The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-13

cept that position, Mr.. Chairman. and will
dlscnarge that dut with as much willing
ness as | ever discharged any on earth. /
am proud to be associated with the move
ment which blots out all sectional lines for
ever. and makes US one people and one ma
tionality. (Applause.)
Ii Is time this ancient spirit OF Democracy
should be revived. We have had amongst
us parties builded upon sectional hate, parties
which have advocated special interests at the
expense Of all other interests We have had
the great Republican party. controlling the
destinies of this country. built upon hatred
ana antagonism to nearly one-half of the
country. But now at the very moment that
that party has announced that 1t will cease
the contention Of one section against another,
mat hereafter 1t will be national party
mere springs up against and among us an
oIner party. professedly built upon section
aiism, professediy and urgently insisting that
one special interest of the country that the
greedy silver miner shall be built up at the
expense of every other citizen in the land.
(Applause.)
What is that party? 1t is not proper that
l should discuss the particular platforms Of
the ulHerent parties here, but 1t Is well for
us as patriots to ask the origin of this party
calling itself falsely the Democratic party;
now It was constituted and what the princi-
pies that 1t enunciates. They claim that they
were regular.
The delegates to that convention were ap-
polnted, IL Is true, under the regular au-
primaries, county and state conventions, re-
afnrmed the fundamental principles Of the
democratic party and sent their delegates to
Cnicago, bound In honor and by every polit-
lcal duty to adhere to them. Did they do it.?
You nave been told by the gentleman who
preceded me how they violated their instruc-
ions; now they abandoned the principles of
democracy; how they betrayed their own
| party to the enemy and went over to the
enemy and went over to false doctrines
| tApplause.) But they said that was regular
! and therefore that we, and everyone who has
been associated with the Democratic party
! are bound to follow their lead because they
RIoi mad hat 1f,IAa
| Democracy were dead and those of Populism
| should be hereafter those of Democracy. Gap
plause.)
| Benedict Arnold was regular in his pro-
| ceeding. (Applause.) He was regularly com
| missioned by his government; he wore its
uniform; he was regularly assigned by Wash
| 1ngton to the command at West Point and
| the island; he issued regularly his orders
through the chosen staff officers to his troops
| disbursing them broadcast, in order that the
enemy might come in and massacre all of
them. All that proceeding was regular, but
when he was detected, when his rank tire sson
was discovered, Washington and his follow
Ing (applause) and yet according to the cry
| of our friends, at Chicago, Washington and
the patriots Of the revolution were bclters.
Mr.. Chairman, the Democratic party cannot
ever 1ndorse the heresies of the Chicago plat
| form. We proclaim now, as we proclaimed
| at Indianapolis the ancient principles of
Democracy, obedience to law, court. un-
trammeled either by legislative or by execu-
| tive control. tribunal which is the last
| resort of the weak against he powerful.
/ That which friends at Chicago would
destroy we insist on unfolding and support
| ing its DEGREES by the whole power CT the
state and national authority. We bsieve in
| the Jeffersonian doctrine Of equal and exact
| justice to all and exclusive privileges to
| none.
4 We insist that for every one hundred
cents worth Of work done by the 'laborer.
| he shall receive a dollar worth one hun
| dred cents. We advocate the freest possible
| trade, and insist that the commerce of
| the world shall be brought to our ports In
free ships, untaxed for the benefit of any
special interest in this country. These were
the fundamental doctrines that Democracy
| proclaimed and over them the flag of Dem
! ocracy waves as proudly as ever in the
hours Of victory. Applause.) I accept the
task imposed upon me by the National
| Democracy.
! At the conclusion Of Gen. Buckner's
4 speech the convention adjourned with three
/ cheers for Palmer and Ruckner