The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-19


Louis platform there is not one oil
them, If the occasion called for it, but
would don the gsrb of the union and
go forth to fight the battles OF ms
country. There is a battle now on
more serious, it seems to me, than any
that has ever troubled the country be-
fore. And yet they tell you, and they
tell me that the tariff is the cues
ton; this money question will be all
right provided the tariff is regulated;
the Democratic party will get in and
tear down the tariff wall, and we viii
have free trade, and all that rot Inc
tariff!
You might just as well tell me you
can cure a man whose blood mas all
been sucked from his body by putting
poultices upon his muscles. (Laugn-
teri The tariff remedy is analogous to
poulticing a cancer. 1t is money that
furnishes the blood of the finances of
the nation. Speaking as a Republican
and with convictions of that KIND, Inc
tariff has it's office and duty to per-
form; but If there is no money In Inc
country subject to use by the people,
the tariff will not aid you. You may
build voTr wall so high that not even
star can peep over it Qoud appiauseli
you will have nothing inside your walls
but rnortgaged farms lying falloW,
starving men and little children, and
your penitentiaries full. That is not the
remedy. We have it right here. | nave
10 patience with or confidence In the
honesty of a man who pretends. to ne
lieve the money question is a great
one. and which dominates this people,
and who has the opportunity to put
himself in alignment with those who
are marching forward to correct the
evils which beset us and of which he
has been complaining. / say l have
no confidence or belief in his honesty
if he fails to accept the opportunity
which God gives him this day. Cloud
applause)
Do you know, you money changers,
what you are doing? Oaughter) Do
you know how the sting is Fastening IN
the hearts OF the common people
Look out! You are sowing dragons
teeth and the morrow is near at hand,
1t may be, when You will harvest
crop of armed men. (Applause.) But
thou omniDotent God. who holdest the
destinies Of this people in the hollow Of
thy hand. let the light of thy wisdom
shine upon and illumine the path
which this people must follow. Out OF
the night into the day, out of bondage
into freedom lead, kindly light, lead
US onr' loud applause and cheers
long and continued.)
HON. DAVID EVANS
Hon. David Evans said the seat Of
government is at Washington, and
the government still lives, but already
the battle cry has been raised. We
have met the enemy and they are
ours. We have made an unequivocal
platform for the free coinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to !. That is the
trophy which we delegates bring and
lay at your feet.
They say the platform is revolution
airy. L it is revolutionary to pay debts
in the same money in which they were
contracted, then We are revolutionists.
We don't believe in making the gold
dollar worth 200 cents.
Others tell US we are breaking up
the old Democratic party. Then it
ought to be broken up. 1 would rather
have with us true men like c. S. Va
1'ian. Frank B. Stephens and c. c.
Goodwin than Cleveland, Carlisle and
Morton. Great applause.) We VIII
go hand in hand and accomplish the
great reform. Mr.. Evans then referred
to McKinley's statement years ago
that the monetary question was great
er than the slavery question was il
1850; but now this Napoleon has
changed his horse and he is Selling
what he thinks an opportunity to
make hewers of wood and drawers OF
water of the people of this land. But
ha will meet his Waterloo, for the peo-
pie viii triumphantly elect William }.
Bryan He is a young man, they say.
! admit he is too young to be the ser
want of the trusts He is poor in
purse. but rich in every good quality:
The speaker said when he heard
Rryan's sDeech in the convention he
was carried away and he felt sure that
what carried him away would carry
thousands OF others and elect Mr.. -t5ry-
an 70 the presidential chair,
HON. R. E. SHEPPARD.
R. B. Sheppard said this was the first
Democratic ratification he had ever at
tended For twenty years he had cast
a straight Republican ballot, but has
come TO the parting of the ways ano
was now allied with the Democrats
but not the Democrats of the Cleveland
and Carlisle stamp, but with that OF
w. J. Bryan.
BRYAN represented that principle
which he had hoped for years to obtain
througr the Republican party, but he
had been disappointed and had there
fore to join with the Democrats becaus;
they had espoused the cause of bimetal
lisTn.
He had been asked if he was going
TO 1oin with anarchists. If opposition
to wall street was anarchy then he
was an anarchist. He stood there II
favor of the Chicago platform, bimeta'-
ism and Bryan. He swallowed thC
whole business. He wasn't one Of those
who strained AT a gnat and swallowed
a camel Bryan and bimetallisqn for
ever,
TELEGRAMS READ.
Chairman Harris then read dis
petcaes as follows:
From Hons Chambers and keisel:-
Regret Our inability TO be present a.
the ratification meeting. We are with
you in spirit"
Eron Hon. S. r Thurman:-"An
trying case. Can't be with you Provo
for Sryan and Sewan and 10 to l
Can't cruelty humanity in Utah county
on a cross OF gold"
From Hon. T. A. McDaniel:-Couni
me in on the ratification -onight- The
great majority of the voters in Contra
illinois are for Bryan. A monster lati
fcation meeting is being held in Spring
field tonight. The people are aroused.
HON. MOSES THATCHER.
The following from Hon. Moses That
cher was read by j. Nj. Cohen:
Salt Lake City, July IS, 1896.
Hon. Robert n. Basl1in. Chairman, an'
Hon. J. r. Letcher. Secretary:
Gentle1nen-Your card of Invitation
TO be present tonight at the Salt LAX
thester to Join in The Bryan and S.
wall ratification is received, and III
honor OF your invitation is appreciated
hut Z regret that illness which has con
fined me TO my bed for more than
week renders it impossible for me L
be with you. But 1 feel confident tina
al Utah Democrats will indorse b.