The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-19
ORDER SECURED.
Cochran Then s'PIunges" in to An
syver Bryan.


Mr. Cochran at length secured order
and plunged at once into his subject
his reply to Mr.. Bryan's speech.
Mr.. Cochran said:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men, Fellow Democrats-Wital the in
spiTing strains of that national song
still ringing in our ears, who can doubt
the issue of this campaign? (Applause.)
That issue has been well STAGED by
your presiding officer. Stripped, as he
says, of adj verbiage, it is an issue of
common honesty (more applause); am
issue between the honest discharge and
the dishonest Reputation of public and
private obligations. 1t is a. question as
10 whether the powers of this govern
ment shall be used to protect honest
industry or to tempt the citizens to dis
honesty. On this question honest men
cannot differ. (Applause) It is one of
morals and of justice. 1t involves the
existence of social order. 1t is a con-
test for civilization itself. If it be
disheartenipg to Democrats and the
lovers Of free institutions to find an is
sue of this character projected into a
presidential campaign, this meeting fur
how that issue will be met by the peo-
vention may renounce
THE DEMOCRATIC FAITH,
but the Democracy remains faithful to
Democratic principles. (Applause.)
Democratic leaders may betray a con-
vention to the PopulistS, but they can
not seiuce the footsteps of Democratic
voters from the pathway of honor and
Of justice. (AppIause.J A candidate
bearing the mandate of a Democratic
crnventiocl may in this hall open a
canvass leveled against the foundations
of social order, and he beholds the
Democratic masses confronting him on
the ground of defense. (Applause.)
Fellow Democrats, let us not dis
guise from ourselves the fact that we
bear in this contest serious and grave
and solemn burden of duty. We must
raise our hands against the nominee
of our party, and we must do it to pre-
serve the future of that party itself
(Applause.) We must oppose the norai-
nee of the Chicago convenuon-and we
know full we'll that the success of our
opposition will mean our own exclusion
from public life-but we will be con-
soled and gratified by the reflection
that it will prove that the American
people cannot be divided into parties
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common honesty (Applause) We
would look in vain through the speech
delivered here one week ago to find
A TRUE STATEMENT
of the issue involved in this canvass.
! (Applause.) Indeed, I believe 1T is
doubtful if the candidate himself quite
understands the nature of the faith
which he processes. Gaughter.) [ say
this not in criticism of his ability, but
in justice to his morality. daughter
I believe that if he himself understood
the inevitable consequences of the doc
trines which he breaches that his own
hands would be the very first to tear
down the platform on which he stands.
| (AppIause.) But there was the state
ment in that speech which was very
far from ambiguity, pregnant with hope
and confidence to the levers of order
He processes his unquestioned belief in
the honesty of the American masses
and he quoted Abraham Lincoln in sup
! port of the faith that was in him. Well
I / don't believe that the faith of Abra-
ham Lincoln was ever more significant
+ ly justified than in the appearance
which Bryan presented upon this plat
form in the changes that have come
over the spirit and the tone of
| POPULISTIC ELOQUENCE
since the Chicago convention. We al
| n