Evening star., 1896-07-10
NAMES PRESENTED
Democrats Put in Nomination
at Chicago
VEST SPEAKS FOR BLAND
F. E. White of Iowa Recommends
Horace Boies.
GOV. MATTHEW'S URGED BY T[JRPIE
Merits of the Candidates Glow
insIy Portrayed.
GOV. MATTHEWS URGED BY TURPIE
THE ADDRESSES IN FULL

The delivery of the nominating and sec
onding speeches in the democratic conyen-
ton last right was another oppor-
tunity for the display of oratory that has
characterized the convention Senator Vest
of Missouri put Mr.. Bland In nomination
Governor Overmyer of Kansas and j. W.
Bailey of Texas seconded the nomination
F. E. Wfite OF Iowa presented the name
of Ex-Governor Horace Boies OF that state
and Senator Turpie that of Governor Mat
thews of Indiana oscar A. Triplett of
Califorr'a seconded the nomination.
Senator Vests Speech.
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the
Convention: Revolutions do not begin with
the rich and prosperous. They represent
the protest of those who are suffering from
present conditions and whose demands for
relief are denounced by the benefciaries of
unjust snd oppressive legislation.
When profound sense of wrong, evolv-
ed from years of distress, fas:eEs upon the
public mind in free ,ountry and the peo-
pie are determined to have redress a leader
is always found who is a platform in him.
as the logical exponent of their hopes The
people are not ico1oclasts nor false to their
convictions. They followed Jefferson when
ne assailed the centraiizing and monarchial
doctrines of the old federalists and was
denounced as a communist and leveler by
the wealth and culture of New England
and New York. They followed jackson
when be took the United States bank Nv
the throat and was reclaimed a tyrant
and ruffian by the usurers and money
kings. They followed Lincoln when he al
tackled the slave power and declared tha;
half free
THE great movement for bimetalIism-
the free ard unlimited coinage Of gold and
silver at the ratio OF Is to and the res
toration Of silver to its constitutional stat
us is
No sapling chance sown by the fountain,
Blooming a Beltane. in winter to fade
III mas come TO stay II is protest against
the wrong and outrage of 1S13 when with
cut debate and with the knowledge of only
a few men in Congress- the silver dol,a r
wGs stricken from the coinage and the rsd
despot of gold made supreme as to all val
Ues- 1t is Il declara ton by the freemen nf
America that the United States must with
draw from the conspiracy which was form
ed TO destroy oae-half the metallic money
of the world. in order to establish the sIsy
cry or greed and usury, more degrading
than the tyranny of armed forces 1t is
the stern demand from unreauted toll
bankrupt enterprise aud ruined homes for
a charSe in the money system which fo-
years has brought disaster and desolation.
In this crisis OF our country and party
we must take no step backward In plat
fern nor candidate. We want no uncertain
nor doubtful leader; no laggard in peace
or bastard in war no latter-day silver
saint, but grizzled and SCARED ye.erar
who has borne the heat and burtben of tne
day and whose breast Is marked from ede,
OF sword and point of lance on a hundred
fields.
Battle Begun Twenty Years Ago,
Twenty years ago the tattle for silver
was begun in the halls of Congress by a
modest, unpretending, brave man, not an
iridescent nor meteoric statesman, but of
the people and from the people, who has
never faltered for an instant in the great
struggle Others doubted and wavered.
some yielded to Establishment and patron
age, and are now holding Office under the
gold power; others misrepresented thair
constituents anc have been provided for in
the national inflrmary of the present ad-
ministration, bat Richard Parks Bland
stands now where he stood then. the liv-
ing, breathing embodiment of the silver
cS,se he struck with steel point the gold
sIied OF me money monopolists. as did
lvanhoe that of the proud temp,ar in tba
lists al Ashbury, and has neither asked nor
given quarter. Nor is he a narrow one
ideaed man For twenty-five years in Con
gresS he fought in the front ranks for
de mocratic principles and policies as taught
by Jefferson He stood by the side of Ran
call. and risked health and life TO defe.r
the first force bill. He opposed ably snd
earnestly that crowning tariff infamy, the
Mckinley act, and again was among the
foremost opponents of the last force bill.
which passed the House, but was defeated
in the Serate. He introduced the first free
coinage measure in Congress, and was the
author of the seigniorage bill, which pass
ed both houses and was vetoed -by Presi-
dent Cleveland.
Whence Comes the Man.
IF this be an obscure record. where can
be found the career of any public servant
which deserves the plaudits of his coun-
trymen? The democrats of Missouri. who
have passed through the fiery furnace Of
republican prescription seven times heated
Placed beneath the great Oriflame of the
national democracy, make apology nor
excuse when Offering such a candidate for
the presidency. If you ask whence comes
usrrers' den, nor temple of mammon.
where the clink of gold browns the voice
of patriotism, but from the farm the
workshop. the mine-from the hearts AMI
homes of the people To reject him is 20
put brand upon rugged honesty and ur-
daunted courage. and to chill the hearts
and hopes of those who during all these
years have waited for this hour of triumph
TIC nominate him is to make our party
again that of the people and to secure
success.
Give Silver Dick. and silver quick.
And we will make Mckinley sick
In the ides of next November"
F. f. Whites Nominating speecb.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Con-