The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-23

CONVICTION, KY, Oct. 22.-John G.
Carlisle, secretary of the treasury
spoke this evening at Odd Fellows
hall in the interest of sound money"
Democracy The hall is not large
one but had it been ten times as large
it would not have held those who came
to hear the secretary.
Rumors had been circulated that an
attempt would be made to break up
the meeting. There was a disorderly
element present in the rear of the hall,
who Kissed loudly as Mr.. Carlisle ap-
peared on the stage.
The majority of the audience, now
ever, was in sympathy with the
sneaker, and drowned the Kisses in
vociferous cheering.
The disturbers compelled the secre-
tary to stop several times during the
early part of his speech, but were
finally quoted by Mayor Rhinock, and
with the exception of the few isolated
i cheers for Bryan, no further trouble
occurred.
A counter-demonstratio was held by
the silverites in the street in front OF
the building, but it in no way inter
fered with the meeting inside the hall.
During the interruption of the earlier
part of the meeting the secretary re
| ouested those who did not care to hear
him speak to leave the hall.
Secretary Carlisle began his address
by saying:
Il have come here to speak in be-
half of the Democratic candidates
! pledged to the principles OF Demo
cratic platform, and my purpose is TO
discuss some of the pending questions
from a purely Democratic standpoint.
eve are not Republicans, or Popu-
lists or fusionistS; we are simply plain,
old-fashioned Democrats without any
modern authorizations in our doctrines,
or any Populist or communist appen-
dages to our organization.
He referred to the fact that here
in this county, when less than 20 years
old, he had begun his career as public
speaker by opposing the doctrines of
the ''Knownothing party and since
that time he challenged his critics TO
show that he had ever uttered an UNI
Democratic sentiment or voted an I'M
Democratic ticket. Then he proceeded
| to analyze what the principles of
Democracy meaning American
Democracy, not that wild, turbulent
and destructive form of Democracy,
which has been imported from abroad,
and which is so nearly allied to
anarchy that it is almost impossible to
distinguish one from the other.
THE CANDIDATES.
OF the candidates of the National
| Democracy, he said:
John M. Palmer and Simon Bolivar
Buckner are not strangers to the
American people-they were not dis
covered yesterday by the bewildered
delegates to a political convention, and
| they will not be forgotten when the
sound and fury of this remarkable
campaign have subsidized. They are
| soldiers and statesmen, ripe with the
experience derived from long public
service at critical periods in our his
tory, and they stand conspicuously in
this contest for law and order. for the
| inviolability of contracts, for the indie
| pendence and manhood of all classes of
| our people; for just and equal taxation
| for public purposes only; for sound
and stable currency and for the main
| tenance of the national authority and
I national honor under all circum-
| stances
THEIR NOMINATION.
In regard to the question of the regu-
larity of their nomination he said:
Let us inquire for a moment how
| far mere considerations of regularity are
influencing the actions of our critics in
| this campaign. The nominations made
at Chicago have been partially repudi-
ated by the very men who made them
in a majority of the states. The ma
tional and state committees appointed
to carry on the campaign and the
| pledges to the support of botn
nominees of the Chicago con-
vention-to the support of one
just as much as to the support of
the other-have in twenty-six or
twenty-seven states deliberately en-
tered into arrangements and combin-
| ations to deprive one of the nominees
of a large number of electoral votes,
| and give them to another candidate not
nominated by that convention, nor by
any other convention even pretending
to be Democratic, and yet these gentle
| men have the assurance to call us
I boilers, and the presidential candidate
himself who has countenanced and
| encouraged the sacrifice of his asSo-
ciate on the ticket. whose nomination
was as regular as his own, tells us that
| we cannot get back into the Demo-
cratic party unless we come in sack
cloth and ashes Gentlemen, we are
not out of the Democratic party, and
we do not intend to go out or be put
out"
LOOKING BACKWARD.
Then he discussed what past Demo-
cratic platforms had been on the finan-
cia1 question, contrasting them with
the Chicago declaration in favor of
free coinage of silver at 16 to 1. He
continued:
Notwithstanding all that has been
said or may be hereafter said, to the
contrary. we have now a distinct none
tary system of our own, freely adopted
by our own constitution, without dicta-
ton from or consultation with any
other nation in the world, and we have
the right and power to change it, or
abolish it altogether whenever we
choose.
1.-THE question is not whether the
United States, alone, have the power to
adopt free coinage and silver mono
metaIlisin, but whether, in view of our
own Democratic conditions and inter-
ests and of our extensive comnercial