The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-23

the history Of the party. If you remem,
Der the good book states that some 1880
years ago a man named Dematrius com.
planned Of the preaching of the gospel be-
cause IL interrupted his business. He did
not go and say to the world, Our busi-
ness is being injured and we are madr
What did he say? He said, Great is Diana
of the Ephesians.' (Applause)
I'VE have some to-day who are very
much like Demetrius. They know that ghe
restoration Of bimetallism DESTROYS the
business in which they have been engag-
ed. But when they make public speeches
they do not say that the democratic party
is wrong because 1t interferes with their
business. What do they say? They say
Great is sound money. Great is an honest
dollar (Applause)
Il say this platform was not written to
attract their votes. 1t was written be-
cause we want to destroy the business
in which they are engaged. But my friends
If they who have made a profit out of the
governments financial policy array them
selves against the democratic party NAV
we not expect those who believe that we
are right TO come to fill up the ranks that
are being depleted by their desertion. Gap
plause.)
If we must part company with those
who believe in a government of syndicates,
by syndicates and for syndicates, may we
not appeal with confidence to those who
believe that a government of the people.
| by the people, and for the people, should
not perish from the earth (Applause)
If these men who pride themselves upon
their prominence in the business world and
who glory in the title of business men
are going to make a business out Of pol
itics, are going to use their ballots to i'm
crease their incomes ! beg you to con-
slider whether the great masses of this
nation have not right to make a business
out of politics for once and protect their
homes and their families from disaster.
/ (Aplause). / have not been long in the
\ state of New York, have not met many
of your people; and yet in the short time
/ that l have been here l have met enough
/ republicans who said that they were going
/ to vote our ticket to make up for every
democrat that ever deserted us, and we
welcome the coming guests as we speed
these who are parting. (Applause)
Now, my friends, this is a practical
question. 1t is a question that you must
think well over, and you must answer
| these questions for yourselves. The found
ers of your government never thought that
| the time would come when there would
be only a few people in this country who
were completely to settle great public
| questions. (Applause) If they had, they
would have written in the constitution
that on most questions everybody could
! vote, but on the money question only the
financers could vote. daughter and ap-
plause).
1T is a hollow mockery to grant to the
people a right in the constitution and then
deny them the privilege of exercising it. l
assert that the people of the United States
| these who produce wealth as well as those
| who exchange it, have sufficient patriot
ism and sufficient intelligence to sit on
Judgment upon all questions which have
arisen, or will arise, no matter how long
the government may endure (AppauSe)
Na. ora m
questions in their financial or moral bear
ing deserve more attention and more
study, and 1t requires no extended eXper-
ience in the handling of money to enable
a man to tell right from wrong, and more
than that, this money question will not be
settled until the great common people act
upon 1t. No question is settled until the
masses settle it. Abraham Lincoln said
that the Lord must have loved the com
mon people because he made so many OF
them. He was right about it. There is an
other evidence that the Lord made the
common people, and made a great many
of them. 1t is believed the com
mon people are the only people
who, have ever supported a reform
that had for its object the benefit OF the
human race / don't mean that there
have not been exceptions to the rule.
do not mean to say there nave not Deeh
found among the masses al all times those
| who were ready TO DelFdS tACSS WIZ eS+t
for them if they could see some chance
of personal elevation, nor do l mean TO
say that those who have gone beyond the
ranks of the common people are ehtHely
| unmindful of the claims of brotherhool
upon them, but what l say is, that, as
general rule, the common people mere anu
everywhere have been the support ana
the only support of every measure of re-
form.
NOW YOU have a right to take this
| question. examine it and form your own
opinion. and the ballot is given TO you IN
order that you may express your own
opinion when you come to vote
and not be requested 10 ac-
| cent some one else's opinion,
and I am going to call your attention to
a few things for you to consider Wnen
| YOU are trying to make up your nina
| what you ought to do. Now, our opL-
ions are all divided as to the policy Whlc9
| should be pursued. You take the SoIu
| standard democrats. Some Of them say
| they ought to come out openly and in
| dorse the republican candidate so as 10
be sure to elect him, and others say no.
that will be dangerous, because unless we
| have a candidate of our own, why, there
| will be a great many democrats VINO VIII
| be foolish enough to vote the democratic
| ticket of the common people QaughteT).
And there they are divided. They all
| want the same object; they all want 10
elect a republican candidate because their
democracy is better exemplitied through
republicanism. Uaughter) But, as say,
| they are divided as to the means of get
ting it, and think that they can elect a
republican candidate better by having a
candidate of their own to fool democrats
with, than they can by openly support
ing the republican ticket Not only are
| they divided there, but they are also dl-
vided all the way around when they come
to argument Why, some of them will
start out to show that the gold
standard is a good thing, and after one
of their speakers has gone on a While
showing what a great thing the gold stan
dard is, then another speaker comes
along, and he says that it is a mistake
to say that the gold standard is good; the
| gold standard really is not good, what
we want is bimetallism, but we cannot
have it until somebody helps US. Uaugh-
ter).
'Now these two arguments are not con-
sistent. If the gold standard is a good
thing why should they want bimetallism
and yet if they ever have two men maxi
! ing speeches the same night the chances
are 16 to / 0aughteD that one of them