The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-19

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 As persons prominent in political and | business life came in and were recog- 1 nized by the assemblage the spectators 1 manifested their enthusiasm With cheers and other forms of applause Mayor Strong received a specially cor dial reception. Mayor Strong was &C., companied by Corporation Counsel Scott. Ex- Governor Flower and Hon. Perry Belmont were also well received.
 The audience was far more enthusi- astic than that which greeted MT, Bry- an last week. The slightest occurrence out of the ordinary set it to cheering The patriotic airs rendered by the band were received with loud and long con- tinued applause.
 Eighty three hundred chairs had been placed in the arena of the great audito- rium This arrangement swelled the seating capacity of the great building to about IS, 000
 At S:25 when MT Cochran came in every seat was occupied. With MT. Cochran were General Lloyd Brice, Hon. Perry Belmont, ex-Mayor Cooper, Horace White, John c. Tomlinson,John Mack, jr, Mrs. Cooper Hewitt, Mrs.
 
 escorted by Major Byrne
 MT Cochran was received with pro- longed cheers. Major Byrne at S:3O called the meeting to order. He was heartily applauded throughout his speech. Major Byrne said:
 Fellow Democrats: Democrats who love their country above their party, |, may be pardoned if I give briefly the causes that led to the organization of the democratic honest money league. It is home for honest democrats who are unwilling to witness the assassina- ton of their party It is a home for honest democrats who believe their party stands for honor. This league was organized in an emergency. Hon est democrats have always been found on the side of the country. They are there now. This campaign will be con- ducted on the lines of education. There has been a conspiracy organized by the selfish greed of every thing undemo- cratic. We are going to save the coun- try, if possible, and then look to the party We have lost the ship, but we must save the country and we invite all good citizens of this country to CO., operate with us. In every state in the union to-day the league is moving. From this campfire we expect the en- .thusiasm will spread until the cam paign ends in the downfall of anarchy, socialism and repudiation.
 Major Byrne then introduced ex-Con- gressman Perry Belmont as presiding officer
 When the applause which greeted l,ip, seG palyppDt coj6
 MT. Belmont's Speech.
 Fellom Democrats--We have all come here to listen to the speech of the even ing. This is a time forvery plain speak i ing. We want no victory under a false 1 flag. The democratic standard was supplanted at Chicago by the rag of populism, which we firmly refuse to i follow to the discredit of the nation. The banner of the democracy, protect i ing under it's broad folds all the aspir- ations of liberty-loving humanity, rep resenting popular constitutional self government, we now raise here to- night, battle-worn by more than a hun- dred years of honorable political war l fare
 We, who contend against the Chica- 1 go nominations and platform, stand strictly within the lines and principles of our party The convention itself re- nounced the national democracy. We 1 are democrats and we represent dem- | ocrats who propose to remain demo- | crats refusing ever to surrender the honored name of our party to the pop l ulistS. Populism is an exaggerated | form of spurious republicanism or greenback federalism gone mad A re- publican untainted by such doctrines is infinitely to be preferred to democrat who foreswears his allegiance to dem ocratic principles and countenances the betrayal of his party to the populists.
 The fusion of 16 to independent free silver men, populists and so-called Bry- an democrats is complete. Some of their leaders attempt to disguise the fusion but they dare not dispute its ex- istence, for they depend on the votes of the fusionists. The opening of the hints to the independent unlimited coinage of fiat silver dollars is but an intermediate stage; the employment of the government printing presses for the issue of fiat paper money is the ultimate aim of the fusion party. The national convention of the populist par ", nelu III OHldHd, NeD., III 1oSA, ue- clared for fat paper money to be is- sued direct to the people, as they said, "at tax of 2 per cent" Two years later MT. Bryan advocated in congress "the issue of paper money direct by | the government at a market rate of interest" He said "that harbors might be improved and rivers deepend in this way" He introduced and advocated a bil to construct the Nicaragua canal by issuing greenbacks The constitution al power to raise revenue by taxation is superfiuous if the printing bureau can so easily produce all we need.
 Mir Bryan's record in the house is equal to Senator Peffer's deliverance in the senate last June when he asked What sort of sense is there in requir- ing redemption fund at all. when the government issues it's own paper?'
 Why characterize such utterances? They are unpardonable when proclaim ed by those who aspire to the respons- Utilities of yower at the conference. At Washington the fiat silver organiza- : ton last January the populist claim was recognized that if free coinage i should not yield enough fiat silver then greenbacks would be issued The fiat silver party thereby abandoned the hard money contention put forth by Mr Bland years ago, that the quantity Of gold and silver coined under free