The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-20

Cleveland, O., June ia. B. Cum
minis address to the Republican League
delegates was as follows:
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the
Conventional am less belligerent than
l was year ago. IT is hard to preserve
the fighting mood before the stricken
mob once known as the Democratic
party. There are depths of distress so
infinite that attack is cruelty and crit
icism is diSarmed.
When 1 see the fury with which the
enemy have turned their weapons
against each other, every particle of an
imosity disappears, and feel like NOV
ing upon their forces with ambulances
instead of arms, with Ponds Extract
rather than powder. Humanity has
transformed US from an army Of sol
dierS into a corps of surgeons. We
will be in at the death. but it will be
with the prayer book. not the sword,
in our hands.
We are spared the little twings of
conscience that justifiable homicide
sometimes brings The spasms of polit-
ical Mysteries which have afflicted our
Democratic friends for the past two
years have ceased to be intermittent;
they have become continuous. The dis
ease is fatal, and the hour of discolu-
ton draws near. The coroner's inquest
written-EXcusabl Suicide.
The paralyZed statesmen over whom
Grover Cleveland has presided with
such distinguished success and bene-
ficent results, instead of waiting to be
prOrogued by the indignant voice of the
sovereigns of America, are about to dis
perse. For them the last trump has
sounded, and they are calling upon the
mountains and the hills to cover them.
Having given the most eminent salts
faction to ever country but their own,
they are fleeing before the just anger of
the people like naked sinner before the
wrath of God; and as they vanish into
obscurity, viewing the ghosts of our
murdered prosperity, they chatter to
each other:
Thou cans't not say I did it, never
shake thy CORY locks at me-"
They have discovered that free trade
means one empty treasury and MILLION
empty stomachs, and that though they
may fill the one with bonds, theothers
demand bread. They have been taught
that we are upon neither gold nor sill
yer basis, but upon basis of universal
discomfort. They are catching a glim-
mer of the eternal truth that whatever
be the true ratio of gold and silver
there should be in the coinage Of human
thought 999 grains of confidence to one
of suspicion and distrust. They will
carry WITH tneN1 10 the UlOndSITy pre-
pared for the long period of their seclu-
sion a faint conception Of the doctrine
that fear will destroy the best currency
in the world. and that faith will infuse
vigOr and stability into any system
ever devised by man.
But 1 am bestowing far too much at
tention upon the dissolving view 9TH
erwise known as the Democrats in re-
treat. If the memories of their mis-
will permit them to sleep, 1 shall not
further disturb their calm and final re-
pose.
We are not here to make a platform
for the Republican party. The duty
falls exclusively upon another conven-
ton. and we abide Loyalty by its last
announcement; but it will not be for
gotten that although we are not the |
king, we are the king makers; although |
we make no platforms. we make the |
men who write the platforms. We are |
here to take council with each other |