The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-19

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standard at Chicago were submerged
by a wave of Populsm from the south
There has been,-' he said, "a great
change in the Democratic organization
of the southern states The men who,
from a mistaken sense Of loyalty, fol-
lowed their states out of the Union
whose gallaGtry in war, whose forti-
tude in defeat, won the admiration OF
the civilized world; the men whose
virtues commanded the support of
northern public opinion in the attempt
to overturn the carpet-bag governments
in the southern states; the men who led
their people through all their troubled
period of reconstruction back into a
full union with the sister states, these
men, like Hampton, in North Carolina,
and Caffrey. in Louisiana, have been
swept from power; a new set has gone
into the saddle, a set of leaders, OF
which Tillman is the exponent, who
boldly unfurled the occasional flag at
Chicago, and declares that this Popu-
list movement is a. direct movement
against the
PROSPERITY OF THE EAST.
Men of New York, toilers of America,
guardians of your homes, will you al
low your rate of wages to be affected
(cries of Never, never,') by any man
who never has paid wages at all if he
could get out of it? Will you submit
to this conspiracy between the profess
sional farmers the farmers who cult
Vate the quarrels of their nelghlbors,
farmers who labor with their jaws,
Populist agitators of the west and the
unreconciled shareholders of the south.
(Applause.) This IS a conspiracy be-
tween professional farmers who want
to pay low wages and the unreconciled
Shareholder who would like to pay no
wages. (Applause.) Here is the real
root of this conspiracy. Here is the
explanation of this Populist movement
Mr.. Bryan did not create it. No man
can create a movement like this. The
forces that created it are active and
have been working in a thousand diff
ferent directions Mr. Bryan, repre-
senting this theory, is but like drop
of water on the crest of the wave,
more conspicuous, but no more import
ant than the millions of drops that
form its base.
THE POPULISTIC MOVEMENT
is the attempt of these professional
farmers, of these men who are unwill-
ing to share with the laborer, to APP
peal to his greed in support of their
doctrine. He is an enemy of public
order. He is an obstacle to progress
He is a conspirator against the peace
and prosperity of the industrial classes
of the country.
THE underlying trouble with all
Populists, said Mr. Cochran, is that
they have a fundamental conception Of
the principle on which civilized society
is constructed. All through Mr.. Bryan's
speech, all through Mr.. Tillman's ut
terances in the convention, wherever
you find Populists assembled. you will
find discussions proceeding upon the
theory that men are hostile to each
other in their interests; that the corldi-
ton of HE is one of contest.
DOESN'T LIKE IT.
cat Chicago, Mr. Bryan declared:
When you come before US and tell US
that we shall disturb your business in
teTests, we reply THAT you have dis
turbed our business interests. We have
petitioned and our petitions have been
scOCned. We have entreated and ouf
entreaties have been disregarded. We
have begged and they have Knocked;
and our calamity came. We beg no
longer; we entreat no more; we petit
ton no more. We defy them CA
voice, That's right'') He was, my
friend, he was quite right. When
man loses adj sense he has a right to
defy those that possess any
In concluding, Mr. Cochran said he
was glad this issue had arisen. The
time has come when the people of this
country will show their capacity fou
self-government. When this tide OIL
agitation shall nave receded, the foun-
dations Of the Republic will remain
undisturbed. This government viii.
still shelter a people indissuiubly we'd
ded to liberty and order; justly forbid
ding any distinction of burden or of
privilege, conserving property, main,
tanning morality, resting forever upon
the broad basis of American patriotism
and American Intelligence. (Applause.)
Mr.. Cocl1ran's speech was we'll re-
ceived. He talked for an hour an i;
twenty minutes.