Evening star., 1896-07-10

choice shall be Bland or Boies. Matthews
Mclean or Kentuckys gifted SON. the i'm
perial commonwealth of Texas, with her
more than one hundred thousand majority
will take her place at the head of your VIC
torious columns
MIR. Overmyer's Speech.
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the
Convention:
I'm the name of the democracy Of Kan
sas; in the name of the farmers of
Kansas; in the name of the farmers of the
United States; in the name of the homeless
wanderers who throng your streets, in
quest of bread: in the name Of that mighty
army of the unemployed; In the name Of
that mightier army which has risen in liz
surrection against every form of economic
despotism, l second the nomination Of that
illustrious statesman and patriot that tt
berius GrachuS, Silver Dick Bland of Mis-
souri,. man who understands the sig
nificance of the fact that the American de-
mocraCy took the Constitution when il
was mere commission of public authority
and added to 1t the ten great amendments
which stands forever an impossible bar
rier against the invasive instincts of power
a man who knows that II power Is not re-
quired to stop :omewhere. power will stop
nowhere; that the first lesson of liberty Is
Jealousy of power, and that the first maxim
Of liberty is that safety lies in distrust of
power; a man who knows that no nation
ever enriched itself by taxing itself; that
no tax Is either constitutional or Just eX-
cept II be levied for purpose, and that
any tax which places the burden of govern
ment upon the backs of the poor while eX-
empting the rich is ubiquitous: a man who
knows that there are things dearer than
gold-character, exalted character, man
hood unconQuerable manhood honor, i'm
mortal honor-aad that these high quail
ties cannot long be retained by man men
aced with mortgages, dominated by land
lords and bowed down under the bitter and
hopeless bondage of political debt; that ali
which dignifies. all which elevates, all
Which exalts our mortal life, must wither
and perish under the desolating touch OF
gold.
III fares that land to fastening Ills prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish or may fade
A breath may make them as a breath has
made;
A bold yeomanry, their country's PRIDE
When once destroyed never be sup
piled.
"A man who knows that money is the
lfe-bood of the body commercial. and that
no man or set of men can ever have a
right to lisate the limb of that body or to
arrest or impede the normal circulation Of
that blood: man who knows that money
coined from either of the precious metaf
is sound money. attested by the exper-
fence and wisdom of all ages past; man
who knows that the money of the Con-
stitution is sound money; that money
debt is good enough to pay every public
debt; that money which was good enough
to pay George Washington for his expenses
Incurred in establishing our liberty is good
enough % pay 1ckleheimer Morgan or
any other man in the wide. wide world
that the money of Jefferson, of Jackson
of Madison. of Monroe and of Benton is
honest money. and that he who says it is
not. insults the memory of those dead but
sceptered sovereigns who rule our spirits
from their urns.' A man who knows that
International agreement is a mere device
10 appease the people and once more dis
appoint and betray them: and that they
who would place this nation under subjec-
ton to Great Britain in the matter of the
standard or value are friends of their
country. or their kind and that the true
rallo betWeen the metals Is sanctioned by
time. 16 to L.
"A man who knows that this nations
honcr Is not In the keeping of that preda :
tory and piratical element that lea pue1
and confederated scoundre ism which IootS
the treasury, STILES commerce paralyzrs
industry and plumbers the world n man
VINO cannot be ruled by consolidated nc
nopoly or aggregated diabolism: man
who knows that no nation ever prosnered
where agriculture has languishei and
that commerce has never languished where
agriculture he's prospered. That n vast
majority of the American people are farm
ers: that when prosperity shall return il
VIII come first to these dust-coyered mil
lions whose hard, sun-hrowned hands never
touch polluted dollar: who work in the
felds under the open sky under the burn-
ing sun of summer and through the frosts
ana storms of winter from the time the
stars grow dim IN the east till they rise
IN the west That when these prosper all
VINO trade and all who transport all "a ho
Duy and all who sell, will prosper and
mat until this happens none can prosper
except those who speculate in human mis-
cry; "A man who Is in complete sympathy
with the common people. who knows the
tragedy or poverty anI the pathos OF the
snort but simple annals of the poor.
man around whose simple rural home is
no wall OF IRON to keep out his fellow men;
q man who needs and who has no body-
guard but whose shield and protection are
Inc love and sympathy of his telIow-men.
euch a man is Richard p Bland He
IS as patient as Washington, as sympa-
theuc as Jefferson, as brave and as inst
as jackson and as wise and saga.ious as
any man who ever occupied :he presilen-
tial chalr He can command the suffrapcs
" more democrats than any other man
standing upon a free silver plat .orm and
ne can command the suffrayes of more
SILVER democrats who are not democrats
than any other democrat He can carry
eteiy state IN the south he can carry the
pfalrle states and .he mountain states and
the Pacific states. and he can carry more
states OF the central and eastern part of
me country than any other man standing
~ .ne posilon which the great democratic
party has here taken. Nominate him and
ne VIII be elected by such majority as
mas never been Witnessed before in this
country. Then will be fulfilled the Califor-
n.hn n,hn.s Irophecy. That land from out
whose depths shall rise the new-time
prophet tLat wide domain from out whose
aWiui AVN depths shall come all clad in skins,
win dusty feet. a man fresh from his
MAKER hand, singer singing ever sweet:
a. charmer; charming very wise, and then
an men shall not be dumb, may not be
dumb. for He shall say Take heed. for I
prepare the way for weary feet
Inc Inc eyes Of the whole country. the eyes
or the whole world are upon u.s. The great
neart OF mankind beats with anxious ex-
Pec.at,on OF the issue of this convention.
~ opon .hat result hangs the future veal
your ancestors. by the memories of your
great , and venerated dead, by the love
wnich you bear to your children, by the
GUY which you owe to posterity, in the
name OF all that men hold sacred, 1 ap-
pal p.aI 10 you to resolve this great .ssue
arlsht' as' and there is one name the very ut
n france OF which is a complete solution,
Bland, Bland, Bland"