The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-15

| follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen-we are entering
| conceal, tell you frankly that have come
| to Kentucky because | want the electoral
| and cries You win get them,) As the
| regular nominee of the Democratic party
| peal TO you on the ground Of the regularity
| of my nomination / might call your at
tention to the fact that the Chicago con-
| vention was regularly called by the regular
authority and that all over this Union
| Democrats assembled In the regular way
| to select their delegates to that convention
| / might call your attention to the fact that
| no convention ever held in this country
| more accurately reflected the sentiment of
| the party which selected the delegates than
| did the Chicago convention tGreat APP
Pls1 ~ ny ~, 1roters tenosaIves token
| so active and so influential a part as did
| the voters of the Democratic party take in
the Chicago convention
IF YOU have regard for the will of
majority of your party regularly expressed,
the ground that I am the nominee of the
Democratic party in the regular way.
Great applause Bar small appear fbdn rpr
regularity. Cheers and applause) eX-
pressly release so far as 1 am. concerned,
from the support of the Chicago ticket
every Democrat who believes that the sue
cess of that ticket would inaperil our eoun.
try applause and cries of Good
.good!) / shall not ask any man to vio-
late his conscience or be deaf to the voice
of his Judgment. | shall ask no raise feaIty
piause5 I would not do it myself; I will
ask nobody to do What Woulo not oo
THE LINES DRAWN
ct believe. my friends, that the Chicago
platform presents the policies which will
be best for the people of this country. l
believe that those policies put into law will
bring blessings to the American people and
l call your attention to the fact that IN
this campaign the lines are drawn between
plutocracy and democracy great appiause),
and in fight between plutocracy and de-
mocracy there is no middle ground
CHEERS and applause) They that are not
for us are against Us. (Appiause.) more
than that [ peg you, my friends, to re-
member that the ballot is not given to the
individual merely as matter or personal
compliment. 1t is given to him as sacred
trust to be used as he thinks best for the
protection of himself, for the advancement
of the welfare of his fellows and Tor the
right to throw that ballot away in time OF
danger. Great applause) -,
THE Bible tells us of q man VINO Hlu
| lis talents in the earth and he was con-
| demned. Why? Because he neglecteo 10
improve that talent: say say TO S fhis Ws
on one side are arrayed against the syndl-
Gates, trusts and combinations OF money
grabbers of this country and EUROPE europe:
and on The other side are the to1ling
masses and no man has right to throw
away his ballot. Applause2 Ii the sue hnd
| thing for this country every one or you
who believe so ought to vote the Repup, pun,
distress If the election of the Republican
| ticket would be a bad thing for your coun-
try then you ought to vote tor the Gnlcaeo
ticket to save your country from distress;
applause and cries of We are gong TO.
Our platform declares against the the I traf
of bonds in time of peace and against b tral
ticking with the syndicates when nave ave
been saving our country at SO mnen per per
save for the last few years: (Great ap-
pIause) The Democratic party denounces
those syndicates, and | thank GOD that the
Democratic party has driven out OF It's
Gates. Great applause.) It's platIormi 9e
nounces the stock EXCHANGES, ana re; ne{oi ne
to-day in the fight that we are making, pc
cause it is certificate that we are DONG
our duty to our country. (Applause) Inc
platform denounces the great comblnaton
Of money-gra bbers in this country and Eu-
tract entered into by the last administra-
tion as the mos infamous eontract ever
into 9S 5he res appauSe
say that it is infamous; Why! NOT SO
much for the amount Of money that the
syndicates have made. / call it infamous
because the government in that contract
bought the good will of those two banking
firms. Has it come to this. that seventy
| millions of people must purchase their right
to exist from two combinations of money
grabbers in this country and in Europe?
applause and cries of NO" NOD
CALLS THEM CRIMINALS.
my friends, whenever this government
hires any syndicates to protect its treasury,
it admits that those syndicates would not
prote It the treasury except for pay, and
it also admits that unless it also bought
their aid it might have their opposition.
L am not an old man, nor am I acquainted
with finaneiering as it is taught in the
East but 1 have an idea that I am free
to express, and it is this: That instead of
hiring those syndicates to let the United
States alone, / would say to them that II
| they did not quit conspiring against the
credit of the United States they would be
treated like the smaller criminals and pun
ished-
and soberness when tell you that we cross
the danger line whenever we admit that
the existence of this Nation depends upon
the good will OF any banking concern do
mestic or foreign. (Applause.) The Repub-
lican platform demands. the maintenance of
the gold standard until these very inf1u-
ences which have dominated our financial
policy shall come to our relief. The Re-
publican party means to continue the fnan-
cial policy of the present administration,
and therefore I am not surprised that those
who are connected with it are opposed to
the Democratic party, which means to re-
store to the people the right to govern
themselves (Applause.) The Democratic
party has declared war on the gold stand
ard. The Democratic party is pledged to
remove the gold standard and in its place
restore the gold and silver coinage of the
Constitution. "a voice, They'll do IT'D Yes,
my friends, at the very first possible mo-
ment. The Democratic party will do it.
blight that can touch the enterprise of
nation. (Applause) We have not all the
newspapers with US in this fight. CA voice:
We have got the peopleiO We have not
all the newspapers with us, but an editor
only votes once. daughter and appause)
An editor only votes once, and l have
known some editors who had so little in
Thence over their own conduct that they
could not even control the one vote that
the law gives them. tremendous applause
and laughter) We would like to have the
newspapers with We would be glad to
have them CA voice: You are better than
all the newspapersi) While we would like
to have the newspapers with us we would
far rather have the people with us at the
polls than all the newspapers put together.
1ADplaIse) We would like to have the
newspapers with us because we hate to
have our people get mad every morning
when they read the papers. Great
Iaughter) 1 don't know of any one thing
that has caused many people to forget
the resolve that they made on the first of
the wear never to swear again. / don't
know of any one thing that has made
many break that promise the gold-stand-
ard editorials which appear from day to
"Our opponents say that we don't think.
That is too bad G4aughter) | am sure if
the Creator had the same opinion of the
majority of the people that the average
advocate of the gold standard has he would
not have wasted so much time giving
JrainS 10 all the people G4aughter.) He