The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-23


bers at Park City Tuesday evening.
Colonel Ferry SPOKE as follows:
My Friends-At a banquet where diff
ferent nationalities were represented, a
spirit of pride prompted individuals TO
laud their special emblem.
An Englishman arose and proposed
toast to EngIand-'tT Roses of York
and Lancaster
A Frenchman presented La Belle
France-Le Fleur de Lis''-''The Lilies
of France
A scotchman gave scotland-'The
Thistle
An Irishman proposed toast to Ire
land, THE Shamrock
Am American named the "UndSed
States-The Stars adding: Roses may
fade, lilies droop, the thistle wither and
the shamrock die; but stars are eter-
nal"
To every thoughtful mind the per-
petuity of this republic is d subject OF
anxious solicitude. Shall difficulties
that may arise be peaceably settled, or
shall encroachments be met by at least
medftations of resistance, not to say
armed revolutions?
We are assembled to meet honoreu
citizens of this county who, Few
weeks AGO. were selected to represent
mating convention to select candidates
for the highest offices in the gift of
this republic That this duty has been
we'll done has occupied your thoughts
and mine during many days.
Two of the grand political DIVISIONS
met and their laibors have ended. Two
other political divisions are yet to meet
during tine present week for The same
purpose at ST. Louis, and we await the
result not with entire indifference; Tor
they, too, are important factors in the
coming result.
It may be said that the individuals
selected as standard bearers OF the
Republican party at st. Louis were
anticipated; but we cannot say that the
platform there adopted was in harmony
with former platforms of that political
organization.
The Democratic convention meeting
at Chicago deemed it of more import
ance that a
DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLE
be clearly defined, than to advance the
interests of personal preferences for the
office of president; in other words, the
Republican party assembled at st.
Louis to nominate William Mckinley
on a predetermined platform, White the
Democratic party unfoldsd at Chlcago
=,
their battle flag and then sought for a
champion to lead them to victory
do not make myself amenable to the
charge of offensive partiSanship when
l assert, as l now do, that a large ma
jority of the Republican party mean
the rank and file of its adherents-noI
its leaders, honestly believed ana ao-
vocated financial policy at variance
With the one enunciated at st. Louis.
n
arsIly course of the assembled leaders
of the Democratic party, who, although
the party in power, shraT1k from calling
their nominating convention first in or
der of time, as was their duty to do;
that the whole people should consider
its acts and policy in its present ad-
ministration of government, and con-
denim or endorse its continuance.
Both parties were wilfully blind, and
ignored tine recognition of the real
issue before the American people.
Is there a man within the sound of
my voice who believes that the tariff is
the important issue in the coming cam
paign? No! Every American who has
considered the subject at all, knows
that the tariff has been, since the for
nation of our government to the pres
ent day, a condition of
DEGREES BETWEEN EXTREMES
and its enlargement or moddfica-
ton in scope an Interchangeable per
ouisite of every political party ana d
infant tool to advance or retard the
ambition of political demagogues.
rrha American idea of a protective
tariff established by Hamilton, foStered
by jefferson, nullifbed by Calhoun, and
defended and upheld by jackson, When
he declared against the opposition IN
South Carolina, to the collection OF the
customs dues "by the Eternal III hang
'em:" or down TO the present DAY
when the proposed Wilson Dill was MOD
flied by the statesmanship OF German,
nassed by a Democratic Congress ara
became law without the signature Oh
President Cleveland and continues TO
he 5rhe law of the land, Notwithstanding
Mr. Cleveland's declaration that 1T is
a, measure of 'perfidy and dishonor,
and will continue to be blind more
or less effective for the accomplish
menf of interior and secondary ends
during the existence of this republic.
The financial policy of this country
was and is the paramount issue. Inc
would-be leaders of the Republican and
Democratic parties knew this, and know
this. Article l of the Constitution OF
THE United States is not a'brogafed, ana
is still supreme part OF the law OF
the land Gold and silver are the pri-
mary money of the constitution, and the
restoration of silver 10 its proper place
was demanded by the sovereignty Of
the people.
The HISTORY of these conventions at
fo1xls a proof of an aphorism attributed
30 Mr.. Lincoln, who said: You can
deceive some of the people all OF the
time; you can deceive all of the people
some of the time; but you can't deceive
all of the people adj of the lime.'
The delegations from some of the
western states under the leadership of
that statesman and patriot, Henry M.
Teller, walked out of that convention,
refusing to endorse the financial policy
in that platform. Our townsman, Hon.
Thomas Kearns, was one of that num-
Der. and we are here to honor him for
his integrity and manhood and we up
hold and endorse his action. None but
those who have personally witnessed
the proceedings of a national conven-
ton can have more than faint idea
what is requisite in nerve to
WITHSTAND THE JEERS AND
Kisses,
the turmoil and terrific denunciation
incident to such a fiery ordeal. The
speech of Henry M Teller, the magnifi-
cent bearing of Frank j. Cannon, as
he read the protest and the tragic
withdrawal of these men and their COM
patriots from this fiery furnace form an
unparalleled epoch in the history OF ma
tional conventions.
1T is of the Chicago convention that
/ would now speak, and l am reminded