The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-23

SectIOnaIlSm from the deliberations OF
the convention and bring i'm all good.
Mr.. Taubeneck's is to / gavel again
descended upon the conclusion of the
prayer. There was some surprise
when the chairman introduced Gov.
Stone, OF Missouri, but whatever APP
prehension might have been raised,
was speedy removed by the announce
ment that the Governor was merely
expected to make a welcoming address.
AIr. Stone did not speak at great
length. His welcome was most cor
dial and was couched in choice words.
He yentured upon a few general re
marks upon the prOpriety of freedom
of opinion of the press and speech and
of the ballot, which, must, he said,
be preserved at all hazards
Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota, re-
sponded TO Gov. Stones speech. His
appearance reused the middle-of-the-
road element to a burs of enthusiasm.
MIR. Donnelly spoke gracefully, pay
ing a high compliment to St. Louis and
eloquently describing the majestic
Mississippi and the vast country trib-
utarv 10 it, but avoiding adroitly any
allusion to the subject upon which the
delegates below him were divided. The
movement which this convention rep
resented, he said, was a growth of the
farm. 1t had been conceived in the dis
tress that prevailed among the pro-
ducers Of the country. The people had
felt the effects of misgovernment.
''The POpulist party will not die, it
needs to live. / stood at the cradle of
the greenback party, | stood at the
cradle of the Peoples party, and God
forbid that / should be here now to at
lend it's funeral This is the great
work of the century. Let us do our
duty, first determining that we will
neither desert nor destroy our party"
There were more 'middle-of-the-
road cheers when Mr.. DOnnely flu
ished.
Mrs Mary Ellen Lease, Of Kansas,
ascended the stage just before Chair
man Taubeneck introduced Senator
Butler as temporary chairman.
SENATOR BUTLER'S SPEECH.
In introducing Senator Butler, Mr..
TaubEneck said that Mr.. Butler had
been selected by the National commit
tee, and he added his belief that when
the convention adjourned it would be
found that it had acted with as great
unanimity as had the committee in
disposiug of the temporary chairman
ship.
Senator Butler was received with
cheers. In referring to the two old
parties, he said that they had had
charge of the government for twenty
five years. The people had during this
time done their duty in the matter of
the creation of wealth. They had
caused the country, so far as they
could, to blossom as a rose, but these
parties had been unfaitful to that
tTust and had brought the country to
the verge of bankruptcy.
The leaders of both had been un-
faithful to their trust. Hence the need
for Jhe Peoples party.
He referred to Mr.. Mckinley as the
candidate of aggregated capital and
combined greed" He declared that the
old parties had for years kept the
greatest issue in American politics in
the background. They would shun
issues and fight sham battles. No mat
ter where the victory lay, Wall street
ard LON DaTu soreec won.
Meantime, he said, the Populist par
ty, organized to bring real relief to the
people, had grown steadily. The agi-
tation had been kept up SO victories
against greed had been won. The
South and the West had joined hands.
He paid a high tribute to the late
President Polk, of North Carolina,
who, he said, had broken down Mason
and DiXon's line and made it possible
for new party to revive the broad
principles 6f Jefferson and Lincoln.
He described the various campaigns
which the party had passed in various
States; the hardships endured, the
filings and ridicule to which they had
been subjected, but they had tri-
umphed. They had at last torn the
mask from the old parties.
They stole our platform and tried
to steal our party This statement
set the convention wild.
"Why don't they steal our trans
portaton plahk2" shouted a California
delegate.
''Ah," replied Senator Butler, "the
old Democratic habit got the better
Of them there. They straddled that
question"
'Whoop," ''whoopee," cried a thou
sand voices.
He went on to plead for the main
tenance Of the organization of the
Peoples party. "If the Peoples party
should abandon its organization, he
said, the Democratic party at it's next
National convention would repudiate
the platform adopted at Chicago and
Bryan would not have any more chance
of being nominated than Thomas
jefferson would be if he were alive to-
day"
He appealed for q cessation Of petty
He had heard it intimated
by one that Mark Hanna was running
the party and by another that the
Democratic party was doing it. AS
for himself he had enough faith in
the integrity of the party to feel con-
vinced that the party would not make
itself an annex to the Dmocratic
party.
This statement gave the middle-of- |
-he-roaders a chance to cheer but the |
Bryan followers were afforded an Op-
)Ortunity to shout when he added that |
here was a grave danger that it might |
De made a Republican annex The |
party, he continued, should be true
% itself. IF this convention" he
shouted passionately, ''does not follow