The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-06
SACRIFICE TO POPULISn.
Governor Russell Appeals to DEM.
crafts at Chicago
NOT TO SURRENDER THEIR
PARTY TO FREE SILVER.

An Earnest and Logical Address-Party
Will Lose Its National Character and
Hundreds of Thousands of It's Old
| Soldiers II 1t Yields to This Will-o-th
Wisp.
Chicago, July THE climax of today s
ante-conyention developments was the
mass meeting of the gold men in the
Auditorium this evening. Tho speeches
Of ex Governor Russell of Massachusetts.
Senator Gray of Delaware and District
Attorney Fellows of New York were
vigorous enough in their denunciation
of the line of action which the conven-
tion is bent on taking on the silver
question but they stopped short of sug-
costing remedy or any plan by which
| the sound money advocates could hope
| to stem the current now setting SO
strongly against them. Governor Rus
sells remarks particularly brought out
in strong relief the difficulty which is
| beginning to loom up before the silver
managers what to do with the tariff.
Nearly all the boiling Republican dole
gates at ST. Louis declared that their
states were solid for free silver and pro-
lection. Governor Russell seized upon
this point and asserted that If Republi-
can protection was right In principle.
then silver legislation was equally SO, but
| if protection was wrong in principle,
unjust and oppressive in practice, as the
Dem ocratic party had ever declared and
still declared, then silver legislation was
equally so and ought to receive an equal
ly emphatic condemnation. This point
was obviously directed against the argu-
ments advanced in favor of the selection
of Senator Teller as the free silver stand
ard bearer, he being also an earnest a
advocate of protection and as such its
force was appreciated.
Gov. Russell said in part: eve have
met on tho eve Of our national convention
to take counsel together for the promo
ton of the welfare of our party and our
country. We meet with no personal am
hition to serve, no threat upon our lips
and with no purpose to question the sim
certify and honesty of any Democrat,
however radical the differences within
our ranks, but we are painfully con-
|
first time within generation and for
the second time only in its hundred
years of honorable life, the great Nation
al Democratic party is on the point OF
sectional and geographical division with
its untold misery and disaster. The door
| is open for division, defeat and dishonor;
we see new faces and new principles urg-
| ing US Cd, but we have not yet crossed
its threshold. May
GOD SAVE Us
| from the fatal step.
| "In a spirit of influencing loyalty to
a party which for life time has been to
many of us guiding faith of deepest
love to our common country for whom
4 all would give their blood and life, we
ask the representatives of our party to
pause and without prejudice or passion
to consider we'll before committing the
| Democracy to radical and novel policy
which we believe affects our national
honor and we know must break the ties
which bind South and North, East and
| West together i'll an enduring and
triumphant Democracy.
II speak tonight not as Northerner
Eut as national Democrat, whose priv
ilege it has been to take part in the bat
tics of our party over the issues of the
y
vocated principle or measure lot
AS SOUND DEMOCRACY
in Illinois or South Carolina % in the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. have
seen northern and southern Democrats
together fighting for the rights of the
South, resisting the odious measures OF
the Republican party, which, with Fed
eral bayonets and force bill, sought to
overthrow home rule, to control for par
up sectional hatred, dividing people
reunited in love and loyalty. 1t was a
natio nal, united panty which defeated
Republican tyranny over the South,
drove out it's carpet bag government,
withdrew the Federal soldier and re.
pealed the Federal election law.
i DIVIDED AND SECTIONAL,
it cannot stay the Republican hand.
"We recall, too, tonight the contests 9
united Democracy has fought and won
against Republican protection, how ou1
party threw down the gauntlet to mo-
nopoly and organized wealth and went
forth to the great victories of 100 and
| '92. The Democratic party then, as now,
stood for lifting the burdens Of unjust
and an equal taxation, unshaoklina
industry. and for tariff for public uses
only, and the country overwhelmingly
sustained this policy. 1t was glorious
cause and a splendid victory. Again the
people call upon us to battle Mckinley
ism and defend them against its attack
upon their rights and their interests.
Shall we stand halting and faithless to
our principles. and decline this patriotic
service because section Of our party
would thrust upon us a new doctrine
which in evitably splits US in twainp
For the first time in it's history, the Dem
ocratlc party is urged to make the oardi-
nal principles Of its faith and the leading
issue of its campaign, silver mono
metallism, a new and deprecated stand
ard Of value.
THE demand is for the free coinage CT
silver at 16 to 1, which means the power
and force of the government is to be in
voked to change our unit OF value and
substitute fifty cents Of silver for dol
lar in gold, and then to adjust the bus
mess OF the country, all wages, earnings
and savings all debts and credits, al
public obligations and the national honor
to
TuIC nFpPENTA CTANDA Rn