The age-herald., 1900-10-06
ID THE
 COLD DEMOCRATS

Indianapolis, Ind, October B-The Execu- tive Committee of the National Democratic Committee issued the following address to. night:
 "To the National Democracy, the Gold
 Democrats of the United States:
 "Four years ago your patriotic position saved the country from the peril of MT. Bryan's election. You were not deceived by the plea of regularity in his nomina- tion. You saw him truly as the nominee of a commission which had taken your party name to gild principles unknown 10 Democracy.
 You stood steadfastly by the financial views and political philosophy of Jeffer- son, Jackson, Tilden and Cleveland. In your national convention at Indianapolis you declared that you had assembled to uphoIu the principles upon which depend the honor and welfare of the American ly,ot.> ii order that the Democrats throughout the Union may unite their patriotic efforts to avert disaster from their country and ruin from their party
 That convention said that the Demo1 cratic party has survived many defeats but could not survive victory won Tn De- half of the doctrine and policy proclaimed in its name at Chicago.
 You went firmly to your duty and did
 
 further attempt to use your party name as a mask to the abhorrent principles advo- cated by MT. Bryan. In his defeat his mls- led supporters were admonished and chast- ened to an extent which turned them away from the path which allured them. The Kansas City convention was averse to re- affirmation of the Chicago platform, and majority of It's delegates honestly hoped to purge the party of the vicious heresies which had lost it the respect and confluence of the country. But through the power of his organization and by reason for the success borne in his prior nomination by the Populsts MT. Bryan prevailed against the better sense of the convention, com pelled endorsement of the false doctrines of 1896, and by the votes of Alaska and Hawaii forced the specific re-statemem o1 his dangerous and destructive financial theory He stands now, therefore, for all he advocated in 1896 and accepting the Populist nomination has added thereto hls declaration in favor o1 an unlimited Issue of greenback currency. He is pledged by his own declarations to destroy the gold standard; to effect the free coinage of sil- yer at the artificial ratio of 16 to l; to the expulsion of both gold and silver from the country by a resumption of an issue or greenbacks; to the destruction of Judicial independence and revolution in the Judicial tenure to a system of direct Legislation which transfers law-making to the ballot box and destroy our representative insti- tutions and to a change in the vote of the people from the executive to the ballot box, removing one of the checks provided by the constitution and unbalancing the system created by that instrument
 This assault upon the three coordinate branches of our government, if 1t succeeds, will revolutionize and destroy the whole system. What will follow is already visi- ble in his appeals to class hatred, envy and prejudice. Since 1896 the National Democratic party has promoted the pur- poses which then justified its existence. We have urged and accomplished legisla- tion to strengthen the gold standard. The interest on the public debt has been re- duced to 2 per cent and the new credit has been so strengthened that our per cent bonds are at a premium. Private credit has felt the impulse of this improvement.