Evening journal., 1896-07-08

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Utah. h........................
ermont...................
virginia .................. - ~
Washington
West Virginia. u
Wyoming.
isconsin........,........- u ~
Alaska.
Arizona. ....,...........
District Of Couinbla.....
Oklahomn.. .4..............
Indian Territory. 2
New Mexico..... ..........
Totals ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 555 $40
*Iil did nat vote
fDaniel voted no.
After the announcements Of tho vote the
chairman said;
"The motion offered by the gontloman
from Alabama substituting Hon. John w.
Daniel of Virginia for temporary chair
man is adopted"
The chairman said unless otherwise in
structed he would regard this rs a prao-
tical rejection Of tho majority report and
would not put the question Of its adoption
to the convention. There being no dissent
the chairman appointed Senator Jones Of
Arkansas, Hon. II. p. Heating Of Nevada
and Senator White OF California a com
mittee to escort Senator Daniel to tho
chair.
The greatest demonstration Of the ses-
sion up to this time occurred wson Senn-
tor Daniel came forward. Delegates stood
in their chairs and yelled with might and
main, waving canes, handkerchiefs and
flags.
Upon assuming the duties Of temporary
presiding officer, Senator Daniel said:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN or THE NArIoNAL DEMO
~. q.
hands this gavel AS the temporary presiding
officer Of this convention. l beg leave 70 ex-
press sentiment which am sure Is unani-
NOUS that no national convention was ever
presided over with more ability or more fair
ness than by yourself.
can express no better wish for myself than
that / may be able in some feeble way 10
model my conduct by your model and TO prac-
tico by your example.
The high position, gentlemen, TO which you
have chosen mo involves both great personal
honor and keen responsibility.
For the honor, thank you. The responsi.
bility I would be wholly unable TO bear did
depend upon myself. but your gracious hid
viii make II easy and its burden light.
That aid confidently invoke from you for
the sake Of the great cause Gnder whose ban
ne- we have fought so many battles and
which now demands Of us such stanch devo'
ton and such loyal service.
I regret that my name should have been
brought In even tho most courteous and Sc
rious complication with that Of ny distin
guished friend, the great senator from Now
York.
But the very fact that have permitted IL
70 be done refutes the suggestion that hns
been improvidently made on this floor that
either or those whom / have the honor to
represent Wouid ever heap indignity upon
that brave and llustrious head
No candid man. no dispassionate Judgment
gentlemen. can ever misinterpret your mean
ing. The senator from New York himself
knows, as you know and as ] know, that there
is no personality in the prefcrment which has
been given TO me.
Hc must know, and the whole country that
watches these proceedings must know, that It
is solely due TO the principle that this great
majority Of Democrats stands for and that
they know I stand with them, and that IL Is
given in the spirit of the instructions received
by these Representatives.
There IS ons thing golden which, permit me
in the Same good humor which has character
ized your conduct. TO commend TO you hero
IL is the golden rule 10 do unto others as you
would have them do unto you.
Forget not tao greed of devils aud that an
absolute acquiesccnco in the win OF the ma
iority is the same vital principle Of the rcpub-
lie.
Democrats as you have been, Democrats as
/ trust you viii ever be. ncquiesce gracefully
low Democrats and only ask TO 90 with them.
as they have often gone with you.
Do not forget. gentlemen, that for 30 years
we have supported the men that you have
named for president--Seymour Greeley, Til
den Hancock aud thrice Grover Cleveland
Do not forget that we have submitted cheer
fully TO your compromised platforms and 60
your repeated pledges Of Dimetallisin and
have patiently borne repeated disappoint-
ments as 70 their fulfillment.
DO not forget, at the last national convention
Of the Democratic party, in 1922 you pro-
claimed yourselves 10 be in favor Of the use Of
both gold and silver as q standard money Of
the country. for the coinage Of both gold and
silver without discriminating against either
metal, and that the only question left open
was the ratio between the metals.
Do not foreet-and refer 60 tho fact in no
inferior sense-that just four years ago, in a
Democratic convention in this city, the New
York delegation stood here solidly and inn
movabiy for candidate committed to the
free and unlimited coinage Of silver and gold
at the ratio Of l6 to I, and II we are still for
it, let it not ho forgotten that we owe 1t in
some measure 10 their teachings.
That we owe you much, gentlemen of the
east, is really acknowledged and Will be over
most gratefully remembered. We owe yop
much. gentlemen Of the convention, and for
what we owe you Of the east is tho force bill,
and the Mckinley hill and the sherman law,
inc triple lnfdfny OF hepuDlcdn ieBialA'l1i'
The first was aimed not more at the south
than at the great cities OF the east, and chief
among them the great Democratic city Of New
York, with its magnificent patronage. That
bill got its deathblow in the senate, but there
was not q single Democrat in New York or
New England 20 vote against It.
II you, gentlemen, have helped 20 save the
south, il also has helped to save you IN tho
east, but whether the south should be saved
or not those great American Republican soma
tors from the west-Teller and Wolcott and
your Jones and your Stanford Of California.
sank their partisan feeling on the altar Of
their patriotism and came forward to the res
cue OF American institutions.
From the joint operation OF the Mckinley
law and the sherman law an adverse balance
Of trade was forced against rs in 1923. A spr-