Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-10

your hands this gavel as the temporary
presiding officer of this convention L beg
leave to express a sentiment which am
sure is unanlmouS-that no national con-
vention was ever presided over with
more ability or with more fairness imam
by yourself. Cheers and cries OF darrl-
ty,' 'Harr4ty.) l can express no pSlter
wish for myself than that l may be able
in some feeble fashion to model my con-
duct by your model and to practice by
your example. (Cheers).
THE high position, gentlemen, to
which you have chosen me involves poth
a great personal honor and keen re-
sponsibility. For the honor l thank you
The responsibility 1 would be wholly in
adequate to bear did l depend upon my
self, but your gracious aid will make II
easy and it's burden light. That AID
confidently invoke from you for the sake
of the great cause under whose banner
we have fought SO many battles, ana
which now demands of us such staunch
devotion and such loyal service.
Eulogy tor Senator Hill.
IT regret that my name should have
been brought in even the most courteous
and serious complication with that OF
my distingu.shed friend, the great sena-
tor from New York. (Applause( But
the very fact that have permitted 1t TO
be done refutes the suggestion that mas
been improvidently made on this noor
that either I or those whom | have the
honor to represent would ever heap in
dignity upon that brave and INDUSTRIOUS
head. Great applause)
mo candid man, no dispassionate
Judgment, gentlemen, can ever mlslnter-
pref your meaning. The senator from
New York himself knows as you know
and as know, that there is no personah-
ty in the preferment which has been CIV
en- to me. He must know, and the Whoie
country that watches these proceedings
must know, that 1t is solely due to the
principle that this great majority OF
democrats stand for, and they know L
stand with them. (Applause9 Ana
that it is given in the spirit OF tne m
structions received by these representa-
tiyes of the people, from the people,
whom all democrats will ever DOW 10 as
the purest and original source OIL al
power. The birth of the democratic par
ty was coeval with the birth OF the SOY
areipntv of the people. 1t can never ole
until the declaration of American lnde-
pendence is forgotten and that soVer-
eip,ty is dethroned and crushed out.
(Great applauseo
Sentiment Is widespread.
81 am happy, gentlemen to know tnat
as the majority Of this convention Is not
,oreonaI neither in any sense is it sec
tinna1 1t blends the palmetto ana the
pines in Maine and South Carolina II
begins with the sunrise In Maryland anu
spreads into sunburst IN LouIslai@
one unbroken column across the Ameri-
can continent from the Atlantic SHORES
of the Old Dominion and Georgia, and II
sheds its silvery beams over the golden
gates of California. (Applanse.l ~ ~
sends forth it's pioneers from plymouth
Pock and waves over the golden wheat
fields of Dakota. 1t has its strongnoldS
in Alabama and Mississippi and It's out
posts in Minnesota, Florida and oregon
1Apnlause) 1t sticks like a tar-heel zap
nlause) down in the Old North State ana
# writes 16 to / on the saddle-bags of the
Arkansas traveller. cloud applause) IL
nours down Its rivulets from the noun
tains of West Virginia and makes axes, d
wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Mon,
tana and Colorado. 1t stands guard
around the national capitol in the DIS
trict OF Columbia (cheers), and 1t camps
on the frontiers or Oklahoma. a. R awusps
like a prairie fire over Iowa ana Kansas
and puts up red light on the confines
of Nebraska. 1t marshals its massive
battalions in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Missouri.
Slap at John Bull.
"Tast hut. by far from least, when
see this grand array and think of the
British gold standard that was recently
unfurled over the ruins of republican
promises at st. Louis, think too OF the
battle of New Orleans OF Which IL was
said: There stood John Bull in martial
pomp. but there was old Kentucky
(Applause) Brethren of the east, there
is no south, there is no north, there Is
no east or west in this uprising OF the
neople for American emancipation from
fhe conspiracy of European kings, led
nv Great Britain, which seeks to destroy
one-half of the money OF the world ana
no make American manufacturers mer-
chants, farmers and mechanics mere
hewers of wood and drawers of water.
The One Thing Golden.
surbera is ono thing golden which per-
nit me, in the same good humor which
has characterized your conduct, TO COM
mend to you here. 1t is the golden rule
to do unto others as you would have
them do unto you. Forget not the greed
of devils and that an absolute acqui-
essence in the will of the majority Is the
vital principle of the republic. Demo-
Gratis as you have been, democrats as
/ trust you will ever BE- acauiesce grace
fully in the will of tfSS great majority
of your fellow democrats, and only ask
to go with them as they have often gone
with you. (Applause)
DO not forget, gentlemen, that Tor
thirty years we have supported the men
YOU have named for observation-disclosures
Greeley Tilden, Hancock, and twice
Grover Cleveland. Do not forget that
we have submitted cheerfully to your
compromised platform and to your re-
peated pledges of bimetallism,, and have
patiently borne repeated diSappoint-
ments as to their fulfillment. Do not
forget at the last national convention of
the democratic party in 1892 you pro-
claimed yourselves to be in favor of both
gold and silver as standard money of
the country; for the coinage of both gold
and silver without discriminating
against either metal and that the only
question left open was the ratio between
the metals.
New York's Change of Heart
'rDo not forget-and 1 refer to the fact
In no inferior sense-that just four years
ago In democratic convention in this
city, the New York delegation stood here
solidly and immovably for candidate
committed to the free and unlimited
coinage of silver and gold at a ratio
of 16 to /. And If we are stll for it, let
DIT not be forgotten that we owe it in some
measure to their teachings. (Applause)
"That we owe you much, gentlemen of
the east, is readily acknowledged and
will be ever most gratefully remember-
ed We owe you much, gentlemen of the
convention. and for what we owe You