The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-15


mfttee, rendered and Accepted
Charges of Bad Faith Made-A
Committee Named to Frame an
Address to the People.
CHICAGO, Sept. 14-W. D. Bynum.
chairman of the National Democratic
party, rendered his resignation to the
executive committee today, and
George F. Peabody, of New York. was
elected as his successor.
The resignation was a great sl1rnrise
to the leaders of the gold Democratic
party.
c. c. Holman, of Maine, declared af-
ter the meeting that he proposed to
have Mr.. Bynum investigated. Mr..
Holman claims Mr.. Bynum called the
meeting of today with the intent to
force him to leave Maine, where the
election was held on Monday. the
morning Of election day, and he charg-
es the ex-chairman with conspiracy.
A committee, of which Mr.. Peabody
was made chairman, was appointed to
prepare an address to the people.
A resolution which was adopted by
the meeting stopping the salaries of
all the officers is said to be the real
cause OF Mr.. Bynum'S resignation.
treasurer FrenZel, Of Indianapolis.
reported that when the campaign Of
1895 ended there was $4,000 in the
treasury of the National Democracy.
Since that time $4,000 has been ex-
pended. There was $1,5OO, which could
be had when necessary from uncollect-
ed subscriptions. Mr. Bynum had re-
ceived $500 as salary, while $50 was
credited to personal expenses The
treasurer reported that 81 700 had been
sent to Kentucky for the '97 campaign.
$l,7O0 to Iowa, $1,000 to Ohio during
the campaign in which Hanna was
elected United States senator, and $500
to Kansas. Finally he said that $3.50
had been expended for stationery and
postage.
The question of the attitude of the
National Democratic party in the com
ing campaign was one of the matters
which the meeting was called to dis
cuss. Along this line the following in
terView was tonight obtained with f.
w. M. Cutcheon, Of st. Paul. the Min
nesota member of the national COM
mittee Of the National Democratic par
ty and member Of the executive COM
mittee Of the national committee dur
ing the campaign for Palmer and
Buckner in 1896. Mr.. Cutcheon said:
AT the meeting today 1 advocated
keeping the organization intact and
prepared to act if necessary. This much
l regarded as a duty that the commit
tee owes to those who appointed it and
to it's own members. 1 energeticaIly
opposed any radical action and any
attempt at aggressive agitation. Such
a course seems to be both unwise and
unnecessary at the present time.
''The current of popular thought
like that of public affairs, has chang
ed very rapidly during the last two
years. Many things have combined to
produce this result. The cause, how
ever, is not in this instance so impor-
tant as the effect. Opinion upon the
financial question has undeniably un-
dergone a change. To a much greater
degree the inclination of politicians to
force this issue to the front has di-
miniShed This is true as to the man
ayers of both the great parties. The
issue of 16 to l. so-called, if not abso
lutely dead, is no longer engrossing
the attention or even actively interest
ing the public. I believe that very few
level headed men of either party think
it possible to make this the crucial
issue in 1900.
No question was ever so thoroughly
fought out at a single election. The
fuel of new ideas, arguments, facts is
lacking now. The fire can never again
burn at the same fierce heat as in 1896
I do not mean that the leaders of the
regular organizations have abandoned
their convictions. The opinions of hon
est men change slowly, but wise men,
however sincere, must accommodate
themselves to changed conditions.
Therefore, while, as must have been
expected, we find In most of the Dem
ocratic platforms of this year brief,
formal Endorsements Of the Chicago
platform, few of the members of the
party, fancy, still regard devotion to
all the doctrines distinctive of that
platform as the test of party loyalty
IMPELLING THOUGHT.
''In the minds of very many so-calIed
silver men the 16 to issue stood prin-
cipally as the palpable manifestation OF
the struggle of the individually help
less against the domination OF politics
and government by the power of
wealth. This was the underlying and
impelling thought. Sixteen to one was
it's ephemeral expression.
"All the signs of the times, the opin-
ions of those 1 meet and, most of ALL
the movements Of events lead me to the
conviction that the causes that led to
the separation of the gold men from
the regular organization in 1896 must
rapidly cease to exist, and that all
those who were genuinely Democrats
prior to 1896 may soon be once more
united in advocacy Of measures that
all will admit to be Democratic. Ger
tainly nothing is more to be desired
upon every ground. L am opposed to
any course that needlessly obstructs or
postpones this consummation Feel
ing in this way, I am not permitting
the formal Endorsements of the Chicago
platform to prevent me from giving
such support as 1 consistently can to
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