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VOLUME LXXX.-XO. 44.
OPPOSE THE
CONSPIRACY,
Second Part of the Great
Anarchist and Demo
cratic Combine.
ALL POPULISTS ARE NOT
TOR BRYAN.
Millionaire Sewall Not at All
Popular With the Honest
Farmers.
PECULIAR CONNIVANCE TO BE
FOUGHT AT ST. LOUIS.
One True Advocate of the People
Tells a Tale of Woe to John
Panl Cosgrave.
The Call's Headquarters,)
Hotel Lixdell, >■
St. Loos, Mo., July 13. )
The first act of conspiracy between so
cialists and socialistic Democrats was
planned at Chicago last week, and the sec
ond will be enacted next week in St.
Louis.
The first act was the nomination of
Populist Bryan and the second will be his
indorsement, if tbe anarchistic and Demo
cratic combine shall succeed in carrying
out the second part of the conspiracy to
ruin the Populistic party by grafting upon
it the socialistic scion of the Democratic
party. What has been expected and only
hinted at a short time ago has now been
demonstrated by the unanswerable logic
of events. It is conceded that Mr. Bryan
is a Populist, parading under the name ot
a Democrat to serve the purposes of the
most ambitious of the party of many
plants.
From what can be gleaned at this early
stage of the contest, it is highly probable
that the Populists of Nebraska will in
dorse Mr. Bryan's candidacy and will sup
port him, and that they will go further, to
the extent of urging their National Con
vention, which will meet iv this city on
Wednesday of next week, to indorse Mr.
Bryan.
This is askiog- a good deal of a party
many of whose most enthusiastic members
are farmers and the bulk of whose mem
bership is taken from the ranks of the
laboring people and of those who are not
blessed with an abundance of the world's
goods. It will be impossible for even a
Populist to vote for Socialist Bryan and
cot to vote for Millionaire Sewall. Sewall
is a close- listed Yankee and all his sympa
thy is on the side of his class, the monopo
lists and millionaires. So that the Popu
lists will kill two birds with one stone, one
a bird of its own feather and the other a
Republican of the hawk family, of whose
depredations the Populist is forever com
plaining. He will have to do considerable
thinking and waste considerable time in
trying to solve the Chinese puzzle, which
requires a man to vote for Bryan and to
vote against Sewall at one and the same
time. This obstacle in the way has not
been very well considered by tbe chiel
actors in the conspiracy. In fact they
have not given a thought to Capitalist
Pewall because they are engaged solely in
the Bryan figbt. Mr. Sewall, according to
their idea, is the tail that goes along with
the hide.
It will be a highly interesting spectacle,
and as amusing as interesting to watch the
countenauce of a Populist with wild oats
in his beard as he deposits his ballot for
Bryan and Sewall next November. The
placid smile of satisfaction which wrinkles
his sunburned face as he votes for the one
set of Presidental electors who represent
Mr. Bryan in the electoral college will be
eclipsed immediately thereafter by an ex
pression of disgust when he remembers
that this same set of electors must also
cast their ballots for Capitalist Sewail, who
hates the Populists worse than the Popu
lists hate a banker.
When one thinks of the full meaning of
this political conspiracy be cannot refrain
from expressing the greatest astonishment
that men of ordinary business sense should
for a moment entertain a proposition so
inconsistent as this is. It certainly looks
as though the ringleaders of the whole af
fair had about the same idea of the intelli
gence of average Populist as that possessed
by a bunko sharp who offers the aforesaid
Populist a gold brick at three-fourths or
one-half its bullion value. But ridiculous
as it may seem that is tbe proposition.
Theg are offering to the Populists of the
United States a bogus silver brick com
posed of 5 per cent of Bryan balderdash
and 95 per cent of Sewall capitalism.
But whether serious or ludicrous, whether
consistent or inconsistent, whether an in
sult to the intelligenceof the masses of the
American people, the programme arranged
by Anarchist Altgeld and hia pal, Stone of
Missouri, assisted by bolting Republicans
and socialists out of a job, will be carried
through, if it be at all possible to keep the
blinds over the eyes of the well-meaning,
honest but of ten-bunkoed Populists.
The plan provides for the obliteration of
all the fundamental planks of the People's
party platform and the substitution of the
silver plank by the Democratic party in
Chicago. It is proposed to cover all the
issues with the dust raised by the stampede
for Bilver. In this conspiracy the wealthy
owners of silver mines and speculators
and stock jobbers have been the real plot
ters, with Altgeld and Stone as the cats
paws. Altgeld in the event of the success
of the fusion proposition would assisted in
his aspirations for the United States Sena
torship, while Governor Stone will receive
whatever political assistance he may re
quire in the furtherance of his political
ambition.
Can it succeed? That will be the crucial
test by which the People's party will rise
above its sordid and selfish surroundings
and retain tbe respect and the confidence
of the whole of it* membership or by
The San Francisco Call
which it will crumble into an incoherent
mass of political wreckage. Tne mass of
its membership remembers tnat there are
other things in the Populist platform
than the silver issue, and of far greater
importance to the people. Direct legisla
tion, the Governmental ownership and
control of railroads and tbe other great
principles which have been incorporated
into the National platform of the People's
party are of too great importance to be
ignored at any time, much less at a time
like, this when so much political de
moralization is to be seen on all sides.
•Besides that, there is always ground for
reasonable suspicion that a party is being
betrayed to death when any of its leaders
advise even a temporary setting aside of
its principles. This is the rock upon which
the coming convention may be expected
to split. There are within the ranks of
the party a sufficient number of earnest,
brainy men to give the Altgeld Democracy
and tne silver mine manipulators con
siderable trouble when they attempt to
ride upon tne neck of the convention and
carry out their own selfish plans.
I heard the keynote of true Populism
sounded to-day by a well-kuown member
of that party, a resident of this State.
Although of sterling integrity and purity
of intention, he would not consent to the
use of bis name in the public prints, and
after I had given him my word of honor
that his name should remain a secret
between himself and me, he consented to
speak of the sentiment entertained by him
with regard to the programme of which I
have here spoken.
"This is a crisis in the party. The prop
osition is shall we adhere to our princi
ples or shall we let tne party become a
catspaw for political tricksters? It is a
grand party with grand principles, prin
ciples which do not change with the
topography of the country which are not
affected by question* and geography or of
sectionalism, and so long as we stand by
those principles, so long shall we continue
to advance toward the goal of success.
"But whenever we step aside to flirt
with the Democratic party, or with any
other party of the political organizations
which have for so many years past de
ceived and hoodwinked tne people, we
shall begin to go down to our destruction.
Populists cannot afford to take the advice
of Democrats or Republicans. We should
always rememDer that they are talking
for their own benefit, and for the purpose
of getting Populist votes, and when these
are secured they pay no further attention
to us. I keenly feel tbat the indorsement
of Bryan, no matter how good a man he
may be, no matter how sincere a Populist
he may be, would be a complete surrender
of our principles.
"I honestly believe that the Populist
leader who would advise fusion or indorse
ment is a traitor to his party and a tool
who does the bidding of monopoly and
corporation. The people are heartily sick
of tbe old parties, which they have been
battledorea and sbnttlecocked ever since
the Civil War, and for that reason, if for
dd other, the Populists would stand firmly
by their platform- and not indorse any can
didate whatever.
"Nominate some good man who is a
Populist and nothing else, and all of whose
allegiance is due to pur party and his plat
form. Our platform should be his only
love. The party will be content with
nothing less than his whole heart. If we
stand firm in this matter, with the Repub
licans divided and Democracy crumbled
to pieces because of its rottenness, we can
carry the country next November by a big
majority.
"The people are not going to say much
on street corners this year, but they are
going to deposit their votes quietly and
hurl the rascals and thieves from their
places of power and oppression. We can
win the fight without Mr. Bryan and we
can beat him and Mr. McKinley no matter
how they cut out the running.
"It would be a very forlorn hope of a
party tbat did not contain a brainier man,
and if ever the day should come when the
Populists cannot find in their own ranks
two men equal, if tfot superior, to Mc-
Kinley and Bryan I want to leave it. We
now have the opportunity of our lives,
and we should be worse than fools if wa
should neglect it."
"Do you think tbat there will be much
opposition to the programme when the
convention meets? Do you think there
will be a fight on the matter?"
'•Yes; I expect this will be the great
fight of the convention. There is many a
man like myself who will get up on the
floor and use his best efforts to prevent
the destruction of that party which has
one platform and only one set of princi
ples for every State and Territory in this
great Nation, and not like the so-called
platform of other organizations which are
black in one State, white in another, blue
in another and which are simply stream
ers flying in the wind and pointing which
ever way it may choose to blow.
"If those who feel as I do succeed in onr
efforts we will nominate a Populist who
will stand upon our platform alone and
whose allegiance will not be divided be
tween the monopolists and monopolized.
This feeling is heart deep with us. All that
we have to live for politically is principle.
So we cannot afford now, after all the
sighs and tears, the battlings, the wound
ings and the sufferings of the past, to sink
the ship that has borne us in the face of
mighty odds so near the hsrbor of peace
and safety. We have made the People's
party platform the fight of our lives, and
before we shall see it destroyed we shall
tight even to death.
"What can we gain by the election of
Bryan as President and Sewall as Vice-
President? Simply nothing. We shall
then find that we have been betrayed to
our destruction. Even from the seltish
standpoint we shall- have the worst of it.
Whatever position of honor or profit there
may be. within the gift of Mr. Bryan,
should he become President, will be given
by him to Democrats. That party will
reap all the fruits of victory. Mr. Bryan
will be under control of the leaders of the
Democracy. He will necessarily be
obliged to accept their counsel and ad
vice and in all nis official relations and in
all other matters he will be'a Democrat
and nothing more. Then shall we find
that, like tbe fools of old, we have put our
trust in principles to our own undoing.' 1
John Paul Cosgrave.
BRIAN'S BAD DEFEAT.
How Be Failed^, in ; the Big Senatorial
•I Struggle. ■
;-.. OMAHA, Nebr., July 13.— William J.
Bryan served two terms in 'Congress, ex
piring March, 1895. . From the day of his
I election all his energies were directed to
the end of securing a seat in the United
• States Senate.' The Democratic > party be
ing third in numerical strength in Ne
braska, Bryan's only hope of ' success ; was
SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 14, 1896.
THE BOY ORATOR MAKES HIS FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT.
TTa>ffC?IL.E3 S A3VE " YJE3S ; itiTJEXV
in bringing up a fusion between the silver
Democrats and Populists. Up to 1893 the
latter party had held a monopoly on free
silver agitation, but for want of leadership
they could not make progress and Bryan
stepped into the arena. Since that time
be ba«J led the frce-siiver adherents of
both parties. His rirst attempt to com
mit the Democratic party to free coinage
at 16 to 1 was] in the State Convention in
1893, but he was worsted, and in an im
passioned speech he declared he would
take the question direct to the people and
get their final decision. Should the Demo
crats of Nebraska then fail to follow him,
he would continue to advocate the cause
under the banner of another party.
Everybody in the St»te believed that
Bryan was about to renounce Democracy
and go over to the Populists, but he did
not openly do so, and continued his efforts
to convert the State Democracy to free
silver. It was the intention of Republi
cans to elevate John M. Thurston to the
successorship of General Manderson.
Thurstou stumped the State for the Re
publican ticket, but Bryan and Tburston
were thus pitted against each otner in the
State campaign, and it was regarded as a
gladiatorial contest for a seat in the Senate
of the United States.
Bryan challenged Thurston to public de
bates on the tariff. There were 10,000 people
in tbe audience. Two leading candidates for
the Senate thus tested steel, and the ver
dict of the people was that honors were
about even. When the votes were counted
it was found that 80,472 electors had ex
pressed a preference for United States
Senator, and that of the 133 members of
the Legislature the Republicans had
elected 97. Thurstons election followed
as a matter of course. Bryan's name did
not go before tbe Legislature. This defeat
was a crushing blow to Bryan. Hia friends
announced that he would leave the State,
but be did not, and has devoted himself
ever since to the advocacy of this ho bby.
AN INFORMAL MEETING.
Headquarter* Itiacuaaed by the Demo-
eratie National Committee*
CHICAGO, 111., July 13.— An informal
meeting of the members of the Democratic
National Committee remaining in the city
was held to-day at the Palmer House
headquarters, and the question of head
quarters during the campaign was dis
cussed. There was a unanimous expres
sion of opinion in favor of having a West
ern headquarters in Chicago, and some of
the Western members want the chief office
removed from New York to this city. Sen
ator Jones, the chairman, said:
"There will be another meeting of the
National Committee during the next three
weeks, when the question of changing the
location of the headquarters will be more
fully discussed and decided. The cam
paign will probably be directed actively
from Cnicago.
This city has all the facilities claimed
for New York and others to favor its selec
tion. I am in favor of the change from
New York. We intend to make a cam
paign which will be National in scope,
and the organized Democracy of the East
will soon come out in support of the party
ticket. I confidently expect to see Tam
many and Hill working for us. The Middle
States will be the scenes of our greatest
victories, and tbat is another good reason
wny the headquarters should be moved to
Chicago.
"The members who are opposed to the
proposition of removal argue that such
action would afford the gold men who are
fighting the ticket some ground upon
which to claim sectionai prejudice of the
West against the East, and that as much
campaign work was needed in the Eastern
States as in the silver States of the West."
Jewett Withdraw*.
NEW ALBANY, Ind., July 13.— Hon.
Charles L. Jewett, ex-chairman of the
Demociatic State Executive Committee,
has withdrawn from the contest for the
Democratic nomination for Congress from
the Third Indiana District because his
party declared lor free silver.
POPULISTS
GATHERING,
Ready for Their National
Convention at St.
Louis.
CHAIRMAN TAUBENECK
IS SULLEN.
Made Sore by the Action of the
Silver Democrats, He Will
Not Talk.
BRYAN OF NEBRASKA MAT B£
INDORSED.
Teller, However, Has a Large Fo!-
lowing and They Will Work
for Him.
"The Call's" Headquarters,)
Hotel Lindell, v
St. Louis, Mo., July 13. )
The "Pops" are gathering in 8t Louis
for their big National Convention on July
22. It will pro bably be the most notable
meeting ever held in the history of this
party. The leaders are in a quandary;
they even hesitate to discuss the situation.
Chairman Taube neck of the National Com
mittee has locked himself up in his room
in the Commercial building and will not
even receive representatives of the press.
He is sulking over the action of the Demo
cratic convention in declaring lor the free
and unlimited coinage of gold and silver
at a ratio of 16 to 1 and naming William J.
Bryan of Nebraska as its standard-bearer.
This action of the Democrats has robbed
the Populists of much of their thunder, in
addition to a possible candidate of the
party. Many of them with whom I con
versed about the Lindell to-day unhesi
tatingly declared tbat Mr. Bryan was a
good enough Populist for them. Their
only complaint against the Nebraskan is
that he is training in bad company.
There is no reason to believe that had not
Bryan been named by the Democrats he
could have secured the nomination at the
hands of the Populists without much
trouble. Since his nomination at Chi
cago, however, the situation has changed
considerably and Bryan will have a fight
before he secures the indorsement of the
convention next week.
The belief is quite general in St. Louis
to-day that Mr. Bryan eventually will
secure tbe 1 ndorsement of» the Populists.
Even if he fails in the accomplishment of
this end his silver friends say that he will
draw largely from the Populistic polls.
Dr. J. J. Mott, secretary of the Bimetallic
League of America, has arrived in town
from Chicago to watch the movements of
the Populists. He has secured rooms at
tiie Lindell for Senators Stewart and Jones
and Congressmen Newlands of Nevada
and William P. St. John of New York.
These distinguished silver champions will
be on the ground in a few days. They are
all friendly to Bryan and sbould he be
indorsed by the Populists they will prob
ably try to secure like action by the silver
party convention.
"Will the Bimetallic National Conven
tion indorse Bryan's nomination?" I
inquired.
"I am not at liberty to speak definitely
bb to that," replied Mr. Mott, "but as an
officer of the Bimetallic League I ran say
tnat Mr. Bryan is quite a favorite of many
prominent members of the organization.
We are very well pleased with the plat
form and can support it. The action we
will take, however, will greatly depend
upon the course pursued by the Populist
convention as to the financial question."
"Is it probable that the Populists will
indorse Mr. Bryan's nomination for Presi
dent of the United States?"
Tnis question I put straight to Mr. Tau
beneck, but he could not answer it. He
only shook his head and smiled. The
chairman informed me, however, that in
bis opinion the convention will be large
and representative. They say delegates
will be in attendance from every State and
Territory in the Union with the exception
of Alaska. The widest interest is evidently
beinir taken in every action of the leaders.
Telegrams and letters are pouring in from
all sections of the country.
The executive committee will meet on
Saturday and the National Committee will
meet on July 21. Sergeant-at-Arms Mc-
Dowell is very busy making preparations
for the convention. He returned from his
home in Tennessee this morning. His
friends are congratulating him on his
nomination for Congress from the Tenth
Congressional District at Memphis, Term.
He told me that there would be 130.) dele
gates and as many alternates in the con
vention. The contracts for admission
tickets, delegate and press badges have
ail been let and the work for getting them
ready is progressing rapidly.
"i feel just this wav about it," he said.
"If they don't do what McDowell wants
them to do, McDowell will do what they
don't. I have not made up my mind as to
what it would be best for the convention
to do. Before we indorse any man we have
a right to know his position. I don't know
yet whether Teller is in the fight, and,
you know, if he is we might desire to keep
the pledges made after the Republican
convention."
It is quite certain that unless Teller ab
solutely declines to become a candidate
his interests will be guamed carefully by
thousands of admiring friends and he will
give Bryan a close race. Mrs. Diggs of
Kansas, who has usurped the place once
held by Mrs. Lease in the Populist ic move
ment and who will have a large following
in the convention, sends word that she
will not support Bryan. She favors Teller
for the first place on the ticket.
Ex-Governor Buchanan has opened up
headquarters at the Lindell and will make
a fight for Mills of Tennessee for the sec
ond place on the ticket. Mills ran for
Governor of Tennessee on the Populist
ticket and was defeated along with Henry
Clay Evans, the Democratic candidate.
Will he meet the fate that Evans did be
fore the Republican convention in the
city some weeks ago? Frank McGcibe.
WILL HOT L ET IT LANGUISH.
Populixti Determined to Keep Up the
Boom for Bland.
LINCOLN, Nkbb., July 13. — A number
of the Lancaster County delegates to the
Populist State Convention, next Wednes
day, left this afternoon for Grand Island.
Their presence thus early on the ground
is not to allow the Bryan boom to languish
at tbat meeting. There is little question
but that tbe State Convention will send a
solid delegation to St. Louis instructed to
work for Bryan's indorsement. Governor
Holcomb, who is booked to be one of the
delegates at large, is one of his most en
thusiastic supporters, and he wields a
powerful influence on the party in this
Stale. A few counties have deciarged
against fusion, but it is hardly thought
they can affect the result.
Here in Lincoln interest largely centers
in the demonstration on Bryan's return.
This morning committees started out to
canvass the city for funds and met with
much success. All the nreworks in the
city will be exploded that evening. There
will be delegations with bands from nearly
every town of importance in the State as
well as neighboring States. Denver has
promised to send a large delegation. To
show the absence of party feeling in the
demonstration, Colonel Ed R. Sizer, one
of the most uncompromising Republicans
in the city, has been placed in charge of
the affair.
SENATOR C HANDLER TALKS.
Personal Regard for Mr, Sewall, but He
la Doomed to Defeat.
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 13.— An in
terview is printed this evening with Sena
tor W. £. Chandler of New Hampshire, in
which he pays a high personal tribute to
Mr. Sewall of Maine. Senator Chandler
understands that Mr. Sewall is a protec
tionist and that he is as much opposed to
free trade as he (Chandler) is. While this
may not make him acceptable to the
Democrats, it will, Senator Chandler
thirks, commend him to the Populists,
who are largely protectionists.
"Does the nomination of Mr. Sewall
strengthen the ticket?" the Senator was
asked.
"It makes it more respectable, but no
stronger. It won't give the ticket an extra
vote in the East, or perceptibly increase it
in Maine."
"Then you think the ticket will have a
chance in November?"
"It has not the slightest chance to win
unless we are to imagine that half the
American people will go crazy between
now and November. A broad wave of in
sanity is all that can elect the ticket."
"Will the Democrats make a showing in
Maine?"
"The personal mends of Mr. Sewall
may help Him increase the D3mocratic
vote in Maine and thus keep the Demo
cratic party from disappearing at the polls,
as would otherwise have been the case.
Without his nomination the Democratic
vote would have been little more than
'scattering.' The Republican majority in
Maine will not be more than 30,000."
"Did you note the assertion of Senator
Tillman that your State will vote for silver
in November?"
"We are expecting and believe we will
get 15,000 majority in New Hampshire in
November. Our people are biraetallists,
but there is no sentiment for the imme
diate free coinage of silver, which is the
issue. Substantially all the leadine Demo
crats of the State will vote for 'McKinley.
Those who do not will take to the woods."
THE BOLTING REPUBLICANS.
Preparing to Hold a Conference and
lanue a Proclamation.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 13.—
The bolting Republican delegates from the
St. Louis Convention are preparing to hold
a conference and issue a proclamation as
to what they propose to do in the coming
campaign.
On Sunday a number of them met at
Manitou Springs. Among those present
were Senator Teller of Colorado. Senator
Dubois of Idaho, Congressman Hartman
of Montana, General Stevenson of Colo
rado and others.
Senator Lee Mantle of Montana and
others of the leaders were expected to ar
rive to-day, but cannot be here until later
in the week. It is thought tbat they will
get together about Thursday next. They
state positively that no sort of an agree
ment has been reached, but those who are
closest to them claim that there is no
doubt but that they will indorse Bryan.
PROFESSOR WALKER TALKS.
Snv» Major McKinley Is Not a Gold
Monometalliat.
LONDON, Eng., July 13.— At a meeting
of the Bimetallic League held here to-day
an address was delivered by Professor
Francis A. Walker, the American politi
cal economist and superintendent of the
census, of the United States in 1870 and
1880. Professor Walker was cheered as he
arose and was frequently interrupted by
bur3ts of applause. He declared that no
gold monometaliist party existed in the
United States, and said toe wouid stake
his honor that if a bimetallist convention
was proposed to the United States by the
principal sound money men of Europe
the Americans would tumble head over
heels in welcoming the proposal. Senator
Gray, Professor Walker said, would find
very few men to join him in opposition to
a proposal for a common ratio between
gold and silver. What the silverites really
desired, be continued, was silver inflation.
Widely separated from these men were
the real bimetallists of the United States.
Nothing, Professor Walker declared,
could be more unfounded than to say
that the Republican National Convention
held in St. Louis had pronounced in favor
of gold monometallism. Mr. McKinley,
he said, had never been a gold monomet
aliist; he could not be one if he tried. He
had always been uniformly a bimetallism
The maintenance of a gold standard in
the United States was not rendered a whit
less secure by reason of anything that was
done at the convention held in Chicago,
but despite much friendly advice from
this side of the ocean the United States
wa9 not going to pull other people's chest
nuts-out of the fire and would remain de
voted to the rehabilitation of silver as a
money metal and always ready to make
sacrifices to that end. The bonds of the
United States, he added, would continue
to be paid in gold or its equivalent and
the credit of the United States would con
tinue to be as high as it ha 1 ever been
since she had triumphantly vindicated her
nationality in the war of secession.
Professor Walker was loudly cheered at
the conclusion of his address.
Give a One- fare Rate,
ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 13.— The follow
ing announcement was issued to-day:
All railroad associations in the United States
except the Trunk Line Association, with head
quarters in New York, and embracing the fol
lowing lines: Baltimore and Ohio, Central
Railroad of New Jersey, Chesapeake and Ohio.
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, Erie Rail
road, Grand Trunk Railroad, Lebigh Valley
Railroad, New York Central anil Hudson
River, New York, Ontario and Western, Penn
sylvania Railroad, Philadelphia and Reading
and West Shore, and the New England Asso
ciation, wiih headquarters in Boston, have
given a one-fare rate for the round trip, com
mencing July 19, for all delegates and visitors
to the People's party convention and the silver
convention, both of which meet in St. Louis,
July 22. Hugh McDowell,
Sergeant-at-Arms People's Party National
Committee.
Quay Active Part.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 13.—Sena
tor Quay has resigned the State chairman
ship, and bis successor will be elected at
once. Deputy Attorney-General John P.
Elkinwill be elected Mr. Quay's successor.
He is a stanch follower of the Senator. Mr.
Quay's resignation of the State chairman
ship is taken to indicate that as a member
of the executive committee of the Repub
lican National Committee he intends to
take an active part in the campaign.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
FOR SOUND
MONEY NOW
Illinois Gold Democrats Issue
a Call for a New
Ticket.
THE DISSATISFACTION
WITH SILVERITES.
All Party Precedents Violated
at the Convention Held
io Chicago.
TALK OF PROTECTING THE GOOD
NAME OF THE NATION.
Secretary Carlisle Said to Be tbe
Ideal Candidate of the Dis
senters.
■„ CHICAGO, 111., July 13.— The honest
money Democracy of ', Illinois, through its
executive committee, issued an address to
night to the Democrats of other States,
calling upon them .to nominate another
National ticket 7 and adopt a platform of
•'sound money" principles upon which
the nominees can appeal to the people of
that opinion. This address was author
ized at a meeting of the executive com
mittee Saturday night and a committee of
three was appointed to write and issue it.
This committee , met to-day *in the' law
office of . Henry S. , Robbins, president of
the Illinois Democratic Sound ( Money
League, and agreed upon the address,
which is as follows:
To our fellow-Democrats of other States: A
National Convention, convened ' under the
constituted authority 'of our party, 1 has just
'. closed its session In the city of Chicago. It
enters upon ' Its -work by ' violating all . party
precedents In the rejection of a distinguished
Democrat as its temporary presiding officer. ■>
It deprived a sovereign . State of a voice in
its deliberations by unseating, without. causa
or legal justification, delegates elected with
all the regularity of party organization.
It refused to indoise the honesty and fidel
ity of the" present Democratic National admin- -
istration. It adopted a platform which favors
the free and unlimited coinage of silver by
this country alone at a ratio of 16 to 1, and
'thereby it repudiated & time-honored Demo- ■ *
cratic principle, whicn the strict
maintenance of a sound 'and stable .National
currency. . .-. ",'
X. Finally, 'to make it still plainer 'that al
though in name it was not in fact a Demo
cratic convention, it nominated' for President
one who is not in his political convictions and
has not always been even- in ■: his professions a
Democrat. - : v ; \ ; • .
This has made; such a crisis, both , for the
Nation' and; the Democratic party, that tha
sound money Democrats must at once decide
what political action they will : take for the
protection of the honor of the Nation, pros
peri of the people | and the life and useful
ness of the party. , -. •. ■';•-. : ,
': The sound money Democrats of Illinois have
fully made up their minds that a new Demo
cratic National : Convention , should ,be called
for the earliest feasible day to nominate Demo
cratic candidates for President and Vice-Presi
dent and to adopt ! a platform of - Democratic
principles; and they desire to state to their
fellow-Democrats of ■ the j other States their
reasons, as follows:/ ■ ,-
First — The sound money Democrats owe it to
the country to. make it certain at once that
their revolt against free silver is determined,
and will be organized, jlt is unfair to oblige
the credit of the Nation and : the business and
industrial interests of : the : people to merely Z
guess what the sound money Democrats will
do in November, and wait until November to
find out. . ;
, Second— The nomination of • a new ticket la
the logical ; course; without : it, and ; Found
money Democratic campaign, the , whole edu
cational force of sound money Democratic
sentiment would be paralyzed from the begin
ning. Resolutions . cannot \ argue the sound
money question to Democratic voters. Repub
lican sincerity on that question is doubted by
the Democratic ' masses. The tariff I question
will be put to the front and insisted upon by
Republican speakers and the Republican
press, as it has been repeatedly dona by Mc-
Kinley himself. Democrats will not listen to
talks on finance when it ; is ■■ accompanied by
abuse of ■ the • Democratic 1 party. . The ■ most
effective force at this time for a campaign , is
the force residing in the sound : money , Demo
crats; for they are profoundly in earnest, and
can get a hearing from' Democrats that the
Republicans cannot possibly get. -
'Without a campaign we should not only
have no speakers, but our press would be
firing into the air; and the whole force of
campaign organization and campaign workers
in campaign literature and the great power of
constant private discussion and appeal would
all be lost."
Third— A new convention would . also pre
serve for the future the opportunities of the
Democratic party.' Unless a clear : comparison
is made between the' genuine | Democrats and
the Democrats who are drifting into Populism,
or are ' already in Populism, and unless that
clear-cut separation is supported by organiza
tion and a reorganized Democratic party is the
result, the party, has no chance of regaining
public confidence for '.years to come. The
sound-money Democrats in the different States
must either make :it 'clear. l that they have no .
association with the Bryan party ; or they must
accept association or entanglement with : It;
and all State organizations will in the public
mind be for it that do not make It absolutely
clear that they are against it.
,, — Democrats who believe in Demo
cratic principles must have a party. They now
have the opportunity to reorganize , and keep
the Democratic Darty, and the interests of the
Nation imperatively, demand that the great
Democratic party shall be rescued out of ■ Pop* .
ulism and kept on its historic foundation,
i? The sound money Democrats are sufficiently
organized in this State to be able to meet their
fellow Democrats in a new convention and are
anxious Cto confer with representatives of
another State whenever a v representative con
ference can be brought about. We hope that
out of the responses to this public statement
of theylews of the Illinois Democracy there
can be gathered so much of : the ; judgment of
the leading sound money Democrats of the
United States as can be formulated into a Dlau
of ■ action. ;r - Communications should ;be ad- :
dressed to Charles A. Ewmg, Palmer House,
Chicago.
John A. Palmer, Charles A. Ewing, James H.
Eckels, Franklin MacVeagh, Ben T. Cable,
William S. Forman, Thomas A. Moran. John
P. Hopkins, Henry 8. Robbins, A. L. Goodrich,
James T. Hoblitt, Adolph Kraus, James M.
Sheehan, Charles H. Williamson, Lyndea