Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-08-14
BRYAN'S MASTERLY EFFORT
Full Text of the Silver Champions s
Great Speech at Madison
Square Garden.

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Great Speech at Madison
Square Garden.
DIGNIFIED, PATRIOTIC and CONVINCING
An Exposition of the Vital Money Metal
Problem That Children Can Com
prehend and Wise Men May
Study with Profit.
Hon. William Jennings Bryan's speech
of acceptance, delivered in Madison
Square Garden, New York City on
Wednesday evening, was as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, Gentlemen of the Com
mittee and Fellow Citizens: I shall at a
future day in a formal letter accept the
nomination which Is now rendered me by
the notification committee, andvI shall at
that time touch upon the issues prssr ated
by the platform. It is fitting, however,
that at this time, In the presence of those
here assembled, speak at some length
In regard to the cam paign upon which we
are now entering. We do not under
estimate the forces arrayed against US,
nor are we unmindful of the Importance
of the struggle in which we are engaged
but relying for success upon the right
eousness of our cause, we shall defend
with all possible vigor the positions
taken by our party. We are not sur
prsed that some of our opponents, in the
absence of better argument, resort to
abusive epithets, but they may rest as
sured that no language, however violent
or invective, however vehement, will
lead us to depart single hairs breadth
from the course marked out by the ma
tional convention. The citizens, either
public or private, who assail the charac-
ter and question the patriotism of the
delegates assembled in the Chicago con-
vention, assall the character and question
the patriotism of the millions who have
arrayed themselves under the banners
raised there.
PARTY OF PEACE
1t has been charged by men standing
high in business and in political circles
that our platform is menace to private
security and public safety, and it has
been asserted that those whom have the
honor for the time being to represent not
only mediate an attack upon the rights
of property but are the foes of social
order and national honor. Those who
stand upon the Chicago platform are
prepared to make known and to defend
every emotion which influences them,
every purpose which animates them, and
every hope which inspires them. They
understand the genius Of our institutions,
they are staunch supporters of the form
of government under which we live, and
they build their faith upon the founda-
tions laid by the fathers. Andrew jack
son has stated with admirable clearness,
and with an emphasls that can not be
surpassed, both the duty and the special
ty of government. He said: "Distlnc-
tions in society will always exist under
every just government. Equality of tai
ents, of education or of wealth can not
be produced by human institutions. In
the full enjoyments of the gifts Of Heaven
and the fruits of superior industry,
economy and virtue every man is equally
entitled to protection by law"
We yield to none in our devotion to the
doctrine Just enunciated. Our campaign
has not for it's object the reconstruction
of society. We can not insure to the
vicious the fruits of virtuous life; we
would not invade the home of the provi-
dent in order to supply the wants of the
spendthrift; we do not propose to transfer
the rewards of industry to the lap of in
dolence. Property is and will remain the
stimulus to endeavor and the compensa-
tion for toll. We believe, as asserted in
the declaration of independence, that all
men are created equal; but that does not
mean that all men are or can be equal in
possessions, In ability or in merit; it sim
ply means that all shall stand equal be-
fore the law, and that government officials
shall not, in making, constituting or en-
forcing the law, discriminate between citi-
zens. I assert that property rights as
we'll as the rights of persons are safe in
the hands of the common people.
Abraham Lincoln in his message sent
to congress in December, 1861, said:
"No men living are more worthy to be
trusted than those who toll up from pow
erty, none less inclined to take or touch
aught which they have not honestly"
repeat his language with unqualified
approval and join with him in the warn
ing which he added, namely: "Let them
beware of surrendering political power
which they already possess, and which, if
surrendered, will surely be used to close
the doors of advancement against such as
they, and to fix new disabilities and bur-
dens upon them, till all liberty shall be
lost"
Those who daily follow the injunction:
"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou earn
Bread" are now, as they ever have been,
the bulwark of the law and order, the
source of our nations greatness in time
Of peace and its surest defenders in time
OF war.
But have only read part of Jaokson's
utterances. Let me give you his con.
clusion: "But when the laws undertake
to add to those natural and just ad-
vantages artificial distinctions, to grant
titles, gratuities and exclusive privileges,
to make the rich richer and the potent
more powerful, the humble membets of
society, the farmers, mechanics and the
day laborers, who have neither the time
nor the means of securing like favors for
themselves, have right to complain of
the injustice of their government"
Those who support the Chicago plat
form indorse all Of the quotations from
Jackson the latter part as we'll as the
former part.
rs NOT suRrR1sINaf
We are not surprised to find arrayed
against rs those who are the benefciaries
of government ntfAvoritism-they have read
our platform. Nor are We surprised to
learn that We must In this campaign face
the hostility of those Who fnd q pecuniary
advantage in advocating the doctrine OF