Evening star., 1896-07-08

No candid man, no dispassionate judgment.
gentlemen. can ever mts'E teTpret your
meaning. The Senator from New York
himself knows, as you know, and |
know, that there is no personality in the
preferment which has been given TO me.
He must know that the whole country
watches these proceedings, and must know
that II is solely due TO principle that this
great ma Hjorlty of democrats stands for,
and that they know l stand with them,
(appldussD. and that 1t is given in the spirit
of the Instructions received by these rep
resentatives Of the people from the people,
whom all democrats viii ever bow to as
the pureSt ard original source of all power.
The birth of the democratic party was CO.
eval with the birth of the sovereignty of
the people. 1t can never die until the Dec
laration of American independence is for
gotten and tnat sovereignty IS crushed out.
Great applause)
Il am happy. gentlemen, to know that as
the majority in this convention is not per-
sonal. neither in any sense is 1t sectional.
1t blends the palmetto and the pines in
Maine and South Carolina 1t begins with
the sunrise in Maryland and spreads into
d sunhLrst in Louisiana and Texas. CAP
plduseD
1T stretches in one unbroken column
across the American continent from the
Atlantic shores of the Old Dominion and
Georgia, and it sheds it's silvery beams over
the Golden Gate of California. applause
1t sends forth its pioneers from Plymouth
Rock and waves over the golden wheat
fields of Dakota. 1t has its strongholds in
Alabama and Mississippi. and It's outposts
in Minnesota, Florida and Oregon. (Ap-
llauseJ 1t sticks like tar-heel Capplause)
down in the old North state, and it writes
sixteen to one on the saddIe-bags of the
Arkansas traveller. cloud applauseD 1t
pours down its rivulets from the noun
tains of West Virginia and makes a great
lake in New Mexico. Arizona, Wyoming.
Idaho. Utah, Nevada. Montana and Colo
rado. 1t stands guard around the national
capital, in the District of Columbia
(cheers). and 1t camps the frontiers of
Okla homa- 1t sweeps like a prairie fire over
Iowa and Kansas. and puts up a red light
on the confines of Nebraska. 1t marshaIs
us massive battalions in Ohio Indiana,
Illinois and Missouri
Last. but far from least when I see
this grand array. and think of the Brftis n
gold standard that was recently unfuried
over the ruins of republican promises at
St- LOUIS. L th1nk, too, OF the battle of New
Orleans. of which it was said: There stood
john Bull in martial pomp, but there was
old Kentucky Applause)
Uprising of the People.
Brethren of the east. there is no south.
there is no north. there is no east or west
IN this uprising of the people for American
emancipation from the conspiracy of Eu-
ropean kings. led on by Great Britain
which seeks to destroy one-haIf of the
money OF the world, and to make American n
manufacturers. merchants farmers and
mechanics mere hewers of wood and draw
ers of water. "
There is ore thing golden which. permit
me. III the same good numor which has
charaC terfZed your conduct to commend +,
you here. Ii is the golden rule to do ,Into
others as you would have them do unto
you. Forget not the greed of devils ard
that an absolute acquescenCe in the will
OF the majority is the vital princjple Of
the republic Democrats, as you have been.
democrats. as 1 trust you will ever be. ac-
qptesce gracefully in the will of the great
majority of your fellow democrats and
only ask to go with them, as they have
often gone with you. (ApplauseJ Do not
forget, gentlemen, that for thirty years we
have supported the men that YOU have
named for President-Seymour. Greeley. Til
den. Hancock and thrice Grover Cleveland.
DO not forget that we have submitted cheer
1ully to your compromised platform and to
your repeated pledges of bimetallism and
nave patiently borne repeated dseasters to
their fulfillment- To get at the last con-
Nentfon of the democratic party in IS,,o Won
proclaimed yourselves to he in favor of the
use or both gold and silver as standa rd
money OF the country, for the coinage of
both gold and silver without discrimipat ting
against either metal. and that the only
question left open was the ratio between
the metals.
DO rot forget-and I refer TO the fact
In no inferior sense-that just four wears
ago, in democratic convention in this
CITY. the New York delegation stood here
soHdiy and immovably for candidate
committed to the free and unlimited COIN
age of silver and gold at a ratio of 10 to l.
And IL We are still for 1t, let il not be for
gotten that we owe it in some measure to
their teachings. tApplause) That we owe
you much. gentlemen of the east, Is read
lily acknowledged and will be ever most
gratefully remembered. We owe you muc h
gentlemen of the convention and for what
We owe You of the east Is the force bill and
the Mckinley bill and the Sherman law
the triple infamy of republican legislation
Inc nrst was aimed not more at the south
than D. tEe great cities of the east and