The Monticellonian., 1895-10-18

can tafs my proposition to buy the bonds or sell the bonds at the prices We name or your government may go to protest be- fore tomorrow night" Now, just think of that in a free eoautry The greatest upon the earth. and most productive, We are lot of pauRers Gresham and Oluey al the feet ot tHsse usHrgts and bankers in order to maintain our credit and establish the single gold standard! l was iH Frank fort on Che Main, and ] saw the banking house of the original R0thsChtd. Ii Ia their birth place. It Is a little old dingys obscure building with rusty bars and not $50 worth of furniture in it, and stopped and looked at it, and just thought that out of that u5ureTs den has como the power that controls cabinets, makes war or peace, aDol.shes dependencies and
 Parting of the Ways.
 As I said on the floor of the senate, we have come tJ "the parting of the Ways.H The Issue is squarely between b.metallism and the single gold standard For one, WHt Hel assist III destroying ene-half the metallic money of the world, in order to double the purchasing power of gold and diminish the prices at all commodities. More ahan all. l will not be accessory to piilHg additional burdens upon struggling debtors, already desperate and hopeless. l know the HHtuEe of the pending contest and the influence against Us. Money, pat rdnagc, the metropolitan press, with it's flood of riaieule and defamation, are on one side, and the plain, common people on the ether. h such contest the dem- ocratte party must abandon the teachings of Thomas Jefferson or stand for the masses against financial greed and mos uopolg. There never has been an hour, since our party began ifs long and stormy career when self devotion and courage were so much demanded from every dem 0erat. The money power arrogant and flushed with victory iusoleuty detles a majority of he American people and their representation.
 Ne are told that Che democratic party has been fatally wounded by the election of lS5 and will never again be in power. have seen the political horizon much darker aHI heard th4s funeral announce ment before. The party which destroyed federalism fsd by Alexander Hamilton can laugh at the republicans lead by Reed and Mckinley Az soon expect Pikeis Peak, scared and battered by the storms or centuries. and towering above its com panlous Ike some heavy monarch sur rounded by his grim nobility. 10 be blown aWay by summer breeze as to think that ono defeat Will disHdud the demo- cratic party. He laughs best who laughs last. No act of pabiie injustice could have been greater than the defeat Of the democrats at the last election. The peo- pie. mad8eHcd and eXasuerated by the haEl times produced by republican legis- latoH held the party in power respon- sIbie for existing conditions
 NitI support the Nominee.
 The question has often been asked me,
 
 what will be my posiuon3 I shall go To the naSt Democratic convention and make q hard fight for the free and unlimited coinage of silver. If l am voted down I must surrender 10 the voice of the ma jority Of my party. If my party nomi- mates a gold man on a gold platform, I shall bow to the will of that majority and support the nominee of my party, no matter on what platform he stands. It is principle. Democratic principle, and now cmHhatGaily state that no man or set Of men can drive ne from my party or from my faith. ft is the party of my fathers and my party and ] will not be found out Of it. l shall never vote for republican, no matter who Is nominated bv my party or on what platform he stands
 My FaIloW-Democrats, let us remain steadfast In the defense of those great truths upon which our party is founded, absolute equality in the burthens and ben- efits of government. no partnership be- tween the government and any individual or class, and the honest, economical ad- ministFaton of public business. To the brave man hut one path Is open, that of duty, and l have not lived in your midst all these years to have a suspicion now Of the courage and fidelity and honest con- Vietiou of Missouri democrats.
 And now in closing, l say that when the democratic party dies, the last hope of constitutional freedom will have departed from this continent. Then, and not till then. can he who loves free institutions repeat the poetic language of the great writer.
 No moro such is the language of the solemn sea
 To the sounds upon the sHadnwy sh1ref
 Ne nlare shall bloom the thanaeE-hlasted treat