The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02

Delegate Southall. of Charlottesville, is an
other of the rock-ribbed partisaBs of the
Old Dominion, and. although his has Nl-
lowed the choice of his party conventions
for fifty years, he is an enemy TO the Chi
cage choice, and platform. Joseph Bryan,
a Richmond editor. viii be the selection
OF the delegation for member of the COM
mittee on resolutions. William v. Wilson,
Jr.. of Lynchburg. who halls from the home
of Senator Daniels. the chief of white
metal champions in Virginia, is a first
cousin of John r. Wilson, of this city.
we are very hopeful of preventing the
silverites from carrying our State" said
he. In 4ynchburg, the home of Senator
Daniels. the Democrats are divided on the
issue. but in the country districts the sill
verites have considerable strength. We
want to preserve our old party intact. and
our objection to being delivered bag ana
baggage to the party of Mrs. Lease leads
US to fight for this s~ound-Tnoney cause.
An effort was made at our convention III
plank favoring the abolition of the tax on
State banks. and all this plank was
brought directly before the convention, yet
it was almost unanimously voted down.
Judge Joseph Christian. of Richmond,
Va, a former judge of the Supreme Court
of Appeals of that State, is one of the dele
gates. Says he. in regard o the conven-
ton:
"Thi will be a convention, not of luna
ties, such as m at Chicago, who
hurled f~rebrands, arrows and death
around them, but it will be a convention of
wise men. of patriotic men. of Christian
flag and their God. They Will present a
platform not of rotten planks. not Of
planks stolen from the Populists, but of
planks sound as hearts of oak. 1t will be
a platform upon which the honest men OF
the country, the conservative people OF the
country, will firmly stand. And upon such
a platform we expect to place a statesman,
not a boy ortor, not a revolutionist, We
will have a plank for sound money-that is,
for money founded upon the coinage of the
Constitution, money which, when put in
circulation. shall actually be intrinsicaliy
worth ono hIfn1rnd nPntG on the dollar
Virginia Will be Well represented at the
Indianapolis convention by some Of her
ablest men, men like Writ Henry, William
l.. Royal and James Lyons.
Some men in Virginia call me a bolter.
a traitor to Democratic principles. L am
no boiter, no traitor. | am a Democrat,
and, in the language of David Bennett Hill
of New York, I am a Democrat, but Dot a
revolutionist.' The Chicago Democrats are
the boilers and seceders. for scarcely a sin
gle plank OF. platform was taken from
any Democratic convention which has been
held from the time of Jefferson to the pres
ent day. | defy the contradiction of this
statement.
when the irrepressible conflict between
slavery and freedom was being waged,
Gansin nS tbe WlSf 9as s 7 and m t conServa mitS
the apprehension of an approaching bloody
war. | then warned our people that such
a thing as peaceable secession was impossi-
bic, and that they ought not to Secede in
view of the fact that the Supreme Court,
with only two Southern members, had de-
clared the fugitive-slave law constitutional,
and President Lincoln had declared that,
as the chief executive, he would faithfully
execute the laws of the land. / tried to i'm
press upon our people that the only safety
for slavery was within the Union and I'M
der the protection of the Constitution. and
L confess now that I feel that the greatest
calamity that God could visit upon the peo-
pie of the United States would be to per-
nit the election of William Jennings
Bryan. who utters the language of the
French revolution and of the German com
munists, borrowing from them without Civ
ing them credit for what he quoted.
I'm 1860 a cloud no bigger than a mans
hand was slowly rising in South Carolina,
while now at Chicago there has arisen a
dark and portentous cloud that threatens
like a cyclone to rend the Constitution and
to wreck the ship of state and to drench
this fair land of ours in the ruin and wreck
and blood of war. The irfepressible con-
f1ict fermented in every speech by the Boy
Orator is tanning the flames of unrest. dis
quietude and revolution, into the irrepreSsi-
BILE conflict between capital and labor, and
this will as certainly plunge the country
into war as did that irrepreSslble conflict
of slavery and freedom in 1860"
Judge Christian went on to say that such
a war would be more disastrous than the
late civil war. for. instead of being con-
fined to a well-defined territory. it would
be between citizens in Baltimore. in New
York, in Richmond and everywhere
throughout the country.