The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-18

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Scheming to Defeat Silver.
CHICAGO, Aug. IA meeting of the
national executive committee of the gold
Democratic party was held at the Palmer
House today Chairman Bynum of Indi-
ana presided and all the members were
present except Charles w. Tracey of New
York, who was detained by party work in
the metropolis. The principal business
which called the committee together was
the preparation and adoption of an adj
dress to the Democratic voters of the
country. A subcommittee consisting of
Secretary John r. Wilson of indianapolis
and F. W. NJ. Cutcheon of Minneapolis
was chosen to draft the address. The
subcommittee on transportation and
hall arrangements for the convention re-
ported one-fare rate and ample ac-
commodations being provided for by the
Indianapolis civic authorities in Tomlin-
son hail. Three hundred tickets were al
lotted TO the citizens committee.
Assurances have been received by the
committee that the organizations in the
following states which were not represent
ed at indianapolis are sufficiently adj
vanced to make it certain they will have
full delegations at the convention: LOUISE
ana, North Dakota, Georgia, Mississippi,
| Colorado, Wyoming, South Carolina.
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 indianapolis. The
expectation is there will be forty-two
states to answer to the roll-call Septem-
| Der 2.
The committee appointed Walter Kess-
Ter of indianapolis sergeant-at-arms for
the convention. He is 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 the : national Demo-
cratic committee from Washington be-
| cause of the silver plank. called when the
| committee was in session and was in
vited inside Chairman Bynum said to
a representative of the United Associated
Presses:
New York is the best city for the ma
uonal campaign headquarters, and l shall
work and vote for it, Ours will be a.
campaign of education and New York is
| the producing point for most OF the liter
allure. The committee could command
more assistance in New York than in Chi
cago. There are to be so many head
quarters here that we will get mixed up"
The committee went into session on the
address as drafted by the Subcommittee
at o'clock. and four hours later gave
| out the following:
LIE ADOfIECS-
ITO the Democrats of the United States
THE Democratic party is the only po-
litical party with a history dating back
! to the history of the republic. Party
after party has had its overthrow. Some
have achieved temporary triGmphs With
! each triumph was heard the prophecy
| that the Democratic party would surely
die. 1t has survived all defeats By vir-
/ tue of its understandable principles, it has
witnessed the birth and death of every
nd Sa1of
great antagonist, with a history of not
more than forty years, has no part in
laying the foundations of constitutional
and popular government. For more than
a century, men of high position, of noble
ambition, of unselfsh and patritic aims,
have adhered to the Democratic party
with constancy of devotion unparaliel-
| ed in the history Of politics. For mora
than a, century, through good and evil re-
port, in times of prosperity and days of
adversely, it has kept its faith Without
! Variab leness or shadow of turning, it
! has held fast to the fundamental princi-
! pies of free government, formulated by
its founders. and subsequently enforced
| by its great leaders, from Jefferson to
| Cleveland. For
MORE THAN A CENTURY
no man was ever in doubt as to what
! constituted 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, unassist-
ed, if unfettered by law. to achieve his
own happiness; and therefore, that TO
| every citizen there should be secured the
right and opportunity to pursue whatever
| course of conduct 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 bat
! tie cI~V the Democratic party
INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY
GAS a consequence, every Democrat be-
! lieved in the rule of the law, and the
ruie of an impartial law, in. the unheSl-
tating protection not only of the lives of
citizens, but OF private rights and proper
! ty. and in the enforcement OF obedience
| to duly constituted authorities.
Every true Democrat insisted upon
strict observance of the mandates Of the
federal constitution. and of the hmita-
tlons therein prescribed, as well as upon
a loyal support of all the institutions
thereby created, to be guaranteed Of the
liberty it sought TO pelpetuate. He pro-
foundly disbelieved in the ability of the
government, through paternal legislation
or supervision, to increase the happiness
of the nation. He was opposed TO all
attempts to conjure comfort into the
homes of IT'S citizens or wealth into their
pockets. He believes that it is the func-
ton of government to provide the people
with an honest and stable medium of eX-
change, thus enaollng Ihem 10 transact
their business safely and conveniently in
every mart and market Of the world. He
repudiated every attempt to supply
money by means of legislation that value
which it can possess only by reason OF
those qualities that render it acceptable
to the world when unsupported by legis-
lative fiat He believed in the greatest
measure OF
FREEDOM OF TRADE
and industry compatible with the neces-
sity to obtain by Constitutional means an
adequate revenue for the support of the
government. He believed in a simple,
| economical, honest and efficient admins
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