The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-07-14

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have supported the men that YOU hav
named for President. Secretary Sey
mOur, Greedy, Tilden and Hancock
and twice Cleveland. Do not forge
that we have submitted cheerfully :,
your compromised platform and t,
your repeated disasters to their fulfill
ment. To get at the last convention
OF the Democratic party in 1892, yo,
proclaimed your services TO be in favol
OF the use OF both gold and silver as s
standard money of the country, for the
coinage Of both gold and silver without
discriminating against either metal
and that the only question left oper
was tn ratio between the metals. Dc
not forget-and 1 refer to the fact In
no inferior sense--that just four years
ago In Democratic convention In this
city the New York delegation stood
here solidly and immovable for can.
didate committed to the free and uu,
limited coinage of silver and gold al
a ratio Of 16 to l. And II we are still
for 1t, let it not be forgotten that we
owe 1t In some measure to their teach.
ings (Applause). That we owe you
lily acknowledged and will be ever
most gratefully remembered. We
owe you much, gentlemen OF the con-
vention, and for what we owe you
OF the East is the force bill and the
Mckinley bill, and the Sherman law,
the triple infamy Of Republican leeis-
lation. The first was aimed not more
at the South than at the great cities OF
the East and chief among them, tho
great Democracy OF New York, with
its magnificent patronage. That bill
got it's death blow In the Senate, but
there was not single Democrat in
New York or New England to vote
against it.
No man In this high noon OF our
country's fraternity can revive force
| bills now in this reconciled and re.
| united republic. Our opponents them
selves have abandoned them. There
| Is none that can stand between the
union OF hearts and the union of hands
that Grant In his dying vision saw was
coming on angels wings to all the sons
OF our common country. When Chica-
go dressed Southern graves in flowers
she buried sectionalism under q noun
tain OF fragrance. When Southern
soldiers yesterday cheered the wound
cd hero Of the North IL Richmond the
South answered back Let us have
peace; peace, union and liberty now
and forever
AS the majority Of Democrats is not
sectional neither does 1t stand for any
privileged or class Legislation. The ac-
tive business men Of this country, its
manufa 'turers, merchants, farmers,
sons Of toll, in counting room, factory,
field and mine, know that the contrac-
tion OF the currency sweeps away with
the silent and resistless for OF gravita-
tion tn annual profits Of their en-.
terprise and Investments. They kLow
too that the gold standard means con-
traction and the organization disaster.
What hope is there for the country
and what hope for the Democracy un-
less the views of the majority here
shall be adopted? Do not the people
know that 1t was not silver legislation
bu Legislation dictated by the advo-
Gates OF the gold standard that has
caused and now continues the financial
depression? Do they not know that
en- their demands upon the Democ-
racy were complied with in 1893 and
the Sherman law repealed without o
substitute that the very States of the
East that demanded it turned against
the Democracy that granted it and
swept away their Majority In torrent
OF ballots? Had the silver men had
their way then instead Of the gold
monometalists, what storms of Juse
would here today be emptied upon
their head; but the people, applying
the power of memory and analysis alike
to discover the causes Of their arrested
prosperity, need not go to find them.
They do not forget when Democracy
came to power In 1893 1t inherited from
Its Republican predecessor the tax sys-
tenn and the currency system Of which
the Mckinley law and the Sherman
law were the eliminating atrocities
1t came to power amidst a panic, which
htly followed upon their enaC tment
with strikes, lOckOuts, riots and civic
connections, while the scenes of peace
full industry In Pennsylvania had be-
come military camps.
Besides manifold oppressive features
the Mckinley law had thrown away
fifty millions of revenue derived from
sugar under the spectral plea OF free
breakfs st table and had substituted
bounties to sugar planters, thus de-
creasing revenue and increasing ex-
penditure, thus burning the candle at
both ends and making the people pay
at least for the alleged free break fast
From the joint operations Of the Nc
Kinley law and Sherman law an ad-
verse balance OF trade was forced
against us in l893 q surplus of one hun
dred millions of dollars in the treasury
was converted into deficit of seventy
millions in 1894, and engraved bonds
prepared BY u Repu blcan Secretary to
borrow money to support the govern
ment, were the i'll oprens of the pre-
organized ruin that awaited the incom-
ing Democrats, and O depleted treasury.
More significant still, the very authors
OF the ill-starred Sherman law make
shift were already at confession upon
the stool OF penitence, and were beg
ging Democratic help to put out the
conhagration OF disaster that they
themselves had kindled.
SO far as revenue to support the gov
ernment is concerned the Democratic
party with but q slender majority in
the Senate was not long In providing
/ and had not the Supreme Court OF
the United States reversed its settled
doctrine OF 100 years, the income tax,
Incorporated in the tariff bill, would
since have abundantly supplied 1t.
The Republican party has now re-
nounced the creed OF its platform and
of our national pledges and presented
the country the issue OF higher taxec,
more bonds and less money. 1t has
proclaimed at last, throwing away the
| disguises, the British gold standard.
We can only expect should they sue
ceed, my countrymen, specimen of
panic and a long protT acted period OF
depression. Do not ask us then to Join
them In any OF their propositions.
Least OF all ask US not to join them
upon the money question and fight q
sham battle over q settled tariff for
the money question Ia the paramount
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