The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-04
CHICAGO CONVENTION
REpUDIATED
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duce disseneions, but to produce that
equalization of law under which
ALL MEN STAND EQUAL.
What are we going to do here today?
Nominate a ticket? Of course. No
one came here with any other idea.
No one came here with the idea OF
firing in the air, of going through dress
parade, of formulating tenets without
having an object lesson of two men
standing on good platform (cheers),
men who are exemplary. l care not
who they are; 1 care not whether our
candidate for president be some gen.
tleman, who. after a long life IN the
service of the country in peace and
war (alluding to Senator Palmer),
would like TO leave off the armor which
we would place upon him III making
him leader. Cloud cheers for Palmer.)
I could follow cheerfulIy and enthusi-
astically that most excellent, self-con
trolled gentleman who commanded the
Iron Brigade in the war lalluding 10
General Bragg, of Wisconsin, Cheers;
or l could follow cheerfully that farmer
statesman with whom 1 served IN cor
gress, the fair flower of New York.
daughter and applause) L do not
want the question before US to pc OBJ
scured by any other question. Do hot
| let US make any nomination that viii
obscure the question; do no- let US
open any door that will offer TO the
enemy a chance TO raise any new issue
upon us. We are that Democratic
party which stands today for 'reven
for tariff only and for that honest dol
lar which measures the coined value
Of the working mans labor. We want
the laborer, when he sells his product,
to get dollar for it that he can use
in any market in which he wants to
buy. That is the American dollar
NO BASTARD DOLLAR,
worth So cents. We will nominate our
ticket and then we will adjourn and
go home. We will win no election, not
a single state, perhaps, will vote for our
ticket. There is in every transaction
an element of transformers. We will
be defeated, but we will save the honor
of America, the good name of the peo-
pie and the Democratic party from
ruin" (Cheers.)
/ In conclusion. Mr.. Breckenridge drew
an eloquent and humorous description
of the return of the erring Democratic
! brother TO the fraternal fold, and to
I his welcome and regalement with pure,
! unmGXed bourbon Democracy. Cloud
/ and long continued cheering.)
| After Mr.. Breckenridge had left the
platform and taken his seat, Mr..
( Sparks, of Tennessee, offered a resolu-
/ ton declaring the sense of the conven-
ton at the great loss sustained by the
! Democratic party and the nation IN
! the death of Hon. William e. Russell,
| of Massachusetts, and expressing the
profound sorrow Of the convention at
/ Mr.. RusselPs untimely taking off. }"
| The resolution was taken by q, rising
vote and was carried unanimously,
| every delegate standing.
! DR.. William Everett, of Massachu-
sets, was called upon in acceptance
of the resolution. He spoke at some
length with intense feeling and earn
| eStneSS.
Brief remarks were made by Messrs.
| Savage OF Kentucky, Dewitt Warner
| of New York, Frederick Dehman OF
/ Missouri, and w. B. Bynum of In
| diana, of the necessity of the earnest
work.
MR.. ECKELS OF ILLINOIS,
comptroller of the currency, was then
| invited to the stand and addressed the
convention.
NO ONE he said, "wno looked over
the assemblage would dare to assert
that the Democratic party did not still
| live, the champion Of the people S
rights and the quick avenger OF the
peoples wrongs.
They were here to prevent the ma
tioual honor and the great party of
/ their love and affection from being q
hiss and q. by word throughout the
land (Applause.) They were here in
/ no unkindly spirit toward anyone.
They desired to make the Democratic
party once again q. haven of refuge.
/ (Applause) If the convention ac-
/ complishedl that, it would not have
been held in vain. If they had pointed
out the errors of tine people who met
from the Populistic to Democratic
doctrine they had done sufficient to de-
serve the gratitude of their party and
their country. (Appliause) The men
! who met at Chicago have built up a
faction which under right and normal
! conditions would not for q single day
sCand the test of American reason,
American common sense, of American
honesty. They had built their faction
ON fallacdous ideas of finance. But he
thanked God that there still remained
III every nook and corner of the land
/ sufficient pride, sufficient honesty and
sufficient patriotism to drive the
adherents of the Chicago convention
from the spoils of Office into the
I SLOUGH VI SuClu utelOuluGIlcy IIlsiL CIey
should never again rise to bother the
American public or to make unsettled
the question Of whether this was a
debt paying nation" (Applause)
Mr. William NJ. Hammond of Georgia
also spoke
AT 100 o. M the announcement was
made that the committee ON resolu-
tons was ready to report, and SEN
etor Villas, chairman of that COM
mittee, took the stand and read i'm his
clear, resonant voice with mach
emphasis, the following document, be-
ing accompanied by applause at every
telling point.
THE PLATFORM.
This convention has assembled to up
mold the principles upon which depend the
/ honor and welfare of the American peo-
/ pie, in order that Democrats throughout
the Union may unite their patriotic eff
tort to avert dlsfavor from the country
and ruin from their party
! THE Democratic party is pledged to
| equal and exact justice to ali men of
every creed and condition: to the largest
| freedom of the individual consistent with
! good government; to the preservation OF
! the government in its constitutional vigor
| and to the support of the states in all
| their just rights to economy in the public
expenditures: to the maintenance of the
! public faith and Sound money! and it is
opposed to paternaliSm and all class legiS-
| lation.
1.-The declarations of the Chicago plat
| form attack individual freedom, the right
! of private contract the independenc of
! the judiciary and the authority of the
! president to enforce laws. They advocate
| a reckless attempt to increase the price
| of silver by legislation to the debasement
of our monetary standard and threaten
unlimited issues Of paper money by the
! government They abandon for Republi-
! can allies the Democratic cause of tariff