Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-08-06
Bryan at Kansas City.

promise for just few moments.
"We are entering upon a memo
rable campaign. The platforms
have been adopted. Two great
parties have placed their candidates
invhs fiefd ana IN 4 little while
you as citizens, will be called upon
to decide the issues involved. The
platform adopted at Chicago
is, in my humble judgment, one
of the most splendid presentations
of public policies ever adopted by
u national convention irrthe United
States. 1t presents those issues
which in the judgment of the del
egates, are paramount in this cam
paign.
/ a Democratic Platform.
at IS a Democratic platform in
every sentence, word and syllable,
Democratic platform that carries
the party back to the days of its
founder, Thomas Jefferson, and to
its most courageous defender, An
drew Jackson. There never was a
time when the real principles of
true Democracy were dearer to the
hearts Of the American people than
they are to-day, and it is because
the platform appeals to the hearts
of the American people that you
find them rising in its support from
the Pacific Ocean down to the places
where the waves of the Atlantic
beat. 1t is not the platform of a
section ; it is the platform of our
common country and appeals to
those who love mankind to arise in
its defense. Great applause.
''It breathes the spirit of the
Declaration of Independence. 1t
presents those fundamental truths
upon which all true Government
must rest. You will find in it as
its keynote that 'all men are created
equal, and that the object of Gov
ernment is to secure his inalienable
rights and protect each man, from
the humblest to the great, in the
enjoyment of life and liberty and
happiness 1t proclaims the doc
trine of civil liberty, and with nc
less emphasis it declares the right
of every man to worship his Crea,
tor according to the dictates of his
own conscience. 1t pledges the
party to the protection of all with
out regard to station or condition
IN society, and it pledges the party
to be no respecter of person, anC
leaves to the persons the judgmen
of the manner, the form and III,
time in which they shall worship
or if it please, refuse to WORSHIP
the God who gave them being.
1T is Democratic from the frs
sentence to the last in that broade
sense in which Democracy appeal
to all who believe in a Government
of the people, by the people am
for the people,
"From time to time, question
arise. But the principles of DE
mocracy are true in all times an
climes. We simply apply to ne,
conditions the principles that ar
as eternal as the hills, and this tim
our platform has declared that tn
paramount public question is tn
. restoration of the gold and silve
coinageof the Constitution. Twill
applause. All other question
must stand back until this question
is solved.
The Great Question.
"Four years ago we went int
the campaign where the great d
viding issue was the tariff question
The tariff question is a question @
taxation, and the subject of taxa
ton is always with us. We ma
settle it now, and again and again
but while there Is a Government
the subject of taxation will be eve
present. But there are times, sue
as the times through which we al
now passing, when the action {
this nation upon its financial polio
may determine the welfare of th
people, not only of this nation, bu
of the world, not only now, but fC
years and decades yet to come. "
have reached a crisis IN our mon,
tary legislation. There are thoi
who would chain this nation to Il
gold standard, but while there ms