The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-08-06
WEAVER FOR BRYAN.
ELOQUENT SPEECH NOMINAL.
ING THE NEBRASKAN.
Noted Populist Leader Delivers an
Intensely Earnest Address in Which
He Names "That Matchless Cham.
pion of the People,"
Bryan for President.

Gen. Weaver, Of Iowa, nominated W. ].
Bryan in the Populist national convention
at st. Louis. His speech wa among the
best that have been delivered before any
of the national conventions. He was
dramatic and intensely in earnest. In
part he said:
For twenty years we have been pleading
with the people to espouse the sacred cause
which Is at stake in this campaign. We have
constantly urged, through good and through
evil report, that our principles were more
important than party associations-were
above all other considerations Of private for
men. We have thus far suited our action
to our words. Through five Presidential! cam.
palgns, stretching from 1876 to 1892, you cor.
rectly estimated the purposes Of old party
specihcatton in your indictment against
them. Millions Of honest men within old
party ranks were deceived, lured into am
bush and betrayed. But not a single one of
your pickets has ever been caught mapping,
or been taken by surprise. TO your de-
voted efforts Is largely due the revival Of
economic learning in this country, which
has enabled the Democratic party to assume
Its present admirable attitude. Your work
COW promises much to mankind, and Is about
70 break forth in complete victory for the
the multitude whom we would have lib
Grated. though crucided in return for our
kindness, yet through it all we have stead
ty conhded in the righteousness Of our
cause and the final good sense Of the people.
We still believe that this nation has a mis-
sion TO perform which bad men will not be
permitted to destroy, and recent events in
dictate that the nineteenth century is not,
after all. to close with the friends of free
dom respondent in the Western hemisphere.
Sounded the Call.
This country has recently witnessed a new
pentecost and received another baptism Of
fire. The recent convention at Chicago
sounded a bugle call for union which can
neither be misunderstood nor go unheeded.
In its patriotic utterances and action 1t
swept way all middle ground and opened
the road to a formidable organic alliance.
They not only made union possible, thank
heaven, they have rendered it inevitable.
From the very beginning our organization
has made party fealty subordinate to prin-
clple. We will not here reverse ourselves
within our reach. We will not refuse the
profered assistance Of at least 5000 900 free
silver Democrats and not less than 1000, 600
free silver Republicans simply because they
organized army fully equipped and manned
COR battle. Let them have their own d-
visions and army corps. Let them manifest
their own esprit de corps. The field Of glory
Is open TO all competitors who are fighting
for the same principles.
The Populists have already shown their
proweSs in many engagements during TWEEN
ty years of struggle. If our allies can strike
sturdier blows at plutocracy than can We; if
they can scale the battlements of the gold
power more gallantry than our old veterans,
and are able 10 plant their cOlors one foot
nearer the citadel Of the enemy than We can
ourselves, let every POpulist cheer and sup
port them in their heroic work. We will
all march under the same flag, keep step to
the same music. face the same foe. share in
and shout over the same triumph.