The herald., 1896-07-10

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United States, in the discharge of pub
lie duty that is conferred upon him. had
not seen fit to issue bonds to protect the
credit of the government. The Demo
cratic party has passed tariff bill
which unfortunately has not produced
a sufficient revenue as yet to meet the
necessities of the government. There
| has been a deficit of about $4,000, 900 a
year. 1t is hoped that in the near fu-
ture this bill will produce ample rev.
enues for the support of the govern
ment, but in the meantime your green
back currency and your treasury notes
must be redeemed when they are pre-
sented. If you would preserve the honor
| and the credit of the nation where would
the money come from If your president
and your southern secretary of the
treasury had not discharged their duty
| by the issuing of bonds to save the credit
of the country? Let me call your atter-
| tion to these figures. There has been is
| sued during this administration $262, ,O00,-
! 600 of bonds. What amount of money
| have you in the treasury today? Only
just about that sum. Where would you
have obtained the means with which to
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| been produced by the sale of bonds?
| Why, my friend Tillman could not have
| had enough out of the treasury for his
salary to pay his expenses home.
! daughter and applause.)
Mr.. President, 1 reiterate to this con-
vention that this has brought into this
canvass an unnecessary, a foolish issue,
which puts us on the defensive in every
school district in the state. l do not
propose to detain you by any criticism
of this platform at this time. 1t is suffi
cient that you have entered upon an
issue upon which the Democracy is
largely divided
In addition to that you have unwisely
brought into this platform other ques-
tions foreign to the main question and
made the support of them the test of
Democracy. l do not think that this
was the course that should have been
pursued.
Mr.. President, there is time enough yet
to retrace these false steps. The bur-
dens you have imposed on us in the east
ern states in support of this platform on
its question relating to silver is all that
can be reasonably done. But in addition
to that you have put upon us the ques-
ton of the preservation of the public
credit You have brought into it the
question of issuing bonds. You have
brought into it the question OF recon-
struction of the supreme court. You
have brought into it the question of is
suing paper money. You have brought
into it the question of life tenure of pub
1ip offiPns r11a ic full Of
incongruous and absurd provisions
which are proposed to be made the test
of true Democracy. (Great applause)
Mr.. President, it is not for me to revive
the question of sectionalsm, and shall
not do it. This country is now at peace,
all sections of it, and let it so remain. l
care not from what section of the coun-
try Democrat comes, so long as he is
true to the principles of our fathers. 1
will shake him by the hand and express
my friendly sentiment toward him.
Great applause and cheering) The
question of sectionalism will crop up in
spite of efforts of our best men to keep it
out l oppose this platform because 1
think it makes our success more diff
cult. l want the grand old party with
which I have been associated from my
boyhood to be-and have looked for
ward to the day when it should be
securely entrenched in the affections of
the American people. l dislike the Re-
publican party; 1 dislike all their ten
cts; have no sympathy with their gen.
eral principles, but I do think we are
here today making mistake in the ven
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deceived; do not attempt to drive old
Democrats out of the party that have
grown gray in its service to make room
for lot of Republicans and old Wings
and other Populists that will not vote
your ticket after all. Great applause
and cheers.) Do not attempt to trade
off the vote of little New jersey, that
never failed to give its electoral vote
and take the experiment of some state
out west that has always given its vote
to the Republican ticket. l tell you that
no matter who your candidate may be in
this convention, with possibly one eX
ception, your Populist friends, upon
whom you are relying for support in
the west and south, will nominate their
own ticket and your silver forces will be
divided. Mark the prediction which
make. applause and cries of NOD
Some one says no. Who are authorized
to speak for the Populists here in
Democratic convention? L saw upon
this platform the other day an array
of them, giving countenance and support
| to this movement. men who never voted
| a Democratic ticket in their lives and
never expect to. They have organized
this party. They are the men who at
tempted to prescribe Democrats all over
| this Union they are the men who are
| crying against us as in the days that
! tried mems souis-during the war. My
| friends, l thus speak, more in sorrow
| than in anger. You know we'll what this
| platform means to the east. You must
| realize the result. But, calamitous as
| it may be to us, it will be more calamit-
| Gus to you all if in taking these risks you
do not win the fight My friends, we
want the Democratic party TO succeed.
We want to build it up; we do not want
ciples-the good old principles of Jeffer-
! son, Jackson, Tilden-of safe money.
We want no greenback currency on our
plates. We want no paper currency
whatever. We want to stand by the
principles under which we have made
this country what it is. If we keep in
| the gold paths of the party we can win