Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-07-08


applause) No candid man, no dispas-
sionate judgment, gentlemen, can ever
misinterpret your meaning. Inc SEM
tor from New York himself knows, as
Won know. ard as | know, that there i
no personality in the preferment winch
has been given TO me. He must know
and the whole country that watches
these proceedings must know, that II Is
solely due 10 the principle that TINS
great majority of Democrats stands foI
and that they know | stand With them
(applause) and that it is given in tne
spirit Of the instructions given by these
representatives of the people from the
people. whom all Democrats viii ever
bow TO as the surest and original source
of all power. The birth CT the Demo
cratic party was co-evil with the birth
OF the sovereignty Of the people.
IT CAN NEVER DIE
until the declaration of American indie
pendence is forgotten and that sover-
eighty is crushed out. Great apD.ause-)
Il am happy, gentlemen, 10 know thai
as the majority in this convention is
not personal, neither IN any sense IS II
sectional. II b.wos the palmetto and
the pines in Maize and South Carolina
1t begins with the sunrise in Maryland
and spreads into a sunburst n LOUIS
lana and Texas. (Applause)
1t stretches in one ulbroken column
across the American continent from the
Atlantic shores of the old Dominion
and Georgia and it sheds its golden
beams over the golden gate OF Califor-
MA. (applause,) it sends forth IT'S pioE-
GERS from Plymouth Rock and waves
over the golden wheat fields of Dakota.
1t has its strongholds in Alabama and
Mississippi, Florida and Oregon, zap
plause). II sticks like tar-heel zap
plause.) down in the Old North State,
and it writes 16 to l on the saddle-bags
OF the Arkansaw Traveller Cloud ap-
plause) 1t pours down its rivulets from
the mountains of West Virginia and
makes a great lake in New Mexico, Wy
oming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Montana
and Colorado. 1t stands guard around
the nationa! capitol in the District of
Columbia Cheers, and it camps on
the frontiers of Oklahoma. 1t sweeps
like prairie fire over Iowa and Kansas
and puts up red light On the confines
of Nebraska. 1t marsAals its massive
battalions in Ohio, Indiana and Mis-
souri,.
Last, but far from least, when l see
this grand array and think of the
BRITISH GOLD STANDARD
that was recently unfurled over the
ruins OF Republican promises at ST.
Louis, | think, too, of the battle of New
Orleans, of which it was said: There
stood John Bull in martial pomp, but
there was Old Kentucky" applause.
Brethren of the East, there is no
South; there is no North, there is no
East or West in this uprising OF the
people for American emancipation
from the conspiracy of European kings.
led on by Great Britain. which seeks
to destroy one half of the money Of
the world, and to make American man
ufacturers, merchants. farmers and me-
chanics mere hewers OF wood and draw
ers of water.
There is one thing golden, which per-
nit me, in the same good humor which
has characterized your conduct to COM
mend to you here. 1t is the golden
rule to do unto others as you would
have them do unto you. Forget not
the greed of devils and that an abso-
lutte acquiescence in the will of the
majority is the vital principle of the
republic. Democrats. as you have
been, Democrats as I trust you vii! ever
be. acquiesce gracefully in the will Of
this majority of your fellow Democrats
and only ask to go with them, as they
have often gone with you Npr'ause)
Do not forget, gentlemen, that for 80
years we have supported the men that
you have named for president, Seymour,
Greeley, Tilden. Hancock and twice
Grover Cleveland. Do net forget that
we have submitted cheerfully to your
compromised platform and to your re-
peated pledges of bi-metallism and have
patiently bore repeated disappointments
as 10 their fullfilment. Do not forget
at the last national convention of the
Democratic party in 1892.
YOU PROCLAIMED YOURSELVES
to be il favor of the use of both gold
and silver as a standard money of the
country. for the coinage of both gold
and silver without discriminating
against either metal; and that the only
question left open was the ratio be-
twesn the metals. Do not forget-and
/ refer to the fact in no inferior sense
that just four years ago in Democratic
convention in this city, the New York
delegation stood here solidly and i'm
movably for a candidate committed to
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
and gold, at the. ratio Of 16 to l. And
if we are still for it. let it not be for
gotten that we have it in some measure
from their teachings. (Applause) That
we owe much to gentlemen of the East
is readily acknowledged and will be
ever most gratefully remembered. We
owe you much, gentlemen Of the con-
vention, and for what we owe you of the
East is the force bill, and the McKin-
ley bill, and the Sherman law, the triple
infamy of Republican legislation. The
first was aimed not more at the South
than of the great cities of the East,
and chief among them the great Demo-
cratic city of New York That bill got
its death blow in the Senate, but there
was not a single Democrat in New York
or New England to vote against it. If
You gentlemen have helped to save the
South. it also has helped to save you
in the East; but whether the South
should be saved or not, these great
American Republican Senators from
the West. Teller and Wolcott and your