The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-10-03
A Bitter Denunefatien Of the President
BY Senator Morgan,

Bitter Denuneiatien Of the President
by Senator Morgan.
TROY. N, Y, Sept. 25.-United
States Senator Morgan spoke here this
afternoon in the interest Of Bryan and
Sewail. saying in conclusion:
There are still some things to be
proud of. Democrats. We can appeal
to the record at Washington of Thomas
Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, Presi-
dents who approved the coinage of gold
and silver on equal terms as full legal
tender money.
1--WE can appeal to the fact that the
Democratic code never contained an
expression of hostility to either metal.
We can appeal to the fact that no
Democrat in or out of office ever
refused silver before 1875, when John
Sherman. leading the bankers, took the
lead also of a few Democrats from
states whose people held large amounts
of government bonds. We can appeal
to the fact that majority in the
House and Senate have always
supported the restoration of silver to
free coinage.
1--WE can appeal to the fact that the
Democrats have won for silver a larger
coinage by 400 per cent than it ever had
in the history of our country, and have
fully restored the standard silver dollar
to the standard coins, and have restored
that coin to its full legal tender power.
We can appeal to the fact that CON
vention honestly chosen by honest
Democrats and consisting of $50 dele
gates, all in their places, rs honorable
and as enlightened body as any of
equal numbers that ever met in national
convention, voted by more than two
thirds of their number for our platform
and our nominee. We can appeal to
the fact that the Democratic party
placed on the statute book the best.
most equable and least oppressive tariff
we have ever had, and have driven
from our code of laws the denominations
of the election laws and the force bills,
and have forbid the employment of the
standing army as Il posse comitatus.
We can can appeal to the fact that
we have voted for Seymour, Tilden,
Hancock and three times for Cleveland,
all New Workers, and only for Horace
Greeley New Yorker, for the sake of
peace, harmony and unity in the party,
and sometimes, at the sacrifice of our
personal judgment, and that we never
deserted Democracy.
If all this disprove our Democracy
then we are not Democrats and we are
fools. 1t does not disturb my sense of
duty or wound my pride that am shut
off from the privilege of appealing to
the sage of Wolfert s Roost for
justification of my vote on the income
tax, or to the fountain of light at
Buzzard Bay for the lamp of
Diogenes, while trying to find honest
men in the bond syndicates. who dis
dain dishonest dollars. Neither am
distressed that have not the faculty of
Palmer to palm off a spurious pretense
of Democracy for the true word of our
party, and take possession of the
organization in virtue of alleged
credentials that have served as n pass
port to every Republican convention
and Office in reach of the journeyman
politician, who was recently buried in
his third party baptism at Indianapolis.
Il do regret that Mr. Cleveland
mistook the party to which he devoted
himself with such self sacrifice during
three elections, two of them successful,
as being his sort of Democratic party.
1t Is a sad thing to contemplate that a
great man should thus be betrayed into
the Presidency for two terms by the
votes of men who turned out to be
lunatics aud perfidious betrayers of
their supposed chief and master.
After proving his devotion to his
ideas of true Democracy in the appoint
ment of Gresham as Secretary of State,
as reward for his life long service to
the Republican party, and his devotion
to pure Democracy in the effort to
fasten noble Queen Liliuokalani on her
throne and his devotion to the safety of
the country by putting the Treasury
under the guardianship of the Rothschild
syndicate, the Democratic party
abandoned him as stranded mug
wump. 1t is not our fault that he made
the mistake of supposing that he was
ever Democrat. II is said that he. is
a man of noble Independence. That is
a noble trait when it leads one TO refuse
offices and honors, but when these have
exhausted the generosity of the people
who confer them, it is not honest
independence that turns upon them and
seeks to hand them over to their
enemies for destruction.
"Talleyrand was Independent when
he helped to turn Napoleon over to the
allied powers. but his independence was
that of an migrate and his fame is still a
wound upon the honor of France.
am glad that Mr.. Cleveland sought his
own, and that his own have received
him.