Omaha daily bee., 1893-08-12
BLAND WARNS DEMOCRATS
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DLhND WAkNS DEMUlkAlS
tcoSr1NUEp FROM FIRST PAGE.
of it, l say you shall not do it. tRonowed
applause
"And anybody or any party that under
takes to do 1t, will in good time be trampled
-as 1t ought to bc-in the dust OF condemna-
plause on the floor and in the galleries.
speak rs democrat, but yetas an American
above democracy. [Cheers.
Warning to the Democratic Party.
I'VE do not intend that any party shall
survive IL we can help II, that will lay the
hand of contiscation on America in the in.
terest OF England or of Europe. That may
be strong language but in speaking to you
of the eastern democracy we will bid YOU
farewell when NoH do it, Applause. Now
you can take your choice of sustaining
America against England, of sustaining
American industries and American laborers
against English industries and laborers, or
of our going apart. We have come to the
parting way. do not pretend to speak for
anybody but myself aud my constituents,
but believe that can speak for the masses
of the great Mississippi valley when say
that we will not submit to the domination
of any political party (however much we
love democracy II it lays its sacrificial
hands upon silver and wounds it in this
country. For myself will not support such
-
1t ana the democrats engaged in it as un-
democratic and un-American, and | will ask
the people of the country to condemn as the
agents and tools mo, will withdraw that
epithet)-as the representatives of the
money power and moneyed interests of the
American people. You cannot hold the
democratic party together on that line"
Applause.
In closing his argument. MIR Bland de-
clared that the time had come to decide
whether or not the country was to go to
bimetalism He thought it the duty of the
house Especially of his democratic associates)
to settle the money question and to settle
it at once on democratic lines. 1t would not
do to demonetize silver and then to under
take to restore it aftcrward. There was
time enough now to arrange it according to
the principles of bimetallism, and IN man
ner conformable to the promises of the DEM
ocratc party. "1f," he said in conclusion,
addressing his words particularly to eastern
democrats, ''you do not do it, yours is the re-
sponsiblity, not ours.n Applause
CoIorado's Defender of silver.
Mr.. Pence, populist of Colorado, was the
next speaker, and with his opening sen
tences he attracted the close attention of
the house and retained it to the
end. No other man had succeeded
in so impressing himself upon
the favorable consideration of his
associates on the floor at such an early
period of his membership He was sorry,
- ~, -
,'ha nra,, itH tI ;s,ssia way w.
fuenced by the columns of the metropolitan
| press and was disposed to treat representa-
tives of the western districts, and particu-
| larly of those states where silver is mined
| as foreigners and aliens. He did not ex-
actly comprehend the reason why that
| gentleman should speak of the Treasury de-
| partment as acting the part of pawn
| broker for the silver miners of Colorado and
Nevada. 1t might be the gentleman knew
more of pawnbroking than he did or it might
be on account of the practice of the Treasury
department to jew down the men who
| brought the silver there to sell :;
because it was now beyond ques-
| tion that such was the policy of
| the department. 1t was because the people
of Colorado had come to understand that the
| platforms of the two great political parties
| were but glittering catchwordS that they
had within the last twelve months asserted
their political independence
1t was not las the New York Sun said) be-
| cause MIR. Reed of Maine was a car that the
democratic party had come into power 1t
was because it had declared unequivocally
for the reconciliation of silver. The scene
in the house today was enough to attract
the attention of any thoughtful observer.
Was it possible that the gentleman from
| MARYLAND (Mr. Rayner) utterng the senti.
ments he did and the gentleman from Mis-
souri, (Mr Bland), uttering the sentences
he did, were elected last fall on the identical
platform. Laughter on all sides
rrom,so thar Had Reen nrolcn.
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When tne denocTatlc party met IN con
ventlon In 1854. MI Pence continued, IL de
c!ared its pelei IN honest money, that golo anc
silver Is lhe coinage OF tne !i constltutl9n an ale
Is circulating lheuiuin CUhNelVlpic Im i,I u,
said, the reconciliation OF silver at its Ole
ratio; and it was so accepted by the silver