The herald., 1896-07-08

confusion.
CHAIRMAN DANIELS SPEECH
Mr.. Chairman of the National Dem
ocratic Convention-In receiving from
ryour hands this gavel as temporary
presiding officer of this convention, l
beg leave to express the sentiment,
which 1 am sure is unanimous, that no
national convention was ever presided
pver with more abilHy or with more
! fairness than by yourself. (Cheers and
| cries of "Harrity,") L can express no
better wish for myself than that may
| be able in some feeble way to model
my course by your model and practice
by your example. (Cheers.) The po-
sition, gentlemen to which you have
chosen me involves both great personal
honor and keen responsibility. For the
honor l thank you. The responsibility
/ would be wholly inadequate to bear
dill l depend upon myself, but your
gracious aid will make it easy and its
burdens light. That aid l confidently in
woke from you in behalf of the cause
under whose banners we have fought
so many battles and which now de-
mands of us such staunch devotion and
such loyal service. l regret that my
name should have been brought in most
courteous and serious complication with
that of my distinguished friend, the
great senator from New York. Cap
plause.) But the very fact that I have
permitted it to be done refutes the sug
,Eestion that has been imppvidently
made on this floor that either l or those
whom 1 have the honor to represent
would ever heap indignity upon that
brave and illustrious head. Great ap
plause.) No dispassionate judgment,
gentlemen can ever misinterpret your
meaning.
TIE senator from New York must
himself know, as you know, that there
is no personality in the preferment that
has been given me. You must know.
and the whole country that watches
these proceedings must know, it is sole
ly due to the principles that this great
majority of Democrats stand for, and
they now stand for them (applause),
and that is given in the spirit of the
instructions received by these repre-
sentatives of the people, whom all Dem
ocrats will ever bow to as to the purest
and original source of all power. The
birth of the Democratic party was CO.
eval with the birth of the sovereignty
of the people. 1t can never be destroyed
until the Declaration of American Inde-
pendence is-,forgotten and that sover-
eighty is crushed out. Great applause.)
I am happy, gentlemen, to know that
as a majority in this convention is not
personal, neither is it in any sense sec
tional. 1t blends the palmettos and the
pines in Maine and South Carolina. 1t
begins with the sunrise in Maryland and
spreads to the sunburst in Louisiana
and Texas.
It stretches in one unbroken column
across the American continent from the
Atlantic shores of the Old Dominion and
Georgia, and it sheds its lustrous beams
over the Golden Gate of the Pacific. CAP
ulause.) 1t sends forth its pioneer from
Plymouth Rock and waves over the gold
en- wheat fields of the Dakotas 1t has
its head in Alabama and Mississippi
and its outposts in Minnesota, Florida
and Oregon. (Applause.) 1t sticks like
tar heel" (applause), down in the old
North state, and it writes &c to / on
the saddle bags of the Arkansas trav-
sier. cloud applause) 1t pours down
its riVulets from the mountains of wheat
in Virginia and makes great lakes IN
New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming Idaho,
Utah, Nevada, Montana and Colorado
1t stands guard around the national
capitol in the District of Columbia
(cheers), and it camps on the frontiers
Of oklahoma. 1t sweeps like prairie
fire over Iowa and Kansas, and puts up
red light on the confines of Nebraska.
1t marshals it's massive battalions in
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri
Last, but by far from least, when | see
this grand array and think of the Brit