The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-13
BRYAN AND SEWALL
FORr1ALLY NOTIFIED.

ana the n6LnOOS OF procedure WHICH |
have obtained in Democratic conven-
tons for fifty years The acts of the |
convention there were the acts of the
Democratic party. It's work was done
under the sovereign authority of the |
national organization and the work
was the direct outgrowth of calm, we'll
matured judgment of the people them
selves deliberately expressed through |
their representatives chosen from |
among the wisest, most trusted and
patriotic of their citizens in all the |
states All that 1 have said is liter
ally true, yet the fact remains, of
which everyone is conscious, that there
were extraneous circumstances leading
upon to the convention which
ATTRACTED UNUSUAL ATTEN-
TON
to its deliberations and invested them
with unusual Importance. To such an
extent was this true that 1 may say
without eXaggeration that no other po-
/ liticaa convention has assembled in this
country since the civil war upon which
public attention was rfveted with such
/ deliberations not only the American
/ people, but Che nations of the earth felt
such deep concern. We are familiar
with the circumstances to which l re-
fer. The existing national administra-
ton was created by the Democratic
party 1t is the result OF a great vic
tory WON in 1892. The campaign of
that year was fought wholly on the tar
iff issue. It was a war waged against
Che excessive, monopolistic, trust-breed-
ing schedules of the Mckinley law. The
/ Democratic party was united almost
as one man against that law, and
thousands of those who believed in the
policy of protection when conservatively
administered, for tine public good and
not for private enrichment, protested
against iL!3is
INDUSTRIOUS MEASURE OF EXTOR-
TON
for Individual and corporate enolu-
ment. Opposition to the Mckinley law
was the dominant principle of that
campaign and Che measure was con-
demned by an Overwhelming majority
of the American people. But, Mr.. Chair
man, desire TO say that although the
| tariff was made the issue of 1892, there
were thousands of Democrats who then
believed that a reform to our monetary
system was of far greater Importance
even than d reform in our revenue pol
icies. l was among those who so be-
lieved. Those holding to chat belief did
not in any degree underestimate the
importance of the tariff issue. On the
contrary, its Importance was fully ap-
preciated, but they believed none the
less that the control of our fiscal affairs
by a mercenary combination of Wall
street bankers, dominated by foreign in
f1uence, was more perilous to national
safety and more pernicious in its eff
feet upon national prosperity than all
the tariffs the
MISERLY HAND OF GLUTToNOUs
GREED
could write However, we acquiesced
in the decision of our panty convention,
accepted the issues as made and as
one man, rallied with loyalty and alac-
ri6y to the standard of revenue reform
We rejoiced in Mr.. Clevelands election
and confidently expected, as we had
right TO do, that ne would bring the
tariff question to speedy settlement and
strip monopoly of It's opportunity 20
plumber the people. But in this just ex-
pectation we were doomed to dlsap-
poinrment. Instead Of devoting himself
TO prom9ai and wise solution of the
important issue upon which he was
elected, he incontinenlly tfrusl 1T aside
and began, almost at the threshold OF
his administration, to exercise the great
powers of his once 20 commit the coun-
try TO financial system inauguraLed
by the Repuo44can party and which The
Democrats haa time and again con-
demned Id boom state and national con-
venuons. In the beginning OF Inas at
tempt the masses OIL the people, olsap-
pointed and dissatisfied, loo4eu on In
e4Iadzement. Wptn aDsoTpIng interest
ana wien constantly increasing resent
ment they walcnea the
RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF
EVENTS
as these events passed before them one
by one in quick succession ana when
they came TO understand their fun
meaning and effect, resentment
turned TO wrath and protest arose into
revolt. Then began within the Demo-
cratic party one on the most remark
able struggles than has ever occurred
in the political history of this nalion.
1t was struggle for mastery between
the national administration and the
great masses OF plain people VINO con-
sttute the party which created that
administration. The prize they fought
for was the national convention. That
convention was to determine whether
the Democratic party should abide by
the traditions OF their fathers and adj
here to its ancient faith or whether it
should obsequiously abandon the prin- !
ciples Of true Democracy and become
a plant agent to advance the
MERCENARY ENDS OF AN INSO-
LENT PLUTOCRACY.
The people won. They won glorious
victory. The full significance of their !
triumph cannot be estimated at
glance. Suppose they had lost what
then? Suppose the Chicago convention
had followed the servile example Of the |