The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-07-09

forgotten and that sovereignty is
crushed out. Great applause).
Il am happy, gentlemen to know that
as the majority in this convention is not
personal, neither in any sense is it sec
tional. 1t blends the palmetto and the
pines in Maine and South Carolina: it be-
gins with the sunrise in Maryland and
spreads into a sunburst in Louisiana and
Texas. (Applause.) 1t stretches in one
unbroken column across the American
continent from the Atlantic shores of tie
Old Dominion and Georgia, and it sheds
its silvery beams over the golden gates of
California. (Applause.) 1t sends forth
its pioneers from Plymouth Rock and
waves over the golden wheat fields of
Dakota. 1t has its strongholds in Ala
bama and Mississippi and its outposts in
Minesonta, Florida and Oregon. ZAP
plause.) 1t sticks like Tarheel zap
plause) down in the Old North state, and
it writes 16 to l on the saddle-bags CT
the Arkansas traveller. (Applause.) 1t
pours down its riyulets from the noun
tans of West Virginia. and makes a
oming, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Montana
and Colorado. 1t stands guard around
the national capitol in the District of
Columbia (cheers). and it camps on the
frontiers of Oklahoma. 1t sweeps like
a prairie fire over Iowa and Kansas and
puts up red light ON the confines of
Nebraska. 1t marshals its massive bat
talions in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Missouri.
Last, hut far from least, when see
this grand array and think Of the Brit
ish gold standard that was recently UNI
furled over the ruins of Republican prom
Uses at st. Louis, | think, too, of the bat
tie Of New Orleans, of which it was said:
There stood John Bull in martial .pomp,
but there was old Kentucky (Applause.)
Brethren of the east, there is no south,
there is no north, there is no east nor
west in this uprising of the people for
American emancipation from the conspi-
racy of European kings, led by Great
Britain, who seeks to destroy one-half of
the money of the world and make Ameri-
can manufacturers, merchants, farmers
and mechanics mere hewers of wood and
drawers of water.
''There is one thing golden, permit me
in the same good humor which has char
acteriZed your conduct 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 dew
| ills, and that an absolute acquiescence in
the will of the majority is a vital princi-
pie of the republic. Democrats as you
have been, Democrats, as trust you will
be, acqniesce gracefully in the will of
this great majority of your fellow Demo-
Gratis, and only go with then, as they have
often gone with you. (Applause.)
'Do not forget, gentlemen, that for
many years we have supported the men
you have named for president-Greely,
Tilden, Hancock, and twice Grover
Cleveland. Do not forget that we have
submitted cheerfully to your c0mpro-
missed platform and to your repeated
pledges of bimetallism, and have patient
ly borne repeated disappointment as to
their fulfllment. Do not forget at the
last convention of the Democratic party
in 1892 you proclaimed yourselves then
in favor of the use of both gold and sill
yer as the standard money of the country;
for the coinage of both and without dis
elimination against either metal, and
that the only question left open was the
ratio between the metals. Do not forget.
and | refer to the fact in no inferior
sense-that just four years go in a DEM
ocratic convention in this city the New
York delegation stood here solid and i'm
movable for candidate committed to-
the free and unlimited coinage Of gold
and silver at the ratio of 10 to /; and if
we are still for it, let it not be forgotten
that we owe it to their teachings CAP
plause) That we owe you much, gentle
men of the east, is readily acknowledged
and will ever most gratefully be remenl-
bered. We owe you much, gentlemen of
the convention, and for what we owe you
of the east is the force bill and the Me-
Kinley bill and the Sherman bill. the
triple infamy of Republican legislation
The first was aimed not more ut 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 sin
gle Democrat in New York or in New
England to vote against it. If you, gem
tlemen, have helped to save the south,
it has also helped to save you in the east,
whether the south should be saved or
not, those great American Republican
senator's from the west-Teller and VOL
colt and your Jones and your Stanford of
California-sank their partisanship on
the order of their patriotism and came
forward to the rescue of American in
stitutions. No man, gentlemen, in the
high noon of our country's fraternity can
revive force bills now in this reconciled
and reunited republic. Our opponents
themselves have abandoned them. There
is none that can stand between the union
of hearts and union of hands. Grant,
in his dying vision, saw what was COM
ing on angels wings. When Chicago
dressed southern graves in flowers she
buried sectionalism under mountain OF
fragrance. Wnen southern sOiuieis yes
terday cheered the wounded hero of the
north in Richmond, the south answered
back: Let us have peace; peace union
and liberty now and forever.
''The Democratic party is not section-
al, neither does it stand for any priv
ilege or class legislation. The active
business men of this country, its manu-
facturers, merchants, farmers, sons of
toll, in counting room, factory, field and
mine, know that the contraction of the
currency sweeps away with the resistless
force of gravitatioIA the annual profits of
their enterprise and investments. They
know, too, that the gold standard means
contraction and disaster. What hope is
there for the country and what hope for
the Democracy unless the views of the
majority should be recognized? Do the
people not know that when their de-
mands upon Democracy were complied
with in 1893, and the Sherman law re-
peaed without substitute that the very
states of the east demanded in return
against the Democracy who granted it
and had swept their majorities away.
Had the silver men had their way then
instead of the gold monometallists what
storms of abuse would he here today
emptied upon their heads, but the people,
applying the power of memory and an
| alvsis alike To discover the causes of their