The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-08-23

potent factor ia our good government.
Differences bring about the best gov
eminent. Then, my fellow cltizehs,
if we are to preserve our
liberties we must have free speech, we
must have clash among us, we CANNOT
all think the same. 1t is the views
from hastings aud the views from the
rostrum that brings about me very
highest degree of all good results IN a
Democratic form Of government. NO"
we have a platform that touches upon
state government and federal ques-
tions. That platform has just llttie
too much "pro" in it for me [appiausel,
but, my fellow citizens, if tnat pro Is
little unsavory to your fellow servants,
what kind of dish is it the other slde
is taking? Applause. As one OF
them said to me this morning-he is
an old fellow | have always admired
personally, and l have always liked
him-he says to me, Il hate TO see
YOU have 70 take any crow My
friend. what kind Of dish have you
got? Voice in crowd. "croW, ouzzarG
by golly."1 So if 1 am not in a good
humor l would like for you to tell me
| the occasion in q llfe's history that
has been checkered from boyhood to
now. What could be the occasion OF
pleasure on the part OF man who mas
struggled all his life to do right II
there is not an occasion for rejoicing
on the part of the Democracy of this
state united? If this is not an &C.
casiont, hat ought to bring about re.
ioicng L would like to know what
sort of an occasion is. would like to
know on what sort of an occasion you
ever expect to have better exposi-
ton Of crow.eating and buzzard-
eating than we have here
today, [ApplauseJ. Do you
wish to hear me to discuss
that platform little? Let's now each
Democrat, though that platform wab'
bles little, get upon it and stay
there, and if you can't stand on
it get down under it like a yellow
dog and follow in the trail and let
someone else drive" Applause.
"Can yon handsome fellow who is
swallowing a mustache back there
hear me? Then hear once more the
Democratic doctrine expressed in a
nutshell, that the majority must rule.
Applause Fidelity to the party and
to the discipline and party interest
will guarantee success against all OPP.
position. Then, my friends, if we
have platform that is distasteful to
some of you on the federal
question | want to know if
you have not got few sugar
ioaves in your mouth on state guess
tions. The bitter effort that may
have been left in your jaws and teeth,
ard throat and stomach which you
have been nauseated over on some
| federal question, has been neutralized
by the sweetness that has been put
| into your mouth on state questions
There is one question | make objec
tion to, aud if that is intelligently I'M.
derstoOd no citizen will object to it,
and that is the one that will be most
human, most decent and most efficient
in the way of law for the protection
of property rights and labor rights,
some have undertaken to give ex.
preston as to the platform,
not offering that protection
to the individuals as workmen.
I deny it as false, because there are no
people on earth today that believe
more strongly in good government
than the stalwart laboring element in
this country and when our Legislature
meets they will pass law there that
will neither Cypress capital nor labor,
but will draw line that will be q
dead line between the two that will
keep down any clash in the state. So
far as | am concerned, let the law be
extended that will give to each proper
protection.
"Then as to the federal question,
you have one there that endorses
the president in toto and
no man in this building has said
more complimentary words of Presi-
dent Cleveland than myself. There
is not one of you that ever have heard
me denounce him in any particular
L have never called him. a demagogue
nor charlaton. Applause], What
L want to say is this, that have never
at any time in the past six months or
the past II months, not since May |,
1898, endorsed everything President
endorsed his position on the money
question because L have been bred
and born to the free and IN
limited coinage of silver at al
ratio of 16 to l. 1 have believed
UDdC Iue silver ueldl WAS Jle honest
metal of this country, that every one
of us had right to, but l have always
believed that Grover Cleveland was
honest in his convictions and that he
has endeavored to do his duty for the
best interests of the country l have
differed with him, but I have deferred
to his good judgment, believing he
was studying the greatest good to the
greatest number. On that silver
question we have plank here that
may be a little rickety but we can
stand on it, all of u.s. Laughter. In.
deed we have always stood
on that plank since they put
it in the platform in 1892, but it
is susceptible of two or three different
constructions. There is one express
sion in the platform though that has
no room for construction, and that is
that the whole party in the United
States has pledged itaelf to gold and
silver as the standard money of this
country without discrimination. WEI
have pledged in that first plank of the
platform to that one of gold and silver
as the standard money of this country
without discrimination, but party in,
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