The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-03


 mote the welfare of the whole people,
 that the democratic party has been
 able to engraft into law in over quar- ter of century. Reasoning people now say, we have
 had enough of shrinking values, and
 enforced likeness, which these years Of
 steady assault upon American indus
 tries and an equally vicious assault
 upon our currency have brought
 about" (Applause)
 These late election returns clearly
 indicate that the people of this land be-
 lieve that the democratic party has
 shown an utter inability to efficiently
 conduct the affairs of this great gov
 ernment since 1t is apparent that It's
 revenues are so inadequate that 1t IS running in debt to the amount Of mil lions, and demonstrating every hour the utter failure of its industrial and financial policy.
 The significance of those elections
 seemed clear and unmistakable. It was
 apparent that the people were turning | to the republican party for relief (ap-
 plausel, and it is still more apparent since the total and pitiable collapse of | liSiI lOy DcliCOllI NiiiNh Nst' itAAANNNNN
 with the gases of Nebraska, to be 1 floated for a night at Madison Square | Garden, while the Boy Orator held the
 string, only to be exploded when pune
 tured by the gifted Cochran. (Great applause)
 By the action of the Chicago con-
 vention, and by the nomination of
 Bryan and Sewall es the leaders of a
 new party, what remedy is prescribed | for our existing misfortunes? | The relief which they offer is found l in the speeches of MT. Bryan, the | democratic candidate; in the utter | ances of the bowling orators who sup | port him, in the language of the small remnant of the press which sustains him, and in the words of the plat | form upon which he was nominated and upon which he stands. l What is the remedy which the peo- l pie of America are asked to accept, | and who are those who ask us to take | it?
 Are the leaders, the speakers, the | managers, who at Chicago, and later | at St. Louis, have prescribed pam acea for our ills, the men whom Amer | leans have been, and still are, willing | to trust? What are the clements of | the party that made up the platform
 which was adopted at the convention
 at Chicago? Is it the platform of the party that we have met as democrats on many a well-fought field? The 1 Chicago platform is no more the plat | form of democracy that of republican, l ism. Those who, proclaimed 1t cannot properly claim the title of democrats. l Heretofore they may have been enroll l ed in tta democratic party, but they have shown themselves to be beyond | the pale of any respectable political organization recognized within the lirn- | its of this country-a mere remnant of | democracy, and that most tattered | remnant. It bears no resemblance to | the party we have met and called dem- l ocra.ic.
 I am here reminded of story which
 may not be new, but is yet applicable, | and which was told as illustrative of | that portion of the democratic party which made and endorses the plat | form adopted at Chicago. Let me give | you the story of General Buckner as | ccurately descriptive of what Is left l of the old democracy: In looking at | this marvelously curious relic of the democratic party one involuntarily re- l CUTS to the story of the Revolutionary musket.
 Here" said an old gentleman to | his young friend, 'is family relic of which I am proud, and the sight of which should inspire in your heart
 feelings of loftiest patriotism. It is
 a musfet, borne by my grandfather in
 the Revolution ary war and before its deadly aim many a redcoat has bitten l the dust in that struggle for human liberty"
 l The young man handled the venera- | b1e relic tenderly and reverently. Af-
 ter long and patriotic contemplation he at length ventured to ask: | "But where is the bayonet?" l ''Oh," said the old man, lone of the
 boys was pol<ing for coon in a hol l low tree and broke it, and the pieces are lost"
 1 Where is the ramrod?" l Why, that was splintered so badly | that I had new one made of iron at the blacksmiths shop"
 1 But" said his young friend, these look like fresh marks on the stock" | "Oh, yes,' was the reply Jim
 broke the stock last year cracking nuts and I had new one made" l Why, this doesn't look like very | old barrel"
 well, the barrel bursted last hog
 killing time, so I've got brand new one''
 q didn't know" said the young l man "that they used percussion locks | in the Revolutionary musket." | 'I believe" responded the old gentle
 man, hesitatingly, q believe that the touch-hole is left" Uaughter.) l And that is about all that is left of democracy in the Chicago platform of 1 1896. (Applause.)
 | This is thoroughly applicable to such small remnant of democracy as sub- | scribes to that platform. | When we look for the old demo- l cratic party we miss the bayonet, the I barrel, the ramrod, the stock, the lock; | indeed, there is nothing left. but l Qaughter)-. I pass on to ask you, who are the people who do support it? | They are not democrats. Who are | they? They are the enemies of civili- l zation-the enemies of progress, the | enemies of liberty We have fought
 and struggled for more than a century | to build up and maintain model re- public The supporters of Bryan and | Sewall, and Bryan and Watson, are l fO feStrou to 5iepr-ndit nd