The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-17
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Let me read you few words from it.
The great fight is on. The power OF
and it's allies throughout the
world have entered into this conspira-
ey to perpetrate the greatest crime of
this or any other age, to overthrow
one half of the worlds money and
thereby double their own wealth by
enhancing the value of the other half
which is in their hands. The money
changers are polluting the temple of
our liberties-'To your tents, Oh Israel
(Applause.) He foresaw the struggle
in which we are now engaged. He
realized its magnitude when many 9TH
ers did not. Those words came from
him as words of command: TO your
tents,Oh IsraeI'-and the command was
needed by the Democratic party and
they engaged first in warfare within
the party to rescue that party and the
party name from the hands of those
who are using it to advance the inter
est, not of Democracy, but of plutocra-
cy. (Applause.)
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.
ut was a great contest. I venture
the assertion that never before in the
history of this country did any party
have such a contest within its ranks
as that which ended at Chicago. l
venture the assertion that never be-
fore in the history of this country
have the voters themselves had so
much to do with a convention as did
the voters of the Democratic party
with the convention at Chicago. This
question was submitted to the voters.
The Democratic idea has been that the
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who compose it, and derives it's power
from the will Of the voters who num-
Der themselves as members of that
party. Yet it is often the case that
the party machine or bosses have more
to do with shaping the policy and
making the nomination than the voters
themselves. I am proud to be the
nominee of a convention which repre-
sented no machine or bosses but the
unpurchased suffrages of the voters
of this country. Great applause.) A
few months ago the most sanguine
Democrat did not believe that success
this fall was more than possible. The
most sanguine Democrats felt that
four years of gold standard administra-
tion had destroyed almost the pos
sibility of success. But the voters of
the Democratic party determined to
make one final fight and determined
that if die the party must, it should
at least maintain the honor of those
who believe in the right of the people
to govern themselves. (Applause.)
The result is just what it always is,
if people lay aside eXpediency and seek
to do their duty and accept conse-
quences. In trying to do right the
Democratic party won a possibility of
c,Ynnace zxybfab 81 r1avnr aOnId have
hoped for if it had consulted eXpe-
diency. (Applause.) They told us
we must not disturb the harmony Of
the party. Every time we made
speeches in favor of the free coinage
of silver, we were told that we were
disturbing the harmony of the party,
And if we spoke emphatically, they
tried to read us out of the party. They
called us everything and tried to make
us pledge ourselves to abide the decis-
ion at Chicago before we could go into
the convention. /, for one, told them
whenever they would bring @ pledge
that the gold standard Democrats
would take, it would be time enou0h
to ask free silver Democrats to make
pledges. (Applause.) l stated in an
swer to an inquiry that / would not
support for President a man who
would, in the Presidential chair, con-
tinue the present financial policy and
mortgage the United States to English
bondholders. (Applause.) said it be-
cause ! meant it, i may be wrong in my
judgment because none of us are in
fallible, but my judgment is the only
judgment that controls my conduct,
(Applause.)
pnJ FTTNyC H.TarOrTo Arrcs
''Now when the Secretary of the
Treasury denounced me as a Populist
and has said / would not support the
nominee, l replied that / did not ex-
pect him to support the nominee if he
were free silver man. The time
came when he was put to the test and
the only difference betv cen him and
me was that / was candid enough to
tell the people / would follow my con-
science and he tried to control a con
yention and then bolted when he failed
to do it. Great applause.) / have sent
him no letter begging his support.
Great laughter) The highest com
pliment he can pay me is to oppose
me because then the world will know
the Secretary of the Treasury whom
I appoint if I am elected will be as
different from him as / can find. Great
applause.) / do not dispute the right
of any Democrat to vote against the
Chicago ticket if he thinks its success
will imperil the country, but what
/ ask is that these men who have been
pretending to be Democrats shall now,
when the Democratic party has been
rescued from the peoples despoilers,
leave the name and not attempt to
take that name with them. (Cries of
"right.") They call themselves the
Democrats. No true Democrat ever
nominated one ticket for the purpose
of voting for another. Great applause.)
"We have this contest to meet, and
we are prepared to meet it. We have
a cause that appeals to the intellect of
those who think and to the hearts of
those who feel, and are willing to place
that cause in opposition to the cause