The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-04

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 3.-The dele
gates were tardy in getting TO- the con-
vention hail this morning, but when
they began coming the arrival of each
state delegation was indicated by the
musicians, who played the airs most
appropriate to the location Yankee
Doodle" for a New England state;
Maryland, My Maryland for the
delegation from that state, etc.
When Governor Buckner of Ken
lucky entered the hall, he was greeted
with cheers. Then Mr. Breckenridge
of Kentucky came in with his delega-
ton, and f'hurrah for Breckinridge'
was shouted from scores of throats.
/ The shouts for Breckenridge were
kept UP from the galleries, as if it
were expected that he would deliver
the speech which he failed to make at
the mass meeting last night He took
no notice of the shouts but engaged IN
conversation with Governor Buckner,
who sat by his side.
AT II 40 Senator Caffery of Louisiana,
as chairman of the convention rose
and stated that the opening of the con-
yentlon was delayed a. few moments
to ascertain whether the committee on
resolutions was ready to report.
This was the signal for a renewal of
the shouts for Breckenridge, which fin
ally became overwhelming, though g.
few misses were heard interming led
with them
Mr.. Breckenridge, advancing to the
platform, was received with great cheer
ing. He delivered a speech of great
power and eaoquence, which was lis
tened to with profound silence and at
tention, except when broken in upon
by bursts of applause. He said:
BRECKINRIDGES SPEECH.
"Mr. Chairman and my Countrymen
from every section of this imperial re-
public congratulate you ON this con-
vention. We are passing through a
crucial period. In the eloquent speeches
made last night reference was made
by the orator from New Jersey (Mr
Lewis concerning the action of the
present president of the United States
at the Chicago strike when, under the
pathetic struggle of the unemployed la
borers, there was a great development
of revolution. The late war showed
that we had the most warlike machinery
OF government that the world had ever
seen. Out of that four years of war
emerged the most warlike nation. Dur
ing the reconstruction period many
things happened of which we may be
ashamed But, out of it came a united
republic with all its institutions unim-
paired. and with a prospect before it
as boundless as the horizon of human
hope. CApplause) But there came an
other strain; nearly thirty years passed
away With this machinery of govern
ment, SO powerful in time of war, yet
able in time of peace to preserve pub
Tic order and compel obedience to the
law. Could this peculiar government,
so complex in Its forms, without mar
tlal law, without the despot on horse
back riding to the front, compel obed-
fence to the law, secure the preserva-
ton of public order and demonstrate
TO the world that of all governments
that OF liberty is indeed the strongest
(Applause) That was done, and in
such a way that every philosophtc
thinker now knows that this govern
ment is in war the most warlike: in
peace the most powerful that the world
has ever seem (Cheers.) Now, we come
THE CRUCIAL TEST
Of universal suffrage. Are the people fit
to be trusted with the universal s1lf-
frage of sovereignty? And we are here
today in the name of the true Democ-
racy, which constructs and never de
stroys, to say that the problem is solv-
ed. (Cheers.) The American people have
left the thin fringe of the Atlantic
ocean and in less than 100 years have
gone to the Pacific coast. We are coll
oniSts, not adventures. AS Milton
said, we are the builders of empires.
We have built on foundations that we
believe to be as absolutely stable as the
Cr1-3 r07aly 7iaI CcNy7
the great ranges of mountains. And has
1t come that in the end of the nine
teentn century we are to re-discuss all
the problems of the last TWENTY-FIVE
centuries? Are we to have agrarianisn
and rapine and the vagaries of Rienzi
over again? Are adj the mad ideas of
Jock Cade to be again presented for
disputation and decision at the bar of
public opinion?
The convention at Chicago, the con-
venGion AT st. Louis, like two unequal
parts of one story of which the intro
duction is that at Chicago and the
conclusion is that at ST. Louis, is a
story of destruction and dissatisfaction.
1t is the eyangel of hatred and of dis
cord; it is an appeal TO every dissatis-
fed citizen and he VINO stands upon
these two platforms CNMr. Bryan) hon
estly standing upon one and lodging
the admission that ne stands upon the
other. has been presenting
DISHONESTY AND DISCORD.
Is it true that here in America there
are divisions of classes and masses?
Are we not all American citizens and
equal before the law? Is it true that
we have broken up into classes and
that we have TO wipe out that class leg
islation? Is it not true that every boy