The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-06-28
THE ADVOCATE.
Temporary chaIrmar's ADDRESS.

Mr.. Owens, of Kentucky was nam.
ed as Temporary Chairman, and be-
ing escorted to the platform, spoke as
follows:
Two great dangers menace the
Democratic party. One is external
the other internal. The first is the
organized machinery of organized
capital, supported by the whole power
of the Government. The second is a
tendency among Democrats to make
issues among themselves. Two needs
therefore stand before us indispensa-
bic to success: Unity and harmony.
OF the one this chair and gavel
stand representative; it remains for
you to supply the other. In this
spirit / greet you, fellow-Democrats, as
the advance guard of the grand army,
sent forward to blaze a pathway to
victory How momentous is your
responsibility, / need not tell you.
If your work be done in wisdom the
millions toiling in mine and shop and
field will rise and call you blessed.
The roll call of the Republic attests
that its heart and its conscience are
with US in our war with the repre-
sentatives of greed. The best thought
of our party is platform that chal-
lenges the appreciation and invites
the support Of the people. We can
,succeed--we must do more; we
must deserve success above the wreck
if need be, of selfish combination, we
must rear a temple to the plain peo-
pie and build shrine so broad that
there every lover of his kind may
kneel. The burden must be lifted
from the back of labor, and to that
end it has right to demand that
whoever bears our banner must lift it
above the smoke Of conflict and the
din of faction that every Democrat of
the union may follow its lead in eN-
ultant and irresistible combats. Let |
us not mistake. The gravity of the
situation demands the broadest patri-
otism and every needful sacrifice.
Our work but begins here. Under
the suns of summer and the frosts of
autumn we must carry it forward
with unfaltering courage to a trium-
phant close. This again must be a
campaign of education. The "study
of the corn field" begun in the West
and south must be carried into every
hamlet of the East and North. The
people must learn their true relation
that no railroad Presidents champion
the tribunes of the people; that no
task masters write our tariff bills.
They must learn, too, that for per-
sonal and political advantage, their
country was menaced by the threat of
war, and they will learn with shame
and regret that the very day the war
like proclamation of their President
was read in the halls of Congress the
peaceful response of the little eight by
ten Republic of Chill, accepting the
terms Of the Presidential ultimatum,
was read in every capital of the
world
Parties must be measured by their
deeds, and not by their professions.
The Fiity-frst Congress wrote the
blacklist page in our Legislative his
tory and became thing of the past.
1t challenged the approval of the peo-
pie and they responded in tone so
portentous that it seemed the voice of
God. With unaniminity that finds,
no parallel in the story of popular
government they determined that
billion dollars was far too much to
pay for such a museum of freaks. If
we but permit it they will stand by
their verdict.
That our cause may triumph let us
work in kindness. In the heat of
let us not forget that our :
political brother may be just as hon
est and perhaps better informed.
by one purpose and that n
purpose the public good, we will free
ourselves from the chickering's and
heart-bunings that characterized the !.
party when its Marshal Ii
Ney went down at Minneapolis be- 5
fore the mailed logions of the bread !
and butter brigade. i