The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-26


of the National Democracy this after
noon, the scheme of fusion with the
anti-imperialistic movement, original
ing with the recent mass meeting at
the Plaza hotel in New York, was de-
feated, as was also the plan to place
a gold Democratic ticket in the field
this year.
The following resolutions were adopt
pes:
Resolved, That in the opinion of
this committee the nomination of can
didates by the party for the offices Of
president and vice president is unwise
and inex9edient
Resolved. secondly, That we reaf-
firm the Indianapolis platform of 1896
Third, We recommend the state
committees in their respective states
to preserve their organizations and
take such steps as in their opinion
may best subserve the principles of the
party, especially in the maintenance OF
a sound currency, the privilege of pri-
waite contract, the independence of the
judiciary and the authority of the pres
ident to enforce federal laws. a covert
attack on which is made under the
guise of the denunciatiOn of govern
ment by injunction.
I'VE urge the voters not to be de-
ceiYed by the plea that the money
question has been finally settled, the
specific reiteratiOn of the demand for
free coinage of silver at the ration OF
16 to ! by the Kansas City convention,
and the history known Of all men in
connection Herewith emphasize the
danger of this demand. We endorse
the action of congress in passing bill
embodying the gold standard as a step
in the right direction. We feel il would
be dangerous to elevate to executive
power any one hostile to the mainten-
ance and enforcement of this law"
Ehrichs Back in Regular Fold.
Mr.. Lewis E. Ehrichs of Colorado.
who, since, 1896, has been prominent
and active in the gold Democratic
movement said:
This action of the national commit
tee of the gold Democracy is outrage
Gus. The whole thing is simply a Nc
Kinley endorsement, and I have no
doubt that those Immediately interest
ed in issuing the call intended such. /
have done with the committee and the
present organization of the party, and
shall tender my resignation
Later on Mr.. Ehrichs wrote his letter
Of resignation and withdrawal, which
was accepted by the committee.
OF the thirty-nine members of the
national committee there were present
nineteen, several Of them holding
proxies.
Before the committee had been ap-
pointed for the Conference with the
Plaza hotel committee, and at that
hour, the latter committee made its
appearance and a subcommittee pre-
scented an address setting out the prop
OSitiOn for fusion and a third party
ticket with the reasons coming down
from the New York meeting Upon
the hearing of argument from John
Jay Chapman and Thomas NJ. Osborne
of the New York committee and others,
the gold men decided upon an imme-
date consideration of the question, and
the New York committeeman took back
seats and listened TO d discussion which
lasted over an hour.
In accordance with a suggestion by
Charles Tracey of New York. each
member of the gold national commit
tee expressed his views
Eastern and western men opposed
the proposition, taking the ground that
there had been disaffection and with
drawals from the ranks of gold DemOc-
racy; that the placing of a third ticket
IN the field this year with the new is
sues now before the country would in
no way tend to the accomplishment of
the end and aim back of the OrganiZa-
ton of the National Democratic party
in 1886. 1t was urged that those gold
Democrats who stand today where
they stood in the campaign of 1895 on
the money question and against Bryan
ism would be left free TO vote in sup
port of the Republican platform. which
q n h in 70 OT nd
and stable money system.
>Kentuckian is For Bryan.
When it came to w. D. Haldeman.
proprietor of the Louisville Courier
Journal, a sensation was sprung. Mr..
Haldeman. in 1896, contributed valu-
able aid in actively raising funds for
the organization and maintenance of
the work of the gold Democracy, and
was a member of the auditing commit
tee of that party. When he had con-
cluded he withdrew from the room.
In the course of. his speech he said:
In 1888 l took upon myself album
dant abuse from Kentucky Democrats,
and | did it because ] believed with
my friend Henry WattersOn in the
righteousness of a refusal to cOmprom-
Use with dishonor on the question of a
sound and stable currency.
Y believed then that the nations
honor in the stability of its money was
involved, and if 1 believed that in this
respect there was any danger now I
would stand this day against the regu-
lar Democratic organization. No sane
man believes this danger exists.
The free and unlimited coinage of
silver and gold at the ratio OF IS to l,
without the consent of any other ma
ton, has been relegated to another gen
Grafton by this nation. It is a past
measure. My heart goes out to those
who struggle for liberty in every ma
ton, and I applaud and approve the
expression in the Democratic platform
sympathizing with the BOers-a people
who may be robbed of free citizenship
in order TO help the English greed to
gather to its Golfers the diamonds and
gold of South Africa. Only in the in
terest of her own selfish purposes does
England desire the amity of the Unit
ed States of America.
This Republican administration
seems tC love England more than it
loves its own cOuntry-the great re-
public-which today is first in power,
honor and place amongst the nations of
the world. We cannot, we must not
encourage weak and corrupt admins
tratiOn to barter free Institutions and
civil liberty in a combination with the
most autocratic, arrogant and selfish
power in all Europe.
II am compelled, with a sense of
what is due to free America that love,
to earnestly, actively support an Amer
lean whom I believe loves his country
and whom / believe the highest and
best type of the American citizen, and