Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1896-10-15
SENATOR j. q. S. BLACK
BURNS ADDRESS.

Mr. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW COUNTRY
MEM do not need to BE- reminded, | do
not need to be told, where stand. know
1t already. / stand Ia the sacred precincts
Of Tammany hall. / look at the faces Of
her braves, representing an organization
more than 100 years old that has always
been the truest and the stanchest of all
the powers and pillars that the Democratic
party has ever known.
know more. l not only stand here in
Tammany hall, but stand in the shadow
OF the Wall street spirits; here, where the
banking power rules; here. where great
capital congregates to dictate policies and
make laws for the government of these
people. am here tonight among your
people, brought to defend a platform that
my party has adopted and to vindicate
the candidacy Of a man who has worth
and power to stand upon that platform
do not know what it was that prompt
ed the national committee to send me to
New York, to bring men from the west
and south here to appeal to your people.
unless It was that your party's committee
found that the leaders that had led Won
heretofore are not to be found in the fore
front of the battle now.
Bolt on Both sides.
They tell US that the party harness Is
hanging loosely. They tell us that the
Democratic party is divided. They say
that bolt has occurred and that we are
no longer able to show a solid front to the
enemy in this great contest | admit il
But the bolt has occurred on both sides
The Republicans are as far from being
EOlid a the 7
you, to you, the people of Tammany Hall,
TO answer and tell me as long as we can
trade a Grover Cleveland for Teller and
Carlisle for a Jones of Nevada do we
come out badly? Where are your leaders?
Where are your leaders?
No, but they will be after the Sd Of No
vember, from president down Tell me,
You Tammany braves, where are the men
that you have honored, promoted, made
great and have elevated to the highest
places In the gift Of the Democratic partys
Are we TO understand that New York 3
vote in a presidential contest cannot be-
had unless we buy it? For 80 years, with
out single exception, we have given the
presidential nomination to a New York
man. Now, for the first time, we are Civ
ing it to a man who is not from New
York. For the first time since 1860 we
have undertaken to teach you that the
Democratic party can make president in
this country either with or without the
vote of New York We have given YOU a
candidate from the west. We have given
you platform that every man can under
stand Neither human nor devilish in
genufty can pervert or distort the platform
on which the Democratic party stands
We tell you precisely what we want. and
we tell you precisely what we do not
want We tell you in the Chicago plat
form that we do not intend that trusts and
syndicates shall rule this country apv
longer. We tell you in that platform that
we do not intend to issue any more bonds
In times Of peace, piling up the mortgages
upon the bowed, bent back Of the taxpay-
ers Of this country We tell you in that
platform that we do not intend to have
any more dark lantern bond syndicate
transactions by which $11, 900, 900 Of the
peoples money was shoveled into the
pockets OF thieves whose names a senate
committee Of today cannot discover or find
out
We tell you, further, what we do want;
that we want the mints Of this country
open to both gold and silver on even terms
at ratio OF 16 to /, as jefferson and
Hamilton gave it to us, as George Wash
ington, president, signed and approved the
bill, and as Jackson emphasized it, and
the constitution protected it, for your
rights
We tell you more. We tell YOU that on
the 4th of March, God helping US, we are
going to install in power at Washington a
president and a secretary of the treasury
who will have sense enough te know and
honesty and courage enough to say that
when the law and the contract give the
right of option in the payment Of the debt
that right of option belongs not to the
creditor who has to receive the money, but
it belongs to the debtor who has got to
pay that money.
Now 60 on, burn up your platform, blot
1t out from the memory Of man and thank
God you have got candidate left whose
very name is d synonym for your plat
form Nobody questions what BRYAN will
10 when he is made president
o
Ihey tell Us that II VIII take IA months
before congress can get to- work upon sll-
yer Dill Ihey are mistaken INC consti-
tuition Oh my country provides that on the
early morning OF the oth of March MI
bryan, having been lnaugurated as your
president, may call that congress into ex-
ira session and put 1t to work upon this
bill 1 know fun well, and you need not
tell me-l know that the president Of the
United states, In the absence of au-
thority from congress, has no power to
unlock the mfnts to the coinage OF silver.
l know IL taxes law oil congress TO DO
that. But | know more, and so do you.
L know that with or without congress the
president OF the United states can order
the secretary Of the treasury to exercise his
right OF option and tell the holder Of the
bond or the holder Of the government
obligation; Back upyour push cart; bring
up your array Me Will pay your uenus, Duu
instead OF gold, az wall street tels you,
we Will pay you ID shlnlng silver doilars.
know full well, ana am adInonlshed
Dy the nour' that TINS Il no eliile 70 olscuss
onls silver issue az my propose "
urehch upon your pallehce tha1 way
only want you 20 indulge me lor q minute
IN oruer that iLty caA your aucenulon ~
Whae seems % me % Oe PROOF conclusive
OF the lack OF consistency or honesty upon
the part OF uhe goiu auNocAtcs ol 1hls
country Ihey tel you tnae we must noe
give up single golu Standard ana why
DecauSe 'ney say 'iioU .ii'i' ~ ene o1ly non
est dollar IN the country. l ask you my
countrynen, TO tell me "hlt Is an hohese
dollar. 1ou ana need not De specialis'S-
we DO TOT heed 10 DC hhahelers; we nave
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