Show t BELHONTS EPISTLE F ISid Letter ItcKifrnlnpr ns IL Memljcr of the Committee NEW YORK Sept 6Hon Perry t Belmonts letter to Chairman Hinkley of the Democratic state committee tendering ten-dering his resignation a a member of that committee is as follows New York Sept 5 1S96 1 J W Hinkley Esq Chairman of th State Democratic Committee of New York j My Dear SirIn placing my resignation resig-nation as a member of the committee at your disposal permit me to recall the fact that on my return from the Chicago convention I deemed It my duty in an address to the Democracy of Suffolk and Queens counties to give my reason in full for my dissent from the action o that convention concluding conclud-ing as follows I At the final analysis of the condition con-dition in which our country now is comes the critical question how shall we vote next November I shall not presume to suggest to any one how he shot 1 express his privilege of voting Mv own conclusion is definite and fixed T is to vote that electora ticket which I hope will be in the field standing for a Democratic candidate for president in Jose unflinching courage and loyalty to the gold unit of value a prescribed by the law of 1873 and to Democratic principles I can have the most implicit confidence and so with regard to Congress Con-gress In respect to state offices Especially Es-pecially members of the state legislature legisla-ture the condition should be the same Bemember the next legislature will choose n United States senator The Indianapolis convention in its selection for canaSdates for president and vicepresident and in its declaration declara-tion o Democratic principles ha in every way fulfilled the hope I then expressed ex-pressed I now remains for the state of New York to select Pls denUtl electors j elec-tors candidates for state offices for d 0 1 I congress and the assembly I assume I that the approaching convention to beheld I be-held at Buffalo will adhere to the plait form adopted at the convention held 1 at Syracuse in 1S95 over which I had the honor t preside and w Saratoga I lost June and to the attitude taken by I the New York delegation a the Chi 1 convention Our refusal to cago participate cag cveton reusa pr I ticipate In the deliberations of that convention after the adoption o its undemocratic and Populistic platform was a loyal interpretation of the trust I impoe upon us by our state conventions conven-tions I was also the expression of our I determination not to surrender at anytime any-time the principles which we are sent here to uphold o to support any candidate didate representing and countenancing I a betrayal of those principles B know that the Democrats of this state who I took part in the Indianapolis convention conven-tion have no desire to create disunion in the party on the contrary they sincerely sin-cerely hope that united and harmonious harmoni-ous action can be had on state and legislative offices As for myself I trust that you and I and all Democrats Demo-crats who have the interest of the I country and of the party at hear will continue in this campaign a heretofore 1 hereto-fore in our united action for the maintenance main-tenance of Democratic principles and j I defending the national and monetary I integrity against attacks from whatever what-ever source Sincerely yours I Signed PERRY BELMONT |