The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-04

or dlSEOru and of d1SSenSiOHE MOI every
thing in that platform sounded like De-
mocracy, not everything in II had the Yer
nacular of Democracy, and therefore
would denounce it because II promulgates
the principle of universal dissatisfaction
and discord.
PLEADS FOR THE JUDICIARY.
1--WE must also uphold the judiciary of
this country, for upon an independent judi
cfary rests the bulwark of our liberties.
With you it is a sentiment; with us it is a
living reality, burned into our hearts by
the disasters of the past; and, standing in
the midst of a reunited Democracy, in the
name of the South I plead that the last
refuge of an oppressed people-an upright
judiciary-be left sacred from the polluting
touch of party and corruption.
ut (the Chicago PLATFORM is destructive
in it's assault upon our monetary system.
1t is not that it is for free silver; that is
a mere disguise. If free silver would make
silver go up to par with gold the lead
ers in that movement would be the most
disappointed lot of gentlemen that ever
lived. (Applause.) 1t is their desire to de-
stroy our present monetary system to
I hear of gold being the money of pre-
eminence. 1t is not SO; it is the burden
bearer of civilized nations (applauSe); 1T is
the foundation raised with the hands Of
frugality and Skill and If that foundation
shall be Withdrawn, l, for one, cannot fore
see what the result will be any more than
/ could foresee what would be the result
of Withdrawing the foundation from I'M
der the ROokery Building at Chicago. 1t
might all tumble into chat hole; it might
tumble out into the street. l know the
tumble will take place, and I do not in
tend living in the Rookery to have it tum-
BILE over my head.
eff It'll were possible for a messenger boy
of of these great corporations that
send the news to all the world to bring in
a dispatch from absolutely certain
ton would be settled; that the American
people had determined not to enter upon
devious or doubtful ways. but that it in
tended to pay, not according to a forced
and dishonest construction of the words of
the statute, but according to the deliberate
and understood terms of the contract, your
industrial enterprises would be renewed,
your wheels of industry would begin to re-
volve, your bankers would put out money,
labor would be employed and industrial
confidence would be comDieteIy restored
Like giant breaking loose from the chains
again in her might; her ships would once
more fill the seas; her flag would be seen
everywhere; the labor Of seven months rs.
twelve, would go for twelve months, and
twelve months wages would be paid to
the laborer, and everywhere we would be-
gin to be the creditor nation instead of the
debtor nation of the world. We would be
once more the leader of the procession of
enormous inventions for the good of the
human race, and, as at the head of the
column of free men, we would be at the
head of the column of artisans. Cap
plause)
'sThis is what Democracy means; this is
what are mere TO prove To-Day. 1t IS
sometimes charged that you are here to
elect Mckinley My free-silver Democratic
friends took that job out of our hands at
Chicago. We elected q Democratic PreSi-
dent on the two great Democratic eco
nomic principes-freer trade and sound
money-in 1892 Our free-silver friends at
once began to destroy the Democratic
party. / in the paper the other day
that they said they had the scalps of enc
mics hanging at their belts. They are mis-
taken; they have the scalps of their friends
hanging at their belts. (Applause)
THEY FOLLOWED FALSE GODS.
."They rejected sound money, and all New
England turned out every Democratic Con-
gresham that had been elected there after
thirty years. They disregarded the admo-
nitions of Cleveland, and Republican
Governor reigns in New York, where we
used to have Democratic Governor. They
would not believe that sound money was
good doctrine, and Maryland sends a Re
publican Senator to be the colleague of Mr..
Arthur German, and a Republican Govern
or is in the White House at Annapolis.
They rejected the teachings of that love-
liest of all our American statesmen-the be-
loved and scholarly William L. Wilson Cap
plause)-and Stephens B. Elkins is a Sen
ator from West Virginia They destroyed
the Democratic party in Ohio and MIR.
Foraker takes the place OF long success
sion of Democratic Senator'S headed by
Thurman, and with Pendleton and others
making so glorious record. They disa-
vowed the teachings of the extraordinarily
lucid and able Carlisle (applause) and We
have a Republican Governor in the State
of Kentucky. They pardoned the Anarch-
lists in the great State of Illinois, and every
Democratic Congressman walked the plank
at the next election; (Appiause) The
Mississippi that great and lusty young
leader of the new empire of the West-her
honor was trified with and Missouri went
over to the Republican ranks.
There has not been a ghost of a chance
10 elect a Democratic President since 1894
because of the free-sliVer men, ana there
fore when they charge us that we are try
ing 10 elect Mckinley we respectfully sug-
gest that they have done that job for
far more skilifully than we could possibly
have hoped to do it. (Applause.)
What we would intend to refuse to do
is to attempt the election of that Chicago
ticket on the pretense that it is a Demo-
cratic ticket. (ApplauseO
Il voted for Horace Greeley, and / am not
ashamed OF it, Gaughter.) 1t was not a
very palatable dose, but the memory of 1t
has become modified in twenty-four years
of tradition. But did not vote for him as
a Democratic candidate. nor did pretend
that he stood upon a Democratic platform,
and / shall not vote for a Populistic candi-
date on a Populistic platform
THAT Democratic convention was our
agent; we gave it instructions. The Demo-
cratic party was its principal If it had
obeyed its instructions it was our duty to
ratify, and none would have done it more
cheerfully than this body. You are men
who stand by your contracts, and if your
agent had obeyed your Instructions you
would not be mere To-Day
THE power of a Democratic convention
is to apply Democratic principles to the
solution of pending issues before the
American people; issues which one time
may be the tariff, another time sound
money, another time the autonomy of the
States, another time the public lands and
another time the veto power. L care not
what it is that the issue may be. The
to be applied never changes, eX-
cept often the mode and manner of its APP
plication. That agent of ours undertook by
virtue OF commission bearing our seal
to apply undemocratic principles, with the
promise of undemocratc solutions to these
policies. and disavow the unauthorized
airy agent. That is the whole history of
it. 1t is not our ticket | have nothing
to say against the young gentleman who is
now enlightening the people about the pol
icies that ought TO control the settlement
of financial questions. | have read his
speeches with great care. Has any one
gathered from those speeches anything ex-
cept the sad lesson that life goes on I'M
equally with men; that to some come pros
porous days and to some come adversely:
that in some homes is plenty and in
some homes is want, and that. as
the corollary from that, that those to
whom life has been hard ought to unite to
destroy shat which has been accumulated
by those TO whom life has been prosperous?
Is there any other lesson in all those
speeches, stripped OF their verbiage re-
duced to plain English, than this:
BRYAN'S ANARCHISTIC TEACHINGS.
" Here is great country rich, Astounding
in riches, prosperous in many respects
Much has been accumulated The homes