The herald., 1896-07-08


pomp, but there was old Kentucky"
| (Applause.) Brethren of the east, there
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
half of the money of the world and make
the American manufacturers, mer-
chants, farmers. and mechanics. mere
hewers of wood and drawers of water.
There is one thing golden which. per-
| NIT me to name, the 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
| others do unto you. Forget not the greed
| of devils, and absolute acquiescence in
! the will of the majority is a vital princi-
| pie OF the republic. Democrats, as 1 trust
| you will ever be, acquiesce gracefully to
| the will of this great majority of your
! fellow Democrats and only ask to go
with them as they often have gone with
you. (Applause) Do not forget that tor
! thirty years we have supported men that
you have named for president, Seymour.
Greeley, Tilden, Hancock, and twice
| Grover Cleveland.
Do not forget that we have submitted
| cheerfully to your compromise plat
| form and have patiently borne repeated
| disappointments as to their fulfillment.
| Do not forget that at the last convention
| of the party in 1892 you proclaimed your
| selves to be in favor of both gold and
| silver as the standard money of the
country; for the coinage of both gold
and silver without discrimination
against either of the metals and that
the only question left open was the ratio
between the metals
Do not forget that just four years ago
in the Democratic convention in this city
the New York delegates stood here SOL
idly, and stood for a candidate commit
ted to free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer and gold at the ratio of Is to l, and if
we are still for it let it not be forgotten
[ we owe it to their teachings. (Applause.)
That we owe much to the men of the
east we readily acknowledge. We owe
you the force bill, and the Mckinley bill,
and the Sherman bill-the triple nfamy
of Republican legislation. The first was
aimed not more at the south than at the
great cities of the east, and chief among
them the great Democratic New York,
with it's magnificent patronage. That
bill got its death blow in the senate, but
there was not single Democrat in New
York or New England to vote against it,
IT, gentlemen, it helped to save the south,
it also helped to save you in the east;
but whether the south should be saved
or not. there are the great American
Republicans from the west-Teller. VOL
colt and your Jones and your Stanford
of California-who sank their partisan
feelings and came forward to rescue
American institutions.
No man, gentlemen, in this high noon
of your country's fraternity can revive
force bill in this reconciled and re-
united republic. Our opponents them
selves have abandoned them. There is
none that can stand between the union
of hearts and the union Of hands, which
L. S. Grant, in his dying vision, saw COM
| ing to all the sons of our common coun-
| try. When Chicago dressed southern
graves in flowers she buried sectional
ism under fragrance; when southern SOL
diers on yesterday cheered the wounded
hero of the north in Richmond the south
answered back: Let us have peace,
union and liberty. now and forever"
AS the majority of the Democratic
party is not sectional, neither does it
stand for any privileged or class legis-
laton. Active business men of this
country, its manufacturers, merchants,
farmers, SONS of toll in counting rooms,
factories, field and mine know that con-
! traction of the currency sweeps away
with silent and resistless force of grav
! itation the annual profits of their enter
| prises and investments. They know,
too, that the gold standard means con-
| traction and organization for disaster.
| What hope is there for the country and
what hope for Democracy unless the
views of the majority should rule? Do
not the people know it was not silver
legislation but legislation by advocates
of the gold standard that has caused
and now causes financial Depression
Do they not know that when they de-
manded of the Democratic party in 1898
that the Sherman law be repealed with
| out substitute the very states Of the
/ east that demanded it turned against
| the Democrats who granted it and swept
away their majority in torrent of bal
| lots? If silver men had had their way
instead of the gold monometallists what
storms would here today be emptied
upon their heads! But people applying
| power, memory and analysis alike to dis
cover the causes of their arrested pros
perity need not go far to find them They
! do not forget when the Democracy came
into power in 1898 it inherited from its
Republican predecessor tax system
and a currency system of which the
Mckinley and Sherman laws were the
! elimination of atrocity. 1t came to
power amid panic which fifty followed
! upon their enactment with strikes, lock-
outs. riots and civic connections, while
scenes of peaceful industry in Pennsyl-
vania had become military camps.
Besides the maifolh oppressive fea-
lures, the Mckinley law had thrown
away fifty millions of revenue derived
from sugar under the special plea of a
! free breakfast table, and substituted a
| bounty to sugar planters, thus decreas-
| ing revenue and increasing expenditures,
burning the candle at both ends and
making the people pay at least double
for the alleged free breakfast. From the
| Joint operation of the Mckinley law and
the Sherman law an adverse balance
of trade was forced against us in 1898. a
surplus of one hundred million dollars in
the treasury was converted into a de-
ficit of seventy million dollars in 1894