The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-08

the NeW Ofk delegation StO0d mere
solidly and immovably for candidate
committed to the free and unlimited
coinage of silver and gold at the ratio
of 16 to /. And if we are still for it.
let it not be forgotten that we owe it,
in some measure TO their teachings.
(Applause). That we owe YOU much,
gentlemen of the East is readily ac-
knowledged, and will be ever most
gratefully remembered.
1--WE owe you much. 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 legis-
lation. The first was aimed not more
at the South than at the great cities Of
the East, and chief among them the
great Democratic city of New York,
with its magnificent patronage. That
bill got its death blow in the Senate.
but there was not single Democrat in
New York to vote against it. No man.
gentlemen, in this high noon Of our
country's fraternity, can revive force
bills noWin this reconciled and reunited
republic. Our opponents themselves
have abandoned them. There is none
that can stand between the union Of
hearts and the union Of hands that
Grant, in his dying vision saw was
coming on angels wings 10 all the sons
of our common country. When Chica-
60 dressed Southern graves in flowers
she buried sectionalism under noun
tain of fragrance. When Southern
soldiers yesterday cheered the wounded
hero OF the North in Richmond, the
South answered back: Let us have
peace; peace, union and liberty now
and forever "
SILVER is DEMOCRACY'S HOPE.
''As the majority of Democrats is not
sectional, neither does it stand for any
privileged or class legislation. The
active business men of this country,
| its manufacturers, mechanics, farm
ers, sons of toll in counting room, fac
tory. field and mine know that con
traction of the currency sweeps away
with the silent and resistless force of
graVitation the annual profits of their
eRterprise and investments. They
know, too, that the gold standard
means contraction and the organza-
ton of disaster. What hope is there
for the country and what hope for
the Democracy unless the views of the
| majority here shall be adopted? Do
| not the people know that it was not
silver legislation but legislation die
tated by the advocates of the gold
standard that has caused and now
continues the financial depression? Do
theY not know that when their de-
mandS upon Democracy were complied
with IN 1898, and the Sherman law re-
peeled without a substitute that the
very States of the East that demanded
II, turned against the Democracy who
granted 1t and swept away their ma
Jorlties in torrent of ballots. Had the
silver men had their way then instead
Of the gold monometalIists what
storms of abuse would here to-day be
emptied upon their heads but the peo-
pie, Supplying the power or memory
| and analysis alike to discover the
| causes of their arrested prosperity.
| need not go far to find them. They do
not forget when Democracy came to
| power in 1898 it inherited from it's
hepubican predecessors the tax system
| ana the currency system of which the
MCKINLEY and Sherman laws were the
eliminating atrocities. 1t came to
| power amidst a panic, which fitly fol-
| lowed upon their enactment with
| strikes, lockouts, riots and civic com
motions, while the scenes of peaceful
industry in Pennsylvania had become
| military camps.
we pray you, no more makeshifts
and straddles. Vex not the country
with your prophecies of smooth things
to come from the British-Republican
propaganda. (Applause)
The public revenues have fallen,
wages of labor have fallen and every
thing on the face OF the earth has
fallen but taxes and debts which have
grown, while on the other hand means
OF their liquidation has been diminish
ed y x x
mo nation calls itself free and indie
pendent that is not great enough to es-
tablish and maintain a financial sys-
tenn of it's own Great applause.)
''The majority of this convention
maintain that this great American ma
ton, with a natural base of fixed en-
pire, the greatest ever established
by man, with more productive energy
than Great Britain, France and Ger
many combined, without dependence
upon European nations for anything
that they produce and with Europeans
nations dependent upon much that we
produce, is fully capable of restoring
this constitutional money system of
SOld dud 0iAfCl Oh WIN Se'~AA'
(Aplause.) And as our fathers in 1776
declared our National independence
of all the world, so to-day has the
great Democratic party, founded by
Thos. Jefferson, the author of that
declaration, appeared here in Chicago
to declare the financial independence
of the United STATES of all other nations
and to invoke all true Americans to
assert it by their suffrages at the
polls, ths4 our country may be placed
where she by right belongs as the
freest. as the foremost, as the most
prosperous and happy nation that ever
blessed the life of mankind upon this
globe"
When Mr.. Daniel finished and an
nollnced that the convention was ready
for business there were loud cries for
Hin. The New York Senator sat quiet
~ eating a sandwich and showed no
disposition to respond. Senator Jones,
of Arkansas, announced that ON behalf
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