The Butler weekly times., 1896-07-16

| Cheers
Brethren OF the east, there IS no
south, there is no north. there Is no
east or west in this uprising Of the
people for American eman nclpaton
from the conspiracy of European
kings. led on by Great Britain, which
seeks to destroy one half Of the
money of the world aud to make
American manufacturers, merchants,
farmers and mechanics mere hewers
of wood aud drawers of water.
There is one thing golden, which,
permit me, in the same good hunlor
which has characterized your con.
duct, to commend to you here. 1t
is the golden rule, to do unto others
as you would have them do unto
you Forget not the greed of devils,
and that an absolute acquiescence
in the whole maj ority is the vital
principle of the republic. Demo.
Gratis, as you have been, democrats,
as trust you will ever be: acquiesce
gracefully in the will of this great
majority of your fellow democrats,
and only ask to 60 with them, as
they have often gone with you.
{Applause.)
THIRTY YEARS OF DEVOTION.
Do not forget. gentlemen, that for
thirty years we have supported the
men that you have named for presi-
dent-Seymour, Greeley, Tilden,
Hancock and twice Grover Cleveland.
Do not forget that we have submit
ted cheerfully to your compromised
platform, and to your repeated
pledges of bimetalism, and have pa
tiently borne repeated disappoint-
ment Do not forget that the last
national convention of the democrat
ic part, in 1892, you proclaimed
Yourselves to be in favor of the use
of both gold and silver as q stand
ard money OF the country, for the
coinage of both gold and silver with
out discrimination against either
metal, and that the only question
left open was the ratio between the
metals. Do not forget-and I refer
to the fact in no inferior sense
that just four years ago in a demo
cratic convention in this city, the
New York delegation stood here
stolidly and immovably for candi.
date committed to the free and un-
limited coinage of silver and gold,
at the ratio of 16 to l. And if we
are still for it, let it not be forgotten
that we owe it in some measure to
their teachings. (Applause.)
That we owe you much, gentle.
men of the east, is readily acknowl-
edged, and will be ever most CRATE
fully remembered. We owe you
much, gentlemen of the convention
and what we owe you of the east are
the force, and the Mckinley bill, and
the Sherman law, the triple infamy
of republican legislation. 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 death blow in the senate, but
there was not single democrat in
New York Or New England to vote
against it. If you gentlemen have
helped to save the south it has also
helped to save you in the east, but
whether the south should be saved
or not, these great American repub.
licans, Senators Teller and Wolcott
and your Jones and your Stanford
of California, sank their partisan
feeling on the order OF their patriot
ism and came forward to the rescue
Of American institutions.
No man, gentlemen, in the high
noon of our country's fraternity
can revive force bills now in the rec
onciled and reunited republic Oul
opponents themselves have abandon
ed them. There is none that car
stand between the union of heart:
and the union Of hands, that Gram
In his dying visions saw was coming
on angels wings to all the sons o.
our commc, oo,rkrr yUlo.. ~: