The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-10

commission cs public authority and added
to II tire ten great amendments w1ira
stand forever as Al tnpassa bic barrier
against tire invasive instincts Of power
. rna n who knows that IL power IS net
required to stop somewhere power VIII
stop nowhere. thar the first lesson OF Id
erty Is jealousy of power. ard the hrst
maxim OF liberty is that safety lies n
disfrus- os power. q man who knows lhaf
no nation ever enriched itself BY taxing
itself. that no tax Is either constitutional
Or just except IL be levied for pubic
purpose. and that any tax which places
rhe burden Of government upon the backs
OF the poor while exempting the rich -
sEiquttous. man who knows that there
are things dearer than go36-characfer,
exalted character. manhood. unconluera-
his manhood, honor. and that these high
qualities cannot long be retained by men
menaced with mortgages. dominated by
landlords and bowed down under the bit
ter and hopeless bondage of perpetual
debt. 4 man who knows that all which
dlgEld-s. all which sleyates. all which
exaIts our moral life. must wither and
perish under the 6esolating touch of gold.
III fares the land. TO Fastening Ills a
prey.
Where wealth acculnulates and men de-
cay.
Princes and lords may flourish or may
fade.
\ breath may make them as a breath has
made.
When once destroyed can never be sup
piled.
a man who knows that money Is the
lifehlcod of the body commercial. and that
10 fHan or set OF men can ever have a
right 10 iigate the limbs Of the body or
TO arrest ar impede the normal circulation
Of that blood: man who knows that
sasz4 al her of he
metals Is sound money. as attested by the
experience and wisdom OF all the ages of
the past: a man who knows that all the
money OF the constitution Is sound money:
that money which is good enough TO pay
every private debt Is good enough to pay
everx public debt: that money which was
good enough TO pay George Washington
for his expenses incurred in establishing
our liberty is good enough to pay Ickel-
heimer or Morgan or any other man in
the wide, wide world: that the money OF
Jefferson, jackson. Madison. Monroe and
Benton is honest money, and that he who
says IL Is not Insults the memory Of those
dead but Sceptered sovereigns who rule
our spirits from their urns.' man who
knows that International agreement Is 4
mere device TO appcase the people and
once more dssappcfnt and bstray them.
and that they who would place this ma
tion under eubjecfion to Great Britain in
no friends of their country and their kind.
and that the true ratio between the metals
is sanctioned by time. Is 10 i; man who
knows that this nations honor Is not in
the keeping OF that predatory element,
that feagued and confederated scoundrel-
ism, which loots the treasury. STILES COM
rnerce. paralyzes industry and plumbers
the world: man who cannot be ruled by
consolidated monopoly or aggregated
wealth. a man who knows that a vast ma
Jority OF the American people are farmers.
that when prosperity shall return IL Will
come first to these dust-coyered millions
whose hard, sunbrowned hands never
touch a polluted dollar. who work I'm the
fields under the open skies. under the
burning sun of summer and through the
frosts and storms Of winter from the time
the stars grow dim In the East till they
rise In the West: that when these prosper
all who trade and who transport. all who
buy and all who SELL viii prosper. and
that until this happens none can pros
per except those who speculate in human
misery; man who Is in complete sympa-
thy with the common people: VINO knows
the tragedy OF poverty and the pathos Of
the short but simple annals OF the poor.
man around whose simple rural home
is no wall OF iron to keep out his fellow
man. man who needs and who has no
bodyguard. but whose shield and protec-
ton are the love and sympathy of his fell
low men.
such a man Is Richard p. Bland. He
is as patient as Washington. as sympa-
thetic as jefferson. as brave and as Just
as Jackson, as wise and sagacious as any
man who ever occupied the presidential
chair. He can command the SURFACES OF
more Democrats than any other man
standing upon a free silver platform, and
he can command the suffrages of more
silver men who are not Democrats than
n.
state of the South: he can carry the prai-
rie states and the mountain states and
the Pacific states, and he can carry more
states OF the Central and Eastern part
OF the country than any other man stand
ing tn the position which the great Demo-
cratic party has here taken. Nominate
him and he will he elected by such ma
jority as has never been witnessed in this
country
'sThe eyes OF the whole world are upon
US. The great heart of mankind beats
with anxious expectation of the Issue of
this convention. Upon the result hangs
the future veal or woe OF this country.
BY the ashes of your ancestors by the
memories of your great and venerated
dead. by the love which you bear TO your
children, by the duty which YOU owe TO
posterity; In the name of all that men
hold sacred. I appeal TO you to solve this
great issue right, and there is one name
the very utterance OF which Is a complete
solution-Bland. Bland. Bland"
Bailey seconds Bland.
Following is the speech OF Congressman
Joseph w Bailey. OF Texas, seconding
the nomination OF Bland:
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen OF the
Convention: For the first time since the
close Of our unhappy civil war a large
majority Of those who vote IN the COM
ing presidential contest VIII be governed
In the casting of their ballots by their
convictions upon great economical ques-
tlon. This convention has already plat
form which defines with admirable force
and ciearness the position OF the Demo-
cratic party upon that question, and IL Is
our duty now 10 perfect our work by NOM
mating a man whose words and deeds are
better than q written pledge thar he viii
faithfully keep the promise which our
platform makes Who most sonipi s;efv ft,,-
ills this supreme requirement. IL should
ask this audience, or II ] should ask
any audience assembled on the American
continent and under the American rar
what Democrat among the many sp,sndss
leaders OF our party best represents the
issue whfch today divides The American
people and which must be decided AZ the
polls on November z. would be answered
VITA the name og Richard BLAND. And
gentlemen % the convention he rpf onfx,
best typifjes the paramount issue in tha
next election. but he has been a fearless
ard consistent advocate of al fhoSs I'm,
mortal prtneipies which cur Democrats
fathers cherished and defended Thase
who doubt shs wisdom OF the nossagua.gav
sometimes venture 20 express the fear
that he II nos great enough % lpa car
president To them ] cay examine ais
record. For twenty years he sat in tn.
-~seral house ~ representatives.. ard astr
irr a. these years be voted right as cffeu
ard ne voted wrong as ses6ors as arx mar