The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-22

ne VIII carry through whatever he believes
20 20 pe right, though the heavens fall 1t
therefore, behooves such man to be right.
re is burning enthusiast like Peter the
Hermit. and like Peter the Hermit he IN apt
60 60 lead those who follow him into destruction.
iie IS the candidate OF three different po-
iitical organizations. To them he will owe
MS election IL elected, and among them
i he distribute the spoils of victory What
kihd or q cabinet would Mr.. Bryan form
DO you think? Would Altgeld have the port
folio OF state, Tillman the war department,
Pener the navy and Ignatius the postofice?
Laughter.) Is 1t to such piratlcal crew
as this President Cleveland must surrender
the ship OF state on the s4th of next March ?
why can see my friend Bryan az he con-
tne nrst time; and as they press upon his
bleeding brow this Populistic crown OF
Ihorns and cruelty him upon the cross OF
ir n what scripturai text may he not
invoke In the hour of his agony and re-
pentance. (Cheers.) can do my friend
Bryan no greater service than to
SAVE HIM FROM HIMSELF.
10 rescue him from the hyenas who would
Prey upon nam. He is too good man and he
- too valuable man to be lost but his only
salvation is IN his defeat. tApplause.)
There is one plank in the Chicago platform,
ana only one other. to which / wish to call
your attention it Is that in relation to the
income tax. Now l have no sympathy with
the proposition SO often advanced that the
supreme court of the United States is above
censnfe; that 1t is so sacred that it is not
to criticise that court and every other court
and they have a right to censure it II 1t de-
serves censure. In far then as the Chi
cago platform condemns the decision on
THE INCOME TAX
case. am In hearty accord with It, be-
Heve in an income tax, and since the supreme
court has three different times held 1t to be
constitutional / cannot understand this fiimsy
reasoning which, after a hundred years. de-
ciares 1t to be Unconstitutional But 1t has
decided w q afI ucf
and until that decision is reversed, in the
orderly and natural course of law, every law
abiding citizen will submit to it. We have
the right to appeal. from Philip drunk to
Philip sober. and from the supreme court as
it Is today to the supreme court as 1t may
hereafter exist. But, so far as the Chicago
platform proposes to pack that court in or
der to overturn that decision, I have no SYM
pathy with it. packed court is Repub-
ican precedent, and Democrats cannot af-
ford to follow such precedents. Mr.. Bryan
is the regular nominee of regularly called
Democratic convention. He is entitled to the
support of every Democrat who cares more
for an organization than he does for prin-
ciple
The free coinage of silver has never been a
principle of the Democratic party. The Demo-
cratic party has always advocated sound
money; 1t has always maintained that no dol
lar was too good for the man who honestly
earns it, and that every debased or deprec1at-
ed dollar was swindle upon the man who
was obliged to take it. That is the money
past. We were defeated in 1894 and that de-
feat was due to a combination of Democrats.
so-called, who betrayed the party; Democrats
who were false to the cause of tariff reform
and also to the men who were the advocates
of free coinage in congress-; Organism and
Gorman1Sm united to embarrass and defeat
the administration of Grover Cleveland and
to break and disrupt the Democratic party.
Now, when the Chicago convention hauled
down the old standard of Democracy and ran
up the red flag of Populism, 1t absolved every
=
organization. 1t is not my intention to say
anything in regard to state matters tonight,
nor in regard to congressional matters. ex-
cept this-you will pardon the suggestion.
That a congressional district which turns
Maj. Baldwin down and puts Charley Towne
in, is almosfpast praying for. daughter and
applause) Tim Maloney is a good Democratic
friend Of mine. l asked him how he was
going to vote this fall We'll SIR, he says.
''I'll tell you just what I'm going to do. I'm
going to buy a jug Of whisky and I'm going
and I'm going to vote for Mckinley, and then
I'm going to go home and fall upon my knees
and ask God to forgive me, and then I'm
going to drink whisky to
TAKE THE TASTE OUT
of my mouth" Laughter) 1 told him he
could do better; that he could get his whis-
ky (of course Democrats willy and go to the
polls and cast a vote for John M. Palmer,
and then go back home, fall upon his knees
and thank God that there is Democrat
the good, old Democratic manner. 0augh-
teri And such, fellow Democrats, is my adj
vice for you tonight. leaving the jug part
of it out, of course. U4aughter.) The Nc
Kinley menasay to ns.I IL you are opposed
to Bryan. you ought to vote for Mckinley"
And the Bryanites say: If you are opposed
But plague on both their houses. I don't
know how to discriminate between these two
evils. McKinleyism is odious to me as
Organism. When offers me prussic
Dir in ono hon md tn ho fba,.
/ thank him very kindly, but / prefer the
good, old Democratic beverage and John M.
Palmer. No vote for Palmer is not a
vote lost. 1t is protest against the folly
and the madness of this year 1896, and it
is hope and an expression of possible sue
cess in 1900. To me the Republican and Pou-
ulist parties are but two links of the same
sausage.
They are the ugly extreme ends of patriot
ism In this country. The one wants special
legislation for particular individuals and the
other wants special legislation for privileged
classes. Between them and holding them
apart and saying to each: Thus far shalt
thou go, but no farther" stands the Demo-
cratic party with it's principle Of equal rights
for all and special privileges for none. 1t will
be a cad day, gentlemen, when this great
conservative force of Democracy is wiped
out of existence, if such should be its fate,
and when the contest in this country comes
between the lawless rich and the lawleSs
poor, between the mob and the millionaire
| say it will be sad time for the people of
conservative force as that, 1t was the want
of Democratic party in revolutionary France
that sent her headiong into the perils and
horrors Of war. Now, gentlemen there Is
not any doubt Of the result Of the pending
election. Every man with his eyes open
knows that Mr.. Mckinley will be the next
president Of the United States, and for four
years thereafter no one will much regret
the fact the men who helped to elect him
"a voice. "Nit.') Then if ehaetened and So
bered by the follies of this campaign the
now disrupted Democracy can unite under
the old flag for the old cause why in 1900
the dawn of the twentieth century we will
send Mckinley and McKinleyism where the
woodbine twineth. (Applause.)
But If this is to be the last fight of De-
mocracy, IL this Is to be the end and the
elimination of all, if hereafter the battle is
to be between the contending forces of pa
ternalism, If classes are to settle the destiny
of America, then may it be said of us who
stood by Palmer that we were faithful unto
closed over the field of Waterloo and the
last square of the old guard rallied and fell
before the onslaught of the allied forces one
voice rang clear and strong above the din
of battle, Guards die, but never surrender"
And now all you Democrats of the old guards,
you men tried and tested In hundred fights
you who, year after year, without hope in
the certainty OF defeat, have been fighting
the battles of the faith, il it is true that this
is the last contest. If this be the end and the
elimination of our hopes and struggles then
Of us be 1t said and written upon the eternal
pages of everlasting history: 1.-THE guard
died, but did not surrender" (Applause)