The San Francisco call., 1896-08-08
Massachusetts, Nathan Matthews. Bos-

phia.
Rhode IsIand-c. G. Mumford, Provi-
dence.
South Carolina-T. F. Polly. Anderson.
South Dakota-John B. HanIen, Water
town.
Tennessee John G. McReynolds, Nash
vile.
Texas-M. L. Crawford, Dallas.
Vermont-John W. Gordon, Larre.
Virginia-Joseph Bryan, Richmond.
Washington-Ira NJ. Krutze, Nyrth va
kima.
West Virginia-Henry @. Simms, Hunt
ington.
WIsconsin-Ellis B. Usher, La Crosse.
E. B. Pond of San Francisco, the Cali
fornia committeeman, and Edgar S. Will
son, the representative of Mississippi, did
not put in an appearance. There was
prolonged applause when Mr. Bynum an
nounced that thirty-three States were
represented, covering the country from
Maine and Florida to Washington and
Texas. No time at all was wasted in de-
termining the main question, which had
already been practically decided by a can
vass of the members of the committee.
Mr.. Ewing read the resolutions adopted
at the Auditorium conference in Chicago
as authority for the action of the present
gathering. AS soon as he finished, Mr..
Outhwalte of Ohio moved that a committee
of five be appointed by the chair to pre-
pare call for National convention to
nominate Democratic candidate for
President and a Democratic candidate for
Vice President.
The motion was adopted amid great ap-
plause. Even the Texans, who had been
talking for Endorsement of the Republican
ticket. raised no objections. Mr.. Bynum
named the following committee: ]. II.
Cultivate, Ohio; Charles Tracey, New
York; ]. NJ. Faulkner, Alabam a; L. C.
Krauthoff, Missouri; f. w. McCutcheon,
st. Paul.
The committee retired at once. The
main question of whether or not conven-
tion should be called having thus been
disposed of, the conference proceeded to
select location, and in this Indianapolis
won right handiIy by vote of 10 against
for Memphis and 2 for Louisville.
at the evening session General Tracey
of New York nominated for chairman of
the provisional committee Senator John
made by acclamation. General Palmer
made brief speech, in the course of
which he said:
1T devolves upon us to form the nu-
cleus about which the Democratic party
of the country that clings 10 the principles
of organization may gather. It is our
duty to preserve an organization in order
that we may be ready when our erring
brethren see the folly of their ways, and
when God has forgiven them, to receive
them back and reconstruct q united
party"
John r. Wilson of Indianapolis was
made secretary ana John P. Frenzel of
this city treasurer. Mr.. Cultivate, chair
man of the subcommittee, reported the
call for the convention as follows:
To the Democrats of the United States: A polit.
cal party has always been defined to be an as
sociation OF voters to promote the success of
political principles held in common. The
Democratic party, during its whole history,
has been pledged to promote the liberty of the
individual, the security of private rights and
property and the supremacy of the law. 1t
has always insisted upon a safe and stable
money for the peoples use.
1t has insisted upon the maintenance of the
financial honor of the Nation, as well as upon
the preservation 1nviolate of the institutions
esta ablished by the constitution. These, its
principles, were abandoned by the supposed
representatives. of party at National con-
vention recently assembled at Chicago. The
Democratic party will, therefore, cease to
exist unless it be preserved by the voluntary
action of such of its members as still adhere to
its fundamental principles.
No majority OF members of that convention,
I,or od riChf 0rr frc
render those principles. Wnep they under
took to do so that assemblage ceased to be a
Democratic convention. The action taken,
the irregular proceedings and the platform
enunciated by that body were and are so ut
terly and indefensibly revolutionary and
constitute such radical departures from the
principles of true Democracy, which should
characterize q sound and patriotic administra-
ton of our country's affairs, that its results
are not entitled to the confidence or support of
true Democrats
For the first time since National parties
were formed there is not before the American
people platform declaring the principles of
the Democratic party as recognized and most
courageously and consistently administered
by Jefferson, Jackson and Cleveland, nor are
there nominees for the Offices of President and
Vice-President of the United States pledged to
carry those principles into practical effect.
Inc IalL01u1 ana True OeuOCTdbS OF the
United States are determined that these prin-
ciples shall not be ruthlessly surrendered nor
the people be deprived of an opportunity to
vote for candidates in accord Herewith.
Therefore, the National Democratic party of
the United States through its regularly con-
st1tuted committee, hereby calls National
convention of that party for the announce
ment of its platform and the nom ination of
candidates for the Offices of President
and Vice-President and the transaction of
such business as is incidental thereto, to be
held at Indianapolis on Wednesday, the second
day OF September, 1896, at IL O'Clock, noon,
and hereby requests that the members of the
party in the several States who believe in
sound money and the preservation of law and
order, and who are unaiterably opposed to the
platform and candidates named at Chicago,
will select in such manner as to
them shall seem best number of
delegates to the same equal to twice the num-
Der OF electoral votes to which such States are
respectively entitled. Such delegates shall be
duly accredited according to the ussges of the
Democratic party. Their credentials shall be
forwarded or delivered to the secretary of this
committee with all convenient speed, and this
committee will make up and announce the
roll OF the delegates entitled to participate in
the preliminary organization of the conven-