The Portland daily press., 1900-10-06
TO GOLD DEMOCRATS.
Again they are Appealed to to Save
Country from Reputation.

indianapolis, Ind, October 5.-The
executive committee of the National
Democratic committee issued the follow
ing address tonight:
"To the National Democracy, the Col d
Democrats Of the United States:
-Four years ago your patriotic position
saved the country from the peril of Mr..
Bryan election. You were not deceived
by the plea Of regularity in his nomina-
tion. You saw him truly as the nominee
of a combination which had taken your
party name to gild principles unknown
to Democracy.
''The Kansas City convention was
averse to re-af1irmation of the Chicago
platform and a majority of5 it's 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 organiza-
tion and by reason of the hope of SUCCESS
born OF his nomination by the Popullsts,
Mr., Bryan prevailed against the bettsr
sense of the convention and compelled
endorsement of the false doctrine of 1896
and by the votes of Alaska and Hawaii
forced the sp- c fiG re-sta3ement OF his dan
gerous and destructive financial theory.
He stands now therefore. for all he advo
Gated in 1896 excepting the PopuAsts
nomination has added thereto his deolar-
alton in favor OF an unlimited issue of
greenback currency.
''He is pledged by his own declarations
to destroy the gold standard to effect
the free coinage of silver at the artificial
ratio OF 16 to l. to the expulsion of both
gold and silver from the country by
resump tion OF an issue of greenbacks, to
destruction of judicial independence and
revolution in the judicial tenure, to a
system of direct legislation which trans
fers law making to the ballot box and
destroys our representative institutions
and to change Of the veto power from
the executive to the ballot box, removing
one of the checks provided by the consti-
tuition and unbalancing the system
created by that instrument.
''This assault upon the three CO. or IL
nate branches OF our government If it
succeed Will reYolutionize and destroy the
whole system. What will follow is already
visible in his appeals to class hatred
envy and prejudice.
''The destruction of the gold standard
the degradation of the public credit, the
paralysis Of industry, the restriction of
commerce, increased cost of production
and descent to a paper basis are the
disasters threatened by the election of
Mr.. Bryan and he is pledged to int1ict
them on us as soon as he gets power. He
seeks that power by an appeal to the anti
expansion and ANTITRUST sentiment OF the
people. The difficulties OF our external
policy werea unforeseen as their solution
is at present unrevealed The evil OF
trusts has no party parentage and will
be remedied by the combined intelligence
Of our parties. Without minimizing
the periIs of either we affirm that no
greater evil can befal our government
than the Impairment of its vigor, the
destruction of it's credit and the ruin of
our industries which Mr.. Bryan is speci-
fically pledged to effect if he gets the
power. Therefore, we appeal to our coun-
trymen again to avert disaster from their
country by his defeat.''
The address is signed, ''The Executive
Committee, by Charles Tracy, chairman; !;
L. M. Martin, chairman campaign COM
mittee; John p Frenzel, secretary