The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-09

language, our laws, our traditions, and kinship, but by the oftentimes strong CT ties of money making interest. Why we sold England, I speak from the lec- ord, of the products of our soil and our genius, in 1894, $436, 900 OOO,a and we bought of her only $1O7 900, She paid to us about s33O, 000,O 900 in gold, Englishmen treated me too well, and perhaps, 1 might add, too often, when I was with them, to hear them abused without making reply, and yet, as I told the commercial travellers on Thursday last, heard Senator Tillman, at Cooper Union a few weeks ago, close a ha- rangue against the people, who h2ve three times elected Gladstone, the home ruler as their premier, and who have now raised to its high seat of justice an Irishman and a Catholic, Lord Rus sell os Killowen, who has just been our guest. with this vulgar saying: America for us, but to hell with Eng land" and when I heard it said to myself, may God save the country from the control of such men as he is to which, l am sure our people Will say, Amen in November.
 Best Way to Fatteu England,
 But the worst of this abuse Is 1t Is not sincere. If an Irishman spoke i'll of England I would feel his provocaGion, as I have inherited the smart, hut the political boss to whom I have referred Is himself an ex-subject of her mSies- ty, and he knows that nearly, if rot quite, one-hale the stock of the silver mines in this country are owned in England, and he ought to know that the best way to fatten English trade and profits, would be to Mexicanize cur finances and destroy our credit,
 Bryan a Recollection,
 Fellow Democrats: The contest in which we are enlisted is in some re- spects not unlike that of 1861. It has broken up political associations, 1t has separated personal friends It has di- vided our country into antagonizing and unfriendly sections. and 1t threat ems to make capital and labor the Glasses and masses as populists love to call them, the enemies instead of the friends of each other. These things thoughtful men, who love our tnstitu- tionS and desire their perpetuity, must, of course, deplore.
 But the contest, thank God, is nearly ended. The dark clouds of disaster are passing away. There is less fear and more courage as the campaign pro- gresses, and sound money men are crowding to the front. The frenzy that seemed at first to have hypnotized our people in some parts of our country,
 and to have afflicted them more or less
 in even our state, is everywhere yield
 ing to patriotism and reason.
 The gifted talker of the 16 to 1 .ru- saders is beginning himself to feel that
 change that is occurring. He is now
 repeating the saying wherever he goes
 that if he is defeated his cause will
 survive, but in this he is mistaken
 His cause is as dead as Dorus now
 He only survives. And after Novem- Der he will only be a recollection, a splendid recollection of American vigor misdirected, and American eloquence misapplied.
 The ex-governor spoke in his most earnest and telling vein and was inter- rupted continually with applause at each telling hit After he finished he said there would be a recess of one minute, as several gentlemen wanted to give three cheers for Palmer and Buck ner. The convention was instantly on it's feet and three cheers were given with a will Then three more were given for the chairman.
 The different committees then retired and the chairman called on Hon. E. Gninor o1on 0f II rfF Fay sto fol to
 his fellow democrats. Mr Cleveland
 paid a tribute to Governor Waller for his loyalty to his constituents in Con- necticut when at Chicago and said that he found himself then in a meanegerie with the animals all out of their cages He then read a clipping reporting | speech made by a prominent Vermont | democrat and which emphasized the position of the sound money democrats | in New England
 During Mr. Cleveland's speech Hon. | A. E. Burr, accompanied by Lynde Harrison, took seat on the platform. As soon as MT Cleveland finished MT. Burr stepped forward and it was sig l nal for applause.
 Ex-Governor Waller proposed three l SliCCio lOl ilC lcl5llop OL lilt utulU- cratic party of Connecticut" Every delegate stood up, some on their chairs, I and MT. Burr was cheered to the echo. MT. Waller then announced quite dra- matically that MT. Burr would read the resolutions adopted by the committee, and requested quiet Out of respect to the venerable editor pin drop could have been heard, and MT Burr, eighty l two years old in a firm and clear voice, | read the platform.
 i The platform reaffirms the declara- tions of the democ, atic state convention ! of June 10 last, among them the follow i ing essential doctrines in the creed of | the party: "The honest payment of our | debts and the sacred preservation of the public faith economy in the public | expenses, that labor may be lightly | burdened; equal and exact justice to all | men, of whatever state or persuasion, | religious or political; freedom of relg- l ion.''
 | The platform then endorses the gold 1 standard as a measure of value, favor- | ing the most liberal use of silver con-
 sistent herewith; expresses unalterable
 opposition to the debasement of the currency by the free coinage of silver;
 and the robbery Of the wage earner l by a debased currency; advocates a | system of sound financial banking and a system of taxation for revenue, with | careful attention to the schedules with