The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-03

vagaries of the infationist repudiator Byron
| wrote: while the Coliseum stands Rome
shall stand, and while Rome stands, the
world" We say: while Democracy stands
the Republic shall stand. and while the Re-
public stands, human liberty" For season
| our party may stray after false doctrines and
founder amid quagmires until the beacon
| hght OF truth breaks upon it. 1t will rise from
every fall like Ant@us of old, and "E'en in
Its ashes shall live its wonted fires
IL Is lated that our party must perish let
no historian write such an epitaph on it's
TOMB as this: "Came TO an untimely end from
swallowing political and financial poison"
put rather let this epitaph be written over It's
honored grave, dug amid the ruins of the
capitol; 1T did not survive the loss of liberty
the destruction of the Republic and the de-
! cay OF private morals"
we are the propaganda of no new creed we
are the upholders of the old. We appeal from
democracy, drunk with delusion, to Democ-
racy, sobered by reason. With an abiding
faith in the intelligence and honesty of our
people, we lay before them and the world the
| reason that prompts to unfurl the old flag
lhat has hoated over many triumph and
many defeat and never yet been soiled by
reputation or stained by dishonor. We deem
II wise TO pursue an aggressive rather than a
negative policy; TO be Achilles dragging Hee-
tor around the walls of Troy, rather than
make funeral pyre of the csdavers of Popu-
ulism and anarchy. We propose to drag be-
| hind our triumphal chariot wheels, in defeat
and disgrace, around the National Capitol, the
| dead Frankenstein personifying their pernl-
| cious creed and their turbulent fanaticism.
We cannot make bedfsllows, even in night
OF furious storm and thick darkness, OF our
lifelong antagonists. We cannot, even to es-
cape as great evils as are the necessary result
| OF the success of the Chicago platform, be the
executioners of our loved and venerated
party. We cannot. even by implication, be
held TO the false theory that the Federal power
and treasury can or ought to be used to impair
the autonomy of the States, on one hand, and,
on the other, to dispense lsrgess to favored
classes. The election of Mckinley, or OF Bryan,
with our support, would mean the destruction
of our whole party for generation, Tor when
our people recover from the debauch OF Popu-
lism and anarchy, they will discard the men
who have led their orgy. II we go to Mckinley
those men will be the recognized opponents of
Democracy. Whom the fumes of the debauch
| are disslpated, and sober reason resumes her
| sway, our flock would turn toward its fold,
only to find ii destroyed. We, therefore, stand
| FAST
We sound a bugle-can throughout the land
| for all Democrats to rally for the support OF
government and law, for the honor OF their
country and for the maintenance and pre-
J glo-ies. If not needed now, it will be in the
| near future, and then those clouds which low
| cred over our political fortunes and darkened
| our councils will take flight; those eyes which
lately met in party conflict will be turned all
| one way and united and triumnhant Democ-
racy will march on to victory under the egis
| of the constitution and under the precepIs of
| the apostles of our faith.
Senator Caffery's remarks were deliv-
i
with continued cheering.
When he had closed. John P. Irish of
California was introduced and made
speech to the convention. Abiding to
the Democratic convention held in In
dianapolis during the war; under threat,
he said, of physical determination, he re-
marked that they were here to-day under
| the threat of determination of that which
was dearer than life. They were here to
defend against further attack the public
credit, the National honor, and the pri-
vate and personal honesty of the individ-
ual. Applause. They were met to face
a crisis more serious than any crisis that
had been faced before. They were met to
oppose the moral force of principle and
conscience to those who would assail and
destroy the independence of the individ-
ual citizen.
They were here as the representatives of
a party that opposed an organization that
| had tilched its name and deba uched its
principles. They represented that organ
ization and those principles which, under
| the leadership of Grover Cleveland, were
In line with the ancient principles OF
human liberty. [Applause.] They were
here TO swear, with Jackson, by the
| Eternal that the marrow and strength
of the Democratic party should not be
obscured or belittled by Populism. [Ap-
| plause1 He did not care whether it was
| a 70 hp at
Chicago or the Populist convention at st.
| Louis. The two conventions of the year,
alike in purpose, alike in declaration, alike
| in the folly of their principles and the
contemptibilities of their vagaries. APP
| pIause. These were in fact the two twin
| conventions of the year-and not 1.-THE
| heavenly twins either. Laughter
1--WE are here" Mr.. irish continued, ''to
| denounce right and left the enemies that
we have gained since 1884. We are here 10
dencunce on the right hand the Republi-
can party, for by the extravaganza of its
| Congressional appropriations it has so
enlarged the deficiency of revenue as to
| form an excuse for a renewal of the per-
nicious paternal policy of protection. We
are here to denounce and antagonize on the
| left hand the Populists of Chicago and st.
| Louis, for they by their threats involving
the free coinage of silver and slump to a
| financial foundation, maze up of depre-
ciated and huctuatlng currency, have so
destroyed public confidence as to paralyze
| the activities of the people of this Republic
| and limited trade to such an extent that
the present impost laws passed by Con-
gress do not produce the revenues they
would if confidence and prosperity were
| abroad in the land.
1--WE arraign thes, two enemies of the
plain people of the Republic as cocoon
| spirators In a complementary and recipro-
eating policy, which has produced the
conditions about which both hypocriti-
cally raise whining voices of complaint
and accusation. daughter and cheers
The candidate OF one combination stand
ing for an advance of price by that artifice
called protection, the other conspirators
represented by candidate for the Presi-
dency who is preaching to the people the
gospel OF high prices to be secured by re-
| ducing the purchasing power of our
money = each policy meaning burdens
upon the industry of the laborer, upon
the profits of enterprises and upon the
avails of investments. Renewed cheers.
| We stand were Jefferson stood, whers
| Cleveland stands, and say to these daugh.
| tors of the hOrseleech "a nlaor NO.,