The Butler weekly times., 1896-07-16
SENATOR DANIELS.
Temporary Chairman Opens
the Chicago Convention.
His Speech.

Mr.. Chairman Of the National
democratic convention: In receiving
from your hands this gavel as the
temporary presiding officer Of this
convention I beg leave to express
sentiment, which, l am sure, IS
unanimous: that no national conven-
ton was ever presided over with
more ability or with mora fairness
than by yourself. Cheers and cries
of "Harrity. Harrity.'')
"I can express no better wish for
myself than that I may be able in
some feeble way to model my con-
duct by your model, and to practice
by your example. Cheers
The high position, gentlemen, to
which you have chosen me involves
both a great personal honor and a
keen responsibility. For the honor
1 thank you The responsibility l
would be wholly inadequate to bear
did depend upon myself, but your
gracious aid will make it easy and
it's burden light. That aid I conf
dently invoke from you for the sake
Of the great cause under whose ban
ner we have fought so many battles,
and which now demands of us such
stanch devotion and such loyal ser.
vice.
regret that my name should
have been brought in even the most
courteous and serious complication
with that of my disting uished friend
the great senator from New York
(applause), but the very fact that I
have permitted it to be done refutes
the suggestion that has been i'm.
providently made on this floor, that
either or those whom l have the
honor to represent would.ever heap
indignities upon that brave and in
dustrious head. Great applause J
No candid, no dispassionate judg-
ment, gentlemen, can ever misre rep.
resent your meaning. The senator
from New York, himself, knows, and
as l know, that there is no person
ality in the preferment which has
been given to me. He must know
and the whole country that watches
these proceedings must know, that
it is solely due to the principles that
this great majority of democrats
stands for. and that they know
stand with them. (Applause) And
that it is given in the spirit of in.
structions received by these repre-.
sentatives of the people, whom all
democrats will ever bow to as the
purest and original source of all
power. The birth of the;democratic
party was coeval with the birth of
the sovereignty of the people. 1t
can never die until the declaration
of American independence is forgot
ten and that sovereignty is crushed
out. Great applause.)
NEITHER PERSONAL NOR SECTIONAL.
I am happy, gentlemen, to know
that as the majority in the conven.
tion is not personal, neither in any
sense is it sectional It blends the
palmetto and the pines in Maine
and South Carolina. 1t begins with
the sunrise in Maryland and spreads
into sunburst in Loui siana and
Texas. 1t stretches in one unbrok.
en- column across the American con.
tinent from the Atlantic shores of
the Old Dominion and Georgia and
it sheds its silvery beams over the
golden gates of California. CAP
plaase.) It sends forth its pioreers
from Plymouth Rock and waves owe,
the golden wheat fields of Dakota
1t has it's strongholds in Alabama
and Mississippi and it's outposts in
Minnesota, Florida and Oregon
It sticks like tarheel down in the
old North State and it writes Is TO
on the saddlebags of the Arkansas
traveller. Loud applause
It pours down its rivulets frou
the mountains of West Virginia and
makes great lake in New Mexico
Arizona, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah
Nevada, Montana and Colorado. /,
stands guard around the natioua