Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-07-17
WAS LIKE A PRAIRIE FIRE
DANIELS BURNING WORDS ON THE
10 TO 1 PLANK.
The Democratic Party blends the
PaImettOs and Pines In Maine
and south Carolina.


is unanimous-that no national conven-
ton was ever presided over with more
ability or with more fairness than by
yourself. Cheers and cries of "Harrity')
can express no better wish for myself
than that | may be able in some feeble
way 10 model my course by your model
and practice by your example. (Cheers.)
The position. gentlemen, to which you
have chosen me involves both great per-
sonal honor and keen responsibility. For
the honor / thank you. The responsibility
j would be wholly inadequate to bear did
depend upon myself. but YOUR gracious
aid will make ii easy and its burden
light. That aid l confidently invoke from
you in behalf of the cause under whose
banners we have fought so many battles,
and which now demands of us such
staunch devotion and such loyal service.
/ regret that my name should have been
brought ia most courteous and serious
complication with that of my distinguish
ed friend, the great senator from New
York. (Applause) But the very fact that
] have permitted 1t to be done refutes the
suggestion that has been improvidently
made on this floor. that either | or those
whom | have the honor to represent
would ever heap indignity upon that
brave and illustrious head. Great APP
plause) No dispassonate Judgment, gen
tlemen, can ever misinterpret your mean
llSs i ne senator from NOW i OGk nllIl-
self must know. as | know, as you know,
that there is no personality in the prefer
ment which has been given me- You
must know, and the whole country that
watches these proceedings must know.
that 1t Is solely due to the principle that
this great majority of democrats stands
for, and that they know / stand for them
(applause), and that is given in the spirit
OF instructions received by these repre-
sentatives of the people, whom all demo.
Gratis Will ever bow TO as to the pures,
and original source of all power. The
blrth OF the democratic party was coeval
with the birth of the sovereignty of the
people. 1t can never be destroyed until
the declaration of American independence
Is forgotten and that sovereignty rs
crushed out. Great applause.) l am
happy, gentlemen, to know that the ma
Jority in this convention is not personal
neither in any sense is 1t sectional 1t
blends the palmettos and pines in Maine
and South Carolina; it begins with the
sunrise in Maryland and spreads into the
sunburst in Louisiana and Texas, it
stretches in one unbroken column across
the American continent, from the Atlantic
shores of the Old Dominion and Georgia,
and 1t sheds its silvery beams over the
Golden Gate of California. (Applause)
1t sends forth its pioneers from plymouth
ROCK and waves over the golden wheat
fields of Dakota. 1t has its stfonghulds
In Alabama and Mississippi, and its out
posts in Minnesota, Florida and oregon
Applause) 1t sticks like tarheel zap
plause) down in the old North state and
1t writes IL to on the saddle bags of the
Arkansas traveller. cloud applause) 1t
pours down its rivulets from the noun
tains of West Virginia and makes a great
lake in New Mexico. Arizona, " yoming,
Idaho, Utah Nevada. Montana and Colo
RADIO. 1t stands guard around the nation
al capitol and the District of Columbia
(cheers) and 1t camps on the frontiers of
Oklahoma. 1t sweeps like a prairie fire
over Iowa and Kansas, and puts up the
red light on the confines of Nebraska. 1t
marshals its massive battalions IN Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. Last, but
far from least, when | see this grand ar
ray and think of the British gold stand
ard that was recently uniurled over the
ruins of republican promises at st. Louis
/ think. too. of the battle of New Orleans
of which 1t was said: There stood John
Bull In martial pomp, but there was old
kentucky" (Applause.) Brethren of the
east, there is no south, there is no north
there is no east or west in this uprising
of the people for American emancipation
from the conspiracy of European kings,
led on by Great Britain, which seeks to
destroy half of the money of the world
and make American manufacturers, mer-
chants, farmers and mechanics mere hew-
ers of wood and drawers of water.
There is one thing which permit me
in the good humor which has character
lied your conduct to commend to you
here, this golden rule to do unto others
as you would others do unto you.
Forget not that absolute acqu,escence
In the Will of the majority is the vital
principle of the republic. Democrats, as
you have the principles of the republic
to bear, democrats | trust you will
ever be, acquiesce gracefully to the VIII
of this great majority Vi your fellow
democrats, and l only ask you to so with
them as they have often gone with you.
(Applause.) Do not forget tnat for 80
years we have supported the man whom
you have named for the presidency,
Seymour, Greeley Tilden, Hancock, and
twice Grover CleN Gland. DO not forget
that We have submitted cheerfully TO
your compromise platforms ana have pa
tienty borne repeated disappointments as
to their fulillment DO not forget that
at the last convention of the party in
1892 you proclaimed yourselves as being
in favor of the use of both gold and sill
yer as standard money of the country,
for the coinage of both gold and silver
without discriminating against either
metal and that the only question left
open was the ratio between the two met
ais DO not forget that just four years
ago in the democratic convention in this
city the New York delegation stood here
sohdly and immovabiy for a candidate
committed to free and unlimited coinage
of silver and gold at the ratio of l6 to
/, and If we are still for 1t. let it not be
forgotten that We owe 1t in some meas
ure to their teachings. (Applause.) That
we owe much men of the east, we read
lily acknowledge. We owe you the force
bill and the Mckinley bih and Sherman
bill. the triple infamy of republican legis-
lation. The first was aimed not more
at the south than at the great cities of