The record-union., 1896-07-18

quence, but after him came the giant of
the West, who lifted up the entire con-
vention and carried it away with him..
Mr.. Leggett then thanked God very
deyOutly that it was still within the
power of the people to nominate ana
elect a poor man to the Presidency.
Sewall was a New England Democrat,
and when you found one Of them he was
always stanch. But he was more than a
New England Democrat-he was New
England free silver man. The ticket
vas right, top and bottom SeWall had
employed thousands of laborers all his
life, and there had never been strike
among them.
The speaker said everyone would ad-
nit that free silver would be good
thing for the man who was in debt, and
that man was the enterprising citizen
the merchant, the manufacturer, and
the man who was trying to build up the
city. They it was WIN, were in debt to
the man who stood with his hands in
his pockets-the capitalist. The gold
bugs. the speaker said, argued that it
vas lack of intelligence for man to
be in debt. This was all wrong.
1t was no discredit to be in debt.
The United States was in debt
to England because the latter had
the boarded wealth of centuries at her
command, and it was right that we
should need it to develop our country.
Likewise the West was in debt to the
East, and for the last decade, instead of
using what it was urged would be a
tifty-cent dollar if free coinage were
had, the West had been paying interest
on a 200-cent dollar.
The speaker warned the voters
against the man who came to them with
facts and figures. Figures, he said,
were dangerous things in the hands of
an unscrupulous adept. If they would
draw their own conclusions and vote
that way, they would be all right, and
free coinage would carry.
John p Irish had recently said that
'he was too much of a Democrat to be
an anarchist" but if the Chicago plat
form was the work of anarchists then
he was once more devoutly thankful
that he was an anarchist.
He then took up the platform and
Waded through it, while the crowd
thinned out. They didn't want to hear
the platform-they wanted something to
yell at
Chairman LaRue told Leggett to "cut
it short" but Leggett wasn't that kind
OF a man. He was out to have his say
and had it, and it was half-past 3
O'Clock when he sat down, and some
body tried to start a cheer.
Then the Chairman introduced Gillis
Doty, who did a lot of talking about
Bryan, which was what the crowd liked.
He told some stories which the crowd
liked better still, even though there
wasn't much point to them. He told
how the Republican State Convention
had adopted silver platform and
elected silver delegates. They had
started to St Louis as free silver men,
bat when they got there Mark Hanna
shook up the bag and they came out
gold bugs.
Jud Brusie, the speaker said, had told
q story about a Democratic egg which
was Matched at Chicago, which had
proved the wrong kind Of a chicken, but
he didn't know all about chickens, for
the Democratic fowl had been hatched
a full Il-grown rooster, with spurs an inch
and a half long, and whose comb would
never be cut by the Republican party.
1t was beginning to look as though at
the Populist convention to be held at st.
Louis another Democratic chicken
would be'haltched from the Populist egg.
It was $40 o'clock when Doty sat
down, and then the big chief of the Iro-
ouois nation, who had gathered his
braves around him, emitted his war
whoop and called for three cheers for
Bryan and Sewall, which were given
with vim by the Democrats who had re-
mained to see the end of it.
Then the Chairman cautioned all good
Democrats to get on the Great Regis
ter and the Democratic ratlncatlon
meeting wended its way home to rest