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.

HeXt OF document issued by Adj
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 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 Tor 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 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 GUST the
men now in control of the Tammany or
ganlZatlon by work within that body
would be fruitless.
In support of the first proposition laid
GOWN we nave only to point to two re-
cent Illuminating instances in New York
politics. First, the marked contrast be-
tween the attendance the enthusiasm and
Ine hlgh spirit of devotion shown at the
dinner of the Chicago platform democracy
more widely known as the dollar din
t Iee a ana the purely perfunctory tone of
me dinner held on Jeffersons birthday
py the So-called regular or Tammanv or
ganlzaton, and, second, the magnificent
popular ovation given within the hostile
walls OF tammany hall to the one speak
er who, in the last three years has dared
TO cast aside the gag imposed nv Tar
many rulers and proclaim the gospe1 Of
the chicago platform and put forward the
name of William Jennings BRYAN, 10
IN support of the second proposition
we point to this record: - " ''4'ioii
After the election of 1896 the first on
portun1ty which the Democratic organi-
Zatlon In New York had to put itself
on record before the people was the
termination by the state committee in
1887 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
P Pa7ta trIa 1t 49,. was refused, the repre-
zat1on voting against reaffirmation
Second. the next opportunity for Tam
many nall to prove its loyalty to Demo-
cratic principles came when the organi-
cation In greater New York was called
upon to nominate a candidate for navor
ana to formulate a declaration of prin
clpieS upon which the candidate should
stand Again reaffirmation of the Chi
cago platform was asked and refused
and a man was selected as candidate for
mayor whose loyalty in 1896 was of that
pertunctory kind which confined Itself 70
the casting of secret ballot and avoid
lrlgr pupnc expression Of opinion
Ihird. IN 1888. the Democrats of the
ticket In nomination. The man who con
trolls the so-called Democratic organiza-
tl e1e OF the city Of New York; who is him
Croker, had said to a member Of thie
committee that he would see that thai
convention should reaffirm the Chicago
platform. Up to a few DAYS immedfate
ly preceding the convention he and the
men whom he dominated posed as thev
still pose. as friends of that Democracy.
winch hnds Its expression In the Chica-
sembled they not only refused to reaffirTn
the principles laid down in 1896 but thev
refused to permit any man to gain the
floor of the convention if they had req
son to suspect that he intended to men
ton the Chicago platform or the name
OF the man who ran for the presidency
upon it.
''These are facts of public record. We
put them before you now believing that
you are already cognfzant of them. All
crete form and re-emphasiZe them
eve 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
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