The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-07-21
A GREAT sPEEUH.

No one can read the grest speech of
Senator John T. Morgan delivered at
Griffin yesterday without feeling that it
Is something out Of the ordinary-with-
out perceiving that it belongs to those
experimenting speeches which the peo-
pie in the old days were accustomed to
hear fall from the lips Of their great
men whenever an emergency threstened
their party or the republic.
Those who heard Senator Morgan's
speech had the benefit of his own per-
sonsl magnetism, supplemented by the
enthusiasm OF the occasion. And yet i.
is speech that retains even in cold type
the dignified simplicity, the earnestness
and the eloquence that marked it's de-
livery. The very style of Ii is impressive,
owing to the fact that the man who
conceived and uttered its sentiments,
who com ined its facts and gave life and
form to Its arguments, Ia man of the
people, a Democrat tried and true,
leader who has never deserted his peo-
pie in the emergencies OF war and re-
construction, nor in the contingencies
that have followed peace.
We do not pause to contrast the
record and career of John It. Morgan
with those of John G. Carlisle. It is
enough to say that Mr.. Carlisle did not
stand with the Southern people during
the war. and that he does not stand
with them now. At both these points
the record of John T. Morgan is
trsversed:by that Of John G. Csrlisle.
Morgan was leader during the war,
most devoted leader during the dark
days OF reconstruction, and an unselfish
leader in the present emergency.
To-day he is the Nestor of Southern
Democracy, It's prophet and its leader.
1t is left to him to refer to the history
of the party to show how the demand
for the restoration Of silver has become
part of the Democratic creed. and
how the party, in defending the rights
OF the people. has time and again
placed oil its machinery, all its re.
source and all It's power behind this
demand to restore silver to the place
from which 1t was outlawed by Repub-
lican legislation. In this great speech he
lifts up his voice in behalf Of the only
true Democratic doctrine which declares
for gold and silver as the only constitu-
tional currency-a doctrine that 10 not
Western nor Southern, but truly and
entirely Democratic-a doc srine that
involves the free coinage OF both metals
at the legal ratio now prevailing.
Senator Margan shows by the record,
which he takes the pains to reproduce
vote by vote, that tho Democratic party
WAS prompt to identify itself with the
effort to secure the repeal of the raa-
cally Republican legislation by which
silver was demonetizsd. and that it has
maintained. until Mr.. Cleveland came
into power the second time, an unbroken
front against every effort Of the mono
metallists and the money lenders to rob
the people.
thus, while the people are treated TO
the unhealthy spectacle OF Cabinet off,
cers leaving their posts OF duty to CAD
about the country making stump
speeches against Democracy and in be-
half of Republican legislation, they
have an antidote to these unpatriotic
and un. Democratic proceedings in the
great speech of Senator Morgan at
Griffin, in which the whole money ques.
ton, In 80 far as 1t affects the people
and the Democratic party, is unraveled
and made plain. The simplicity with
which Senator Morgan deals with the
question ia at once scholarly and states
manlike, and no one who reads his
speech can fail to have clearer ides of
the issue that must be settled. and
settled right, before the people of the
country can have any prosperity.-At-
lanta Constitution.