The herald., 1896-08-26

VI tuDbe WHO DclleNe lHdl
through that party and by the policies
expressed in the platform they can best
serve their country and protect their in
terests. The Democracy at Chicago met
in convention, and there the majority Of
the Democrats of the United States
speaking through their legally chosen
representatives, laid down a platform
and nominated ticket 1t is not to be
expected that a person will always find
In any platform all that he desires and
nothing which he does not like. When
citizen comes to vote he acts with
that party and indorses that platform
which give to him the best assurance of
securing the most important things
which he desires. 1t Is proper, aye, more
1t Is necessary that the candidate who
stands upon platform shall indorse
the utterances Of his platform, and I
stand before you to declare in your
presence that l indorse every word and
every syllable of the platform adopted
at Chicago. (Applause.) But while do
so. I expect in this campaign the sup
port of many Democrats who are not
willing to indorse all that the platform
N'NNioiNo lois NiPplduSe.J LII d CdI1-
paign there is always some overshad-
owing issue, there is in campaign al
ways one great paramount question.
which, more than any other, will deter
mine the allegiance of those who sup
port the ticket. In this campaign we
appeal with confidence to those people
VINO are opposed to q longer continu-
alton of the gold standard policy in the
United States. Our opponents have at
last taken a definite position on the
money question.
The Republican platform adopted at
st. Louis declares that the gold standard
must be maintained in this nation until
other nations shall consent to its aban-
donment. We believe that the declara-
tion which commits us to gold stand
ard until other nations come to cur re-
lief is equivalent to declaration in ia
vor of q continuance of the gold stand
ard, because we do not believe that other
nations will take pity on us before we
take pity on our own people. We have
then to consider this question: Ought
the American people to submit longer
to gold standard? (Cries of mo, no")
The Democratic party has begun a war
of determination upon the gold stand
ard. We ask no quarter; we give no
quarter. We shat prosecute our war
fare until there is not an American citi-
zen that dares to advocate gold stand
ard policy. (Cheers)
You ask why? We reply that the gold
standard is conspiracy against the
human race, and that we would no more
inin
marching to despoil our homes and de-
stroy our families. I ask you not to take
my word for the evils of the gold stand
ard. I call as a witness a gentleman
whose voice has been heard in the coun-
ellis of the Democracy. l ask if you are
inclined to accuse us of using extrava-
CANT language. I ask you to read and
reflect upon the language used by John
G. Carlisle in 1873. In speech made
in congress he said: According to my
opinion. the conspiracy which seems
to have been formed here and in Europe
to destroy by legisla ton and otherwise
from three e-sevenths to one-half the me-
taliic money of the world is the most
gigantic crime of this or any other age
Its consummation would ultimately en-
tail more misery upon the human race
than all the wars, pestilence and famine
that ever occurred in the history of the
world!
That is the language of John G.. Car
Isle. 1 believe he spoke the truth. and
If 1t was true then it is true today, and
will be true, no matter who may change
his opinion or his course upon this ques-
ton. Truths once uttered will live. no
matter what may become of those who
uttered those truths. Men cannot re-
tract truths. That prohecy was spoken
eighteen years ago. an deighteen years
of fultillment has enabled us to believe
words whic hwere believed by all at the
time they were spoken.
Our opponents tell us that the free
coinage Of silver is going to disturb
business. I ask our opponents to write
down the worst thing they can possibly
think of as a possible consequence of
the immediate restoration of the free
coinage of silver, and when they have
writtne their worst I would place against
the most dismal prophecy they can ut
ter the words of John G. Carlisle, and
tell them that I would take the worst
thing they could think of rather than
pAl-iS a iiliSeIy greater tIal war, pes |
thence and famine. (Applause)
Can you imagine the meaning of those
words? No, my friends, the imagina-
tion cannot conceive, the tongue cannot
describe all that is wrapped UP in
those words. Can you think of all the |
wars of the past? When you remember
that from the time Cain killed Able |
until now history has been little mora |
than a record of warfare. Can you re- j.,
member all those wars, and can you add |
in one great sum the misery those wars
have caused, and then you think of tie
pestilences which have visited the |
earth. the misery that they have
brought, and then can you think of the |
famines that have afflicted mankind |
from time to time; can you add into one |
great sum all the misery caused by |
these three dread destroyers of the hu-
man race, and then think that the con- |
summation of the conspiracy of those |
who stand behind the gold standard /
would bring more of misery than all |
of these? Ah, my friends, it is because |
we believe that this language can over |
state the INFINITE distress that the gold |
standard means to the human race: il |
is believed we believe that no power on |
earth will prevent the advocates of |
free coinage from preaching this gospel |