The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-16
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form and candidate would have been to
you four years ago?
Remember that revolutions never go
backward that Ike conffa gra tions. they
grow by what they feed upon. Meet them
at the beginning with right, reason and
courage, ard YOU can turn them; tenn
porize and they will devaur you.
For the first time in the history of the
United States we have an Anarchist and
Socialist platform and for the first time
also, candidate who has never given the
slightest evidence of statesr1anship.
The only qualification of this candi-
date-'the boy ora'tor'-is that during his
brief career In Congress he made one or
two speeches which amused the House
and pleased its galleries, and that during
the recent convention he took the fancy
of the mob by a single exhibition of far
ing rhetoric.
'sThe most telling phrase of this rheto-
ric--the phrase which UhreW the galleries
into ecstasy, was as inane as It was re-
pulsive, and nothing beyond his speeches
is needed to show that both in temper
and an intellect he is utterly unfit to deal
with the great questions which now eon-
front the county; or, indeed, with any
large questions whatever.
Democracy has heretofore stood as a
conservative force in the country but at
this convention we see in control a hetero-
geneous mass of Anarchists, Socialists,
Popuiists spectators and sectionalists--
the strength Of neither of the great par
ties and the pest of both. From the South
ern States we heard mo voices of the meN
who have so nobly devoted themselves to-
opposing unreason and to building UP the
new South
From the Western States we heard ma
voices of those who have developed the
industries, the systems of communications
the. great educational enterprises, the
real civilization of those great regions.
AL such voices were stif1ed
sBut we heard from the South, the
phrase makers, the formula peddlers. tho
sensation mongers, the denagogues OF
the old sort, who have always cost the
South so dear-tfie sort who formely hGr-A
rafed for secession and who are now
screaming as Justify for confiscation.
From the West we saw a represents
ing of all sorts of architects of RUNS
and especially the wild schemers and
dreaners and fog horns''--the men who
as rule having failed to conduct sue
cessfully any business of their own, think
that they are entitled to take charge of
the business of the nation; men of whom
the convention itself, and in the fringe
of political folly hanging about it.
what other outcome from such source
could there be than a policy of ccnfisca-
ton, ruin, distress and dishonor?
What is the duty of sound Deme-
Gratis, among whom your fellow-citizens
class you--of men faithful to the tradi-
tions of their party, who love it, whoa
know the value of it, who wish to save
it?
II can see but one way eventually to9
preserve the Democratic party as welt
as to prevent national catastrophe,
and this | trust that you will allow me
to suggest. This one way is for you ana
the sound Democracy, frankly. boldly, 4
unQualifiedly, to break loose from this
wild mob masouerading in the Demo-
cratic g,arb, and, like the great war
Democrats during our civil struggle, tc
cast in your lot fully. for the time, at
least, with the party which you have
heretofore opposed