The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-04

eminent; that is. the three departments,
the executive that shall make the law reg
nant under the judiciary that shall be IN
dependent to declare ii, under the legisla-
ture that shall be impartial Approved in
our will, we have the executive power to
| compel the law to be obeyed; gust in our
| Iaw-declaring power, an independent jul
dietary; impartial in our law making power
! that is democracy. And this masquerade
| in latter days of hate is not democracy
and does not appeal to American Demo-
Now, my Democratic friends what are
we going TO do here to-day? Nominate
| ticket of course. There is not any one
! among us who came here with any idea
/ of shooting in the air and going through
| dress parade of formulating truths except
| by the concrete lesson of two good men
/ standing upon good platform-(applause)
men who are exemplars; care not par
| gentleman who. after a long life in the
| service of his country in peace and in war,
would like to take off the armor which we
| would put upon him and make him
| leader"
| EULoGIzEs THE CANDIDATES.
! Mr. Breckenridge looked hard at Senator
Palmer he uttered these words, and the
| convention sent up tumultuous yell of
| Palmer, Palmer" When quiet was OBJ
tanned Mr.. Breckenridge continued as fol-
| lows:
| Il can follow cheerfulIy and enthusiastic
| ally the lead of that most excellent, self
| controlled gentleman who commanded the
| Iron Brigade in the (cries of Bragg
y.
law and order against the debased cur
| rency that seeks to ruin commerce on the
! other side. (Applause.) | am willing. II 1t
! need be-and [ do it cheerfully-to put at
| the head of the ticket that farmer-states-
man, whom served with in Congress and
| who presided as your temporary chairman
yesterday-the fair flower of New York.
| (Mr. Flower.) L do not want the questions
before US obscured by any other question.
Do not let us make any nominations that
shall obscure these questions DO not let
us open any door to our enemies TO raise
issues
I'VE are the Democratic party who en-
tered into no bargain with Teller and Sher-
cheers) Who doubts that that bargain
with Teller and Sherman, by which they
of the West and the Mckinley tariff to the
manufacturer of the East, was made over
again by the Senators now in Congress
who call themselves Democratic and the
Republican free silver Senators, by which
we obtained free silver at St. Louis and
Chicago and struck out only our tarlH
plank? (ApplauSe.) We stand to-day for
tariff for revenue only. Applause) we
are the Democratic party who know that
the markets of America are not sufficient
for the sweat of America, and we want to
open every market in the world, that our
lahorers may sell their products wherever
they please in all the world. (Applause)
And want that laborer, when he sells
his product, to get dollar for it that is
good in any market where he wants to
buy (appause), and that is the American
dollar. No bastard dollar, at % cents on
the hundred, but dollar so good that the
American laborer, taking 1t in his hand as
the coined sweat of his hot days labor,
can buy anywhere in the world with that
dollar, without discount, what his own
people need Tor it. And that IS SOUND
money (Applause) And when TINS con
yention adiourns and we return home we
will win election; perhaps not single
State will certainly vote for our ticket
There are in every transaction the ele-
ments of transformers and of permanence
He who sees the battlefield and the victor
in the struggle. The scaffold of the victim
may be the crown that shall hereafter
mark the victor We will be de eated lri at
the polls, but we will save-what? The
honor of America (aDplause), the good
name of our people and the Democratic
party from ruin. (Applause)
II had an opportunity on a late occasion
to tell one object of this organization. May
/ repeat it? 1t is one that touches US; Pos
sibly it is not so much one of principle as
of affection. Many thousand OF these men
are our brotherhood bless them. we have
in all the affairs of life, even II you go
wrong now. Therefore we want 10 90
something that will show our afectlon Tor
them SO we build anew this Democratlcf
home; we repair it's broken windows; we
put new hinges upon its creaky docrS we
make comfortable its numerous rooms ana
after November, when these Democratic
brethren of ours. led astray by the lgn1s
fatuus of that Populistic light find them
selves in defeat and sorrow. We will light
the electric light of modern civilization,
throw open the shutters and the doors,
light the fires so that they may see the
rays of the home to which we Will invite
them from long distances, and We will beg
them TO come anu SIT by the HI6Slu6 Will
US
WELCOME THE PRODIGAL BROTHER.
1--WE will not tell them of what they have
gone through, but we will call the servant
and say: John. take off my brothers boots.
1t is evident he has been through the mud
0aughter.) And, as he looks a little
weary, we may turn around and say to
somebody. 1t is not the season of the year
when the aroma of the mint comes gently
from the side of the rivulet, but foreseeing
this, we have put away a little in the
closet. Iaughter.) John, bring out the
mint and the sugar and set the old bour-
bon Democracy that is pure and unmiXed
beside our brother and let him feel at
home daughter and cheers) we will
not talk of the canvass; we will not speak
of hopes ruined. We will never mention
Chicago once Qaughter), or if we do we will
do it by some sort of paraphrasiS like The
city of the porkpackerS,' or something of
that sort. merely to keep in his mind that
he has got home. (Laughter.) And then
when the night is far spent and we take up
in the od-fashioned way the little candle in
the little candlestck, we go with him to
the sleeping chamber where gratitude and
affection have brought together the broth
ers that were estranged. We go into that
room and shut the door, and we reach out
our hand 10 him without a word, except
to say: Brother, the past has been bitter
Let it be over and forgotten. Let to-mor-
row be a day when we will rival each
try, for the blessings of that liberty for
which our fathers strove, and that we want
to give to the children liberty based upon
lorder, making regnant the law with just
courts all over the land: and when we talk
over this hereafter it shall not be that one
wrong and one was right but that
both had finally reached, by different path
ways, that common road that leads to the
glory, the prosperity and the happiness of
the common people through the triun-
plant Democracy" (Cheers)
Tribute to William f. Russell
Mr.. Griffin. of New York-Mr Chairman
1 ask the unanimous consent of this con
vention for the rules to be suspended so
as to permit the reading of a resolution
that it may be submitted to the committee
platform which was adopted by the New
York delegation.
The Chairman-The resolution, under the
rule, goes to the committee on resolutions
without being read The gentleman will
please state the nature of the resolution.
Mr.. Griffin-It is a resolution relating to
the coinage question
The Chairman-It goes to the committee
on resolutions without being read
MIR. Ochs. of Tennessee-Mr. Chairman
l have a resolution which / desire the per
mission of this convention to present
The Chairman-You may read the resolu
ton.