The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-24


tant democracy; it peans that the men who have
carried the banner TO victory, by majorities 1
cratic convention, and they are TO have brand |
or disapproval placed upon their action, because,
forsooth. their methods have Been Objectionable
10 Republicans.
Now have said that can understand the |
cause OF all the popularity OF Mr. Cleveland in |
the Republican States. The gentleman from |
made a threat in a Democratic convention. and |
was reminded that II she did IL would be about |
as absurd as a baby threatening giant with the |
instrument by which the teetning process Is IA |
cilitated. What could she threaten Democracy |
With Voices: "Nothing."I May not call your |
attention here, gentlemen, TO the peculiar char
acrer OF the organization OF our convention and |
the extraordinary power for evil which Ia some
times exercised by these Republican strong
holdss say IL without the slightest reflection
upon the gentlemen who sit In this convention.
The criticism il addressed s0ley TO the system.
Here we have this State, rabid in its Repub-
hcanlsm. exercising the enormous influence or
sixty-four votes on the floor OF this convention,
more than twice as many as the imperial state
or Texas can cast in obedience 10 the
Judgment OF its delegates. and then, after they
naye started MS upon a doubtful career on the
hrst Tuesday in November next they viii. with
tDlrty-twO electoral votes. thrust Us into the
ditch they have dug for us In this convention
And so are tho States Republican by over
whelming mai0risies who sent down delegates
here instructed TO invade the Democratic strong
hold of New York and beat down our barriers be-
cause they know our hands will never be raised
against Democrats When with that presump-
ton upon our loyalty which gives them i'm
punity they ask the Democratic party to outrage
It's defenders and its soldiers that they. the bene-
nclarles or Its success, may dictate Its poncy,
isn't IL well for us to remember for a moment the
cause that produced this singular appearancel
nna easy IN 70 Se
cause bis Democracy is not offensive to Repub-
hcans
CLEVELAND POPULARITY"
IfImight go behind the glowing periods Of
the gentleman from Pennsylvania. whose poetic
travagance of expression. If he VIII permit me
even that degree of criticism. we will find an ex
PLANTATION for this extraordinary activity in the
belief that this particular nomination may in
chances in senatorial districts of the State.
chances OF candidates for county clerk, chances
perhaps for candidates for Congress in the few
publican strOngh0lds, and right here, gentlemen.
Is the kernel to our objection To Mr.. Cleyeland's
availability. believe that Mr. Cleveland is
very popular man, most popular man. have
said that he is a most popular man-let me say
man OF extraordinary pOpularity-every day
popularity which might describe as tnmnitl-
Gus but not reducible 10 votes. 1t is populari-
ty based upon the fact that his opponents speak
well OF MIN, bat Will not vote for him. So IL is
delusive. So it is calculated TO arouse enthus-
iasm four months before election and 10 produce
disappointment for four years after election.
My fellOw-citiZens don't we remember four
years ago In ST. Louisi Twill venture TO say there
are now right In this body q few gentlemen
whose memories are tinSeQ with sadness they
reflect upon the enthusiasm and confidence with
which We laid wagers OF three and four 10 one
that Cleveland would be elected after the nomi.
nation of 1883. In the State Of New York the
Democratic party seriously impoverished.
anu the Republican adherents, raised TO degree
OF wealth which they never enjoyed before, even
from the opegations OF the robber tariff. We
We're Inised by that fictitious popularity which
comes from q name, and we In New York do not
want to be misied in that way again. zap
plause.
The man whom we consider strong more than
any other. in whose leadership we have faith, is
he who bears upon his body the marks Of the
weapons or the Republican fold; the man who
pleads for the cause In front OF the army 10 the
We have homogeneous party now. For Coos
sake leave 1t to us. III we be not accorded the
nomination we ask for from the State of New
York, give MS any citizen in this United States
who Is a Democrat. lCheers and hisses- Give
Us some man who will not raise up against
any act OF hostile force within sur own ranks.
DeHeVe IL was the distinguished military hero
from Massachusetts. General Collins. who. de-
clared there Democrat in this Union who
would vote against that ticket, but there sit be-
hind him two heroes whose deeds haze not es-
capped the attention OF history, two heroes who
have led the Union armies to victory, but who
have never made faces at the vanquished foe.
and they will tell you here. comrade who have
fought with them. heroes who sustained them
and heroes who fell with them on the field Of
the State of New York. of whom there arg at
least twenty-five thousand Democratic. Wilt not
suppstrtthe nomination OF Mr.. Cleveland-lloud
and / submit to you. gentlemen, is
it wise to antagonize that VOTE to an
IL blindly, defianty, reckiesslyl What Is
the excuse that is given for it! II understand
It. there are two excuses; one. that we can get
this mugwump vote. Now. warn this conven-
ton from the experience OF every Democrat who
has carried the State OF New York, and none has
failed to do 1t in nine years except Mr.. Ceve-
land. that you cannot set one mugwump vote
without driving away hundred Democratic
votes The Democratic party cannot fuse with
rlnT hx int
ciples. The Republican party differs from us on
all principles. 1t differs from us on theories.
from it every thing il has in the way of political
property. We leave not sticking TO it's hands
one single Office which take away from
it. But while these Republicans 30
down before us we respect them aud they
spect US. We ask quarter from them and we
give them none, when the Lord delivers the
Philistines into our hands. But with the mug
wuiDp there can be neither treaty OF peace nor
implied faith. He Is not bound TO surrender an
office which he does not want to enter the Demo
to let him into your fellowship in ordcr that he
may accomplish his purposes
DENYING JUSTICE TO BURCHARD.
have heard it stated here, think by the gen.
tleman from Pennsylvania, that in 1884 the
State of New York protested against the nomna-
ton OF Mr. Cleveland. and foretold his imminent
defeat. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is
mistaken in his history. The State of New York
voted Tor Mr.. Cleveland In 1884. The State OF
New York by an overwhelming majority pre-
sented his name 10 this convention A minority
of the delegation protested in the hearing of the
nominating committee against the imminent
evil of imperilinr pretensions that looked as fair
as any that dawned over the Democracy Now
the prophecy was not carried out or realized, but
whyi We told that Mr.. Cleveland carried
that State We are told that he was successful
at the polls, and does not the gentleman remem-
her that that victory was due to perjury rather
than TO this amazing popularity, which appears
so great before the eye In the springtime and so
impalpable in the colder lights of November.
Is not this denial of Justice TO Burchard enough
TO make his graye-clothes tit him uncanniy in
the gravel Is it not enough to make his bones
turn in his grave!
Yon say to me that Tammany Hall must be
loyal to the State Democracy, and that David b.
Hill must be loyal to the party but. then. all the
faithful are not comprised within the ranks of
the militant organization that must bear the
brune OF the combat. We will go back to
mission which you place in our hands; we will
submit to The indignity. to the outrage. and we
will try to undo all We have done for eight years.
We will try TO take these two irreconcilable ele-
ments. the mugwump and the Democrat. and
fuse them into mighty force for victory
in November; but let me warn you, gen.
tlemen, that the professions OF nine
years and the lessons OF nine years
cannot be unlearned in three months Those
men who have been taught by US to believe that
the mUgwunp was the natuaral foe of universal
suffrage and OF free Democratic institutions; that
his hostility to Democracy was based on the fact
that IL was the party of the horny hand and the
tell them now that these men are after all the
true opponents OF Democratic faith, that the
Democratic convention has accepted nomina-
ton from their hands and rejected the advice OF