The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-27
Its BIBLE is SAFE
DEMOCRATIC BOOK OF FAITH CAN
NOT BE REWRITTEN NOW.

Although the PopuIistIc Horde has Broken
Into the Sanctuary of the Party. Don
ned the vestment of the High Priests.
and is Desecrating the Altar. Villas Re-
ioIces That They Cannot Re-write the
Bible of Its Faith Wonderful speech
of the Wisconsin Man-Speaks of the
One Issue Recognized.
Milwaukee, Wis, Aug. pat the
convention Of the gold Democrats NJ
Villas began his remarks by stating that
he sincerely lamented the conditions
which distressed Democracy and had
caused a division in their fraternai
ranks in Wisconsin.
Were one to consult mere dictates
of ease and personal prudence" he
continued, me might in such an hour
seek to withdraw himself to some safe
covert and let the whirling storm pass
by. But every impulse Of manhood re-
| bells against it Upon the issue de-
Ponds the welfare of our country and
the peace and happiness of our country
men None but a coward can fa1ter
now. The course OF duty is plain. Lay
tons of life, one must go where they
Hume the way. 1t should matter not
that the multitude rush with impetous
olamor upon the opposite course NO
true man can see his fellows moving to
their injury or ruin and da e 10 ocpse
no counsel of wisdom and safety. He
knows by a Thousand lessons of history
how often the maddening impulse OF
the hour has overthrow truth 20 bring
misery to mankind Whatever the
event, whatever the consequences, he
must take his stand for the rignt, and,
without Impotence, without anger, and
without fear, insist upon the overWhelm
ing reasons which denounce the folly
and injury threatened to his country
men.
NEW KIND OF A ROW.
Never in all the past Of this nation
has such a controversy controlled poll
tica1 parties as is now presented to US.
All the differences, issues and conten-
tons which have divided parties in
the past, have been swept off the poll
tical field by the action of the Chicago
convention, and a new, most eXtraor-
binary and perilous proposal has taken
their place The old Democrat tic party
has been successfully raided, its flag
captured and the insignia Of party lead
enship seized by new and foreign hands.
Strange voices issue the words of COM
mand and new leaders cry aloud, This
Is the way Of Democracy and point 10
path furrowed by our fathers. Some
in our ranks have rebelled in anger,
resentfully regulating the party be-
trayal, exclaimfng against its captors,
II you be Israel, We go rather with the
children of Bedal-' Others follow blind
ly, saying: Is not this the party flag; do
not these wear the uniform of party
generals But many stand silently,
lamenting the wild confusion, seeking
earnestly for some path Of honor to them
selves or future safety for their party.
But ONE ISSUE RECOGNIZED.
"Of them and for them Is this as
semblage gathered 1t is born of an
exigent necessity and its inspiration is
party devotion and patriotic duty. I
congratulate, rejoice for the old party
that such and so many representative
Democrats compose this audience, IN
spired by these sentiments Well may
we take heart of hope that, dark as the
cloud has seemed, there is yet saving
grace to restore the power and use
fullness Of the old party of the fathers
Whatever the conditions presented to
our deliberations on all hands il must
be seen that there is but one very over
Swallowing and dominant issue to be
decided in this campaign. That truth
Mr.. Bryan has recognized; he avowed
it in New York. Whatever the inter-
est or faulty Of any may lead them to
assert, whatever appeals may be ad-
dressed to the ghosts OF past contro-
verSieS, this fact must be recognized
by every intelligent man. The impend-
ing crisis in our political affairs turns
all upon the solution of this one over
ruling question: Shall the existing STAN
dard of money be swept away, with all
it's fatal consequences to business, to
labor and to enterprise, and a new, de-
based and uncertain standard be sub
situted" For such is the proposal,
that the United States shall open its
mintS to the free and unlimited coin
age OF silver at the ratio OF is to ]. If
anywhere in this Union Democrats
might have been especially expected 10
stand like rock against the surges
of such folly, II is IN Wisconsin. On
hhfssubj ect the party here has never
CROPPED in darkness"
CITES THE RECORD.
The speaker referred to the resolutions
of the state legislature which elected
him to the United States senate-the
first Democratic legislature which the
state has had for more than a genera
Notwithstanding him to exert his Ut
most endeavors to secure the defeat of
the bill then pending before congress
for the free coinage of silver. He could |
not now turn to the people he had sery-
ed faithfully and counsel them that his