Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1896 — FOR ANOTHER CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

FOR ANOTHER CONVENTION.

Gold Men Issue an Address to the , " Voters of the Country. Democrats wljo believe in a gold standard have issued a call for a national gathering of the members of their wing of the party for the purpose of putting a' gold Democratic ticket in the field, The call w,as given out for publication by the members. of the executive committee of the gold Democracy of Illinois. The call is issued by th; Illinois Democracy which advocates the cause of the yellow metal to the gold Democracy of the other States. In part it is ns follows: “A national convention convened under the eonstituted authority of our'p.'.rty has just closed its session in the city 61 Chicago. It.entered upon its work by violating all party piecedents in the rejection of a distinguished Democrat as its temporary' presiding officer; It deprived a -1 sovereign State of a voice in its deliberations by unseating withoiit cause or legal justification delegates elected withmll the regularity known to party organization. It refused to indorse the honesty and fidelity of the prestent Democratic national administration. .it adopted a platform which favors the free and unlimited coin•hge of’ silver by this country alone at the ratio of 16 to 1, and thereby it repudiated a time-honored Democratic principle which demand? the strict maintenance of a sound and stable national currency. Finally, to mdke it still plainer that although in nam< it was not in fact a Demsocratic convention, it nominated for President one who is not in his political convictions, and has not always been (even in his professions, a Democrat. “This has made such a crisis, both for the natibi^anß idle Democratic party,-that sound-money Democrats at onee must decide what political action they will take for the protection of the honor of ,tlie nation, the prosperity of the people and the life and usefulness of the party. The sound-nioney Democrats of Illinois have fully made up their minds that a new Democratic national convention should be called for tMe earliest feasible day to nominate .Democraticiciindidatcs for President and Vice-President and adopt-ap platform of Democratic principles* “We hope,” continues the “that out of the responses tb this public statement of the views 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 plan of action.” The call is signed by the “.Executive Committee of the Honest-Money Democracy of Illinois ”