The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-07-17
MR.. DANIELS SPEECH.
THE VIEWS OF THE
SILVER MEN.
Firm for Free Coinage-Gold Men Notified
that They are in a Helpless Minority
- Advised to Acquiesce in the Will Of the
Majority as Gracefully as Possible.
CHICAGO, July s.-Temporary Chair

~ 800 ASAA o.
man Daniel, on assuming the gavel,
addressed the convention as follows:
Mr.. Chairman of the National Democratic
convention: In receiv ng from your hands this
gavel as temporary presiding officer of this
convention, l beg !eav, to express a sentiment
which / am sure is unanimous thatno national
convention was ever presided over with more
ability or more fairness than by yourself.
(Cheers and. cries of 'Harrity. Harrity. ~ I
can express no better wish for myself than that
l may be abb in some feeble way to model my
conduct by your model and to practice by your
example.
A Neat Compliment to Senator Hill.
II regret that my nam> should have been
brought III even in the most courteous and
serious complication with that of my distin.
guished friend, the great Senator from New
York. (Appiause) But the vcr1 fact that /
have perm tied it to be done refutes tho sug.
ge.tion that has been i'm providently made on
this floor, that either l or those whom / have
the n nor to represent would ever heap indig-
nation upon that bravs and illustrious head.
Great applause.) No candidate. no dispas-
s1onate judgment, can ever misinteip.et your
meaning The Senator from New
York himself knows as l know
and as you know, that there is
no pers onality in tho prefermeat which has
been gwen to me. He must know, aad the
whole country that watches these proceedings
must knoy y, that it is solely due to the prin.
ciple that this great majority of Democrats
stands for and that they know I stand with
them (applause), and that it is given in the
spirit of the instructions received by these rep
res '%ntatives OF the people, whom al Eemo-
Gratis will ever bow to as the purest and orig
in Al source of all power, The birth of the
Democratic party was coeval with the birth
OF the sovereignty of the people. 1t can never
die until the declaration OF American indie.
pendence is forgotten and that sovereignty is
crushed out, Great applause).
Il am happy, gentlemen, to knew that as the
majority in this convention is not personal,
neither in any sense is it sectional. 1t blends
the palmettos and the pines in Maine and
South Carolina. 1t begins with the sunrise in
Maryland and spreads into a sunburst in
Louisiana and Texas. 1t stretches in one I'M
broken column a ross the american continent
from the Atlanti; shores of the Old Dominion
and Georgia and it sheds its silvery beams
over the golden gates OF California. Gap
plausel. 1T sends forth its pioneers from
Plymouth Rock and waves ov,r the gold,n
wheat fislds of Dakota. 1t has its strongholds
in Alabama aud Mississippi and its outposts in
Minnesota, Florida and Oregon.
Uprising That Knows No Sectionalism
at sticks like a tarheel (applause) down in
the old North state and it writes I6 to l on the
saddlebags of the Arkansas traveller. loud
applause 1t pours dow its rivul is from the
mountains Of West Virginia and makes a great
a N IL NhSAitbs " III L lauO.
Utah, Nevada, Montan, and Colorado. 1t
stands guard around the National Capitol in
the Di 'trict of Columbil (cheers) anil it camos
on ths frontiers of Oklahoma 1t sweep, like
a prairie fire over Iowa and Kansas and puts
up a red light on the confines OF Nebraska. It
mlrshals its massive battaIlions in Ohio, In
diana, Illinois and Missouri. Last but hy far
from least, when | see this grIn I'D army and
think of the British gold standard that was
recently unfurled over the 1uins of Republican
promises at st Louis, | think, too, of the bat
tie Of New Orleans, of which. it was sa d.
There stood John Bull in martial pomp, Luz
there was cd Kentucky (Applause.)
Brethren of the East, there ls no South,
there is no North, there i no East or West in
this uprising of the people for American
emancipation from the conspiracy of European
Kings, led on by Great Britain, which seeks to
destroy ona-h1lf the money of the world and to
make American manufacturers, m .rchants,
farmers and mechanics mere hewers of wood
and drawers of water.
A Few Things to Remember.
ID not forget, gentlemen. that for thirty
years We ha We supported tn, men that Won
have named for president, Seymour, Greeley,
Iilden Hancock and twice Grover Cleveland.
Do not !orgct that We have submitted cheer
fully to your compromise platform and to
your rep+att Il pledges OF bimetallism and have
patiently borne repeated disappointment as
to their fulfllment. Do not forget tina at the
NSS oo' ShO DSluOS llC
party in 1883 you proclaimed yourselves to DO
in favor Of both gold and silver. without dis
eliminating against either metal and thai t he
only question left open was the ratio between
the metals. Do not forget-that l re er to the
fact in no ~ultsrior ssasc-that just four years
ago. In a Democratic convention in this c it,,
tne New York delegation stood here solidlv
and INN ovably for a candid tie committed to
the free and unlimi ed CO mage OF silver and
gold. at the ratio OF is to1. AID if we are
still for it, let it not be forgotten that we owe
it in some measure to their teachings. (Ap-
plan:e.)
That we owe you much gentlemen OF the
East, is readily acknowledged and we arc
grateful. We ow, you much. gentlemen Of the
convention and what we I'VE you OF the Elst
is tle forae bill and the Mckinley bill and the
Sherman law, tn triple infamy Of Republican
gislation, The first aimed not mora at the
South than at the great cities of the East, and
chief among th,m the great Democ ATTIC city OF
New York with its magnihce 1t patronage.
That bill got it's death blow in the Senate, but
there was not a single Democrat in New York
or New England to vote AGAINST it. If you
gentlemen have helped to save the South. it
also has helpa to save you in the East; but
whethsr the South should be saved o.. not,
those great American Republican Senator,
from the West. Teller, Walcott and your Jones
md your Stanford of California sank their
partisan feeling on the order of their patriot.
ism and rema forward to the rescue of the
American institutions.
The Day of Forcs Bills Passed.
"No man, gentlemen, in &is> high poon OF
our country fraternity can raviv, force bills
now in this reconciled and reunited republic.
Our opponents themselves have abandoned
them. There is none that can stand between
the un on Of bea rts and tha union of hands
that q. s. Grant in his dying vision saw was
coming on angels wings to all the sons Of our
common country When Chicago drassed
southern graves in flowers she buried section
alism under a mountain Of fragrance. When
Southern soldiers on yeste rday cheered the