The record-union., 1896-08-08
canvass of the members of the commit

ed at the Auditorium conference IN CHI
cago as the authority for the action OF
the present gathering.
AS soon as he finished Mr. Cultivate
of Ohio moved that committee Of five
be appointed by the Chair to prepare q
call for National Convention to nom
mate a candidate for President and
Vice President
The motion was adopted amid great
applause. Even the Texans, who had
been talking for Endorsement of the Re-
publican ticket, raised no objections.
Mr.. Bynum named the following COM
mittee: j. H. Outhwaite, Charles Ira
cey, j. M. Falkner, L. c. Krauthoff, F.
| w. McCutcheon. The committee re-
tired at once
The main question of whether or not a
convention should be called having thus
been disposed OF, the conference proceed
ed to select location, and in this In
dianapolis won by a vote of 10 against
for Memphis and for Louisville.
At the evening session General Tracey
or New York nominated for Chairman
OF the Provisional Committee Senator
j. M Palmer of Illinois. The selection
was made by acclamation
General Palmer made a brief speech,
in the course of which he said: 1T de-
wolves upon us to form the nucleus upon
which the Democratic party of the
country that clings TO the principles of
the organization may gather. 1t is our
duty to preserve an organization, in or
Ger that we may be ready when our
errlng brethren see the folly of their
ways, and when God has forgiven them,
to receive them back and reconstruct a.
united party
John r. Wilson of Indianapolis was
made Secretary, and John P. Frenzel
of this city Treasurer
Mr.. Cultivate, Chairman of the sub
committee, reported the call for the
| convention as follows:
TO the Democrats of the United
States: A political party has always
! been defined to be an association of
voters to promote the success of polit-
lcal principles held in common. The
Democratic party during it's whole his
| tory 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 safe and stable money
lot the peoples use. 1t has insisted
Upon the maintenance of the financial
honor OF the nation, as well as upon
the preservation inviolate of the stat
utes established by the Constitution
These, its principles, were abandoned
by the supposed representatives of the
party assembled at Chicago.
The Democratic party will cease to
exist unless 1t be preserved by the VOL
untary action Of such of its members
as still adhere to its fundamental prin-
clples- NO majority of members of
that convention, however large, had
any right or power to surrender those
principles. When they undertook to do
so that assemblage ceased to be Dem
ocratlc convention. The irregular pro-
ceedlngS, the platform enunciated by
that body, were and are so utterly and
insufferably revolutionary, and consti-
tute such radical departures from the
principles of true Democracy, which
should characterize sound and patri-
otic administration of our countryas ar
fairs, that its results are not entitled to
the confidence or support of true Demo-
Gratis.
For the first time since national
parties were formed there is not before
the American people a platform declar-
| ing the principles of the Democratic
party as recognized and courageously
and consistently administered by JEFF
ferson, Jackson and Cleveland; nor are
there nominees for the offices of Presi-
dent and Vice-President to carry them
| into effect. The faithful and true Dem
ocrats are determined that these prin-
clples shall not be ruthlessly surren-
dered. nor the people be deprived of an
opportunity to vote for candidates in
accord with their choice.
Therefore, the real Democratic
party, through It's regular constituted
committee, hereby calls a national con-
vention of the party for the announce
ment of it's platform and the nomina-
ton of candidates for the Offices of
President and Vice President of the
United States, and the transaction of
such business as may be incidental
thereto, to be held at Indianapolis.
Ind, on September -, 1896, at II
O'Clock noon, and hereby request peo-
pie in the different States who believe
| in law and order, and who are unalter-
ably opposed to the platform adopted
and candidates nominated at Chicago
| VIII select in such manner as shall
seem best a number of delegates to the
same equal to twice the number of
electoral votes to which such States
are respectively entitled. Such dele
gates shall be duly accredited accord
| ing to the usages of the Democratic
arty. Their credentials shall be for
warded 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
] fa ini,
nary organization of the convention. !"
The reading was greeted with ap-
plause,~ and it was adopted without
| dissent. The gentlemen present then
INDUCED in somewhat of a love feast
! McCutcheon in an impassioned seech
pleaded for the use of the old name
| Bullett of Pennsylvania spoke in ia
vor of the name used in the call. He
spoke in the highest terms of President
/ Cleveland, and his eulogy was received
with warm applause.
Upon the close of Bullett's speech
Cultivate moved the adoption of the
call and it was carried unanimously.
Cultivate then moved that the Sec
retary be authorized TO sign the name
of each member of the committee to
the call, and as no objection was made
it was taken as assent
A resolution was adopted authoriz-
ing the Chair to appoint an Executive
Committee of nine to have charge of
the campaign until the time of the
convention and the preparations for
the convention. and act for the Ma
t.onal Committee until its next meet
ing, which VIII be held in this city
September 1st.
| A second resolution was adopted in