The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-11
The Greatest Convention Ever Held in the
United States Passes Into History.
PLATFORM DECLARES FOR 10 TO l
BRYAN Will be Elected President in November by a Phenom-
email Majority-Was Nominated on the Fifth Ballot
His Nomination Made Unanimous-MCLean, OF
Ohio, will Probably Get Second Place.

to Overlooking by democrats, who were
about to witness the greatest democratic
convention ever held sine the war. The
main hall was decorated in all artistic
and effective manner. The most notica-
BILE feature of the decorations was the
immense pictures of the seven demo-
cratic Observation-Disclosures, jackson,
Van Buren,, Polk, Tyler, Buchanan and
Cleveland. Just above these was a mani
moth representation of he American
eagle with the shield of h United
States in its talOns.
Chairman Harrity called the conven-
tiyn to order at 1886 p. M. The con-
ventiun was opened with prayer by Rev.
Edward NJ. Stires. After quite a con-
test Hon. John W. Daniel, of Virginia,
was chosen temporary chairman over
David B. Hill, of New York.
MIR. DANIELS SPEECH.
MIR. Chairman of the National Dem
i ocratic Convention:-In receiving from
YOUR hands this gavel as the temporary
presiding officer of this convention. L
beg leave to express a sentiment which
/ am sure is unanimous, that no national
convention was ever presided over
with more ability or with more fairness
than by yourself. Cheers and cries of
''Harrity, Harrity. l a express no
better wish for myself than that may
he able: in some feeble way, to model
my conduct by your model, and 10 prac-
tice by your example. (Cheers.)
THE high position, gentlemen, TO
which Won have chosen me involves a
great personal honor and a keen respon-
siqility. For the honor, ! thank you.
The responsibility l would be wholly
Inadequate to bear, did l depend upon
mvself. but yOur gracious aid will make
it easy and its burden light. That aid L
confidently invoke from you for the sake
of the great cause under whose banner
we have fought so many battles, and
which now demands of us such staunch
devotion and such loyal service.
SORRY TO OPPOSE HILL.
81 regret that my name should have
been brought in, ever in the most cour-
teous and serious complication, win
that of my distinguished rlend. the
great senator from New York. ZAP
plause.) But the very Iact tnaI ! nave
permitted it to be done refutes the sug-
gestion that has been improvidently
MADE on this floor, that either L OF those
| whom | have the honor to represent
would aver heap indignitieS upon that
brave and illustrious head. QGreat ap-
plause.) No candidate. no ~dlspasslon-
ate Judgment, gentlemen, can ever mis-
interpret your meaning me senator
from New York himself knows, as
know, and as you know, that there is
no personality in the preferment which d,
has beer given to me. He must know,
and the whole country that waIcneS
these proceedings must know, that IL Is
solely due to the principle that thls
great majority of democrats stand for,
- A. ~ ,Ar II otnnd with 1hRm |
(a~pplause), and that it is gwen in the
spirit of the instructions received by
these representatives of the people, from
the people, whom all democrats VIII
aver bow to as the purest and original
source of all power. The birth OF the
democratic party was coeval Win Inc
birth of the sovereignty OF the people:
1t can never die until II declaration of
American independence Is forgotten,
and that sovereignty is crushed out.
Great applause.)
A NoN-sECTIONAL MAJORITY.
Il am happy, gentlemen. to know that
as the majority in this convention Is not
personal, neither in any sense Is 1t sec
tional. 1t blends the palmettos IN the
pines in Maine and South Carolina; 1t
begins with the sunrise In Maryland
and spreads into a sunburst III Louisiana
and Texas. 1t stretches in one unbroken
column across the American continent;
from the Atlantic shores OF the Oid
Dominion and Georgia, and 1t sheds ITS
silvery beams over the golden gates or
California. (Applanse.) 1t sends forth
its pioneers from Plymouth rock, and
waves over the golden wheat helds or
Dakota. 1t has its strongholds IN Ala
bama and Mississippi and its outposts In
Minnesota, Florida and Oregon. lAp'
plause.) 1t sticks like q tarheel zap,
plause) down in the old North state and
it writes IS to l on the ~saddlebags OF the
Arkansas traveller. loud applause.
1t pours down its rivulets from the
of West Virginia, and it
makes a great lake in g Mexico,
Arizona, Wyoming. Idaho, Utah, Neva-
da, Montana n Colorado. II STANDS
guard around the national capitol Ill the
District of Columbia (cheers), and u
on the frontiers OF Oklahoma. IL
sweeps like a prairie fire over Iowa and
and puts up a red light on the
confines of Nebraska, 1t marshals ITS ]
massive battalions i'll Ohio, Indiana, :
Illinois and Missouri. Last, but far
from least. when 1 see this grand array !
and think of the British gold
was recently unturled owe me , ,
ruins of republican promises at 81: !
1 think, too, of the battle of 5
Orleans, of which it was said: I
There stood John Bull, in martial !
pOmp. but there was old Kentucky. !
Applause :
Brethren of the East, there is no 7
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 one-half of the money OF the |
and to make American manufaG- !
turers, merchants. farmers and mechan- !
cs mere heWers of wood and drawers OF {
:
TIP FOR THE GOLD MEN. !
There is one thing golden, which, S
permit me, in The same good humor I
has characterized your conduct S
% commend to you here. 1t Is II |
solden rule, to do unto others as you |
would have them do unto you. Forget v
not the greed of devils, and that an ao= q
,olute acquiescence in the will of the I
majority is the vital principle of the
.epublic. Democrats as you have been,
democrats as L trust you Will ever be,
lcquiesce gracefully in the Will of this E
great majority of your fellow-democrals, .
ind only ask to go with them, as they D
AVE often gone With you. Applause. ?
do not forget. gentlemen, that for Z
hirty years we have supported the pen q
rou have named for president-Sey- II
nour, Greeley, Tilden, Hancock: and Z
vice Grover Cleveland. do not fOlget d
hat we have submitted cheerfnlly to =
compromise platforms, and to your q
epeated pledges of bimetallism, and u
AVE patiently borne repeated disap- u
as to their fullhllment. do Z
rot forget at the last national conven- .
ion of the democratic party ln 1892, you u
yourselves TO be i4 favor of !.
he use of both gold and silver as a ?
money of the country; for the o
of both gold and silver without u
discriminating against either metal. and y
hat the only question left open was the D
alto between the metals. DO not for s.
l refer TO the fact III no infer e
sense-that just o years ago in a U
democratic convention in tins city, the II
New York delegation stood here sOlidly a
md immOvably for a candidate commit "
ed to the free and unlimited coinage of b
ilEer and gold at the ratio of IL TO |. 81
And If We are still for it, let it not be "
orgotten that we Ow0 it in some meas 81
ire to their teachings. Applause. IL
THE DEBT TO THE EAST. ri
t''rhat we owe Won much. gentlemen IL