Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-07-08
SENATOR DANIELS ssEECH.

Senator Daniels of Virginia, on as
Stunning the duties of Temporary Chair
man OF the National Democratic Con-
vention. AS the tumult on the
announcement of the vote ceased,
Chairman Harrity passed the gavel to
Daniels who took it and spoke as
follows:
@Mr. Chairman of the National
Democratic Convention-In receiving
from your hands this gavel as the uu-
thority OF the presiding officer of
this convention, beg leave to express
the sentiment, which I am sure is
unanimous, that no National Conven-
ton was ever presided over with more
ability or with more fairness than by
yourself. CHEERS and cries for Har-
rity.)
Il can express no better wishes for
myself than that may be able, in
some feeble way, to follow the course
which You have given me as an ex-
ample. The position, gentlemen, to
which you have chosen me involves
both great personal honor and keen
responsibility. For the honor thank
you. The responsibility I would be
wholly Inadequate to bear, did I de-
pend on myself, but your garcious aid
will make it light and it's burden
light. That aid 1 considerably invoke
for my behalf under whose banners
we fought so many battles. and which
now demands of us such staunch de-
votion and such loyal service.
Il regret that my name should have
been brought even in the most court
eous manner in conflict with that of
my distinguished friend, the great
Senator from New York. (Applause)
But the very fact that Ihave permit
ted it to be done refutes the assertion
that has been impr udently made. that
ether /, or those who I have the
honor to represent would ever heap
indiguity upon that brave and illus
trious head. Great applause.) No
dispasionate judgment, gentlemen,
can ever misinterpret your meaning.
The Senator from New York himself
must know, as / know, as you all
know, that there is no personality in
the preferment which has been given
me. You must know, and the whole
country that watches these proceed
lngs must know, it is solely due to
principle that this great majority of
Democrats stand for me, and that they
know / stand for them. applause
"The birth of the Democratic party
was co-eval with the birth of sover-
eighty of the people. It can never be
destroyed until the declaration of
American independence is forgotten.
Great applause.) I am happy to
know, gentlemen, that as majority
of this convention is not personal,
neither i'll any sense is it sectional. It
sticks like tar-heel down in the old
North State and it writes 16 to l on
the saddle Of the Arkansas traveller.
at stands guard around the Ma
tlonal Capital in the District of Col
umbia. (Cheers.) And 1t camps on
the frontier of Oklahoma; it sweeps
like prairie fire over Iowa and Kan
sas and puts up it's head on the con-
fines of Nebraska; it masses it's bat
talions all through Iowa, Illinois,
Indiana and Mississippi. But by far
from least when see this gand ar
ray and think of the British gold
standard that was recently inflicted
upon Republican promise at st.
Louis. I think, too, of the battle Of
New Orleans ON which it is said,
There stood John Bull in martial
pomp, but there was old Kentucky
"There is no east or west, or north
or south in this uprising OF people for
American emancipation from the con-
spiracy of European thugs, led on by
Britain, which seeks to strike all the
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