO-DAY
THE CLEVELAND ADMINISTRATION
is HOLDING ALOOF.
Expressions from Commit tteemen Who
Have Arriyed-A State Confer
to BE Held TO-Nisht.

The scund-money Democratic conference,
with thirty-fve or more duly accredited
representatives from different States of the
Union, will be called TO order at o'clock
this afternoon in the assembly rooms of
the Commercial Club by General E. S.
Bragg of Wisconsin. The Commercial
Club and Board of Trade has prepared
entertainment for the visitors in the after
noon. and after a brief session the con-
ference will appoint a subcommittee to
prepare an address to the country. setting
forth why it is necessary to call a ma
tional convention of Democrats who be-
eve in pres erving tlo natonal credit,
which is so dangerously menaced by the
action of the free-silverite Populists that
controlled the recent Chicago convention.
This call for another convention will be
signed tomorrow morning by every COM
mitteeman delegated to attend the Indian
apolis conference. and the selection of a
city where the convention is to be held
will be determined Immediately after the
call and declaration is discussed.
All doubt as to whether the committee
that meets to-day will call convention is
removed and that such action will be taken
is practically a certainty. OF the thirty
FIVE committeeman who to vote on the
proposition Mr. Bynum last night said there
VIII probably not be more than six opposed
TO the plan, and these six will prob
ably concur in indorsing the re-
port of the subcommittee after it is dis
cussed. The opposition to a convention will
come from the Southern and Eastern
States. The Texas committeeman believes
it best to indorse the Mckinley electors.
The men from the Eastern States also be-
kinley rather than waste a vote on a gold
Democratic nominee, but the Western rep
resentatives are firmly convinced that the
Eastern men will join in the plan proposed
by the majority when they reach Indian
apolis and understand the political situa-
ton in the West The argument of the
Westerners is that there are hosts of Dem
ocrats in the West who are so firmly
welded to Democracy that they will either
not vote for Mckinley will stay away
from the polls. The greatest danger to
the success of sound-money principles how
ever, is in the proba bility that many of
these firmly welded Democrats may be-
ccme offended, as the heat of the cam
paign grows. at the partisan aggressive
ness of the Republicans. and be driven
back into line" Were a sound-money Dem
ocratic ticket in the field these same Dem
ocrats would support il and remain indif-
ferent to what might be said by Republic
ans against the past actions of Democ-
racy. Another feature of the plan the COM
mitteemen have in mind. and which prob
ably will be adopted, is calculated to re-
move the opposition of the Fasteners to a
new convention. II will be distinctly un-
derstood that after a convention has Sc
lected nominees ii will not be incumbent on
the sound-money Democrats of every State
in the Union TO put out electors for that
ticket. II the State chooses it may in
dorse the Mckinley and Hobart electors
or if 1t thinks it advisable to hold sound
money Democrats together to prevent the
success of the Populistic wing, it can nom-
mate electors for the ticket. In this
way the sound-money Democrats will stand
in the relation to the Republican
national ticket as the st. Louis Populists
stand toward the Chicago ticket. "Our OBJ
ject is to defeat Bryan. save the national
credit and still be Democrats" is the way
one committeeman epitomzed the situation
last night.
GEN. BRAGG COMING TO-DAY.
Gen. Bragg was expected at the Denison
last night, but will not arrive till this
morning. A telegram received last
night stating that he will be in from the
East in the morning. He has been TO New
York to meet his daughter. who has just
returned from Europe. Senator Palmer. of
Illinois, telegraphed from Springfield that
he will also be here this morning. Ex-
Representative Forman. of East ST. Louis
Is another of the Illinois men to come to-
day. Ex-Mayor Hopkins. of Chicago, and
others, arrived last night. 1t was expected
that the correspondence received by the
execuIve committee showing the progress
of the sound-money Democratic organiza-
ton in the different States would be re-
ceived last night from Chicago. but it was
sent by express to Representative By
mum, and will not be here till this morning
IL was almost impossible TO secure suf-
ficient expressions last night from the COM
mitteemen that are here TO announce as
certainty that indianapolis will get the con-
vention, although most of them spoke IA
vorably of the city, and the impression
among them that the city will be chosen
prevailed. Some of them wished 10 cam
vass the situation first before declaring
their choice.
Tonight at o'clock all the Indiana sound
money Democrats who may be in the city
will meet at the Grand Hotel and talk over
the progress of the State organization and
further perfect it.