The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-08
a BRILLIANT sPEEoH.
How Hon. John Temple Graves In
troduced Mr.. duBignon In Atlanta.


How Hon. John Temple Graves In
troduced Mr. duBignon In Atlanta.
one of the brightest and most interest
ing speeches of the etupaisn in Georgia
was that Of Hon John Temple Graves.
in introducing Hon. II. G. duBignon to
his Atlanta audience Friday night.
This brilliant young Georgian, says the
Atlanta Journal. stepped to the front amid
a storm of applause that seemed for a time
as though it would raise the roof. At it's
cessation he bowed his acknowledgements
and with redoubled force it was renewed.
At last when the applause died away. he
began his speech. one Of those creations of
marvellous rhetoric and verbal grace that
has made him famous ana held the vast
assembly throughout its entirety. He
said:
The battle royal of the metals is draw
ing to a close. The argument is ended,
and behind the serried ranks of faction,
rises the ballot-the last appeal of reason,
and arbiter among the theories and con-
victions OF this clashing hour
Tomorrow, for US, the pulse of local
friction shall be sulled, and the voice
of the majority shall be, for the moment,
as the voice of Cod
There will be no aftermath OF bitter
ness when the storm has cleared, and the
Index ringer of the people has marked
Tor the nation its appointed way. Deep
are the convictions which have moved
the advocacy Of either side, and vital
indeed the issue which has broken the
long unity of the democratic faith. The
division has been sharp; the difference
has been wide, and the clash severe But
the tie of immortal memories is unbroken
yet Inc JOY OF common battle fought
and won for our redemption still sur
wives. Beyond the issue which divides us
here-beyond these dollars of our discon-
tent--oOms the robber tailm and the
shameless pensions OF republican misrule.
In the presence of these twin iniquties
of the common enemy-our family quar-
rel must be healed We must merge our
difference in the common danger, and
here, in the threatening shadows Of these
largest perts-the wide wings of the
democratic host-sundered by conviction
and broken by sentiment-Once more
clasping hands and locking shields-must
stand again solid phalanx-one and in
separablc forever.
There has never been a Drawer battle
fought on economic fields than this str1g-
gle for a sound and stable currency. 1t
has grappled giant prejudice from its first
bugle call. 1t has flung It's brave conVic-
lions IN the teeth OF popular delusion,
and fought its way uphill against the tre-
mendous clamOr of haR1 times. In a Pc
riod of natural depression--in the reac-
tion consequent upon booms and OYerpro-
duction and speculative enterprise-in the
stress of poverty and want-men who had
gone without breakfast, have been willing
to make anarchy for dinner, and a nation
with the stomach-ache, lacking confidence
in everything and panicked by its own
fears and diSCOntent-has hurled its petu-
liant protest against q righteous adminiS-
traton and run riot in the fallacy that
whatsoever is in power, is responsible ana
wrong.
fixed in his convictions; clear in concep-
ton, resolute In faith, and dauntless In
his honest courage-the President Of the
United States has stood immovable as the
bulwark Of stable currency. In the
history of American politics no states
man has ever held sereuer course through
so pitiless storm Of savage and relentless
at 9afo yrFf ne ha F4nf
waVered, and history-calm and impartial
as himsef-when this hour of passion
has been hushed and the frettlng preju-
dices Of a day are spent-hlstOry Will vim
dictate him to posterty as one Of the few
immortal names that were not born TO
And history shall vindicate the judg-
ment of those who follow him. The
nations soul is in its pocket now and in
the madness Of a mercenary age, the peo-
pie may be fooled for the moment by any
heresy that folly may devise.
But the truth will triumph, as 1t always
does. and the wiser policy will win. Free
silver cannot survive fall. After these
campaigns OF education, single defeat
would mark its DOOM If its strange doc
trines should fail Of triumph Ia this pres
idential ballot, II VIII retreat Ike pagan
ism to obscure localities and linger here
after as a superstition rather than a
But the worlds great measure of
financial value shall endure forever. Out
of the wreck and ruin and pane which
graded currency the sound and stable
unit of our money VIII emerge in tri-
umph, like q benediction to the commerce
of the world.
The moral sentiment Of Americans has
been fed full upon the wholesome doc
trine that IAN honest mans the nOblest
work Of God" And whatever the out
come Of the ballot o-morrow-whatever
the standards that our national cOnyen-
lions shall unfurl-if the silver heresy
should triumph and its falacies pre-
vail-believe me. the time will come-sure-
" and inevitably the time viii come
when the states Of this union, Kentucky
and Georgia and the rest-made wiser IL
sadder by experience-Wli come trooping
back over their sorrowful blunders Of
finance, to acknowledge with one voice,
that An Honest Dollar is the Best and
Noblest Work Of Trade.
Under this flag / stand tonight. I am
content to fight In the ranks of this great
cause and IL need be, / am willing to
walt for times ample Vindication.
l am not a politician and can amord TO |
see and tell the truth. ] had rather be
right than a silver baron. / had rather be |
on The true side than the popular side I |
mad rather link myself to the cause that |
will endure forever than to the mush- |
room policy that will prosper for to-day. |
Let the men who would float with the |
drifting tide 20 vote their silver fallacies |
II they will. But as for me and my mouse |
we will stand with the stable and eternal |
policies whose triumph the future viii
The issue Is ioinedN The faNacies Of to- |
day are set against the principles that
endure. 1t is only the dulard who for
gets tomorrow.
With ali my heart fellow citizens, ! re-
specL the brilliant and dauntlesS cam