The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-10-10
THE DEMOCRATIC CLUBS
They Were All Represented at ST,
Louis Saturday.

Louis Saturday.
Chadncey Black Said They HID
Met to Demonstrate the Tri-
umph of Their Cause
in Advance.
st. Louis, Mo-, Oct. 3.-Convention
hall was filled to Overlooking this morn
ing, when the second quadrienn;al con-
yention OF the National Association of
Democratic Clubs was called to order
by Hon. Chauncey F. Black OF Pennsyl-
vania. The attendance of delegates was
largest from the Mississippi states, al
though every II of the 1000 democrat
ic clubs scattered over the country We're
represented. together with a large num-
Der OF silver clubs. In It's composition.
therefore, the convention was IN the ma
ture Of a mass meeting. Nearly q month
g the executive committee made an
nouncement to the effect that any or
~ganization pledging its support of the
candidates of the Chicago convention
would be entitled to full membership
n representation at today's
ton. and that it was unnecessary in this
campaign that the organization should
be composed exclusively of democratic
voters or hear a name indicative of this
fact. Hence the delegates from silver
clubs were passed by the committee on
credentials as entitled to the full privi-
leges OF the floor. After President Black
mad called the meeting to order, the call
Tor the gathering was read by Secretary
Lawrence Gardner of Washington. This
set forth that the purpose of the CONVEX
ton was to show the power of the peo-
pie in their home organizations and to
demonstrate in advance the overwhelm-
Ing triumph of their cause, despite the
mighty interests openly syndicated
upon the other side to crush and de-
stroy it. Vice President Stevenson was
introduced as permanent chairman and
was given an ovation.
Stevenson's Speech.
st. Louis, Mo, Oct. 3.-upon being in
reduced as permanent. presiding Off
Ger. Vice President Stevenson respond
ed with a speech of considerable length.
After thanking the convention, he said.
among other things:
THE gravity OF the issues involved in
the pending political struggle cannot be
overstated. Their supreme Importance
to the masses of our people cannot be
measured by words. This is not a mere
contest as to men. The candidates of
the different parties for the presidency
are gentlemen of high character and of
marked ability. Fortunately there is
no question touching the personal integ-
rity or fitness of any candidate for the
great office involved In the pending
struggle. These questions aside, the
real issue cannot be obcured. 1t is the
& privilege of each elector to deter
mine for himself in what manner his
own interests that of his family and of
his country, can best be subserved by
his vote. In an hour so frausht with
deep concern to all the people, appeal
should be had to Judgment, not to pas
sion.
who, then are the candidates be-
tween whom the choice is to be made,
n what are the issues to be deter
mined? l make no question as to the
honest convictions of those who give
their support to the ticket nominated at
the Indianapolis convention. The fact
remains, however, that h contest for
the presidency rests solely between
| Bryan and Mckinley. 1t cannot be
claimed that any other candidate has
a semblance OF chance for success, or
even that he will receive a single cleo
toral vote. 1t will avail nothing to close
our eyes to the fact that h gentlemen
1 have named are the real candidates
before the people. No sane man can
doubt for a moment that success will
o1,a @{tLa,. IN tha 40 b1ioo ~ 40 y NJ =,
the election of its candidate, Governor
Mckinley, or to the democratic party
in the triumph of Mr.. Bryan.
For what, then. do the real candi-
dates for the presidency stand? VIII
the public interests-the interests of all
the people best be subserved by the sue
cess of the democratic party, or by the
return of it's great antagonist to powery
Il must be remembered that during the
thirty-two years Immediately preceding
the Inauguration of President Cleve-
land on the 9TH Of March, 1893, there was
rs single moment that the democratic
party controlled the presidency n
both houses of congress-; never a mo-
ment that it could place a single law
upon the statute books. For all of the
legislation during hat period which has
brought in it's train financial disaster,
monopolies and trusts. the republican
party alone is responsible. During the
period 1 have indicated the monetary
policy of the founders of our govern
ment was abandoned and silver demon
etized.
The sad results to all kinds of bust
ness to all conditions of men. that have
followed, AS the night the day." the
decentralization act of 1873 have never
been, will never be, adequately told,
| Something of the evils that have fol
lowed in Its train can be found in the
enforced idleness Of those who Vainly
seek employment, in the wrecked for
! tunes of men once prosperous in bus!-.
ness, and in the dep,orahle condition OF
the finances of the nation. But we are
toid that the real issua-that upon
which his election is to turn--is not the
monetary, but the tariff question. Our
opponents place this in the very fore
front of the struggle. Meeting them for
a moment Upon their chosen ground,
Judging from their past history-what
are their promises, what their inten-
| tons, in the event of success?
III nomination at st. Louis of the dis
tinguished author of the last republican
tariff law emphasizes the determine
ton of the opponents when In the full
tide of power to re-enac the Mckinley
law and restore to u Statute books the
| most UNJUST, LIE uloSl oulOuS lillli
schedules known to any period of our
history. Can it be forgotten that the
democratic victories of 1890 and 1892
were the result of the revolt of the pao-
pie against the "protectionism run
mad, which found its perfect work in
the Mckinley law? Is it possible that
the lessons OF history are SO soon to be
forgotten? Can 1t be that the legisla-
ton under which the protected monop-
olist thrived as never before, and by
which the government was deprived OF
revenue absolutely necessary in meet
ing its expenditures. is SO DOR to be
%condoned and its authors after repeated
condemnation at the polls again to be
entrusted with supreme power?
4 h financial question overshadows
all others In the present contest. Upon
this question the difference Is ~irreconcil-
able between the two great parties now
contending for supremacy. Shall the
single gold standard be maintained, or
shall there be a return to bimetallism?
The success Of the republican party
means the one, that of the democratic
party the other.
Believing, a. 7 do, that gold and silver
find equal recognition in the constitu-
tion OF the United States; that by their
joint use in effecting exchanges and per
forming the other functions of money,
we have prospered in the past, Ind that
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