The Irish standard., 1896-07-11

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declaration Of American Independence SIS
forgotten and that sovereignty is crushed
out. (Great applause.) am happy, gen
tlemen to know that the majority III
this convention is not personal neither In
any sense is It sectional. It blends the
palmetto and the pines In Maine and
South Carolina. It begins with the sun
rise in Maryland and spreads into d sun
burst In louisiana and Texas. lApplause.)
1t stretches in one unbroken column
across the American continent from the
Atlantic shores OF the Old Dominion and
Georgia, and 1t sheds its silvery beams
over the golden gates of California. ZAP
plause). 1t sends forth its pioneers from
Plymouth Rock. and waves over the
golden wheat fields Of Dakota. It has Its
strong-holds in Alabama and Mississippi
and its out-posts In Minnesota, Florida
and Oregon. (Applause) It sticks like. a
tar-heel (applause) down in old North
Carolina and it writes sixteen to one on
the saddle-bags Of the Arkansas trav-
eler. Cloud applause.) It pours down its
rivulets from the mountains Of West
I Virginia and makes a great lake In New
Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho. Utah. Nevada,
Montana and Colorado. 1t stands guard
around the national capitol in the Dis
trict of Columbia (cheers) and it camps
on the frontiers of Oklahoma. It sweeps
like a prairie fire over Iowa and Kansas
and puts up red light on the confines
of Nebraska. It marshals Its massive
battalions in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Missouri.
Last, but by far not least, when I see
this grand array and think Of the British
gold standard that was recently unfurled
over the ruins of Republican promises at
St Louis, I think, too, of the battle Of
New Orleans of which it was said /:
There stood John Bull in martial pomp,
but there was old Kentucky" (Applause.)
Brethren of the east, there is no south,
there is no north, there Is no east or
west in this uprising of the people for
American emancipation from the conspir-
acy of European kings, led on by Great
Britain which seeks to destroy one-half
American manufacturers, merchants,
farmers and mechanics mere hewers Of
wood and drawers of water.
There, is one thing golden, which, per-
NIT me In the same good humor which
has characterized your conduct, to COM
mend to you here. 1t is the golden rule
to do unto others as you would have them
do unto you. Forget not the greed of
devils and that an absolute acquiesence
IN the will of the majority is the vital
principle Of the republic. Democrats as
you have been, Democrats as trust you
will ever be, acquiesce gracefully In the
will Of this great majority of your fellow
1amnor9fS IN 1rn them
as they have often gone with you. Gap
plause.) -.
Do not forget, gentlemen, that for 80
years we have supported. the men that
you have named for president, Seymour,
Greedy. Tilden, Hancock and twice Grover
submitted cheerfully to your compromise
IN the platform, and to your repeated
pledges of bimetalism and have patiently
borne repeated disappointments as to
their fulfillme1rt Do not forget at the
last national convention Of the Demo-
cratic party in 1892, you proclaimed your
selves to be in favor Of the use of both
gold and silver as standard money Of
the country, for the coinage Of both
gold and silver without discriminating
against either metal; and that the only
question left open was the ratio be-
tween the metals. Do not forget-and I
refer to the fact in no inferior sense
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convention in this city, the New York
delegation stood here solidly and i'm
movably for a candidate committed to
the free and unlimited coinage Of silver
and gold, at a ratio Of Is to 1. And If we
are still for it, let it not be forgotten,
that we owe it in some measures to their
teachings. (Applause.)
That we owe you much, gentlemen Of
the east, is readily acknowledged and
will be ever most gratefully remembered.
We owe you much, gentlemen of the con-
vention, and for what we owe you of
the east is the force bill and the Nc
Kinley bill, and the Sherman law, the
triple infamy Of Republican legislation.
The first was aimed not more at the
south than at the great cities Of the east,
and chief among them, the great demo-
cratic city Of New York, with its mag
nificent patronage. The bill, got its
death blow in the senate, but there was
not single Democrat in New York
or New England to vote against it. If
you, gentlemen, have helped to save the
south, it also has helped to save you In
the east; but whether the south should be
saved or not, those great American re-
publican senators from the west, Teller,
Walcott, and your Jones and your STAN
ford of California, sank their partisan
feeling on the order of their patriotism
and came forward to the rescue of Ameri-
can Institutions
No man, gentlemen, in this high noon
Of our countrys fraternity can revive
force bills now in this reconciled and re-
united republic. Our opponents them
selves have abandoned them. There is
none that can stand between the union
of hearts and the union OF hands that
Grant in his dying vision saw was COM
ming on angels wings to all sons Of
our common country. When Chicago
dressed southern graves in flowers she
buried sectiona1ism under mountain Of
fragrance. When southern soldiers on
yesterday cheered the wounded hero Of
the north in Richmond, the south an
swered back, LET us have peace; peace,
union and liberty now and forever"
AS the majority Of Democrats Is not
sectional, neither does it stand for any
privileges or classed legislation. The ac-
tive business men Of this country its man.
ufacturers, merchants. farmers, sons Of
toll in counting-room. factory, field and
mine, know that contraction Of the cur
rencv sweeps away with the silent and
resistless force Of gravttation the annual
profits Of their enterprise and invest,
ments. They know, too, that the gold
ganization Of disaster. What hope Isl
there for the country and what hope for
the Democracy unless the views Of the
majority here shall be adopted? Do not
the people know that 1t was not silver
legislation but legislation dictated by the
advocates Of the gold standard that has
caused and now continues the financial
depression? DO they not know that when
their demands upon democracy. were COM
piled with in 1893 and the Sherman law
repealed without a substitute. the