The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-03

tlOU OF naJlO1al committeeman.
"Ftfth-Roll call of States for the nom
ination and election of candidates for Pres
ident Of the United States.
"Sixth-Roll call of States for the nom
ination of candidates for Vice President of
the United States.
The also the
adoption of the following resolution.
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
convention that permanent organization of
ton now assembled be advisable and nee
essary; that the national committee of this
party shall call future conventions of the
party, apportion delegates thereto, provide
the time and place for the holding thereof
and generally perform such duties as de-
VoIVe upon the committee of a political
party"
On motion of Mr.. Robertson the report
was unanimously adopted
SENATOR CAFFERY'S SPEECH.
The Chair appointed Messrs. Bullitt, Of
Pennsylvania, and LAWYER, of Minnesota,
a committee to escort the permanent
chairman to his seat. Senator Caffery was
received with great applause and spoke as
follows:
I tender this convention my deepest
thanks for the high honor of selecting me
to preside over its deliberations. l shall
always regard it as the highest honor ever
conferred upon me. Charged by our party
with the function of ministering in its
temple of faith, and teaching the people its
true doctrines, our priests have desecrated
its affairs. broken its shrines and taught
false doctrines to the people. We now
enter the sanctuary of the temple and take
possession of the ark of the covenant Of
our faith, which we will hereafter vigilant-
ly guard, protect and defend. We will
purify its desecrated affairs and rebuild it's
broken shrines. And lest the hearts of the
people be stolen away from true Demo-
cratic f~aith-the faith of our fathers and
founders-we must separate from our
from those who have followed their evil
teachings. We cannot follow them in the
road they have taken, for their feet are
swift TO destruction, and their way is the
way of death. The ties that bound US were
as strong as hooks of steel, and We part
from them in sorrow.
Loyalty to party discipline and organiza-
ton has ever been the pride and strength
of our party. Loyalty to principle has ever
ing tenet, to all others. bind
ing in conscience and guiding the action
OF every true Democrat.
If we do not look into evidence ali-unde
to show the Michigan frauds and other
devious acts and practices designed to
pack the convention, the Chicago platform
has the stamp of our party and claims it's
allegiance, but it is a mere simulacrum; a
form without the substance of Democracy,
and no Democrat is bound by it, nor is
1t entitled to his fealty. The declarations
Of that platform are :.open. palpable and
fragrant departures from all that Democ-
racy has stood for. They assail the money
standard of the country and declare, for
the inflated and deprecated standard of
free silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. They
assail the right and power of the executive
to enforce the law and to protect prop
erty under the control and in the custody
of the federal courts in any State in the
Union; they attack the integrity of a CO.
ordinate branch of the governments; they
declare that the function of issuing paper
money is to be exclusively exercised by
the government itself; they assail the right
of the citizen to contract for aymen in
any legitimate commodity; they declare
that the obligations of the government, for
ment of which in the same coin the ma
tional faith is pledged, may be paid in a
fba deprecated ascb and coin ayera and ons we Of de f s
attacks and declarations are undemocratic
They are an assault upon the Constitution,
cratic party, and the distinguished patriot
and statesman who has twice led it to the
only victories it has achieved in thirty-six
raises its hand against some of the princi-
pies, of both parties and all the principles
or the Democratic party. 1t Is beSotten Of
the unhallowed union between so-caIied
Democracy, populism and anarchy. And
that the scriptures may be fulfilled, it will
be a fugitive and a wanderer on the face
of the earth.
We hold that no argument is needed to
character of the doctrine that the laws
cannot be enforced in a State by
which is in the jurisdiction Of
federal courts, or to protect the United
ought to be reorganized. or tnat The ma
tional honor should be stained CT the ma
tional faith violated, or that the freedom
OF private contract ought 10 be limited. or
that the function of issuing paper money
ought to be exclusively exercised by the
IeuSIdl government. we hOiu thlI the the
DRY of free coinage of silver with sold at
the ratio of Is to l admits of argument, but
We hold that the weight of authority. the
strength of reasoning and the facts Of ms
tory, all point to its fallacy and tie ruin
Gus consequences of its adoption. We hold
that it will rob the poor Man of his wages
and the rich man OF HIS wealth: the widow
of her savings, the child Of its patrimonv:
the soldier of his pension, the industrious
OF hrs toll and the inventor Of the reward
or his genius. We hold chat il will de-
moTaiize and seriously disturb the immense
ciated and depreciating stand ,Ti: sJojfe
V Vqfb i u h1fe5t as Wv WITH bo,5 a palsy END trade
credit viii fall PROSTATE. IT'S OBLIGATIONS
will be dishonored and it's unsullied charac-
ter Will be stained with fraud and deceit.
we claim that these averments are tree
established by historical fact, by unan-
distinguished political economists. and fho
common sense and common honesty of the
largest portion of our feIlow-cftizens. The
credullty and cupidity of some of our good
cltlzens nave been played dpon and aroused
by artfuI fanatics. and cunning dema-
PATRIOTIC and Intelligent men who cling
with all the strength of conviction to the
nsln at 10 to !. If their theory IS denouncef
as false and pernicious. no imputation is
cast upon their character nor any slur
Tn free coinage OF silver is and has
been. since Mr.. CleveIand's inaucuration
the supreme. overshadowing issI.o herr
before the country. Upon that issue fbe
PRESIDENT and a majority of his partv5s
representatives in Congress took opDosite
SIDES. In consequence. he has been newer
less to effect financial reform and secure
immunity from gold raiding on the treas
ury. since the inception of the struggle
Tor Tree silver. no compromise has beer
possible. Our brethren knew that the hat-
tie was on to the death. The nomiaee Of
the so-called Democratic party has on sew
eFal occasions proclaimed the irreconciIa-
Die nature of the conflict. 1t is a ittinr
culmlnatlon of such a contest for orr
brethren to obtain allies from poDulfsm at
The price OF Incorporating it's nefarious
doctrines in their platform and ATTEMPTING
70 palm them off as genuine Democracy
IL was tit that to a degraded and depreci-
atcq currency should be added an assassin
d.ed judiciary and a pOwerless executive.
elloW-cltlzens, we are not traitors to OR
party. we are in the house of our fathers.
we cannot be driven from it. We will de-
fend the honor Of our country and the in
tegrlty OF our principles as long as life en-
dufeS. We can neither be ousted of orr
politlcal heritage nor forced into the ranks
OF our old-time adversary. We intend to
preserve intact, unimpaired and unsullied
by, and through the organization which
we perfect to-day, the Democracy of ,Ief- |
ferson. Jackson, Benton and Cleveland
We propose to furnish q refuge and an
abiding place for such of our brethren as |
shocked and grieved at the BETRAYAL of our
principles at Chicago. are inclined to 90
TO the republican camp.
The principles of Democracy are imper-
lshable. They are antagonistic to the pa
ternalism of the Republican and the So
CialiSt, the deStructiNeneSg of tba ADorcb