The herald., 1896-07-05

false step 1t will lose much Of its national
character, abandon some of its great
prsncipies, and there will be thousands
| ahd tens yss, hstndreds OF thousands of
its old soldiere ~sso csnast sciinw 1t aa 1t
pursuss its will-o'- -the-wisp under its
| new and radical leaders.
AS a northern and national Demo-
crat I implore the brethren in west and
south, by whose side we love to fight,
whose principles we have jointly held,
for whose interests we have labored and
suffered and for whose victories we have
done our part-I implore them to save
our party from course which will rude
ly break the closest ties and send US, d.
vided and discredited, to a great and
lasting defeat.
/ M'vEAGH's SPEECH
Mr.. MacVeagh said in part:
Gentlemen-This meeting has been
called and this great assemblage has
gathered because the nation and the
Democratic party are both face to face
with an impending crisis. History re-
peats itself. 1t is now thirty-six years
since q memorable Democratic conven-
tion met in 1860. Then also the nation
and the Democratic party stood face to
face with an impending crisis Then
there was at stake the unity Of the ma
ton Now it is the nations honor. That
honor must be preserved. The agonies
and waste of war, north and SOUTH
would turn to wantonness in the pages
of our history If our happily united
country should have been preserved only
to become a defaulter and to pay it's
debts with scent dollars We who ap-
peal to the coming convention against
silver monometallism are not all gold
monometallists. Many of us are earnest
bimetallists. eager to see silver and gold
made equal in the coinage of our country.
That which for this crisis unites bimetal-
lists and gold monometallists Is the aw-
full specter of silver monometallism.
We cannot hope to appeal with success
to all Of the silver delegates. The great
body Of them will not listen even to per-
suasion. The wild character of the
movement is shown in it's fury and an
ger. But there must be many silver
delegates who find themselves out of
touch with fury and recklessness, and
who can still be made to see whree this
passion and excitement is carrying
them and the party, and possibly their
country. To their sober reason this
meeting Is an appeal. They may still
listen to the solemn warnings Of dis
appointed men, sdispassionate Demo-
Gratis, dispassionate Americans. We are
here without passion, without fury, with
perfect vision of the crisis that is being
forced upon the party and the nation.
The uestionable majority in the con-
|vention, if not arrested by conserva-
tive men, will defeat the Democratic
party. But what does defeat on this
issue mean? Who can fail to know, If
the Democratic party shall borrow this
Populistic issue from the Populists and
be defeated it will not regain the respect
, and confidence of the people for years
and years to come; nor, after all those
years until it has been born again. The
silver movement will pass, as the green
back movement has passed, and as have
passed all that series of historic at
tempts to make money out of nothing:
but it will leave the Democratic party
hopelessly discredited for many years
to come.
And what, then, is to become of all
those great interests and policies and no.
BILE impulses of the Democracy, which
the Democratic party alone can cham
pion and defend?
This meeting is an appeal for the ma
ton and for the people. It is an appeal
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