The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-07-23
AN ADDRESS ISSUED.
Illinois Sound Money Democrats Repudiat'
 the Lwto National Convention.

 the Lwts National Convention.
 CHICAGO, July 1A-The executive committee of the gold standard demo- crats of Illinois met in protracted session yesterday and prepared an ad. dress to the democracy of the other states in the union. It was the unani- nous opinion of the committee that a second democratic national ton should be called to nominate candi. dates for president and vice president The address is as follows:
 To Our Fellow-Democrats of Other States: national convention. convened under the constituted authority of our party has just closed its session in the city of Chicago It en- tered upon its work by violating all party precedents in the rejection of distinguished democrat as its temporary presiding officer It deprived a sovereign state of voice in its deliberations by unseating, without cause or legal justification, delegates elected with all the regularity known to party organization. It refused to indorsc the honesty and fidelity of the present democratic national adminis- tration.
 It adopted platform which favors the free and unlimited coinage of silver by this country alone at the ratio of sixteen to one, and thereby it repudiated Q time-honored dem- ocratic principle, which demands the strictest maintenance of 0 sound and stable national currency.
 Finally, to make 1t still palmer that, al- though in name, 1t was not in fact democratic convention, 1t nominated for president one who is not. in his political convictions, and has not always been. even in his professions a dem- ocrat -. This has made such crisis. both for the na. tion and the democratic party that sound money democrats must at once decide what | vHoli ha,x xuil toI,n Ror tion of the honor of the nation the prosperity of the people and the life and usefulness of the party. The sound money democrats of Illinois have fully made up their minds that a new democratic national convention should be called for the earliest feasible day to nominate democratic candidates for president and vice president, and to adopt platform of demo- cratic prin ciples, and, they desire to state to their fellow-democrats of other states their reasons, as follows:
 First-Sound money democrats owe 1t to the country to make 1t certain at once tLat their revolt against free silver is determined and will be organized. It is unfair to oblige the credit of the nation and the business and in- dustrial interests of the people to merely guess what the sound money democrats will do in November, and to await until November to find out.
 Second-Tho nomination of new ticket is the logical course. Without it. and a sound money democratic campaign, the whole educa. tional force of sound money democratic senti- ment would be paralyZed from the beginning Republicans cannot argue the sound money question to democratic voters. Republican sincerity on that question is doubted by the mass of democrats. The tarin question will be put to the front and insisted upon by repub- lican speakers and the republican press, as it has consistently been done by Mir Mckinley himself. Democrats will not listen to lessons n V m n nia1 hy n hpS nf ha 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 the republicans cannot possibly get.
 Third-A new convention would also pre- serve for the future the opportunities oi the democratic party. Unless a clear-cut separa. tion is made between the genuine democrats and democrats who are drifting into populism. or arc already in populism, and unless that clear-cut separation is supported by organiza. tion and reorganized democratic party is the result the party has no chance of regainina public confidence for years to come. The sound money democrats in the different states must either make it clear that they have no as- sociation with the Bryan party, or they must accept association and entanglement with 1t and all state organizations will in the public mind be for it that do not make 1t abso. lutely clear that they are against it. The sound money democrats are already sufficiently organized in this state to be able to meet their fellow-democrats in new convention, and are anxious to confer with representatives Of other states whenever Il representative conference can be brought about. Communications should be addressed to Charles A Ewing, chairman. Palmer house, Chicago.
 James T. Soblitt. Adolph Kraus, James M Sheehan, Charles H Williamson, Lynden Ev. ans, k. K. Spangler. John M. Palmer, Charlef A. Ewing, James H. Eckels. Franklin Mac. Veagh, Ben T. Cable, William s. Forman Thomas A Moran, John P. Hopkins, Henry s. Robbins, A. A Goodrich. executive committee of the honest money democracy of Illinois