Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-06-26

Will inc passing nOurSf tnOtaNOr no longer
brings its just reward; feariulness takes the
place Of courage and despair usurps the throne
Of hope, and unless the laws OF the country
and the policies If political parties shall be
converted into mediums Ut redress. the effect
OF human desperation may some time be wit
messed here as in other lands and in other
ages.
accepting the fiat Of the convention as the
present purpose Of the party, we withdraw
from this convention to return to our constit-
uents the authority with which they invested
us, believing that we have better discharged
their trust by this action, which restores to
them authority unsullied, than by giving
cowardly and nsincere endorsement to the
greatest wrong ever wilfully attempted within
the republican party-once redeemer of the
people, but now about to become their OPP
pressor unless providentaly restrained by the
votes Of freemen.'
SENATOR TELLER'S SPEECH.
In submitting his financial plank for the
consideration Of the convention Senator
Teller said:
"GENTlENfEN OF THE CONVENTION; | will
not attempt to inilict upon you a discussion of
the great financial question which is dividing
not only the people of this country, but of the
whole world. The few moments allowed to
me will not enable me to do more than state
in the briefest possible manner our objection
to the financial plank proposed for your con-
sideration. | am practical man, and |
recognize the conditions existing in this con-
ventlon, toreshadowed, as they have been,
by the committee on resolutions, to whom
TINS proposition was presented and by whom 1t
was rejected. Loyalty to my own OPINION
compels me, in the face OF unusual difficulties,
to present this substitute tor your consldera-
ton, not with that abiding hope nor with that
courage to which have presented the same
IN other bodies with greater measure OF sue
cess than | have hoped for here The great
and supreme Importance OF tins question IS
alone my excuse for the few words which |
have to say to YOU. have dealt with this
subject IN public capacity Tor now twenty
years. represent state which produces
silver, but | want to say to YOU here now that
my advocacy OF the proposition Is not IN the
slightest degree influenced or controlled by
that fact applause.
| contend for it because believe there can
he no sound financial system IN any country
In the world that does not recognize TINS prin-
clple' | contend tor 1t because since 1878,
when 1t was ruthlessy stricken from our
statutes, there has been continued deprecia-
ton Of all the products of human nature and
human energy | contend for 1t because IN
this year, 1890, the American people are in
greater distress than they ever were IN their
history. contend for it because this, in my
judgment, is the great weight, the great
incubus which has weighed down enterprise
and destroyed progress IN this favored land of
ours. contend for it because | believe that
the progress of my country is dependent upon
IT, | contend for 1t because believe that
the civilization Of the world is to be determin-
ed by the righttul or wrongful solution OF this
financial question l am tolerant OF those
who differ with me. | act from my ludg-
ment, enlightened as well as | have been en-
abled to enlighten It by many years Of study
and many years OF thought. In my Judgment
the american people, in the whole line OF
their history have never been called upon to
settle question SO great to them as this.
! he great contest, III which many of you par
ucipated, whether we should have two flags or
one, was not more important To the American
people than the question Of proper solution
of what shall be the money system Of this
land. | have said enough to show you that |
think that TINS Is not a question OF politics,
but a question OF principle. 1t is not mere
IDLE thing, but one ON which hangs the happ-
ness, the prosperity, the morality, and the
independence OF American laborers and
american labor and American producers.
For the first line IN the history of this great
country we are confronted with the danger
oil a financial system Whlch, IN my Judgment,
VIII be destructive OF all the great interests of
this land. We are called upon to give to this
provision OF 1ur platform our adhesion or to
reject It,
"Mr, lreslecnt' do not desire to say any |