The San Francisco call., 1896-07-09

-buMuituOus dpplause. CehatOi DiaOADuAh
said:
democrats of America have gathered
here to do an important work. They are
charged with great duty. The vast ma
jority of the American people are suffer
ing and look to this convention to correct
their grievances and TO right their wrongs
You have opened this campaign in spIen-
did style, State by State. You have swept
over the skirmish line; you, have come
here instructed by an overwhelming ma
jority of your party and your people.
There can be no doubt as to where your
duty lies. You are here to meet the rea-
sonable expectations of your people. They
don't need to be told, because they know,
that they are to-day the victims of vicious
and unjust legislation. They know and
they have instructed you to declare that
they will no longer submit tamely to the
class legislation under which they have
groaned for twenty years. They have not
sent you here 10 quarrel among your
selves. Let us take no action that is not
tempered with the fullest measure of fair
ness Let US declare to the world that
which we approve and that which we dis
approve.
LET US promulgate a platform which
neither human nor devilish ingenuity can.
subject to more than one construction; let
us declare that we are here to promulgate
platform that shall be in line and con-
sonance with the oft-repeated declaration
of our party, and that shall not obscure or
defect public attention from the one main
issue upon which this contest turns. Let
US declare what we approve and what we
disapprove. Let US declare that we want
to unlock the doors of the American mint,
and that we mean to put silver back where
it was before. [Cheers.l That we mean
the unrestricted, the unlimited free coin
age of both gold and silver ON even terms.
without discrimination and without the
slightes: regard to the action of any other
power on this earth. [Cheers.] Let US
declare further that the Democratic party
does not approve the issue of coin bonds
in a time OF profound peace. Let us de-
clare that we don't approve of giving the
right of option to the men who hold the
obligations but the men who owe them !;
let US declare that we don't approve but
condemn the proposition of retiring the
Notwithstanding legal tenders. green
backs and treasury notes.
LET US declare further that we are not in
favor of perpetuating either a national
debt or a national banking system. You
cannot persuade the American people to
believe that the depressed condition of
their industries is not the result of vicious
legislation. You cannot make them be-
heye that the fires have gone out in their
furnaces, that the spindles have ceased to
hum in their factories that the farmer is
no longer able to get the cost of produc-
ton for his products, and that a million
unemployed laborers are to-day tramping
the highways of the country, while the
laws under which they live are equitable
and fair. They know better. 1t seems to
me, my countrymen, that the correction
OF these evils is the duty which devolves
upon this great Democratic nation. The
eyes of the country, the eyes of the world
rest fixed and centered on this hall of as
sembled Democrats TCheers.l
''If prosperity is to be brought back to
take the place of poverty, if happiness is
TO be given once more 10 the American
people; if free institutions are to be safe
picketed and anchored in the hearts of our
people, it will only be when the banner
under which you gather here floats out
once more in proud triumph from the
dome of our country's capitol. [Cheers |
1t is in your hands to give this boon to
the American people. Be temperate; be
conservative, but be manly and brave Do
not fail to gather the fruits of the splendid
victory which you have already inaugu-
rated. You have carried the outer
trenches, but the inner citadel is to be con-
tended for in November. Let US do moth
ing except with an honest effort to sus-
tain the sentiment of the people behind
us. l appeal to every Democrat, whether
he be with the majority or with the
minority, whether he be for a single
standard or for double standard, to re-
member, in Gods name, that he is Dem.
ocrat still. Applause. | pin my faith
to the prin ciples and loyalty of my party.
Remember, my countrymen, that for
twenty years we have waged the fight, un-
awed by power, stubbornly contesting
every inch of ground, and now we are on
the eve OF the frultion of our hopes. We
read without doubt or uncertainty the
restoration of the Democratic party to
power. By all the sacred traditions that
gather about our party, by all the hopes
that nerve US for the future, appealing to
your loyalty, appealing to your patriot
ism, appealing to your courage and to
your love of country, beg of you, fellow
Democrats, to make platform that shall
tell the truth and rally as one man to vim
dicate its fairness" [AppIause.l
As Mr.. Blackburn sat down more cries
were raised for Hill, without response.
A motion to adjourn for half &n hour
was voted down and the band was started
up to drown the confusion which pre-
vailed.
Mr.. Henry of Mississippi moved that
the Hon. W. ]. Bryan OF Nebraska be in
vited TO the stand. This was received with
every demonstration of approval, but the
chair announced that Mr.. Bryan was not
in the hall
Governor Altgeld of Illinois IVES then
called for, and rising in the body of the
hail the Governor indicated a desire to
give away TO Senator Hill. The chair
stated that Senator Hill was engaged with
the committee on resolutions and was not
in the hall.
Governor David Overmeyer of Kansas
took the stand and declared that the seat
OF empire was transferred from the Allan
tic States to the Mississippi Valley. The