Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-02
1t Is Fired by the Democratic
National Committee.
DELEGATES MUST Be INSTRUCTED
Important Warning Issued by the
Press Committee.
THE EFFECT LOCALLY

The Bryan democrats of the District were
in high spirits today over the action Of the
democratic national committee in sending
out through it's press bureau. late last
week, a notification to democrats to in
struct all delegates sent to Kansas City.
The circular which is in the nature of
warning, has been sent to democratic news
papers throughout the country from the ma
tional committees headquarters in the
Unity building at Chicago. 1t bears the
caption, Instruct All Delegates printed
in bold-faced type and is literally be-
sprfnkled with significant sentences printed
in capitals. 1t reads as follows:
"A just test of party sincerity this year
on the part of either public men or news
papers protesting to be democratic is their
insistence that all delegates to the Kansas
City convention shall be instructed to vote
for the reaffirmation of the Chicago plat
form and for the nomination only Of men
who were openly and actively loyal to that
platform in 1895 and are known still to be
in thorough sympa.ny with it
I'm many states of the Union men who
treacherously deserted Mr.. Bryan in 1896
and contributed to the election of Mckin-
ley and all the evils of monopoly and mill
tarism which followed in its wake are now
returning to the democratic ranks. They
come with smooth words on their lips and
great democratic organization of the ma
ton, scorning all that would SAVIOR of vim
dictiveness. opsns its doors to them and re-
ceives them back into full communion.
But 1t would be folly, 1t would be a
criminal blunder to grant to those return
ing renegades the fullest privilege of men,
beTship in the democratic party without
exacting from them some PROOF of their
present willingness to abide by the estab-
lished creed of the party. We would fall
short of our duty a democratic newspa-
per did we fail to point out that while the
public utterances of many of these men
are seemingly expressive of full acqui-
escence in the party program, 1t is only too
surely known that they seek readmittance
to the party only in the hope of controlling
it and turning it away from the service of
the people back to the state of serfdom to
plutocracy whence it was rescued in 1896
Proof of such a conspiracy exists. 1t is
being perfected with all the skill which the
consCenceess politicians who had dominat-
ed the party prior to 1896 possess and it
is being financed with the wealth which the
Whitneys. the Lannon'S, the Benctlicts and
the Dickinsons were ever able to draw from
the men and the corporations that desire
to control the national administration for
their own benefit.
There is but one method of defeating
these conspirators. 1t is the method en-
ployed in 1896 to wrest control of the party
from the plutocratic forces which at that
time controlled. 1t is the binding of all
delegates by rigid instructions. From the
district convention; from the latter to the
national convention, the chain of instruc-
tons should be complete. No national del
egate. nor any man who is chosen to take
part in the selection of national delegates
should he left subject to the influence which
plutocracy will undoubtedly strive to exert.
All should be instructed for the reaffirma-
ton of the Chicago platform and the selec-
ton of candidates loyal to 1t in 1896 and
loyal now.
Opposition to this method is in itself in
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