Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-07-05


the pages OF the nations history. II the
country should have been preserved only
TO become a defaulter. and to pay It's
debts with 5O-cent dollars
Continuing. Mr.. McVeagh said: I'VE
who appeal to the coming convention
against silver monometalllsm are not all
gold monometallist. though en gold
monometalIism, as now existing. includes
an immense proportion and an immense
aggregate Of silver coinage. Many OF
us are earnest blmeta.lists. eager to see
silver and gold made equal in the coinage
OF our country. That for which this crisis
unites bimetallists and gold monometai-
lists is the awful spectre OF silver mono
metallism-for the free coinage Of silver
at 1C 10 by this nation alone is silver
ACKNOWLEDGMENT by all the unchange-
able laws which govern the economies
OF nations. II must be that and nothing
else. The fact that silver monometa lists
will not argue for silver monometallism,
but use the arguments Of bimetaliism,
makes their propaganda dangerous: but
It does not change their aim; nor would
II change the dreaded results. The only
thing that lmetalists and gold Mono
metallists-all men who have eyes TO see
into the national abyss Of silver mono
metallism-can do in the face OF the
lftNfuN fil-lrs ID " cArliQ " AilN tfANAN~
OF the existing system. The case IS
simple. the issue plain; the road Is
straight and no one Of us can look to
the right hand or TO the left.
APPEAL TO SILVERITEs.
1--WE cannot hope to appeal with sue
| cess to ell OF the silver delegates. The
great body Of them would not listen to
| even persuasion. THE wild character OF
| the movement is shown in It's fury and
anger. But there must be many silver
| delegates who find themselves out OF
| touch with fury and recklessness, and
| who can still be made 10 see where this
passion and excitement are carrying
| them and their party. and possibly their
! country To their sober reason this meet
| ing is an appeal. They may still listen
| to the solemn warning Of dispassonate
men. dispassionate Americans We are
| here without passion. without excitement,
| without fury. but with a perfect vision Of
| the crisis that IS being forced upon the
| party and the nation"
| When Mr. McVeagh had concluded
| there were loud calls for Senator Hill.
Mr.. McVeagh. however, informed the
audience that Senator Hill was not In the
| hall. but that he would now Introduce a
! man who was always welcome TO Ameri-
| can audiences-Colonel John r. Fellows,
| Of New York.
JOHN r. FELLOWS.
Colonel Fellows said that the condition
| which confronted the Democratic party
| to-day was so unique extraordinary, ana
| bewilderng that he was at an utter loss
| TO know on what lines to address the
| meeting He had not been unaccustomed
| for the last forty years to address Demo-
! cratic audiences. Here. and for the ilrst
time in his life. he found himself hesi-
"a tartFh af4 Or n
walk the streets, with bated breath, 10
express no opinion. but to weigh on one
! side the duty which patriotic man owed
TO the best interests OF his country, ana
| on the other side the fidelity and allegi-
| ance which he owed to his party.
| lie shivered with hesitation, as hun
dreds and thousands of Democrats did'
lest the party might be successful In the
| contest daughter and applause) For
the first time they were imbued with a
fear that the party which had taken pos
session Of their banner might triumph
| because they believed that If the madness
which had been turned up was preserved
I the party would be the degradation OF
! the republic. (Cheers) He had heard
| but one positive shout for the last two or
three weeks. To every interrosatory pro-
pounded the reply was l6 to /; for every
! contention Of reason that was sought 10
| be maze the ItDiN was sum ~ " e.
| Q,aughterO He might comprehend the
! declaration, but he had not yet heard any
of those who were the heralds Of the new
| doctrine. and who were filling the air with
! the raillery and clamor Of their voices
tell him Just how they expected to gam
| relief from the conditions which pre-
vailed to-day by the adoption or theif
! policy.
"a hundred years ago Ike clamor
| filed a land across the seas. frenzied
with the wrongs. either fancied or real
| Of n thousand years. the people had come
! TO believe that the destroying Of all sys-
| TENS. the plunglng into absolute license
| unrestrained by law, and the tramplins
under foot Of every precedent were rene
dies for the existing wrongs.
ITO THE GUILLOTINEw
TO the guillotine; to the guillotine
was then the cry Of the popuiace. Ihey
tore down all that then existed OF sub
stantial government; they profaned the
affairs In their temples; they wrote over
/ the portals of their churches There Is 10
/ God: they caused the cutters OF the
| streets TO run red with blood. They pro-
duced a change. They were the heralds
of revolution. But the guilotine shortened
the necks Of many Of them. daughter
So now. with Is TO L. the cry proclaimed
| by the wiz QtTNlSutS OA lhS td9s NL"H54'
ter1
Mir. Fellows reminded his audience OF
the support always given to the Demo-
cratic party by the State of New York.
which was now 80 contemporary de-
| fed"
1--WE. OF New York" he said. "are in
favor OF the use of silver and Of gold, and
we look for the time when the conditions
shall be such as that, either by change
in production or by combined action
| with the trading countries Of the world
we may establish a ratio between the
two metals We will look earnestly fol
the accomplishment Of that purpose; for
the dawn of that day. Denounce New
York, curse New York; but II has heart
as broad. a catholic city as far-seeing
a great city as exhaustless as the magnii-
cent spread OF her great mercantile anc
| commercial enterprise" (Applause)
when the country is suffering, Eew
York suffers. Its prosperity is the COM
mon prosperity Of the land. 1t is a part
of our glorious heritage. one and indi-
visible" (Applause)
At the close Of Mr.. Fellows's speech. al
II p. NJ. the meeting was declared adj
iourned, and the immense assemblage dis'
persed.
INDIANA DELEGATES ORGANIZE.
senator Turpie Chnirman-sheerin