The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-16
TilLMAN in DENVER.
HOW BOTH PARTIES HAVE STRAY
ED FROM THE RIGHT.
An Insult to the Memory of Jefferson
to Call Cleveland u Democrat and
Libel on Hamilton to Say Sher-
man Is Republican,.


Libel on Hamilton to Say sher-
man Is a Republican,.
DENVER, April Ex-senator Tillman
in speech delivered here tonight, said:
81 discovered last night that Colorado
never does anything by halves, not
even shaking hands, and when look
around and up, to the right and to the
left, and in front, 1 must be excused
when 1 say that this outpouring of
the citizens of this state to greet a
stranger touches me deeply
Speaking of the political parties, he
said:
1.-THE Republican party since Hamil-
ton has been one of education and the
Glasses. They have monopolized the
fruits of the earth and imposed upon
the people of this country. We have
come to that pass where few million
aires own more than the $4,000, 900 Of
in pure motives and in patriotism.
Jefferson said in his declaration, "All
men are created free and equal" but
there was a reservation in it that the
men who were black were not free and
equal. Lincoln's declaration of indie
| pendence included all men.
TWO KINDS.
1--WE have those who claim to be
Democrats and those who glory in the
title of Republicans. We have on the
one hand the man in the White House
masquerading ia the clothes of Jeffer-
son and pretending to lay down new
doctrine and new discipline unknown
to any man who has scintilla of
/ II T.;
And the apostle of the other party
John Sherman of Ohio.
ooh, God! that the name Democrat
should be given to a man like Cleve-
land and the name Republican to a
man like Shermanl
They have gone far afield from the
teachings Of the fathers, and, strange
to say, today. there are in union in
| the purpose to enslave this country
and transfer its wealth to a few, and
we free Americans claiming to be in
| telligent-America, the land of the
free and the home of the brave.
Iaughter). You Republicans, if there
are any here, who, like blind sheep
drift more ard more into the field OF
wolves, are using your ballots to crush
out freedom. And you Democrats VINO
say you have voted with the party
and will continue to vote with it,
GOD, HAVE MERCY
on your imbecility. Gaughter). But
what are you going to do with this
other political child-Populist? What
| can that do for the country, or what
must the country do for 1t? What
caused Populism? 1t was caused by
the men who turned their backs on
both parties What caused the Demo-
! Gratis who taught and felt and believed
with Jefferson to turn their backs on
| Democracy? Simply disgust. There
was that impatient class of society
which sometimes flies off the handle
! and gets lost. Naughter). These i'm
4 patient, hot-headed, rash, but patrlotlc
! men are the men who organized the
| PeopIes party The Peoples party
ought to be one in which everyone
would be willing to go, because II we
| are a free people and believe in the
power of the people to govern them
| selves and the republic, OF course we
want to belong to the Peoples party.
But what sor. of platform nave
they? The masses, l say, are anxious
! to secure good government; therefore,
when they did not secure it, 1t 1ndl-
Gates that they do not understand the
question and that they are LED by de-
/ signing and interested men. These
] men
PUT OUT A DRAGNET.
1t reached out and corralled in an
element of communism, anarcnlsm,
naternalism and every other ism that
has no business in a political party
The result was inevitable IL rose
high and swept over kansas, Nebraska
Colorado and even southern states
but it did not wash away anything.
There has been a rebound and one of
the markable consequences, you Demo
Gratis of Colorado, is that your party
seems to have been sponged off the
/ slate. I believe the record shows you
have gone down to 1,2O0 or 1900 votes
OF course, the administration had some
pie-eaters here who were compelled to
vote the Democratic ticket. There are
| 500 DnocratS representa- mere tonlgnt.
| What kind of Democrats are they!
CA voice from the gallery, 'Populists').
It does not matter what they repre-
sent so long as they will fight under
the flag that promises good govern
ment or good old Democracy, but let
| it be
JEFFERSON DEMOCRACY
or Lincoln Republicanism. / will vote
either ticket. But if we can get
combination of the principles, of these
two grand mea, we will have a sheep
| fold into which all will gladly enter
and this government will fill the pur-
poses of its founders.
! 1.-The policy offered now by the lead
! eis of the Republicans and Democrats
1 is a policy which means degradation,
poverty and business distress gold
/ buggery it come under the title of.
But we have got beyond the tune of
both wayfaring platforms like the one
4 at Minneapolis which meant just any
j thing anybody wanted The gold-bug
policy summed up means this,
CONTINUED CONTRACTION.
IF we are to have more bonds is
sued in times Of peace to maintain the
gold standard that Cleveland and Sher-
man offer, if hey are to impose more
( tariff, if we are to see our mines stop,
the factories stop, tramps by the mil
+ lions on the roads, farmers with
gl'anaries flowing over because they
cannot sell at the cost of production,
starvation on one hand for sc, 10000, 600,
idleness, lack of labor. and then look
at the millionaires who are sending
over to Europe to get some bobtailed
| lord to sell their daughters to-aint we
a glorious nation?" (Great applause.)
And vet frantic appaals coy,,a f,oy,,