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electoral ticket. it must be that we In
tend to be successful. Do you suppose
for a moment that the Democracy which
controlled the convention at Chicago, II
Il is the Democracy, desire hat the
Democracy of New Jersey and New York
shaH treacherously and falsely attempt
mean to defeat them? Is that the kind
OF regularity TO build up q party? Nc,
1t is far better for a party when such a
crisis arises to stand up boldly and say,
My friends. we cannot go with you any
further; you have a right to your opin-
ion, we nave a right to ours; we must
both do our duty toward our country as
we understand IT.
There Is a necessity of preserving a
Democratic party somewhere. cannot
but feel that a large part of the present
condition of things is due to the teach
many years from the Republican party.
I cannot but feel that they have been
educating the people of this country to
feel that government In itself was some
thing separate and apart from the people
and that it had some divine, creative
powers by which in some measure we
could do away with the old rules of
prosperity, of thrift, OF industry andsecon-
omy, and produce wealth and happiness
by some legerdemafn of government. It
is necessary TO preserve what we can
of Democracy In order that people may
have somewhere to go IN the future
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this is dead sea fruit, all of these teach
ings of ~paternalism-'
Your n~eighbors of Pennsylvania
adopted a platform Yesterday which
studied by the people of this country Will
appeal to their intelligence and meet
their approval I do not wonder that
there are great numbers of people in this
country who are in favor IF free silver.
I do not wonder at ii, because those who
rave advocated ound money In the past
have done it upon grounds and made ad-
missions whereunder the road to free sill
verism can be followed with considerable
consistency. 1t has been the habit of
almost everyone, for instance, to admit
that the amount of actual money regu-
lated prices.
Ard a large and influential number Of
people in this ountry who deprecate
what has been done in Chicago have adj
vocated that theory. Upon reelection, up
on examination. almost anyone will be
driven to the conclusion that this IS an
error, and it is an error around which IS
based all of the financial troubles. I
will be the case. chat the convention
which meets at Indianapolis will be free
from any such impressions or delussons,
and that they will send forth a doctrine
which will he exposed 60 no such attack
as is the platform adopted by the Re
publicanS at st. Louis or the platform
adopted by the late Democratic Conven-
tion in Chicago.
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putting some body Of men upon the true
ground in a political organization in this
country can be over-estimated. o will
find that the burden, almost the entire
power which the advocates OF the nomi-
nation ait Chicago have, is derived from
the admissions which nave been made by
a large portion of their opponents. OF
course 1t is manifest that the amount of
money does not determine prices. The
amount of circulating medium in a large
sense does determine prices, but that cir
culating medium is made up not 50 much
of actual money as of all kinds of infiu-
erlces even up to a state of mind. In COM
parison with these things money in IT.
self is but a small change to be used
where it Is too inconvenieBt to use the
methods that move a great portion Of
sible that the mere amount Of money
should determine prices, because under
a perfect system of business Q would
oulate your property. We only use It as a
convenience. not as an absolute ueces-
sity.
Therefore, if the American people onee
get into their minds this which 1 believe
to be the underlying principle in this
whole controversy, a vast amount of con-
fusion will ave been removed from their
minds II is no wonder that men who
are removed from the centers of business.
men who do not see how the affairs Of
the world are actually carried on, but
who only see the minor parts, lave been
led away by these currency decisions
and it is the duty and privilege Of men
like those who are assembled here, to at
tempt to lay before the people of this
country the truth of these questions. T
have the most profound regard for many
of these men who are advocating this
doctrine which we believe viii be 50 per-
nicious. l nave been brought ultimately
in contact with them. I know their
character; I know their purpose, and I
know that great numbers of them are
inspired by perfectly patriotic motives.
Many of those In the South and the West
are not inspired by a desire to get rich,
but It is merely that they feel that they
are doing justice. 1 respect their sin
certify, and it behooves all of us to APP
proach them with respect for their sim
certify. And when we do that. possibly
we can get upon a plane with them
wherein we can discuss these questions
and perhaps bring them to our views
without going through the school of ter
rible experience in his country Of ours.
Il cannot weary you by a discussion
on currency this afternoon, because the
subject is a long one, but history is full
of examples. This thing has been fought
out time and again. always supported
the same course and always throwing
the people who adopted the false side of
1t into the same disaster. It seems the
one thing which men will not learn from
the experience of others. They shut their
eyes TO what has been and devote them
selves to seeing what will be, where. If
they had studied the experiences of their
ancestors, they would know that they
might as well try to regulate the process
sion of the equinox by political conyen-
tions as to regulate these money matters
by governmental action against the
course Of nature.
We are ~endeayoring at this time. as
we have been for years, to save this
American people from going through an
experience that our people Y had ct
other times. God grant that we may do
1t; that this election may put an end
10 It. 1t will not if this election is only
e defeat of what took place at Chicago.
II II Is not only q defeat, but an Isolation.
It will remain to trouble our business, to
estrange labor and capital during the
next four years to a greater extent than
cause now it will have the control of a
great party 1t will nave an organiza-
ton In every Eastern State. and unless
you make the people of the United STATES
understand this question thoroughly. irn-
derstand wherein lie their interests. VIZ
will find that this thing will remain to
trouble the business world fully as much
in the future as it has in the past.
therefore it behooves every one not
the Chicago Convention, but IL must be
stamped with the d~isapproval OF the
American people In such a way that no
set Of politicians will ever cara ara;n
to take it up. Speaking with a promin-
ent gentleman the other day, / asked vy5v
it was that such and such Senators .iid
not take any active part IN the defeat
of the Chicago ticket. why they were sim
ply satisfied to remain silent. This man
mems aniruosities get the better Of tbnn,
to such an extent that thew nru u,ffisr-