The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-20
ADDRESS TO DEMOCRATS.
Text of Document Issued by Adj
herents OF Chicago Platform.

Text of Document Issued by Ad-
herents OF Chicago Platform.
CHICAGO, July Representative of
the Chicago platform Democrats tonight
issued an address to the members of the
national Democratic committee and to
the Democratic voters of the United
States as follows:
I'VE, acting as a committee created
and authorized by the Chicago platform
democracy of the state of New York, de-
sire to make public the following well
established facts concerning the situation
in the state of New York, believing that
everything affecting the political situation
In that great state is of national, rather
than IAN, merely local importance.
I'VE assert without fear of successful
contradiction, two propositions:
First, an overwhelming majority of the
voters in the Democratic party in the
state of New York are enthusiastically in
favor of the principles laid down in the
Chicago platform of 1896, and demanding
without qualification the nomination of
that man who shall in his record, and in
his personal qualities, most thoroughly
stand for and incarnate those principles
second, we declare that the small
group of men who have seized upon the
machinery OF the Democratic party in the
state OF New York are absolutely op-
posed, openly or coVertly, to all that the
Chicago platform stands for, and to the
nomination of a man who sincerely holds
those principle which we believe dominate
the Democratic organization in the ma
ton. And we further declare that the
electoral machinery in the state of New
YORK is such that to attempt to oust the
men now in control of the Tammany or
gan1Zat1on by work within that body
would be fruitleSs
In support of the first proposition laid
| down we have only to point to two re-
cent fllumina ting instances in New York
pollt1cs. First, the marked contrast be-
tween the attendance, the enthusiasm and
the high spirit of devotion shown at the
dinner of the Chicago platform democracy
NOR! more widely known as the dollar din
the dinner held on Jefferson's hirtbdeV
by the so-called regular or Tanlmanv or
gan1zation, and. second the magnificent
popular ovation given within the hostile
walls or Iammany hall to the one speak
er who, in the last three years has dared
70 cast aside the gag imposed by Tam
tba 1any Erioa [ulens and proclaim the gospel of
the Chlcago platform and put forward the
name of William Jennings Bryan.
IN support of the second proposition
we point to this record: 07- wi
After the election of 1895 tha fret on
portunity which the Democratic oreani-
zation in New York had to put {fseIf
on record before the people was the
1897 of Judge Alton B. Parker for chief
Judge Of the court of appeals. A commit
tee appeared before the state COMMITTEES
asking the reaffirmation of the Chicago
sentat1ves of the New York city organf-
zat1on voting against reaffirmation.
oecond: the next oportunity for Tam
many hall to prove its loyalty to Demo
cratic principles came when the organi-
zatfon in greater New York was called
upon to nominate a candidate for mayor
ana ana TO formulate declaration of prin-
clples upon which the candidate should
stand. Again reafiTmation of the Chi
cago platform was asked and refused
and man was selected as candidate for
mayor whose loyalty in 1896 was of that
perfunctory kind which confined itself to
the casting of a secret ballot and avoid
ing .:1,{;15 public :, expression Io66 Of opinion.
state of New York had to put a state
ticket in nomination. The man who con-
trolls the so-called Democratic organiza-
self that organization, Mr. Richard
Croker, had said to a member of this
committee that he would see that that
convention should reaffirm the Chicago
platform. Up to a few days Immediate
ly preceding the convention he and the
men whom he dominated posed as they
still pose, as friends of that Democracy,
which finds its expression in the Chica-
go platform. When the convention as
sembled they not only refused to rea firm
the principles laid down in 1896, but they
floor of the convention If they had rea-
son to suspect that he intended to men
ton the Chicago platform or the name
OF the man who ran for the presidency
These are. facts of public record. We
put them before you now. believing that
you are alreaQy cOSn1Zant or them. All
that we have done is to put them in con-
crete form and re-emphasize them
I'VE issue this address in order that
the fact may be put before the Demo-
Gratis of the nation that the Tammany
organization is Indifferent where 1t is not
hostile to those national issues for which
the Democratic party stands; and we
ask the cooperation of all Democrats in
the work of giving to the Democratic
voters of the state of New York an on
portunity to express themselves and
make their convictions effective in the
nation.