The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-10

| to elect Mckinney. MY 1ree silver uelil'
ocratic friends took that job out of our
hands at Chicago. We elected a presi'
dent on the two great democratic eco.
monte principles, free trade and sound
money. in 1882. Our free silver friends
at once began to destroy the democratic
| party. | saw in the paper the other day
| that they said they had the scales OF
enemies hanging at their belts. They
are mistaken They have the scalps OF
their friends hanging at their belts. Zap,
plause.) They rejected sound money ana
all New England turned out every demo
cratic congressman that had been elect
garded the admonition of Cleveland ana
republican governor reigns in New
| York, where we used to have demo
cratic governor. They would not be-
| liCyc that sound money was good doc
trine and Maryland sends republican
senator to be the colleague of Mr. Ar
thur orman, and Il republican is in the
| white house at Annapolis. They de
stroycd the democratic party in Ohio and
Mr.. Foraker takes the place of a long
succession of democratic senators, head
ed by Thurman. pendleton and others,
making so glorious Il record They dis
avowed the teachings of the ordinarily
| lucid and able Carlisle (applause) and we
| have Il republican governor in the state
of Kentucky. They purdoncd the anarci-
lists in the great state of Illinois and
every democratic congressman walked
the plank ut the next election.
There has not been Il ghost Of chance
to elect Il democratic president since lS!4
because of the free silver men. and there
fore, when they charge that we are try
in to elect Mckinley, we respectfully re-
ply that they have done that job for us
far more skilfully than we could have
hoped to have to do it, (ApplauSc.)
What we intend to refuse to do is to at
tempt the election of the Chicago ticket
ON the pretensc that it is Il democratic
ticket. The convention was our agent;
we gave it instructions. The democratic
party was its principal. That agent un.
dcrtook by virtue of Il commission bear
ing our seal to apply undemocratic prin-
ciplcs with the promise of satisfactory
solution of the public questions. 1t is
not our ticket
Now, my democratic friends, what
are we going to do here today? Nomi-
nate Il ticket of course. There is not
any one among us who came here with
the idea of shooting the air and going
through dress parade of formulating
truths except by the concrete lesson of
two good men upon good platform.
(ApplauSc.)
Il do not want the questions before
us obscured by any other questions. Do
not let us make any nominations that
shall obscure these questions. DO not
let us open any door to our enemies to
raise new issues upon us. We are the
democratic party who entered into no
bargain with Teller and Sherman and
rcpudiutcd it, OLaughter) Who doubts
that the bargain with Teller and Shcr-
man by which they gave the Sherman
bill to the mine owner of the west and
the Mckinley tariff to the manufacturer
of the east was made over again by the
senators now in congress who call them
selves democrats and the republican free
silver senators. by which we obtained
free silver at st. Louis and Chicago and
struck out only our tariff plank? Cap
plause) We stand today for tariff for
revenue only. (ApplauscO We are the
democratic party who know that the
markets of America are not sufficient
for the sweat of America. and we want
to open every market i'll the world that
our laborers may sell their products
wherever they please in all the world
(applause), and we want that laborcr
when he sells his product, to get Il dol
lar for it that is good in any market
where he wants to buy. CApplause)
and that is the American dollar. No
bastard dollar ut J3 cents on the hun
drcd. but Il dollar so good that the Amer
lean laborcr. taking it in his hand us
the coined sweat of his hot days labor,
can buy anywhere in the world with that
dollar without discount what his own
people need for it. And that is sound
money. (Applause.) And when this
convention adjourns and we return
home we will win no election. Perhaps
nnt u SipUln Stotn will Inrtuinly yptn for,
our ticket. There are in every transac-
ton the elements of transformers and of
permanencc: he who sees the battlefield
and the victor forgets the questions that
were involved in the struggle. The
scalfOd of the victim may be the one that
shall hereafter mark the victor We will
he defeated at the polls but we will save
what? The honor of America (applause).
the good name of our people, and the
democratic party from ruin Cap
plause.)
After tLt. demonstration which followed
the conclusion of the speech had Subsid
ed. Mr. Griffin, chairman of the New
York delegation. attempted to introduce
Il resolution on the coinage question. but
it was referred to the committee without
debate.
Mr.. Ochs of Tennessee then mounted a
chair and offered resolution expressing
the deep loss the national democracy felt
in the death of Massachusetts brilliant
ex-governor. VIM. II. Russell He refer
red to the spirit of sectionalism which
had broOdcd over the Chicago convention,
which had no place in national demo-
cratic convention. The resolution was
adopted by a rising vote. and DR.. Everett
of Massachusetts. at the request of the
Bay States delegation. took the stage and
responded feelingly in behalf of Massa-
chusotts.
Mr.. Savage of Kentucky read the fol
lowing telegram, which was warmly re-
ceived
Hon Geo Davis. Chairman kentucky
Dclcgation-(five us an unCquivocal dem
ocratic platform and an old-time demo-
cratic ticket and all will he well.
"WM. LINDSAY"
Mr.. Savage said there was no more
chance of Bryan carrying Kentucky than
of the Lord endorsing the teachings of
the Chicago convention.
John Dewitt Warner of New York
spoke for his state.
+. w. Lehman. Il portly-faced Mis-
souri, man. told the convention that de-
mocracy stood for equal opportunities for
all and special privileges to none.
Judge Moran of Illinois then moved
that the convention invite w. ID. Bynum
of Indiana to address the convention, as
he had done more than any other to make
the convention success. The motion
was adopted and Mr.. Bynum's appear
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