Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-28

is party militant, armed for every com nIct that comes. It has already rooted out every ism and cism that human ingenuity could invent to tempt us with. There is nothing that csE be constructed by human imagination, by the wiles of corporations foundations oi the democratic party. Hence the de nocratic party has at heart the interest of the great masses of those people who are honest and law abiding. They have hurled against us everything, but the great wall of the democratic party has been unharmed, and it stands today as firm as it ever stood and our forces are null titudinous in numbers.
 PARTY HISTORY.
 Now before come exactly to the point want to make in the conclusion of my arr gument, for I find I am taking more of your attention to little history, but a very little. In 1860 there were democratic voters in the United States to the number of ?, f23, ,06s That includes all those who voted for Breckinridge, as we'll as those who voted for Douglass. In 1868 there were democratic voters in ths United States to tbe number of 2, 7O9, ,613. la 1876 the num- Der of democrats voting for Tilden was 4,2s4, 775, and in 188) we cast for Hancock 1 ,4s4 ,952 democratic votes. In 1884 when Cleveland was first elected we cast STA ,96S democratic votes. In 1888, when Harrison beat Cleveland, we cast 5,5S6, PAP demo- cratic votes, and in 1892, when MT. Cleve- land was elected the last time, the democrats cast 6 530, 900 votes.
 Now run your eye over that list: 1860, 2, ,223 ,06S; 1888, ,709, ,613, aud 1892, 6,83O,- GOO. In twenty-four years we have gained nearly 800 per cent in democratic strength. We have increased our entire national dem-
 ocratic strength three times in twenty four years. Where did all these men come from
 that have found their way into the demo-
 cratic party and who have voted for Ceve- 4I. f,s~ ~1 f;fv,n
 were not born in our houses; they have not been brought up in the south; they did not come out of the negro population, and h, dians are not entitled to vote. Where d1d publican ranks. They are men who have been voting the repu blican ticket until they have become disgusted with their operations and abuse of the constitution of the United States, and the tyranny they exhibited in the tax laws and in the elec-
 tion laws; they left and came to the demo-
 cratic party. How did they leave? Not in great masses, not in battalions or army corps, but they came man by man. What induced them to come? We had no offices to tender them, no money to give them, no inducements to present to them except the honest Gods truth and the love of their country, but they came. and came
 as democrats, and they stood up with the in defiance of the ostracism of public opinion in their own country, when for many years it was personal disgrace for man to be called a democrat. But here these mighty hosts come. Here they gather around the old banner of democracy, raised by Jefferson, defended by Jackson, and
 sustained today by Grover Cleveland. Loud and long continued applause, and hurrahs for Cleveland. Many of them came from strange places unexpectedly, came with the principles of life time im- bedded in their minds, with interests to which they had been welded always and arguments which had been made with their approval in support of those interests, bled, through representatives in the house of representatives, with a tremendous dem- ocratic majority, in which body are men who have different ideas and opinions on the same subject-who have different ideas on the details on the tariff bill, which con tains more than 15, 900 articles, or upon the subject of our finances, which are in most difficult and tangled condition, growing out of the vicious legislation of the republi-
 can party-why it miracle and wonder
 that such vast hosts of men thus assembled,
 who for the first time in thirty years
 have had an opportunity of exchanging
 their thoughts, should come to-
 gether with one sentiment in
 acted, or that they should unite with one
 mind upon that progressive march back to
 the foundation of the consultation of the
 United States, extending to these people
 eQual WltuOub OcFldtlou oA oSubi-
 ment? Why, 1 expected it, and not only ex-
 pected it, but discussion ought to be in-
 vited. Men ought to have the
 LIBERTY OF THE FREE EXPRESSION
 of their opinion. We all know
 that this vast army are all demo-
 crats. We know that they are honest, as they are assembled free from inducement
 or from temptations, but have assembled
 in obedience to conscience and under the
 guiding hand of the leader of their party.
 Men thus assembled can safely go into
 faith; l do not abuse them if they do not
 agree with me. Many of them, thousands
 of them, millions of them, have cast their
 first democratic vote within the last three
 or six years, and when come into an organization with them, upholding
 and feeling every confidence in the truth of
 those doctrines which guarantee prosper
 ity to our people, call their attention to
 the strength of the argument, but do not
 abuse them because they differ with me.
 That is not the way to make democrats.
 It is not the way to make converts. It IS
 not the way to secure prosperity, but for
 bearance in council, paying no attention
 to those matters which are non-essential,
 granting to men the privilege of exercising
 their own opinion, in church as we'll as in state, as to on-essentiai things, but ad-
 herring to the great creed, or doctrine, and
 hanging to the anchor of truth with a hawser that no storm can break. It is this to be a true democrat. That is the way to conduct this matter. l have no quarrel with those gentlemen who cannot see
 THE SILVER QUESTION
 just as see it. No, II have sel with them and debate with wrestling an xiety and desire to bring them, as be-