Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1898-09-03
NATIONAL 00LDBv0s KAvs QUiL

The end Of the National Democracy
the "gold.bug" party Of 1s0G-As an or.
ganization Is In sight. Local Demo.
cratic leaders say the funeral csVe.
monies will he held in Chicago on or
about Sept. II.
On that date the National Committee
Of the party will meet at the Welling.
ton TO have an accounting Of the finan.
ces Of the party. which for the past two
years have been In the hands Of VIII.
lam ID. CWild Bili'C Bynum. chairman,
and John =. Frcnzel, treasurer, Of In.
danapolis.
Frenzel and Bynum are said to have
fallen out. and when the National Com.
mlttee meets here next month Bynum
will In all probability be defeated. and
the organization will become defunct
within very short time thereafter. but
not necessarily because Of the depOs.
ing OF Bynum.
After the campaign Of 1893 had
closed and the gold Democrats. che
Palmer and Buckner ticket. had helped
to elect Mckinley, the National Com.
mlt,ee Of the gold bug" party" found
itself with balance Of $4,000 In cash
In the treasury.
During the campaign there wses
many rows In the committee, the yrirb
clpal one Of which was over Byuum.
He was at the beginning made chair
man Of the National Committee and
authorized 10 conduct the national cam.
paign. Later on. w much dlsaatisfa0.
ton was prevalent that John p. Hop
klns, OF Chicago, was made vice chair.
man, and put In charge Of the nAetonG
campaign. Even che free silver people
admitted afterward that without Hop
k!ns the movement would have been
Nat failure, particularly In Illinois.
After considerable heavy thinkin0
and wrlnkling Of brows among the gold
bug National Committeeman. 1t was
decided that the only wise. safV and
profitable manner TO dispose Of the bal
ance Of $4,000 was to "conuuus The
organization" or In other words, 10
spend II.
Nobody else wanted the place very
much, and 80 Bynum was made chair.
man permanently and voted u salary Of
$1,000. 1t was understood that be
should maintain headquarters In In
d!anapOlls, and circulate among the
Democrats Of the Western and Middle
Western States, advancing the ideas Of
the ancient Democratic faith"
For a time he did this, and the gold
Democrats felt the $4,000 was being
properly spent. But Bynum had always
had u laundering to open law Office In
New York. With guaranteed income
OF $1,000 year he felt that his oppOr>
| tunlty had come, and he took the
chance. He opened an Office In the
Eastern metropolis, and little laAS
was rewarded with an office by Presb
dent Mckinley for the work done due
Ing the 1896 campaign.
But about thar time the old supr1u
broke again. Eastern gold DcmocraoA
who had contributed to the fund which
had $4,000 lett over after the cain
pa!gn, declared the Democrats In the
East We're all for gold anyhow, and
that there was no sense in having By
mum sp"nuhs tNal money |ntSS. But
Bynum stack TO New York and 10 rh4s
yet.
Illinois gold Democrats, including
Ben Cable, John T.. Hopkins, John NJ.
Palmer, and William H. Morrison, long
since quit Bynum. John i. FrSz,l
the street railway magnatc Of Indian
apolls, also went out after ByuUm's
scalp, and lately C.. Vey Holman, tho
Maine member of the National Com
m.tice, started on the same track. 4
few days ago he called Is meeting OF
thc National Committee, over Chair
man Bynum's head, and at this needing
he and Frenzel will demand an 40
counting Of the $1,000 and things arc
Liable 90 happen To Bynum.
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