New-York tribune., 1900-07-15
A THIRD TICKET MEETING.
GOLD DEMOCRATS TO URGE ADDITION
AL NOMINATlONS AT A GATHER
ING on WEDNESDAY.

Those Gold Democrats who are opposed 10
Bryan's silver policy and who also dlsHke WIaI
they term the ''lmperialist' policy OF the IlAll-
ley Administration, finding themselves lAeIeoS III
the position which is described as being between
the devil and the deep sea. have issued d can
for a meeting To he held next Wednesday lot IIe
purpose of urging the putting OF thlIu uCNel
in the field The Gold Democrats who advocate d
Presidential candidate Of their own are no" VI
ganzlng and have established temporary mead
quarters in the office of Isaac H. Klein NO. l4l
Broadway. From there was issued the ca" lot
the meeting which reads as follows:
con4roats many thoHsands OF thoughtful citizens
who opposed 70 hoth candidates; IL IN +te i'm
peraiist 'iS5 pocy 5 of the Mcmiey Adnstrat29 or
ne nnancal Illusions o the kasa5 k ron, i9 the polls
made to enable him express his political conVic-
Ne invite you therefore. to meet at the Plaza
otel on Wednesday, July IS, at o'clock p m; 10
devise the best method OF placing IN notfilnalt" d
platform denouncing and combating the fa4a ia
cious and unconstitutional creeds OF po'h ol 'i'e
The call is signed by Thomas NJ. Osborne, Au-
burn, y y; Henry Hentz, New-York; William
Everett, Quincy Mass Robert \. Widenmann'
Manuel n. Y: Edmund H. kitchener. BINGHAM
ton N Y. Jacob F. Miller, New-1ork; r o.
Mason. Geneva N Y: Gordon Woodbury., Man
chester y. H.; John Jay Chapman, New-1ork;
William j. Palmer. Colorado; Alfred L. Robinson
New-York; Everett Y. Abbott. New-York; Or. H.
freeman, NeW-l Ork. Joseph VI I lANS' ~'N'
York: Myer D Rothschild. New-York; Boudinot
Keith, New-York: Edward Carroll. jr., Nyack. ~
y; Kenneth G. White. Sparkn, n. Y; Archibald
Murray Howe, Cambridge, Mass; Professor h. r
Nash, Geneva N Y; Paul Fuller, New-fork; Os-
wald Garrison Willard. New-York
Paul Fuller. one of those who signed the CALL IN
commenting upon the situation said yesterday:
The dominant party, pledged to the arbitrary afG
mlniqn partly by conquest ana party py psn9 dis
TSpdf hat has hagD
usurpation of its name and functions by men VINO
confronts us What must that citizen DO who is
convinced that the presuge OF representative SoN-
ernment is seriously menaced by the assumption p3
OF OF arbitrary power over unwilling poput5au@oTS ppa5 IONS
ana the uSefuIness or the CoInInonWedLiIL H. d. "a e
threatened by the adoption of policy involving a
substitution of metal OF lesser value for the re-
payment of debts contracted in a metal OF greater
for the authorities intrusted with its interpretation
encouraging animosity between the hanu worker
and the brain worker between him VINO still tolls
and him who is possessed of the fruits or previous
The adoption of the Democratic name by these
usurpers, and the prOclaimng of one Of its prin-
cip4es-that all government rests IN the SoSenlI Gl
the governed-cannot disguise them II there Is
Kamtas nv ne banIocTarv vii iustIv be bur
dened with the sins of both Kansas city and Chi
cage, and deserve 70 pass into dissolution -,
progressive centrauzation for which the Republi-
can party avowedIy stands cannot readily be @ Inets-
ured 1t would he no longer the leak IN me ieyees
bat the sudden upheaXai of every OBSTRUCTION 10
in the repudiation of truly representdtiFe govern
the preservation of organization which will keep
alive Democratic doctrine and live 10 gather
levers in the soundness Of the antiluajcd Dcelara-
ton OF Independence, 10 strive for its rehabiltta
seems to be the battle is to the strong
George +. Seward, president of the Fidelity and
Casualty Company, who, at the last election sup
ported the Palmer Buckner ticket, said that while
is TO a dead issue he did not share in the
d!strust Of Bryan which so many people were ex
hibiting. He thought Bryans most grievous mis-
take was hts silver policy.
IT do not propose. however" he said ITO
NIT myself to either party at this time doubt
the advisable of putting a third ticket in the
field
A. V. Eddy OF Flint, EDDY & Co, said that al
though a Democrat. he would vote for Mckinley
because Of his advocacy Of the gold standard. Mr..
Eddy believes that third ticket would he IN the
way and would get fewer votes that did the
Palmer Buckrer ticket IN 1886
Robert L. Harrison, lawyer. Of No 80 WaIl-st..
said:
Il supported Palmer and Buckner four years ago,
and If the Gold Democrats put third ticket in the
field this year Will probably vote for It. But do
not think such step advisable"
W W. Sharp. broker No. Broad-st, who sup
ported the Democratic Gold ticket at the last cleo
ton. said that the feeling the part Of the
Sound Money Democrats against Bryan was even
more intensified this year than IT was in 1896.
There can be only one issue IN the East" ne
said and that pertains to money The Repuh-
Democrats Try TO dodge it they will only harm
Everett V ABBOTT, one OF those who signed the
call for next Wednesdays meeting, SAID that
neither of the regular parties offered him p"lc!eS
for which he could vote. Consequently, he desired
10 see a thrd ticket nominated. the candidates
of which would represent principles opposed to the
cardinal mistakes of the present nominees