The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-14
ILLINOIS COLD DEMOCRATS
Issue an Address Calling for New Demo-
CRITIC Convention.


Chicago, July 13.-The honest money
| democracy of Illinois, through it's exec
utive committee, issued an address to-
| night to the democrats of other states
calling upon them to nominate another
national ticket and adopt platform of
sound money principles upon which
the nominees can appeal to the people
of that opinion.
The address says: THE national
convention convened under the consti-
tuted authority Of our party, has just
closed its session in the city of Chicago.
1t entered upon its work by violating
all party precedents in the rejection of
| a distinguished democrat as it's tenn
porary presiding officer. 1t deprived a
sovereign state of voice In its de-
| liberations by unseating, without cause
| of legal justification, delegates elected
with all the regularity known to party
organization 1t refused to endorse the
honesty and fidelity of the present
| democratic administration. 1t adopted
| platform which favors the free and
unlimited coinage of silver by this
country alone at ratio of 16 to l. and,
thereby, it repudiated time-honored
| democratic principle which demands
the strict maintenance of sound and
stable national currency.
| Finally to make it still palmer, that
although in name, 1t was not in fact a
democratic convention. it named for
president one who is not In his political
convinctions and has not always been
| even in his professions democrat
| This has made such a crisis, both for
| the nation and the democratic party
that the sound money democrats must
| at once decide what political action
they will take for the protection of the
| honor Of the nation. * The
sound money democrats of Illinois have
| fully made up their minds that new
democratic national convention should
be called for the earliest feasible day
| to nominate democratic candidates for
presidency and vice presidency and to
| adopt platform of democratic princi-
PIES and they desire to state to their
| fellow democrats Of the other states
their reasons as follows:
The reasons given in effect, are:
Q) The sound money democrats owe
it to the country to make 1t certain at
once that their revolt against free sill
yer is determined and will be organized.
(2) The nomination of new ticket is
the logical course; without it and a
sound money democratic campaign, the
whole educational force of sound money
democratic sentiment would be para
lzyed from the beginning. Republicans
cannot argue the sound money ques-
ton to democratic voters. The tariff
question will be insisted upon by re-
publican speakers and the republican
press. Democrats will not listen to
talk on finance when it is accompanied
by abuse of the democratic party. The
| most effective force at this time for a
| campaign is the force residing in the
sound money democrats; for they are
profoundly in earnest and can get a
hearing from democrats that republi-
cans cannot possibly get.
90 A new convention would also pre-
serve for the future the opportunities
of the democratic party.
| (4) Democrats who believe in demo-
cratic principles must have a party.
They will have party sooner or later.
The sooner the better. The interests of
the nation imperatively demand that
the great party shall be rescued out of
populism. In conclusion the address
says: 1.-THE sound money democrats
are already sufficiently organized in
this state to be able to meet their fell
low democrats in a new convention.
We hope that out of the responses TO
this public statement of the views of
he Illinois democracy there can be
gathered so much of the Judgment of
the leading sound money democrats OF
the United States as can be formulated
into plan of action. Communications
should be addressed by Mr. Charles A.
Ewing, chairman, Palmer House, Chi
cago."
The address is signed by numerous
prominent democrats.