The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30
PALMER AND BUCKNER RALLY.
GOLD DEMOCRATS GIVE REASONS
FOR THEIR FAITH.

Capt. w, vi. Hammond-The Chica-
go Platform Unsparingly Con-
demned and the Record and PO-
sitiOn of Its Candidate Attacked,
The indianapolis Platform Urged
rs the Exposition of True Democ-
racy.
The Palmer and Buckner rally at the
theater last night was well attended by
the business element. There were several
hundred people present. although there
was room for as many more.
Addresses were made by Hon S. B..
Adams, and Col. A. r. Lawton Of savan-
nah, Hon. Albert H. Cox OF Atlanta, and
Capt. W. NJ Hammond of Thomasyllle, all
of whom handled the issues discussed in
an able and interesting manner.
Mr.. ]. R. Anderson, chairman Of the
Palmer and Buckner committee, presided
and called the meeting to order promptly
at $50 O'Clock Mr.. S. B. Adams and Hon.
A. II. Cox were seated on the right Of the
chairman and Col. Lawton and Capt.
Hammond on his left. Others present on
the stage were H. A. Palmer, S. Quicken
heimer, L. Kayton, Leopold Adler Capt.
John Flannery and others.
Among those in the audience were Mr..
Joseph Hull. Mr.. George ]. Baldwin, Capt,
II. C. Cunningham, Col. W. w. Gordon,
Mr. George w. Owens, Col. H. NJ. Clinch,
Mr. lie Roy Myers, Mr.. Joseph Rosen-
helm, Capt w. w. Williamson, Mr.. M.
%. Lane, Mr.. John Rourke. Mr.. P. T.
Foye, Mr.. A. Minis, Mr.. ]. ]. Wilder,
Capt Williams, Maj. G. A. Whitehead,
Mr.. w. w. Chisholm, Mr.. P. T. Gleason,
Mr.. c. Lucien Jones. Mr.. ]. T. Wood,
Mr. Horace A. Crane and DR.. w. H.
Elliott.
After a brief statement Of the reasons
which brought them together Mr.. Ander-
son introduced Hon. S. B. Adams as the
first speaker of the evening.
Mr.. Adams said that in the language of
Gen. Buckner he was glad to be at the
indianapolis convention, because at was
not a place for spoils.". Earnest and
thoughtful democrats" he said, met In
that city to nominate candidates doomed
10 certain defeat, and it put forth plat
form which would share their fate"
They realized that it was a serious thing
to bolt the action of their party, but the
step was not taken carelessly or thought
lessly. Mr. Adams attacked Mr.. Bry ans
record as a representative democrat
-Four years ago Mr.. Bryan supported the
greenback candidate for the presidency
he said. Just prior to his nomination he
ran paper which was certainly populis-
tic in principal II not in name. He had
announced that he would not abide by
the action of the convention If IL declared
for the gold standard. Had that conven-
ton declared for a gold standard, he said,
Mr.. Bryan would, to-day be in the populist
camp, where he belonged. He appeals for
the suffrages OF the voters not only as the
nominee Of the democrats. but also of the
populists and the free silver republicans.
The democrats cannot claim him as ex-
clusiyely their own.
Mr.. Adams charged that the Chicago
platform is not in its main features DEM
ocratic and that this being the case real
democrats could not be required to give it
their support.
Suppose" said he, ''this convention had
declared not only for free silver upon a
false and an monumental basis, but had
also adopted principles recognized as dis
tinctively and exclusively republican! Sup
pose, for example, IL had declared for
high protective tariff and for the policy
of Capitalization in government, is 1t pos
sible that any democrat worthy of the
name would have hesitated to have repu-
dated this unauthorized action? Suppose
Il had promulgated the platform OF the
populist, OF the convention that made Mr..
Bryan Its nominee, is il possible that this
action would have bound democrats? No
agent Of any party or people or individ-
ual, has unlimited powers. His conduct
must be within the scope of his agency"
THE democratic platform declares for
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to l, without waiting
for the action OF other nations, and that
standard silver dollars shall be a legal
tender equal to gold for all debts, public
and private ] will not discuss what /
believe to be the disastrous effects of such
a policy. That viii be done, more ably
and more to your entertainment, by other
speakers But / am here to declare that
this is not democratic doctrine, and il is
the first time in the history of the demo-
cratic party that Ii has ever been pro-
mulgated as its creed. My reading and
investigation cause me to believe that 1t
appears for the first time In the platform
OF the greenback convention, which met
at the same place in 1880. The platform
of 1892, upon which the democrats
achieved victory, declared for the coin
age Of both metals. but under legislative
safeguards that would insure their pari-
ty, the ratio to be adjusted by in
ternational agreement That platform
recognized a universal prlnciple-that IL
we were to have two standards the unit of
each must necessarily be the commercial
equivalent of the other"
Mr.. Adams charged that the platform
had surrendered the great democratic
principle Of tariff for revenue only. He
arraigned 1t for its rebuke by Implication
of Grover Cleveland for doing his duty as
he understood it. Mr.. Cleveland he said,
was in the performance of his sworn duty
when he used the federal troops without
waiting for the demand OF Gov. Altgeld
OF Illinois. The men who were RESPONSE
BILE for the disorder in Chicago, were not
real working men, he said, but anarchists.
He attacked the Chicago platform for
fts announcement as plainly as If il had
used the words that it intended to pack
the supreme court in order to secure
"a reversal of the income tax decision
Twice before in the history of the coun-
try had this court been increased for
purpose, he said, but the party RESPONSE
BILE, not the democratic party, never
stated in its platform that It proposed to
do 50. 1t was an undgnihed and shame
full thing to say.
THE platform put forth by the Indian
apolis convention IS democratic to the
core. have yet TO read the charge from
any one that II is undemocratic. The body