People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — MISSOURI DEMOCRATS. [ARTICLE]

MISSOURI DEMOCRATS.

State Committee Refuses to Call a Silver Convention. St. Louis, June 26. —Chairman C. C. Maffitt of the democratic state central committee has mailed to each county chairman in Missouri an address, of which the following is part: “Tour state democratic committee ‘having noted through the public press that some of the enthusiasts in behalf of the free, unlimited and unconditional coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 we - clamorous for a convention of the democratic party in this state for the purpose of giving expression of sentiment upon that to the exclusion of all other Important articles of democratic creed, convened on June 1 with the view of canvassing the policy, propriety and wisdom of committing the party by its action to such an unusual and unprecedented project. Upon the assembling of a full committee the general phase of the subject was considered and thoroughly canvassed, the arguments for and against having been patiently heard and carefully and dispassionately weighed. The judgment of the committee was registered against the calling of a convention by the decisive vote of 10 to 5.” The chairman gave as reasons that to call a convention for the purpose of formulating a declaration of beliefs solely upon a single one of the national issues might be justly construed as an abandonment of all others; that It would create schisms, ostracism, and anarchy; that neither tradition nor usage afforded a precedent for a convention to predeclare upon any subject which must be dealt with by a regular convention that puts forth a dec-, laration of principles for Its party candidates; that the committee did not feel clothed with the power to call such a convention.