The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-26
BRYAN THEIR MAN



recalled to the stage. He did not place
Mr.. Bryan in nomination, however.
When Alabama was called, Gov. Kolb
yielded to Gen. Weaver, of Iowa. Gen.
Weaver came forward and formally
placed Mr.. Bryan in nomination.
Gen. Weaver said: Elm that midnight dis
cussion between Brutus and Cassius, concern
ing the contemplated battle at Phillippi, Bru-
tus urged that their cause was rife. their
legions brimful at the height, and ready to
decline. Said he, There is tide in the affairs
of men which taken at the food leads on to
fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life
is bound in shadows and in miseries''
And then. in dramatic climax, he ex-
claimed:
ION such a full sea are we now af1oat and
we must go with the current when it sweares
or lose our ventures
For twenty years we have been pleading
with the people to espouse the sacred cause
which is at stake in this campaign. We
have constantly urged through good and
through evil report, that our principles were
more important than party associations were
above all considerations of private fortune
or the petty and feverish ambitions of men.
We have thus far suited our action to our
words. Through five presidential campaigns,
stretching from 1876 to 1892 you correctly
managers
and events have sustained every specification
In your Indictment against them. Millions of
honest men within old party ranks were de-
ceived, lured into ambush and betrayed. But
not single one of your pickets has ever
been caught mapping or been taken by sur
prise. To your devoted efforts is largely due
the revival of economic learning in this
country, which has enabled the democratic
party to assume its present admirable atti-
tude. Your work promises much to
mankind. and is about to break forth in COM
Toto
Though oft repulsed by the multitude whom
we would have liberated, though crucif1ed in
return for cur Kindness yet through it all
we have steadily conffded in the righteous
ness of our cause anls the 6na. GOOD sonso
of the people We still believe that this
nation has mission to perform, which bad
recent events indicate that the nineteenth
century is not, after all. to close with the
friends of freedom respondent in the West
ern hemisphere.
This country has recently witnessed a new
Pentecost and received another baptism of
fire. The recent convention at Chicago
sounded bugle call which can neither be
misunderstood or go unheeded. In its pa
trfotic utterances and action, it swept away
all middle ground, and opened the road to a
formidable organic alliance. They not only
made union possible: thank heaven they
have rendered it inevitable. From the very
beginning our organization has made party
fealty subordinate to principle. We will not
here reverse ourselves and refuse to accept
victory now so easily within our grasp. Shall
we reject 100000 silver democrats and at
least 100000 silver republicans simply be-
cause they have shown the good sense to
come with organized army fully equipped
for battle? Let them have their own army
corps Let them manifest their own esprit
du corps. The field of glory is open to all
competitors who are fighting for the same
principles.
The populists have already shown their
prowess in many engagements during twenty
years of struggle. If our allies can strike
sturdier blows at plutocracy than can we;
if they can scale the battlements of the gold
power more CALAMITY than our old veterans
and are able to plant their colors one foot
nearer the citadel of the enemy than we can
ourselves, let every populist cheer and sup