The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-19
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF AMY NORTH GAR0llMA DAILY

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plause.)
"The Republican party had great
opportunity before it. Here was a
Democratic administration which was
being opposed by large part of the
Democratic party and it is much
more difficult thing for a man to OPP
pose wrong in his own party than in
his opponents. Here were Democrats
willing to array themselves in opposi-
tion to the policy of the President, not
because they loved the President less,
but because they love the people inf
nitely more. (Applause.) When the
Republicans assembled in st. Louis, If
they have had opposed the Presidents
financial policy and declared they
would restore the money of the Con-
stitution and the Democratic party had
endorsed the administration, the Re-
publican party would have swept the
Democratic party out of existence. But
what did they do? When they met
they were controlled in their delibeda-
tions by the same people who had con-
trolled the financial policy of this ad-
ministration, and they wrote a plat
form which would perpetuate the same
financial policy from which we are
now suffering. Those same influences
after dominating the st. Louis conven-
ton attempted to dominate the Chi
cago convention and write a platform
so much like the Republican platform
on the money question that if the two
had been read to you, you could not
have picked out which was which.
But at last we got an issue. The Dem
Ocratic party by beginning at the
ground and working up instead of
commencing at the top and working
down-by commencing with the voter
instead of commencing with the
bosses, secured a platform which
breathes the spirit of the Declaration
of Independence and gives inspiration
to the toiling millions of the United
States. 1t is not strange that tens
and hundreds of thousands have desert
ed the Republican party. Not a day
passes but / meet Republicans who
tell us they voted for Abraham Lincoln
and voted the Republican ticket ever
since, but they found more of the
Republicanism of early days in the
Democratic platform than they can
find in the Republican platform of this
year. They say there is more there to
give them hope of the maintenance of
free institutions than they can find
in the Republican platform. They are
not willing to trust foreign nations to
do for the American people what the
Republican party refuses to do. IF
anything is wrong with our laws we
can correct them by the ballot, but if
we transfer the legislative power from
Washington to Lombard street our
ballots cannot reach them and we can
simply go upon bended knees and beg
for sympathy and compassion from
those who have never known sympathy
or compassion. (Applause.) Those who
are denominated as money changers
have never in all tie history of the
human race listened to anything but
force. They have no heart They can
not feel. They know nothing but
greed and avarice which have no con-
science to which you can appeal. (Ap-
plause) Yet it is to these influences
that the Republican party would have
us go and before them lay the case Of
the American people. L do not believe
we are yet willing to surrender the
right to govern ourselves.
But our opponents must answer the
charge. They say they are in favor of
honest money. Honesty has certain
ways of manifesting itself If a man
is honest in one thing he is apt to be
honest in all things. If he desires to be
just in one thing he is apt to desire to
be just in all, When / find people
talking about wanting an honest dol
lar and yet are always dishonest IN
the use Of language and dishonest n
the treatment OF the american people
l cannot believe there is anything hon
est those people want in this world.
(Applause.) If they wanted honest
money and were honest in their desire
TO get it, they would tell the American
people what they thought constituted
honest money and let the people de-
eide. Instead of that they talk about
honesty and then want you to trust
them to find out what honest money
is after you have elected them. They
talk about sound money and then want
you to trust them to decide what sound
money is after you have given them
the power which you cannot take from
them until another election. We all
want sound money. But what is sound
money? 1t is not money which is good
only in sound. laughter Sound mon
ey means money that is just as good 10
the debtor as it is to the creditor mon
ey which is as good to the men who
produce the wealth of this country as
it is to the men who corner the money
of the country and deal it out to those
who must have it and charge as much
as they can when they dole it out. Cap
plause.)
when You find a person on the wit
ness stand who answers every ques-
tion asked, and is willing to disclose
all the knowledge he has, attempts no
evasion or concealment, you have con-
fidence in his integrity. But when you
find a witness who deals in ambiguous
phrases, tries to cover up his ideas in |
words of a double meaning, evades |
questions, lodges issues, you conclude |
that that man is not an honest man.