The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-10-01
MORGAN At TROY, N. Y.
SPOKE IN THE INTEREST OF BRY-
AN AND sEWALL.
Brings an Array of Fncts Of What
Democrats Did In Con-
gress for Silver.

Troy, N. Y, Sept Ex-senator Morgan |
spoke here last night in the interest |
OF Bryan and Sewall, saying in conclu- |
sion:
There are still some things to be
proud of as democrats. We can appeal |
to the official records of George " ash |
ineton, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew
jackson, the presidents who approved
the coinage of gold and silver on equal
terms as full legal tender money. We
can appeal to the fact that the demo-
cratic creed never contained an express
SIGN OF hostility to either metal. We can
appeal to the fact that no democrat in
congress or out of congress can be named
who ever antagonized silver before 1878.
when John Sherman took the lead, also
OF few democrats from states whose
people held large amounts of government
bonds We can appeal to the fact that a
majority in the house and senate have
always supported the restoration of sill
yer to free coinage.
I'VE can appeal to the fact that demo-
Gratis in congress have won for silver a
| larger coinage by 400 per cent than It ever
had in the history of our country. We
can appeal to the fact that a convention
| honestly chosen by honest democrats and
consisting of $40 delegates-all in their
| plsces-as honorable and as enlightened
| a BODY as any of equal numbers that ever
met in a national convention, voted by
more than two-thirds of their numbers
| for our platform and our nominee.
| I'VE can appeal to the fact that the
| democratic party placed on the statute
| book the best, most equal and least op
| pressive tariff that we have ever had,
| and has driven from our code of laws
| the abomination of the election laws and
| the force bills, and has forbid the en-
plcyment of the standing army as a
posse comitatus.
I'VE can appeal to the fact that we
have voted for Seymour, Tilden, Han
cock and three times for Cleveland, all
New Workers, and once for Horace Gree
ley. New Yorker for the sake of peace,
harmony and unity in the party and
some times at the sacrifice of our per
sonal judgment; and that we never de-
serted democracy. If all this disproves
our democracy, then we are not demo-
Gratis. and we are fools. 1t does not dis
turb my sense of duty or wound my pride
that 1 am shut off from the privilege
of appeal to the sage of Wolferts' Roost
fol justification of my vote on the in
come tax, or to the fountain of light at
| Ruzzards Bay for the lamp of Diogenes,
while searching to find an honest man
| in the bond syndicates who disdain dis
honest dollars. Neither am l distressed
that 1 have not the faculty of Palmer
| to palm off spurious pretense of democ-
| racy for the true creed of our party, and
to take possession of the organization
in virtue of alleged credentials that have
served as passport to every republican
convention and office in reach of the
journeyman politician who was recently
buried in his third party baptism in In
| danapols.
81 do regret that Mr. Cleveland mistook
the party to which he devoted himself
with such self-sacrifice during the three
elections, two of them successful, as be-
f,,ey h fc Of dor fD tfn RI
a sad thing to contemplate that a great
man should thus be betrayed into the
presidency for two terms by the votes
of men who turned out to be lunatics
and perfldious betrayers of their sup
posed chief and master.
After proving his devotion to his ideas
of true democracy in the appointment
of Gresham as secretary of state as a re
, ! ward of his lifelong service to the re
publican party. and his devotion to pure
democracy in the effort to fasten the no
BILE Liluokalani on her throne; and hi
devotion to the safety of the country b,
| putting the treasury under the guardian
ship of the Rothschids syndicate, th'
| democratic party abandoned him
stranded mugwump.
1T Is not our fault that he made IN
| mistake of supposing that he was eve
democrat. 1t is said he is a man {
| M BILE independence. That Is a noble trai
| WEell IL leduS Oiic " iSiuSS oiiiSS -'i'
| honors, but when these have exhausted
the generosity of the people who confe
{ | them, 1t Is not honest independence tina
| turns upon them and seeks to hand then
n over to their enemies for destruction
n Taleyrand was Independent when n
helped to turn Napoleon over to the al
lied powers. but his independence Wa
that of an Migrate and his fame Is sti
q wound upon the honor of France.
am glad that Mr.. Cleveland sought hi
own, and that his own have receive
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