The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-03-17
STRAIGHT POLICY,
Democratic Committee Endorses
Party Organizations.
VIM J. BRYAN FOR PRESIDENT

A Meeting That Means That Democracy
VIII Take No Backward step and
Recognizes the Right as the
only Party Expedient.
The recent meeting of the Demoorauo
state central committee was ote ot the
most important held in recent years
Some busy bodi have been persistent In
the circulation of reports that the party
in the state is preparing to compromise
and recede from substantial and tenaoie
nosition which It assumed in 1896 ana re-
,terated in 1897. That these mischief
makers have reckoned without tounda-
tion NAV he readily seen from report oil
the committe proceedings. The COM
,,ittee formed subcommittee for toe
nurpose of formulating general plan oil
organizing the Ohio Democracy in per-
manent manner. In this regard the plan
~ forming clubs, after the manner oil
the jefferson Club of stark County, Is
conceded to be the most acceptable ana
foasible. as the doors of q club OF that
.barooter are always open for men who
endorse the Chicago platform and are for
frae silver nt lG to / and for william j.
Brvan. the peoples champion in 1900
The committee named the following as
an executive committee: W. W. DurDin'
chairman: W. H. Williams, treasurer; c.
V. Harris. secretary Joseph II. Bowling
and q. NJ. Kennedy. The secretary was
instruct d to send notice of the appoint
ments of the new executive committee to
the chairman of each Democratic county
sxecutive committee and to the DEM
ocratic newspapers of the state.
The Ohio Democracy and its auxiliary
organizations stand firmly in the faith
pronounced at Chicago, and renew their
allegiance in the following resolutions,
which were unanimously adopted by the
central committee:
Whereas. The issues involved in the
annoraohing congressional campaign are
NOT dissimilar to those that were involved
in the campaign of 1896 or to those that
will he involved in that of 1900; ana
Whereas, Fro certain sources come
Guarded criticisms of the National Dem"
ocratic platform and the standard bearer
of 1896. coupled with questions as to the
expediency If q similar platform and ex-
pressions of doubt as to the availability
NJ the same candidate for 1900; ana
whereas, Those who would change the
nletforr or substitute another candidate,
mr. hoth. boast of their loyalty to the party
in 1896 and pledge allegiance to 1t In
1900. thus forci 2, at this date, con-
sideration of tehse questions; therefore
Resolved. That it is the opinion OF this
committee that the silver forces OF ONO
should stand united in exactly the same
position that they occupied in 1876, ana
are overwhelmingly in favor Ot the re-
adoption Of the Chicago platform ana the
denomination for the presidency OF hon.
william Jennings Bryan in l9OO. ANA
fully and unreseryedly indorslng thls
nosition itself, the committee suggests 10
the organlzed silver forces of OHIO that IN
all county or district Democratic or silver
conventions held in the state this year
the questions here raised be submitted
to A direct vote of the delegates as
sembled. to the end that doubt ana dis
cord as to principles or candidate may
he eliminated aNld the allied silver loro'S
thoroughly united in the effort TO return
to congress a silver delegation from the
Presidents own state.
The foregoing adoption of the Demo
cratic state committee is in direct line
with the preamble and constitution OF
the Jefferson Club of Stark County, which
was the first club in the state to take an
initiative step that has met with the
hearty endorsement of those having the
interest of the cause Of the people at
heart. 1t will be recalled that the Jetfer-
son Club of Stark County declares In It's
preamble:
We the members of the Jefferson club,
recogniZing the wise doctrines taught py
Jefferson and Jackson, and nobly advoca-
ted and defended by that leader OF modern
statesmen. william Jennings Bryan, ana
believing in the free coinage of silver ana
gold at the ratio Of l6 to !, without
awaiting the aid or consent Of any other
nation, and affirming oil the principles
set forth in the chicago platform OF 1890,
and desiring to promote all Legislation
m at looks to the relief and benefit of the
toiling and producing masses, do hereby
ordain and establish this constitution OF
the Jefferson Club of Stark County. Ohio.
The object ana purpose of this club Is
tn maintain and advance Democratic
principles, and TO unity, harmonic ana
promote the interests of the Democratic
party, national, state, county and
municipal. To this end every good moral
citizen regardless Of race or creed, Is lh-
yited to membership and cooperation
The Jefferson Club, by the way, meets
tonight in its rooms in the Dannem ilier
block, in East Tuscarawas street, over
the Farmers Bank.