Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-28
MORGAN PLEADS ron BRYAN.
Declares that silver Men Have Very
Little to Re Ashaincd OF.

Little to Be Ashamcd Ot.
TROY, N. Y, Sept. Ex-senator Morgan
spoke here last night in the interest OF
Bryan and sewall, saying In conclusion
There are still some things to be proud Of
as democrats. We can appeal TO that Of
fetal record OF George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson and Andrew jackson, three presi.
dents who approved the coinage of gold and
silver on equal terms as full legal tender
money. We can appeal to the fact that
the democratic creed never contained an ex-
preston of hostility to either metal. We
can appeal to the fact that no democrat,
In congress out OF congress, can be
named who ever antagonized silver before
1873, when John Sherman took the lead,
also a few democrats from states whose
people held large amounts OF government
bonds. We can appeal, to the fact that a
majority In the house and senate have al
ways supported the restoration of silver to
free coinage. We can appeal to the fact
that the democrats in congress have won for
silver a larger coinage by 400 per cent than
it ever had in the history Of our country.
We can appeal to the fact that a conven-
tion, honestly chosen by honest democrats
and consisting of 500 delegates-all in their
places-as honorable and as enlightened a
body as any Of equal numbers that ever
met in national convention, voted by more
than two.thirds Of their numbers for our
| platform and our nominee.
I'VE can appeal to the fact that the demo-
cratic party placed on the statute book the
| best, most equal and least oppressive tariff
| that we have ever had, and has driven
| from our code of laws the denominations of
| the election laws and the coerce laws and
| has forbid the employment of the standing
| army as a posse comitatus. We can appeal
| to the fact that we have voted for Seymour
| Tilden, Hancock and three times for Cleve,
| land-all New Yorkers-and once for Hor-
| ace Greeley-a New Yorker-for the sake of
/ harmony
| sometimes at the sacrifice OF our personal
| Judgment, and that we never deserted
democracy. If all this disproves our denoc-
racy, then we are not democrats, and we
| are fools. 1t does not disturb my sense OF
duty, or wound my pride, that am shut
off from the privilege of appeal
| ing to the sage Of Wolferts
Roost for a justification of my vote on the
| income tax, to the fountain of light at
| Buzzards Bay, for the lamp of Dogenes,
while searching to find honest men in the
| bond syndcates, who disdain dishonest dol
lars. Neither am | distressed that 1 have
not the faculty of Palmer to palm off a
spurious pretense of democracy for the true
| creed of our party, and to take possession OF
| the organization in virtue of alleged creden-
| tials that have served as passport to every
| republican convention and Office in reach
| Of the journeyman politician, who was re-
Gently buried in his third party baptism In
| Indianapolis
|
| the party to which he devoted himself with
| such self-sacrifice during the three elections,
| two of them successful, as being his sort of
a democratic party. 1t Is sad thing to
! contemplate that a great man should thus
| be betrayed into the presidency for two
| terms by the votes Of men who turned out
| to be lunatics and perfdious betrayers of
| their supposed chief and master After
proving his devotion to his Ideas of true
| democracy in the appointment of Gresham
| as secretary OF state as a reward for his
lifelong service to the republican party, and
| his devotion to pure democracy in the effort
| to fasten the noble Liliuokalani on her
| throne, and his devotion to the safety Of
| the country by putting the treasury under
| the guardianship of the, Rothschilds syndi-
cate, the democratic party abandoned him
| as stranded mugwump. 1t is not our fault
! that he made the mistake of supposing that
| he was ever a democrat II is said that he
| is man of noble independence That is
| noble trait when II leads one to refuse offices
and honors, but when they have exhausted
| the generosity of the people who confer them
| it is not honest independence that turns
upon them and seeks to hand them over to
| their enemies for destruction. Talleyrand
was independent when he helped to turn
Napoleon over to the allied powers. but his
| independence was that OF an migrate and
| his fame is still wound upon the honor of
| France. l am glad that Mr.. Cleveland
sought his own and that his own have re-
| ceiYed him."