The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-06
FIGHTING FOR HOME
Continued from First Page.)


an editor who did yeoman service. both
with tongue and pen In the advancemnt
Of the cause.
81 say, my friends, IN the preiimf-
nary campaign there were few, II any.
in this land VINO did better service in
spreading the truth of bimetallism and
making 1t possible for that cause to
be endorsed by the Democratic party.
as well as by the Populist and SILVER
parties, ard therefore am glad to come
again into the district in which lives
and is a candidate for congress. Mr..
Carmack. Great cheers and prolonged
applause.)
PARTY REGULARITY.
How you may find best TO unsy our
forces. you are to judge, bat my friends.
/ want You TO remember that you can
not help our cause by helping those VINO
are fighting US. Great applause). II
we are right in the position We have
taken. if the Democratic party is right
in its platform, then the man who does
not stand upon that platform. no mat
ter how good a Democrat ne may have
been before. is no Democrat now. Cap
plause) And no man can claim to be
a friend of mine who says that he wants
to elect me because / am regular nom
inee, and go down there and tie my
hands and make me powerless. Cap
Pause Those who believe in regular
Ity. my nomination appeals: TO those
Democrats who are willing to trust the
judgment OF a ajority Of the Demo-
cratic party. more freely expressed
than in any Democratic convention
ever held before, 10 these, my nominal
ton appeals.
ON OTHER GROUNDS.
But. my friends, could not feel the
interest that do in this campaign il
all had to commend me was party reg
uiarity. (Applause) i appeal TO you
on higher grounds than that / have
a stronger claim upon your support
than can be given by the regularity OF
convention. ] stand by the right OF
the American people to nave a financial
system of their own great applause)
and therefore my candidacy appeals to
every American citizen who believes in
the right Of the people of this coun-
try to govern themselves regardless
of the aid or consent OF any other ma
ton on earth (Cheers.) / am not
appealing to any sentiment hostile to
foreigners, but say TO you. my friends.
that nation does not deserve to be
Nd4iCu d WHICH VIII accSDI a
financial policy "ready-made" from
some other country.
Our opponents say that the tariff
is the important issue in this campaign,
/ ten them that until they put a pro-
hibitfve tariff on foreign financiers 1
won't talk tariff with them. (Applause)
So long as we must go to others to ask
them what we can have, there IS no
use to discuss any question until we
decide that we have right to express
our own opinion.
COTTON AND GOLD.
'"The prosperity of our great cities de-
Ponds upon the prosperity OF the farm |
ers and planters OF this country. Down |
goes the values of cotton when You
drive up the value of gold. Talk about |
a dollar that is as good as any dollar |
in the world. You want cotton at
least brought to be as good as it used |
to be before the gold got out of reach. !
Restore prosperity to the cities and to |
the laboring man, who will then be en- |
ployed in manufacturing things for |
the farmers, who will then have the /
money to buy what they need.
II find as 1 go about that there are /
4 great many bankers who support the /
gold standard. My friends, I don't |
know why a banker in Memphis should |
De interested in driving down the value |
If the farm products Of those who do |
business with them and If you want |
% know the explanation of this condi-
ion, l can give it i will say this, /
hat when you have found a man who !
las been so busy handling money as
Tot to have had time to study the sci
,nce Of financiering, / will tell you the
great controlling force among the bank
IFS of the west and south. 1t is that
hey get their news from New York
Ind instructions from Wall street. and
he bankers of Wall street get theirs
rom London and your bankers here set
Ip and call themselves patriots while
hey bow to foreign dictation.
ABUSE IN ALL AGES.
Now, my friends. just a word more
ask you not to be dEsmayed at the
Crces arrayed against us. II you
hink that you are called abusive names
ust remember that in all ages pas.
hose who have arrayed themselves
4gainst exclusive privileges have been
ibused by those who, not being able 10
meet their arguments. have attempted
o drive them from the field by cursing
nd swearing at them and applying
ibusive epithets to them tApplause) {
Sot a man in this campaign who ad-
locates free coinage has been more
utterly asssfled than Jefferson was
g1hen he started to organize the Dem :
'cratic party. (Applsuse.) Not
nan in this campaign has been more
Utterly sssailed than Jackson was
Fhen he was fighting the same kind Of
continuation which We are fighting to-
ay.
The battle Of Democracy today Is
he battle that Democracy has ever
ought. 1t is the cause OF the people.
he cause OF the great masses OF the !
eople, as arrayed against those who ]
eek special privileges and who stte1np; .
, fasten their hold upon the govern ,
ient perpetually by contributing an .
normous campaign fund with the hope ,
getting back more after the election !
han they spent TO secure the election. {
Great applause) 8
POOR, WEE LAMBKINS.
Against a corruption fund unparal-
led in the History OF this country, we 9
imply oppose a people. CsefenseIess. ex-
ept for that defense which every citI-
ID has when he Is fighting in the cause /
truth and 1fstice. When q person Z
ause ne Is then stronger than ne ever ]
at any other time. (Applause) =
We also have to face Intimidation. .
Ut, my friends. we have always had q
D face intimidation Those whom | c
e fight today have osed intimidation
their weapon at ali times. Blu: IN q
Ms country we ind that as the people 9
come more intelligent. as they come C
ore and more 10 realize the Justice z
free COVE rnnent and liberty. fhe al j
-nPt 10 sntin. date simply reacts AID =
En- Who we're not aroused before. be- y
me aroused because they realize that =