The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-16
CHAIRMAN DANIELS SPEECH.
Viruiuia S~cuator States His Position
to the Convention.

at issue he said:
DO not forget. gentlemen, that for thirty
years we of the South haze supported tne
men that you have named Tor PRESIDENT. ~
not forget at the last National Convention
of the Democratic party In lS?2 yoE pro-
claimed yourselves to be in favor Of the use
of both gold and silver as "A standard money
Of the country. Do not forget that JuSt l2ir
years ago, in a Democratic convention in THIS
city. the New York delegation stood here SOL
idly and immovably for "A candidate commit
ted 70 the free and unlimited coinage OF sil-
yer and gold at d ratio Of III TO l. And II We
are still for il, let 1t not be forgotten that
we owe II in some measure to their teachings.
That we owe you much, gentlemen or the
East, is readily acknowledged and VIII De
ever most gratefully remembered. But IL
YOU gentlemen have helped to save the
South, it also has helped to save you in the
East. The majority Of Democrats is not see
tional, neither does II staha Tor any p,l'li-
eyed or class legislation. The active bust
ness men of this country, Its manufacturers
It's merchants, its farmers, its sons or ton,
know that a contraction OF currency sweeps
way the annual profits Of their enterprises;
They know, too, that the gold standard
means contraction. Do not the people know
that 1t was legislation dictated by the ahvo,
Gates Of the gold standard that has caused
and now continues the financial depression!
Do they not know that when their demands
upon Democracy were complied with in 1893
and the sherman law repealed without a
substitute. that the very States Of the East
racv whn rranted r. nnd swept away their
M iorities In a torrent of ballots? Had the
silver men had their way then instead OF
the gold monometallists what storms of
abuse would here to-day be empt!ed upon
their heads Dnmocracy in 1914 Inherited
from its Republican predecessor the tax sys-
tenn and tae currency system, of which the
Mckinley law and the Sherman law were
the eliminating atrocities. 1t came to power
amid a panic which htly followed upon their
enactment with strikes, lockouts, riots ana
GIVE connections, While the scenes Oh peace
full industry In Pennsylvania had become
military amps. Besides manifold oppressive
features. the Mckinley law had THROWN way
T"';o0'.Uo' y .cNenYe ut.Neu llG.i S.sat
tah IA ,nI Sptctrdi pea 81 Il Tree o!fahias!
rY3n, s"' - st}sl1suh.u oount,!S ~ Su3a'
p.'uteio' tHu3 ut'lPhSiHS revenue anu iH-
c'Tasins expenditure.
,, io al 81 JU1ut gpttdton OK the alchlh!ey
q, ""u s'flaiiI INV an auFerSe oa.ance Oh
nI a ; tn!g %% o asaiIst as IN 1913, Il sur
n t,nro w Do2 VI sly tdTasHi9 Was
-" 'ri .nt" Il u1"cit VI F'o,'uo"oo III 1914
" "a, So Tu oo'ts ptep"Ieu os a i1tpupIl-
~ ~ GSeS.e.ai! - DorroW money 10 suppUFt
nroorr, III, u -lratt WY Tue IN oIipis Oh the
,, ~' ntn' IN 'iat aMa!teu Tue incoming
.irn = : -" |; uepltted treasury More
49, u st.l, ,he very autnors Oh me IL
49, nnnfa ny mn law ni"h'sHlit We're already
a. ~ pna "pon lhe stooi OF penltence'
:" ot1Slho i'rlhocralH 70 he!D tlen
thay tba-t.o - CG tai 81 u'sdster thal
on,t|, -. - 49,, .i"H hlniiuu, -" itF Us rev
al INA D,tpt''at ~ ~ flllli"ul - concern
~, u 49, 49, nV ~ parry, VITA ~ d S1ehuer
- ~ - - 'c""'.; Wis MOI i'is pFoFld--
80 10y " n'. tHt 7uPIeii" ' ourt OF
rrinn. ~ tnn ,.ao. S tTN'tSru llS Se'!!ea zoe
stea in IN. ts9n~iT,Tf TtfI - inI'-Ip t1A !A1orpoF-
ahnnjartv .H, "a "'"i" 'ohs since nave
Respecting finance. the Raouh,ic,,s Dan.
ulists and Democrats. while difarimr MAN
almost all other subjects. had uri+ni /, fhs,s
in declaring for the reStoration ~ nnr i r,nr-
lean system Of bimetalli,m The Ranuhiia,,
y,lrtr itns .,u-
platform and If our national nIn1gAs md
presented 10 the country thr issi,a nf higrar
taxes. more bonds. and less monar It%os
proclaimed at iusr. throwing nwoy thn H.
guises, the British gold standard
Then consider. gputlempn. The Ea1er,l
State and municipal taxes in This couIitrv
are assessed and paid by the st,ndorI ne
me Whole mass Of money in circulation. The
specie resumption OF 1870 gave the surplus
reFenue IN the treasury. not gold only. the
money or fedemptlOn. Some $3.50. 600 UDD of