The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-03

candidate for the presidency who in the cabinet of MT. Cleveland in two high offices has done much abundant honor, much as representative of MT. Cleve- lands cabinet; one who, when Illinois was attacked with anarchy and social ism, drew the ancient sword of the law and waved it in defence of peace and order We are not here for any par ticular candidate. Gentlemen of the south and west, gentlemen of the Pa cilic and center, give us any two na- tional men, any men whom the coun- try knows and honors for distinction. for purity, for worth in public or pri- vate life, north or south, civilians or soldiers, and Massachusetts will fete the candidates of this convntion and do all it can for their support. Prolonged cheers.)
 "We are told we might do as well by casting our votes for the candidates at St. Louis-I mean the first St. Louis convention, not the second. We are told that for sound moneys sake we have nothing to do but to go over to that camp Mr. President I respect fully decline to admit that all public virtue is centered in the republican party. (Applause) If it were only for this year; if it were only for this cam paign, might think differently of what we are to do. But we are not here only for this campaign. We are here for 1900; we are here for the future.
 There are hundreds and thousands of young men growing up and asking for whom they are to vote and who know nothing of the traditions of par ty They want to know what party to join themselves to; which is the pro gressive party, the party of the day and of the hour, and I say that this convention is to be, not the last, but the first of, a series of conventions. Cloud applause.) This is to be the first convention of the party of young America. (Cheers) We are fighting not merely for the honor and historical principles Of our party, not merely against anarchism and populism, not merely against protection and pater- nalism, but we are fighting that the United States may stand in the face of her sister nations, undimmed in honor
 
 Dr. Everett resumed his seat amid loud and long continued applause.
 The report of the committee on per- manent organization was then pre- sented It recommended Senator Don selson Caffery of Louisiana as perma- nent chairman, and J. H. Wilson of ln- diana for secretary, and further recom- It .f nent national organization. The report was adopted without a dissenting voice. Senator Caffery was escorted to the chair by MT. Bullitt of Philadel- phia, and Mir Lawler of Minnesota, and spoke as follows:
 T tender this convention my deepest thanks for the honor of selecting me to preside over it's deliberations. shall always regard it as the highest honor ever conferred upon me. Charged by our party with the function of min istering in it's temple of faith and teaching the people it's true doctrines, our priests has desecrated its altars, brokenits shrines and taught false doc trines to the people. We now enter the y session of the ark of covenant of our faith and we will hereafter vigilantly guard, protect and defend It. We will purify it's desecrated altars and rebuild it's broken shrines. And lest the hearts of the people be stolen from true demo- cratic faith-the faith of our fathers and founders-we must separate from our brethren who have wrought this evil and from those who have followed their evil teaching. We cannot follow them in the road they have taken for their feet are swift to destruction and their way is the way of death. The ties that bound us were as strong as hooks O. steel and we part from them in sorrow.
 Loyalty to party discipline and or ganization has ever been the pride and strength of our party. Loyalty to prin- ciple has ever been and ever will be it's cardinal and leading tenet, paramount to all others, binding in conscience and guiding the action of every true demo- crat. If we do not look into evidence to show the Michigan frauds and other devious acts and practices designed to pack the convention the Chicago plat form has the stamp of our party and claims it's allegiance. But it is a mere simulacrum; a form without the sub stance of democracy and no democrat Is bound by 1t nor Is 1t entitled to his fealty. The declarations of that plat form are open, palpable and fragrant departures from all that democracy has stood for. They assail the money stan- dard of the country and declare for the inflated and depreciated standard of freecoinage of silver at 16 to 1. They assail the right and power of the execu- tive to enforce the law and to protect property under the control and in the custody of the federal courts, in any state in the union; they attack the in- tegrity of a coordinate branch of the government; they declare that the function of issuing paper money is to be exclusively exercised by the govern ment itself; they assail the right of the citizen to contract payment in any legitimate commodity, for they declare that the obligations of the government for which gold was received and for the payment of which in the same coin the national faith is pledged may be paid in a depreciated coin. And we declare that each and all of these at tacks and declarations are undemo- cratic. They are an assault upon the constitution, the time-honored princi- pies of the democratic party and the distin p11iShnd patriOt and sta teSp1au n