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CALL FOR BRYAN'S DEFEAT
STRONG APPEAL ISSUED BY THE
NATTONAL DEMO OCEATS.


THE Great Improvement i'm business
Under McExfnIey-Evil of the Trusts
Has No Party Parentage.
Indianapolis Ind, Oct. 5.-The exec
utive committee Of the National Demo-
cratic committee issued the following
address tonight:
To the National Democracy, the gold
democrats of the United States:
Four wears ago your patriotic position
saved the country from the peril OF MI
Bryans election. You were not decelV- :
ed by the plea of regularity in MS
nomination. You saw him truly as the
nominee of a combination which had
taken your party name to gid princi-
pies unknown to democracy
You stood steadfastly by the financial
views and political philosophy OF JET
ferson Jackson Tilden and Cleveland.
In your national convention at Indian
apolis YOU declared that you had AS
sembled to uphold the principles upon
which depend the honor and welfare or
the American people in order that the
democrats throughout the union may
unite their patriotic efforts to avert
disaster from their country and ruin
from their party"
The convention said that "the demo-
cratic party has survived many defeats
but could not survive victory won IN
behalf Of the doctrine and policy pro-
claimed in its name at Chicago"
You went firmly to your duty and dld
II well In the hope that there would
be no further attempt to use your party
name as q mask to the abhorrent prin-
ciples advocated by Mr.. Bryan. In MS
defeat his misled supporters We're adj
monished and chastened to an extent
which turned them away from the pain
to which he allured them. The Kan
sas City convention was averse TO re-
affirmation of the Chicago platform and
a majority of its delegates honestly
hoped to purge the party of the vicious
heresies which had lost it the respect
and confidence of the country. But
through the power of his organization
and by reason of the hope of success
born in his nomination by the populists.
Mr. Bryan prevailed against the better
sense Of the convention, compelled en-
dorsement of the false doctrines of 1896
and by the votes of Alaska and Hawaii
forced the specific restatement of his
dangerous and destructive financial
theory.
He stands now, therefore, for all he
advocated in 1896, and accepting the
populist nomination he added thereto
his declaration In favor of an unlimit-
ed issue of greeback currency. He is
pledged by his own declarations to de-
stroy the gold standard, to effect the
free coinage of silver at the artificial
ration of 16 to l, to the expulsion of
both gold and silver from the country
by a resumption Of an issue in the
judicial tenure to system of direct
legislation which transfers law making
to the ballot box, removing some of the
checks provided by the constitution and
an unbalancing the system created by
that instrument
This assault upon the three co-ordi-
nate branches Of our government, If 1t
succeeds Will revolutionize and destroy
the whole system. What will follow is
already visible in his appeals to class
hatred, envy and prejudice.
Since 1896 the National Democratic
party has promoted the purposes which
then justified it's existence. We have
urged and accomplished legislation tc
strengthen the gold standard. In that
standard the interest on the public debt
has been reduced to two per cent, and
the national credit has been so strength
ened that our two per cent. bonds are al
a premium Private credit has felt the
impulse of this Improvement. The pro.
ducing and wage-paying industries OF
the country are promoted by the com
mand of abundant capital at the lowest
interest known In our history. CheaT
capital, represented in economy of pro.
duction, has opened the worlds mar.
kets to our surplus and we hold prima-
cv in the worlds trade The gold stan
dard has transformed us from a debtor
to creditor nation and has made the
limited States the clearing house of the
commercial world. 1t has increased
the consuming power of the people by
industrial restoration, and has added
value to the farm crops of the country
and to the land which produces them
The further effect of the gold standard
is the ready employment of American
labor and payment of it's wages in the
best money in the world
The destruction of that standard, the
DEGRADATION of the public credit, the
paralysis of industry, the restriction o.
commerce, increased cost of production
and descent to paper basis are the DIS
asters threatened by the election of Mr.
BRYAN. and he is pledged to inflict then
on us as soon as he gets power III
seeks that power by an appeal to tn
an+i-exnansion and antitrust sentimen
of the people. The difficulties of ou
external policy were as unforeseen al
their solution is at present unfeVealeu
THE evil of trusts has no party parent
age and will be remedies by the com
bined intelligence of our parties. Wlth
out minimizing the perils of either w
affirm that no greater evil can befal
orr government than the Impairment o
its vigor, the destruction of its credl
and the ruin of our industries, Wnlcl
Mr.. Bryan is specifically pledged to et
feet if he gets the power. Therefore
we appeal to our countrymen again u
avert disaster from their country b.
his defeat (SigneD
The Executive Committee,
by Charles Tracy, Chairman.
L. NJ. Martin, Chairman Campaigl