Show THEIR APOLOGY Democratic Goltlbngs Issue an AJ I lress I MILWAUKEE Wis July ISAt a con I ference today of the Democratic delegates 1 to the Chicago convention who refused to vote for a presidential nominee an address to the party in Wisconsin was drawn up It recites the course pursued by the silver men in the convention tells of the policy carried out by the Wisconsin delegates favoring a gold standard and says The platform adopted by the Chicago convention Is directly at variance with the doctrine which since its creation has been a part of the creed of the Democratic party While Democracy has for nearly a century been the advocate ofi honest money ami at all times oppo = ea 10 I its debasement the Chicago convention declared in favor of ccmpeiling the citizens 1 citi-zens of the United States to receive asa I as-a dollar of coin of onehalf Us value i While the Democratic party has sturdily I maintained that courts in which justice i is administered should be above and beyond be-yond political control the convention at Chicago adopted a resolution looking to the reconstruction of the supreme court I of the United States to accomplish the 1 reversal cf Its decision While we condemned con-demned the use of that court in 1877 for political purposes and to accomplish the inauguration as president of a candidate not elected while we denounced an ap j1 pointment made by a Republican president I presi-dent to a position in that court for the purpose of reversing a decision which denied i de-nied the right of the government to issue 1 paper money in times of peace we ara asked by the resolution referred to to adopt the same methods which we > have condenmned in our opponents That convention refused to approve oC the fidelity and honesty of the one Democratic Demo-cratic national administration elected I during the past forty years I The principles enunciated in the Chicago platform other than those In favor of the free coinage of silver are socialistic in their character and commend themselves to the communists of the country The candidate chosen by that convention publicly pub-licly announced his determination years ago to leave the Democratic party and fight for free silver In the ranks of the Populist party Under these circum cumstances the undersigned delegates at that convention consider their duty under the Instructions received by them to oppose with the utmost vigor the adoption of the platform and after it was adopted to decline to vote for a candidate can-didate who represented it We have thought it only proper to make report of our action to the Democrats oC Wisconsin and to say that a crisis Is now imminent such as has never in tne history of the Democratic party confronted it 1 Its enemies predict Its dissolution Its 4 1 1 false friends invite Its absorption by the I Populist party Such enemies and such false friends are untrustworthy and mistaken mis-taken The Democratic principles are the foundation upon which a free government rests they are firmly established in the hearts of the American people they cannot can-not be destroyed so long as the love oC liberty and a belief In a republican form of government acts No acts of men selz lag forcibly upon the machinery of the party can control the votes of Democrats believing In those principles We have faith to believe that a large majority of the Democrats of Wisconsin are as much today In favor of the principles prin-ciples declared by our state convention as when the declaration was made We have entire confidence that If a proper r opportunity would be afforded to that majority ma-jority to express Its views in a mass meeting meet-ing or convention to be called at some rTte not distant the true principles of Democratic faith will be again pronounced pronounc-ed in no uncertain tone and that someway some-way will be found by which Democrats can cast their votes In favor of a Democrat Demo-crat and at the same time against the protectionist nominated by the St Loula I convention and the Populist nominated by the Chicago convention |