Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1896-07-10
Chicago Convention.

The National Democratic Convention me
Tuesday in the Coliseum building, recently
erected on what was the Midway Plaisanc'
of the Worlds Fair at Chicago. Mr.. VIM
F. Harrity, Chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, named Senator Davit
B. Hill, of New York, as the choice of the
national committee for temporary chairman
Mr.. Henry d Clayton, of Alabama, on be
half of the silver men, proposed Senate
John w Daniel, of Virginia, as substitute
and demanded a call of the roll. Severa
speeches were made on the motion, and up
on vote the substitute was adopted, re
ceiving $50 votes to $40 for Mr.. Hill. Sena
tor Daniel was declared elected and escorted
to the chair, Mr.. Harrity yielding the gave
to him. Senator Daniel made a vigorous
speech in advocacy Of bimetallism. A vote
of thanks to Mr.. Harrity for his fairness was
adopted and, the convention adjourned un
til 10 o'clock Wednesday morning.
In the ballot for temporary chairman
Maryland cast 4 votes for Senator Daniel
and IL for Senator Hill.
The committee on permanent organiza.
ton Tuesday night selected United States
Senator Stephen M. White, of California,
for permanent chairman, and he was duly
elected.
Mr.. Daniel, upon taking the gavel as tenn
porary chairman, spoke in part, as follows
The high position, gentlemen, to which
you have chosen me involves great person.
al honor and keen responsibility. For
the honor l thank you. The responsibility
| would be wholly inadequate to bear did
depend upon myself, but your gracious aid
will make it easy and its burden light. That
aid confidently invoke from you for the
sake of the great cause under whose banner
we have fought so many battles and which
now demands of us such staunch devotion
and such loyal service.
| regret that my name should have been
brought in even the most courteous and Sc
rious competition with that of my distin-
guished friend, the great senator from New
York. The Senator himself knows, as you
know and know that there is no personality
in the preferment which has been given to
me. He must know, and the whole coun-
try that watches these proceedings must
know, that it is only due TO the principle
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 the instructions received by these
representatives of the people from the peo-
pie, 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
forgotten and that sovereignty is crush ed
out Great Applause)
am happy gentlemen, to know that as
the majority in. this convention is not person
al, neither in any sense is it sectional. 1t
blends the palmetto and the pines in Maine
and South Carolina. 1t begins with the
sunrise in Maryland and spreads into sun
burst in Louisiana and Texas. (Applause.)
1t stretches in one unbroken column
across the American continent, from
the Atlantic shores of the Old Dominion
and Georgia and it sheds its silvery beams
over the golden gate Of California. Zap
plause 1t sends forth its pioneers from
Plymouth Rock and waves over the golden
wheat fields of Dakota. 1t has its strong
holds in Alabama and Mississippi, and its
outposts liz Minnesota, Florida and Oregon.
1t sticks like a tarheel down in the old
North State, and it writes 16 to 1 on the
saddlebags of the Arkansas Traveller. 1t
pours down its rivulets from the mountains
of West Virginia and makes great lake in
New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Idaho,
Utah, Nevada, Montana and Colorado. Ii
stands guard around the National Capitol
in the District of Columbia and it camps on
the frontiers of Oklahoma. 1t sweeps like
prairie fire over Iowa and Kansas, and
puts up red light on the confines of Ne
braska. 1t marshals its massive battaions
in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri.
Last, but by far from least, When | see
this grand array and think of the British
gold standard that was recently unfurled
over the ruins of Republican promises at st.
Louis, think, too, of the Battle of New
Orleans, of which it was said: "There stood
John Bull in martial pomp, but there was
old Kentucky" Brethren of the East, there
is no South, there is no North, there is no
East or West in this uprising of the people
for American emancipation from the con
spiracy of European kings, led on by Grea
Britain, which seeks to destroy one-half of
the money of the world and to make Amer
lean manufacturers, merchants, farmers and
mechanics mere hewers of wood and draw.
ers of water"
There is one thing golden which permit
me, in the same good humor which has
characterized your conduct, to commend to
you here. 1t is the Golden Rule-to do un.
to others as you would have them do unto
you. Forget not the greed of devils, and
that an absolute acquiescence in the will OF
the majority is the vital principle of the re
public.
Democrats, as you have been; Democrats
as trust you will ever be, acquesce grace
fully in the will of the great majority of
your fellow Democrats, and only ask to go
with them, as they have often gone with
you. Do not forget, gentlemen, that for 80
years we have supported the men that you
have named for President-Seymour, Gree
ley, Tilden, Hancock, and twice Grover
Cleveland.
Do not forget that we have submitted
cheerfully to your compromised platform
and to your repeated pledges OF bimetallism,
and have patiently borne repeated dsap-
pointments as to their fulfillment.
Do not forget at the last national conven
ton of the Democratic party, in 1892, you
proclaimed yourselves to be in favor of the
use OF both gold and silver as standard
money of the country, for the coinage of
both gold and silver, without discriminat-
ing against either metal. The active bust
ness men of this country, its manufacturers,
merchants, farmers, sons of toll in counting
room, factory, field and mine know that con
traction of the currency sweeps away with
the silent and resistless force of gravitation
the annual profits of their enterprise and
investments.
They know, too, that the gold standard
means contraction and the organization of
disaster. What hope is there for the coun-
try and what hope is there for the Democ-
racy unless the views of the majority here
shall be adoptedp Do not the people know
that it was not silver legislation, but leglsa-
ton dictated by the advocates of the gold
standard that has caused and now continues
the financial depression? Do they not know
that when their demands upon Democracy
were complied with In 1898 and the Sher-
man law repealed without substitute, that
the very States of the East that demanded
it, turned against the Democracy who grant
ed II and swent away their maiorities IN a