The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-02
HON, MIR. M'LANE'S SPEECH
BEFORE THE STATE REPUBLIC4N
 CONTENTION LAST NIGHT.


 A Strong Review of the Political Situation
 MT. Bryan and His Political Vagaries-
 inc Cry of the Silver Mine Nabobs-The
 Wage Earners Only Hope Is In the Suc-
 cess of the Republican Ticket.
 When I accepted the invitation to
 preside temporarily over this conven-
 tion l thought it would be an easy matter to sound a key note for the
 campaign of 1896, but since that time it
 has occurred to me that I am too late,
 and that the most I can do will be to
 add my humble voice to the chorus.
 The press that printed the Chicago
 platform printed the political obituary
 of the democratic party in this little land of honest purposes and steady
 habits. And what if we have been telling the democrats of Connecticut
 that the dog would some day wag his tail? Now that the dog and his tail have parted company forever l think
 We may leave the question as to which is which to the test of democratic vi- sion.
 The honest democrats of Connecticut. led by their grand old chieftain, MT Burr have said to MT Bryan: Thou
 shalt not trail the sacred qui transtulet
 sustinet of the Nutmeg state in the mire of repudiation and dishonor, and
 because they have said it I think they
 deserve the plaudits and respect of ev- cry honest republican.
 It nav ha too early tO coNnd knv note for the campaign of 1900 and do | not pretend to the authority or the
 ability, but it seems to me that the | American people cannot understand too soon or too we'll that the mission of the republican party will not end with the victory of 1896.
 We need not fear MT. Troup and his | machine. We need not fear the few socialist saints to whom the world | owes living and whose Utopia is the public highway We need not fear that portion of the democratic party which never reads below the name of the ticket it votes and whose advice in | the past has been about as beneficial to the industrial we'll being of New England as was the advice of Eve to the dietary experiments of Adam. But it seems to me that the republi- can party in the very hour of victory l may well turn its attention to the thousands, perhaps millions, of honest | men who believe that MT. Bryan is a | true prophet and will be bitterly disap- pointed in November It Is clear to me | that the cunning leaders of the opposi- | tion in defeat will search for new l falsehoods. new sophistries, new fg-
 ures of speech with which to excite sectional iealousies, stir the passions | of the so-called masses and tempt | them into the very flames of paternal- | ism and repudiation in the first year of | the twentieth century It is to these l men that the republican party must l send and continue to send its message l of respect and warning.
 l We can never convert the south by reverberating the old stage thunder of | the republican party. It will not avail us much to tell the Nebraskan farmer | that what he needs Is less oratory and | more water, and that if he will write on the cover of his political testament | industry, economy and honesty, these three, and the greatest of these Is hon. esty, he can burn up the inside and still retain the solution of all the socio- | economic problems that need interest his state for the next ten thousand years.
 If the men that believe in free silver | are selfish, so are we. We want and I they want the same thing, money We /! want to get it honestly, they say they | do. We must appeal, not to their pa l triotism, but to the cold logic of their l own 'cupidity.
 | We may safely do this. and if by so | doing we can lead them to a candid | consideration of the real errand of populism and free silver, we can take Bryan's chalk and Bryan's arithmetic, and If they will concede that division and destruction will not have the same effect upon the balance sheet of the nation, we can demonstrate that their prophet is a false one.
 | We believe that every wheat grower l that raises his hand to vote for Mir Bryan raises his hand to erase his
 market from the map of the United | States. We believe that every wage earner that raises his hand to vote for | the Chicago platform raises it to ex- CIduBG d SOOu IOI d utDdSeu OHG But we must remember that nine- tenths of the human race still hope for the supernatural. The prestidigitator never fails to draw crowd if his handbills be large and lurid. We have a magician in Hartford who will
 invite any one of you gentlemen upon
 the platform and take a handful of silver money out of his mouth. The difference between Bryan and Jewett is that the latter does not claim to add anything to the national wealth. If
 MT. Bryan should declare to his friends length of their day by turning the clock back five minutes each hour, they would probably doubt the genu- ineness of their new Joshua. If he should try to dispel this doubt by
 thrusting his fingers into pair of
 elastic boot straps and lifting them to his waist they would still refuse to be-
 lieve that he had seriously interfered with the laws of gravitation. If he should take a silver half dollar in his hand and with his knife scratch off the word half he might be entitled to the first prize in MT. Harvey's school of finance, but the farmer and the me- chanic who had come to pray would remain to scoff.
 But MT. Bryan does not work his miracle in this way. He takes a silver dollar and inquires if he does not hold in hic hand a good dollar and we Dnl1st