Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-06

expositor, Thomas Jefferson, and it's great exemplar Andrew Jackson.
 Read the platform! The shylocks, the money mongers, the coupon clippers the treasury raiders, the trusts and combines and the lazzaroni whom they own and feed all hate it. Their hatred demon- strates its supreme title to the trusts, the love and support of honest men and true patriots of all parties and all parts of the country.
 "A CAMPAIGN OF VITUPERATION."
 It not infrequently happens that in the heat of political discussion strong lan- guage is used by disputants to express their opinions of their opponents, and it comes natural to loyal democrat, one who has held fast to the faith, in victory and defeat alike, to use vigorous exple- tives to characterize those who, having pledged themselves to abide the action of their party and submit to the expressed will of the majority, break faith and dis honor themseleves by deserting to the enemy. No doubt such has been the case to some extent in the present campaign Smarting under the flashing of their own guilty conscience and the castigatlons of the righteous indignations of those with whom they have broken political faith, some of the botocrats have been pleased to speak of this as "a campaign of vitup- eration" If this were true the offense Is by no means confined to democrats. On the contrary, it is found in much larger degree among the Hannaite bolters than among democrats. For instance, while the speech of Bourke Cochran at Madison Square garden was filled with billings gate and abuse of the democratic plat form and candidates, and the rank and file of the party, all of MT. Bryans utter ances have been singularly free from epi- thets and abuse or any expressions that could be characterized as vituperative.
 To those in search of the unadulterated, rantankerous, quintescence of vitupera- tion we commend some Of the deliver ances of the chief orators of the late con- vention of political cadavers assembled in Indianapolis, falsely claiming to be democrats and seeking to maintain re- spectability by parading in democratic uniform.
 Lest some of the hypocritical and su- persensitive boltocrats charge that we are even now indulging in "vituperat- tion," we present herewith some of the compliments paid by the star performers of the Indianapolis Hannaite conglom- eration to the democratic party and it's leaders,
 John R. Fellows, whose official integ- rity as district attorney of New York city was very vigorously assailed some years ago. upon calling the meeting to order, said among other things:
 T believe that it comports rather more with my somewhat aristocratic tastes if I am killed at all, to have it done upon cross of gold, rather than upon one of cheaper and baser metal Naughter and cheers). But it is the fact of the cruci- fixion at all of my party against which I stand to protest. 1 am unwilling to be crucified between these twin thieves of sectionalism and repudiation. (Tremend- ous cheers). These men who are betray- ing the party and the country ought to turn back to the one from whom they got their first lesson in it's betrayal He never would have stood by the Chicago ratio. Gaughter). He knew better the market value of silver. Gaughter). He required thirty pieces of silver for one betrayal, and they are willing to do it for sixteen. Slaughter and applause). Under the doctrine of those who ruled the Chicago convention there are 53 cents worth of silver in our dollar and 47 cents of actual lying, and above it is to be placed the legend Tn God we trust Daughter and cheers). The only mean ing of that Is that the silver in the dollar is wNTth but 53 cents Tn the markets of the earth, and we are to trust to God for the other A." Slaughter and cheers).
 MT. Enrich made a very conservative and gentlemanly address, but his asser- tion that "the advocates of free coinage were honest .and sincere men, and they loved their country, and he was sure they would not willingly plunge it into de- struction by any act of theirs if they knew what they were doing," failed to elicit any sort of applause.
 MT. Farrar, great unknown from Louisiana, was next introduced. He characterized the more than two-thirds majority of the great democratic na- tional convention as "the populistic an- aconda that the Chicago convention had poured out it's slime and fastened it's fangs upon the democratic party" and denounced the democracy as "a brood of infernalism. a lame swart, crooked founding, motley horde' and other pet names. He was kind enough to say in conclusion:
 q do not say that they are all social
 
 mics of public order. but I do say that the socialists, cranks repudiators and enemies of public order are fighting on that side of the field. One glance, fel- low citizens, at that fell array and there sounds a bugle call in the ear of every man who loves his country to draw his sword and smite, and smite, and smits once again until these BLACK legions are scattered to the four winds of heaven" .
 It is needless to say that MT. Farrar's I'd napks were frequently and uproarious- ly applauded.
 Rossy Peewee Flower, temporary chairman of the convention. was next introduced. His introductory remark that bimetallism is a genuine democratic doctrine was received in silence. But he finally responded to the real sentiments