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


IF it were possible that today a mes
senger of one of these great lightning
! corporations which send the news CT
the world could bring in this batch of
news from an absolutely certain source,
! that on tomorrow the silver question
! would be considered settled; that there
would be no dispute over payments;
! that the American people stood deter
mined with absolute certainty to enter
upon no devious or doubtful ways
WHAT WOULD OCCUR?
Your industrial enterprises would be
renewed your wheels of industry would
/ begin to revolve, your bankers would
| put out money, labor would be en-
ployed and labor would be remunerat-
ed, and all would unite IN choral tri-
| buteS to that power which had re-
stored 10 the American people the re-
viving influence of common honesty"
! Great apptauSe)
Celebrating this idea by drawing a
| glowing picture of restored prosperity,
| Mr.. Breckinridge continued:
This is what we are here for today.
:! 1t is sometimes said we are here to
/ elect Mckinley. Our free silver friends
/ took that job out of our hands. Great
! laughter and cheers.) We elected a
/ Democratic president on the two great
/ Democratic economic principles of free
/ trade and sound money in 1892. Our
4 free silver friends ait once attempted
/ to destroy the Democratic party. [ saw
it stated the other day that they had
the scalps of their enemies hanging
at their belts. They are mistaken. They
have the scalps of their friends. Gre
/ newed laughter and cheers.) They
! disregaTded the admonitions of Cleve
land, and a Republican governor reigns
! in New York where We used to have a
! Democratic governor. They would not
believe in sound money, and Maryland
! sends a Republican senator to sit with
Arthur P. German, and Republican
governor sits i'm the capitol at Annapo-
lis. They disregarded the counsels of
THE MOST LOVELY
of American statesmen, William L.
Wilson, of West Virginia, and Mr.. FL
kins sits in the United States senate;
they divided the Democratic party in
Ohio, and Foraker takes the place of
that long line of Democratic statesmen
ending with Thurman and Pendleton;
they disTegarded the teachings of Car
Isle, (cheers) and we have a, Repubi-
can governor in the state Of Kentucky.
They pardoned the anarchists in the
great state of Illinois. and more Demo-
cratic congressman walked the plank
at the next election. There has not
been the ghost of a chance to elect
a Democratic president since 1894, be-
cause of free silver; therefore, when
they charge US with trying to elect
Mckinley, [ charge back that they have
done that job much more successfully.
applause and cheers.) What we do
intend to do is to prevent the election
of the Chicago ticket under the pre-
] hQt iS- 10 ri.oI-o
l voted for Horace Greeley, 1 am not
ashamed of it. It was not a. very de-
lghtful dose at the time, Qaughter),
but the memory of it has become more
palatable liz five and twenty years,
but [ did not vote for him as a Demo-
GRAFT, standing on a, Democratic plat
form, and I shall not vote for a Popu-
istic candidate ON a Populistic plat
form (Cheers.)
After stating that the Chicago con
vention had disobeyed instructions and
from following it, Mr.. Breckenridge
proceeded:
Il have nothing to say about the
young gentleman who is now enlighten-
Ing the people on the policy that
ought to control the settlement of the
financial question, but I have read his
speeches with great care. Has anybody
gathered anything from them, but the
sad lesson that
LIFE COMES UNEQUAL
with men; that to some come prosper
Gus days and to some adversely, that
to some comes plenty and to some
comes want, and that as a. corodIary
from this, that those with whom life
has gone hard, ought to unite and
destroy those with whom life has been
prosperous. Is there anything else in
his speeches. stripped Of their VERDI
age, but this? Here is a great coun-
try, here is the Hudson with its hand
some residences of rich men, here are
the syndicates controlling great sums
of money, and here are you. Labor
is not given its just share of the
profits. There is the ballot box: there
is the booty; there is the weapon; you
the soldiers What is the lesson? Be
frugal, be law obedient, be patient, be
staiteS1nanlike and study the question.
Is that it? No, use the ballet box to
equalize that which life has made so
unequal. I protest that that is not
Democracy. cloud cheering.) The
government shall not support the peo-
pie; the people must support the gov
eminent (Applause.) The ballot box
is not weapon of hostility, is not a.
menace; it takes the place of the bay
onet. 1t takes the place of force; no
strikes, no bombs no anarchists, no
organizations to commit violence The
ballot box is not to make discord, but
to bring about harmony; not to pro
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