The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-18
THE DEMOCRATIC CALL.

It is an eloquent convincing, unan-
swerable appeal that the executive
committee of the National Democratic
party makes to the people in the ad-
dress that it has issued, calling for
the selection of delegates to the ma
tional convention soon to be held. 1t
is a new declaration of independence;
a new proof of the indestructibility Of
Democratic principles, and of the un-
conquerable fidelity of Democrats to
the ideal of government which they
have upheld through good and through
evil report for century past. We ask
of every man that he but read the
burning words of these true apostles
of our political faith, and see If he find
not in them the truth by which alone
any government worthy of the name
may endure.
Democracy means, say these earnest
men, who are ready to put all that
they have fought for and all the
wealth Of their hopes in the balance,
the right of the individual to achieve
his own happiness, secure from hos
tile interruption and unfettered by
law, as long as he does not interfere
with the equal right of any other man
engaged in the same pursuit 1t means
freedom of speech, freedom of trade,
freedom Of conscience and freedom of
contract" All loyal Democrats have
therefore insisted upon obedience to the
CIT ton, Tlo0 II
serVance of it's limitations on the
other. They have opposed every
scheme of legislative trickery whereby
it was proposed to create an artificial
prosperity, limited to classes, through
paternalistic legislation. If this be not
Democracy, then the great fact for
which that word stands has ceased to
have either force or meaning.
By the abandonment of such princi-
pies, and the setting up of new and
strange doctrines, unknown to it's past,
it is held that the Chicago convention
departed from Democratic standards
and ceased to command the allegiance
of Democrats. The platform adopted
there proposes not only to force upon
capital and labor alike deprecated
coinage, with all the evils attendant
thereon, but looks with no uncertain
glance toward q future regime of de-
preciated paper money as our sole cur
rency. It rejects bimetallsm and sub
stitutes silver monometallism instead
1t invites panic and disaster. "It as
sails the independence of the judiciary
by a covert threat to reorganize the
courts whenever their decisions con-
travene the DEGREES of the party eau
Gus" 1t proposes the overthrow of civil
service reform, so painfully accom-
plished against great opposition. That
convention, by these proclamations. as
we'll as by its temper and mode of
procedure, absolved Democrats from
their obligations, and compelled them
TO consider how the party itself may
be saved from utter extinction.
In view of these extraordinary facts
and this Urheard-of situation. these
Democrats call upon all who are true
10 the ancient standards of the party
TO unite fer it and for the country
IN forming the National Democratic or
ganizatlon, that shall not fail the peo-
pie or be false to the great princinles
OF government committed to its keen
ing The Will Of a majority OF the
whole people, duly expressed by the
ballot, whether wise or unwise. must
be acquiesced in by every loyal citi-
zen. But no such obligation follows
the Gictum Of particular party con
vention' especially when it departs