The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-10-01


suffering because they have neglected
the opportunity. (Applausc.) If th'
laws arc not good, the peOplc them
selves are to blame. In this campaign
one great issue is presented to the peO
pie. If everything is all right ant
what you wish it to be then it ough
not bo changed. If the gold standard il
a good thing and we have had it these
many years, why is it so many fail t,
appreciate its blessings. | will tel
you, because its blessings have only
reached few people who like it. zap
plause.)
This is campaign Of education in
which the newspapers arc not doing
their share Of the work. (ApplausC
and laughtcr.) There is one thing
| about truth, that 1T c0lnmends itscif to
those who receive it, who examine it.
who investigate it, There is one thing
about error, that IL is discarded by
people when they got acquainted with
it and the reason why every day finds
moro advocates Of free coinage is ex-
planned by the fact that free coinage
of silver is based upon solid rocks and
is defended by arguments which ap-
peal to 40 he;,GG .sf ., -? who think
and t.,e hearts OF those who ~fGcl-rtS.
gMments which arc only useless when
directed to tho pockct-book. Zap
plause.)
L met prominent man yesterday
who said that until the Chicago con.
vcntiOn acted on the subject he had
never investigated the money question
and never supposed there was anything
in 1T: that the papers did not sccm To
consider it worth thinking ahOut.
They regarded it Us a craze and Ec did
not have time as Il business man to pay
any attention to craXrS. But when a
great national party adopted Il plat
form making tho money question the
paramount issue he began to think
about it. That WAS only few weeks
ago. lie got to be u crank, and he said
TO me: "lf we don't win this fight, il is
going on until VIC do win and don't
care how many years it takes" Gap.
plausc.l
| can appreciate the feeling OF that
man. ! went through the same cXpr-
rjcnce myself. Until six years ago.
thought any man who talked about
money was harmless crank. | did
not even listen TO his arguments Thry
mad no weight with me. Six years ago
began to study the question, trying
TO find out what was right because |
was taught to believe if u man would
ground himself on what was right he
could walt lor other people to come 10
him. ! WAS taught to believe no man
could AFFORD TO be wrong no matter
how many nc had in his company. |
studied the question. | read books ON
both sides and compared them and the
moro J. read tho deeper became my
nvictiunS until became so lirlnlv OF
the opinion that there could be no
prosperity in this country uutil free
silver WAS restored, that was willing
| - IA ~ e.,
the correctness OF that cOncIusi0I.
| Great appiausc.} We have gone
through in Nebraska tue same process,
people have gone through in other
States. We began the fight in Ne
braska. IL is the pioneer. The plat
form adopted at Chicago on the silver
question was first adopted in Ncbr;s ka
ny the silver Democrats there. (Ap-
plause.) When we did it We had bolt
ers then as they have had since. We
had men who claimed to be Democrats
who would not agree to our platform.
They called themselves better Demo
crats than we were and voted the Re
publican ticket to prove it.. Lpughtcr.)
We believe the D1mpcrH'ic party,
which owed It's aUCrr9s 90 tlr toiling
masses, must still stand by thcm in
their fight against the few if il d:.-
serves TO continue It's existence. We
organized in Nebraska IL Democratic
free silver league. The members of
that league made an open fight. Nnuy
did not 40 around in the dark wearing
II m3sk. They said to the Democracy
ol the State, We arc going to take pos
session Of the machinery OF the party
if we Gun VIC are going to submit Lhi.;
question to the voters. We went cut
and presented the questions. When
our State convention met we had three
to one and we adopted that platform
which has been rcadoptcd by the ma
tiOnal Democratic convention. (Ap-
plausc.) There was never Il faircr con-
test ever wagcd. Then we organized Il
binctallic Democratic national league,
which went ont to do in the nation
what free silver Democrats OF Nebraska
had done in that State. We carried
the question TO The primaries and the
voters instructed the delegates to the
county conventions and from there TO
the State convention and from there to
the national convention. We never
had Il convention in this country which
more correctly represented tho scnsi.
mont Of the people who sent the dele
gates than that convention which met
at Chicago. 1t is honor enough TO be
the nominee Of Il convention for
President. But it is higher honor
yet so be the nominee of the most
Democratic convention over held in
this country. (Applausc.) 1t is smlii-
ciCnt honor to be nominated by the
machinery Of Il party, but it is Il high
CT honor still to be nominated by the
people in It party regardless of the ma.
chincry. (Applausc.)
Since that platform was adopted the
people have commenced to study the
money question. What do they lind ?
They find that the people of the West
and South, who have been asking for
the restoration Of bimctallism, instead
Of trying to ruin the country are trying
to save it. Great applausc.) We arc
arc trying 20 help our people. That is
true, but ! want to tell you that our
people cannot buy Of you unless they
can sell what they raise. We must have
more than appctitcs out there. (Laugh-
tcr.) We must have money to pay ior
those things which CRAFTY the appu-
titc. Because you have iOol to sell
DON'T think you can sell il just because
people are hungry. You have got To
nave people who want il and who hav
the money to pay for something to cat.
Great apElausc.) Your people are
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