Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-11-27


throughout this land, wherever the
name of this organization may go, no
man can rise and say the soldiers of
my home city are afraid to trust me.
DEMOCRACY WILL SURVIVE.
When, in 1890, l was your candi-
date for Congress | did not talk much
about the silver question. My plat
form declared for free silver, but my
opponent was for free silver also,
and, therefore, there was no contest.
On that subject we agreed, but that is
the last time | have ever been able to
get a Republican to agree with me
that is the last Republicans candidate
against whom | have run who has
agreed with me on the money ques-
ton.
Well, now, want to say word for
the future. We have passed through
this campaign and we have been de-
feated; and want you to remember
this, that there is not in this land Il
single advocate of free coinage who
is not willing to abide by the decision
of the people without complaint. You
do not find among the silver men
those who say, as a distinguished Re-
publican in New York said: ave
may not abide by the result" You do
not find among the silver men persons
who will stand up and express doubt
as to whether the will of the American
people is supreme. Those people who
say that, you find among the great
corporate interests of this country,
which are entrenched behind the Re-
publican party, and who threaten not
to abide by the decision of the election
unless they could continue to repre-
sent the American people.
Among the men who called us an
archists you find the ones who limited
at possible means by which the will of
the people could be defeated. ! am
proud that in our ranks we have men
who love this form of government !;
that no matter what the people say,
they rule, and we bow to their su-
premacy. Bnt, my friends, bowling to
a decision, accepting without COM
plant the result of an election, does
not mean that we shall surrender our
convictions, or that in the future we
shall fight with less earnestness than
we have fought in the past.
GREAT PROGRESS MADE.
You must remember that in the
history of this nation some party has
always been defeated, and yet parties
have not gone out of existence be-
cause of defeat. Remember the
Democratic party lived for many
years without ever having won a Pres
idential election, and it lived after it
won Presidential election and then
failed to get the President, because it
is the opinion of the Democrats of
this nation that Samuel J. Tilden was
elected President-and yet the people
who supported him were willing to
abide by the decision of a tribunal
instituted for the purpose of settling
that dispute. / say the Democratic
party has lived through defeat; the
Republican party has lived through
defeat; all parties have lived through
defeat, if they had anything to live
for; and when our opponents tell us
this defeat means the annihilation OF
those who believe in free silver they
talse counsel of their hopes instead OF
their judgment.
I believe we have made great pro-
gr ess in this campaign. We have not
m. ade the progress we hoped to have
m ade. We have not achieved the re.
suits we expected to achieve; but, my
friends, the cause of bimetallism was
stronger after election than it was at
any day during the campaign.
want to say this, and your observation
will bear out my remarks, that we
went into this fight a disorganized
army; we came out of it fighting
force that has never had superior in
history.
PASSED THE STAGE OF ARGUMENT.
Now we have passed the stage oI
argument. When you discuss public
questions you present your arguments
to the people. They ask you why
you believe in bimetallism or the gold
standard. You explain our policy tc
them. You tell them what you be.
lieve the policy will do. They may
refuse to believe you, but when the
time comes for action, then the sue.
cessful party must put its policy into
operation, and when those policies are
in operation then you can judge the
effect they produce.
If the Republican party can make
this country prosperous under the
gold standard, it will have to reverse
the laws OF nature and give points tt
all the writers on political economy
If the Republican party can brins
prosperity to this country by making
money dearer, it will do what ha'
never been done by any other party
in any other country. But, my
friends, see the arguments that ex
perience has to disproye. The Re
publicans went before the laborin,
men and told them that low pricel
we're great blessings, because thei
wages would go farther, and the.