Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1896 — FOR ANOTHER CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

FOR ANOTHER CONVENTION.

Gold Men Issue an Address t# (ka Voters of the Country. Democrats who believe ie a gold standard have issued a call for a national gathering of the uieiutiers of their wing of the party for the purpose ot puttiug a gold .Democratic* ticket ia the Held. The call was given out for publication- by the members of the executive committee of the gold Demoirncy of Illinois. The call is issued by the Illinois Democracy which advocates the cause of the yellow metal to the gold Democracy of the other States. In part it is as follows: “A national ‘convention convened nnder the constituted authority of our party baa just closed its session in the city of Chicago. It entered iiism its itorfc by Rotating all party piecedouts in the rejection of a distinguished Democrat os its temporary presiding officer. It deprived a sovereign State of a voice in Its deliberations by unsealing without cause or legal justification Jfflcgatt'k elected with all the regularity known to party organization. It refused to indorse the honesty and fidelity of the present Democratic national administration. It adopted a platform which favors the free and unlimited coinage of silver by this country alone at thu ratio of 1(1 to 1. and thereby It repudiated , a tinje-honon d Democratic .principle which demand* the strict maintenance of a sound nnd stable national Hirreney. Finally, to make it still |iluiner-' that 1 although in mum it was not in fact'a't>ewocrutie convention, it nominated for President one who isbot in his political convictions, and has not always been even in bis professions, a Democrat. “This has made such n crisis, both for the uatiou and i lie Democratic party, that sound-money Democrats at once must deride what polhhial action they will take for the proteet'on of the liouor of the nation, the prosperity of the people anrl the life ami usefulness of tiny party. The sound-money Dvnioctuts of llliuois have fully made tip ili/ii minds that a new Democratic national convention shonld be called for the earliest feasible dny t<* vmininntc Democratic candidates for President and Viet -President and adopt a. platform of Democratic principles. /‘Wo hope,” continues the document, “that out of the responses to this public statement of the views ot the Illinois Democracy there can la* gathered so much of the judgment, of Hie lending sound-money Democrats of the United Btates ns can ho formulated into a plan of action.” The cull is signed by the “Executive Committee of ilie lloncst-Money Democracy ot Illinois “