The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-01


 convention to be held ought to endorse not only the candidates of the Chicago convention, but the platform on which these candidates stand. (Cheers)
 "We have had a great fight in the party, one of the most memorable con tests ever waged, and those who advo- cate the free coinage of silver have won by carrying their cause not to con- tentions, but to the people. the source of all political power. (Cheering) If we had waited until the convention as- sembled at Chicago and then made our appeal to the delegates who had been sent there uninstructed and without re- gard to the money question, we should have been defeated, but we saw that the strength of bimetallism was in the rank and file of the party and recognized the democratic idea that power comes up to the machinery of the party from the people themselves and does not go down from the machinery to the people, we commenced with the sovereigns, and We instructed the delegates from the pri- maries to the precincts and from the precincts to the counties, and from the counties to the states and from the states to the national convention That Is the way this convention has been fought and 1t is the only hope of those who are trying to secure justice for the masses of the people.
 If you want the state convention to support the Chicago platform and tick ct there is only one way to be sure of
 it, and that is to let no man go to any
 f,nx, know where ne stands on this question. and know that he stands by you. (Ap-
 rlause,) No man who wants to do
 what is right will refuse to let the peo-
 pie know what he will do when he gets
 to the convention, and when you find a man who refuses to tell you what Le is
 going to do, when you find man who
 will not take you into his confidence.
 tell him no power on earth can get you
 to take him into your confidence. (Ap-
 plause.)
 '"The men who assemble at conven-
 tions do not go there as individuals
 They go as representatives. They go
 not for themselves. They so to act for
 you. And you not only have right to
 know what man is going tu do when
 he gets there, but you have a right to
 tell him what to do and to bind him
 with instructions to do it. I do not in making these suggestions mean to ad- wise any one how he shall act in regard
 to the endorsement of tho action taken by the democratic convention, but sim
 ply wish to suggest that if you wish to endorse that convtntion that Is the only
 way YOU will be sura; siE:St is, to know
 who are to speak for you as delegates, and to tell them also how they shall
 speak.
 T have not in this ce npaign insisted that democrat shall vote for me mere ly because I was nominated by that
 party. I have insisted that democrat wlio believes tf,at the success of this ticket nominated at Chicago would be best for his country, best for him3elf, best for his family and best for his neigEbor, should regard the ticket as having such claim upon him that he would have to support it. And have bean willing to concede that any dem
 ocrat who conceives that the election of anybody else would be better than th4 election of the Chicago ticket has a perfect right to make his vote express what he thinks. But while I say that to democrats and when I concede to
 democrats the right to leave their par ty, to desert their ticket and to sup port somebody else, I beg to assure you that I apply that doctrine If independ . ence to mebers of other parties as we'll
 as to members of the democratic party And if a democrat who is engaged Tn some big syndicate has a right to leave the democratic party because the republican party is the friend of syn dicates, then members of the republi-
 can party who do not want the country to be ruined by syndicates have right to desert the republican party. There ere things In our platform which are offensive to some people. They were put there on purpose to offend some
 people. No person who thinks that it is the great privilege of this govern
 ment to turn over the instrumentalities of government to a few people in order that they may prosper while the mass
 es toll without recompense Is likely to
 be pleased with that plank in the plat form which says the democratic party
 is opposed to the issue of bonds In time
 of peace and to trafficking with syndi-
 cates which at high price attempt to sustain the treasury.
 When the democratic party de-
 nounces the trusts it simply means to
 say that the declaration contained in our first charter, the declaration of in dependence, that all men are created
 equal. means something; that it means the government shall stand ready to protect the individual citizen from any force. power, from any arm to be used for his injury, whether that opposing force be a private individual or cor
 poration (Cheers.) We did not expect
 that that plank would draw the syn
 dicates and trusts to us. But we have a right to expect that those of our citi-
 zens who are opposed to trusts and syndicates will be numerous enough to take the place of all who may be driv-
 en out of our party by such declara- tion."
 The remainder of MT. Bryan's speech
 was devoted to an argument on the sil- yer question covering the grounds
 which his former speeches have made familiar to the public.
 Cleveland. Aug 13.-The journey made by Candidate Bryan from Ripley, N. Y, to Cleveland was marked prin- cipally by fiattering demonstration at Ashtabula, O., where nearly 5000 people gathered about his car and cheered him with vim. Previous to reaching Ashtabula the candidate was