The herald., 1896-10-04
JUST BOILED OVER
WITH ENTHUSIASM
St. Louis Citizens Decorate
the Streets
BANDS PLRY AHD ORATORS Shout
In Anticipation of the Election
of Bryan
QUADRENNIAL CONVENTION
OF the National Association Of Dcnos
cratic Clubs
Vice.President Stevenson Pledges Earnss
and Hearty Support
The Convention Formally Organized
for Business and officers Elected.
QUADRENNIAL CONVENTION
OF the National Association Of Demo.
cratic Clubs
Vice.Presidcnt Stevenson Pledges Earnss
and Hearty Support
The Convention Formally Organized
for Business and Officers Elected.
Bryan Accepts the Nomination
rendered by the Populsts.
Associated Press Special Wire

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 3.-This conservative
town fairly boiled over with Democrat
ic enthusiasm today.t Scores of banners
hung across the Streets proclaiming it
to the world. 1t was the opening day
of the quadrennial convention of the
National Association of Democratic
clubs.
Delegates began to arrive yesterday,
and have been pouring in on every road
since that time. All the morning they
gathered in the lobbies of the hotel,
and curbstone orators shouted with en-
thusiasm. There were bands of every
sort playing patriotic airs.
At 10:30 delegates and visitors began
to assemble at the auditorium, where
the convention is held. An hour later
President c. F. Black called the meet
ing to order. At least 300 delegates were
present and the vast hall was we'll filed
with visitors. When the divine blessing
had been invoked the Jefferson Glee
club of several hundred voices sang the
national anthem, America, in which the
audience Joined. When the applause
died away President Black delivered
the quadrennial address. Black de-
clared the cause Democracy was sup
porting was that of no class or section,
but Of all classes and of 81! parts of the
country. He entered into a discussion
of the money question, and concluded
by denouncing Mark Hanna and the
money power. Black was frequently
interrupted by applause. When he fin
ished he introduced Vice President
Stevenson, who said:
STEVENSON'S SPEECH.
Ra1iaViOr do bo GOLD nj c;,,,>-
find equal recognition in the constitution
of the United States; that by their Joint
use in effeoting exchanges and perform
ing the other functions of money, we
have prospered in the past; and that the
evil days now befallen us are in no small
measure the result of the demonetiza-
tion of silver, 1 have no hesitation in
maintaining my party allegiance and
casting my vote for Bryan and Sewall,
the nominees of the Democratic conven-
ton. 1 deeply regret that many of those
with whom I have been associated in
former contests now oppose the election
of the candidates nominated in accord
ance with the time-honored method and
usages of the Democratic party. With
out questioning their sincerity, the in /,
quiry 10 g ,gnificant: What is there in the
attituC of the Democratic party upon
the raonetary question to justify its
abandonment by those who Have long
shared in its councils and who have been
the recipients of its rewards and its
honors?
A belief in cheap money is no part
of Democratic teaching. 1t Is part of
our creed that the dollar unit OF COIN
age of both metals must be of equal in
trinsic, exchangeable value" We be-
lieve in such Safeguards of legislation
as shall insure the maintenance of the
two metals and the equal power of every
dollar at all times in the markets and in
the payment of debts"
After quoting the declarations of the
Democratic party in the four national
conventions preceding that which nom
mated Mr.. Bryan, Mr. Stevenson asked:
rs it too much, then, to claim that in
giving our support to the nominee of the
Chicago convention we are keeping
faith? The charge of recreancy to party
does not lie at our doors"
1--WE believe that the election of a
Democratic president and congress will
secure the restoration of silver to the
position of standard money of the coun-
try-that designed for it by the found
ers Of the government.
THE destruction of silver as money
and establishing gold as the unit Of
value must have a ruinous effect on all
forms of property except those invest
ments which yield fixed return in
money. These would be enormously
enhanced in value and would gain dis
proportionate and unfair advantage
over every other species of property. No
power was conferred on congress to de-
clare either metal should not be money.
Congress has therefore, in my judg-
ment, no power to demonetiZe either.
If, therefore, silver has been demoneti-
zed, am in favor of remonetizing it
''I am firmly persuaded that in this
great contest we are in the right; that
the cause which we represent is that of
the people. We have no serious foreign
complications, no dissensions, at home.
With a soifscarcely equaled in fertility,
with a climate unsurpassed, with ma
ture's choicest gifts so generously be-
slowed, with men everywhere willing to
work and ample facility to transport
labor's products to the markets of the
world. why this paralysis; why this dis
tress; why should man beg his brother
Of the earth to give him leave to toil?'
We believe that much of the evil that