The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1896-10-10

fere in your State campaign or local
politics but I am here to deepen the
convictions of those who believe in free
coinage. so that there will not be man
in this State who agrees with US who
will not be willing to sacrifice any,
thing that is necessary to secure the
advancement of this cause. Great ap
plause) 1 am here to increase the en-
thusiasm. if can, until the man who
stands in the way of complete success
will be branded as an enemy Great
applause.) How you may find it best
to unity your forces, you are aware,
but, my friends, want you to remem-
Der that you cannot help our cause by
helping those who are fighting US.
| Great applause.) If we are right in
| the position we have taken: If the Dem
ocratlc party is right In its platform,
| then the man who does not stand upon
that platform, no matter how good a
Democrat he may have been, he Is no
Democrat now (applause). and no man
can claim to be a friend Of mine who
says that he wants to eject me because
I am regular nominee and then go
down there and tie my hands and make
me powerless. (Applause)
ITO those who believe in regularity,
my nomination appeals; to those Dem
ocrats who are willing to trust the
Judgment Of majority Of the Demo-
cratic party-more freely expressed
than in any Democratic convention
ever held before-to these, my nomi-
nation appeals. But. my friends,
could not feel the interest that l do
in this campaign If all l had to COM
mend me was party regularity. (Ap-
plause) I appeal to you on higher
grounds than that. / have stronger
claim upon your support than can be
given by the regularity Of a conven-
ton. I stand by the right Of the Amer
lean people to have financial system
Of their own great applause) and there
fore my candidacy appeals to every
American citizen who believes In the
right Of the people Of this country to
govern themselves, regardless of the
aid or consent of any other nation on
earth. (Cheers) I am not appealing
to any sentiments hostile to foreigners,
but say to you, my friends, that ma
ton does not deserve to be called g.
nation, which is willing to accept q
financial policy, ready made" from
some other country.
Our opponents say that the tariff
question is the important issue in this
campaign; tell them that until they
put prohibitive tariff on foreign finan-
ciers I won't talk tariff with them.
Applause.) So long as we must go to
others to ask them what we can have
there is no use to discuss any question
until we decide that we have right
to express our own opinion, when we
have one. When we establish the right
Of having a policy; when we decide on
it, it will then be time to discuss the
other questions upon which parties and
people differ. But, until we have vim
dictated the right Of this people to legis-
late for themselves on every issue, they
can't drive tariff into the people with
pile driver
1.-THE gold standard gives US rising
dollar and rising dollar means bobnd-
age, distress and misery to those who
form the basis Of all civilization and
who are the strength and bulwark of
every government. If gold Is to be our
standard and a gold dollar Is to be the
unit, and we are to be content with its
upward flight, then, my friends. be-
lieve we ought to change the die so that
the dollar will properly describe Itself
as it passes from hand to hand. If we
must have it because foreign nations
insist upon it, then I think we should
change it and in the place OF that face
above which it written Liberty" let us
have q picture Of a woman In chains
and above it written Bondage" And
instead Of having on the other side the
eagle, the emblem of national freedom.
let US put vulture, that lives upon the
devouring of human kind. They cal!
the gold dollar an honest dollar. They
know it Is not an honest dollar and
those who love that dollar most love It
most because It is the most dishonest
dollar the world has ever seen and the
more dishonest it becomes the greater
their affection for it. What Is an honest
dollar? An honest dollar would be a
dollar Of which the purchasing power
would be stable; dollar which rises In
purchasing power is as dishonest as one
which falls In purchasing power. And
that proposition is recognized as true
by all except those few who regard
nothing as honest which does not add
to their pockets; and nothing as honest
which treats every person as we'll as it
does themselves. Stability in the value
Of a dollar Is the important thing, and
the only way that you can secure q
stable dollar is to secure dollar OF
which there will be enough to keep pace
with population and industry. ZAP
plause)
The god dollar Is bad, not because
the quality of the metal Is not good,
but because quantity is as essential in
money as quality. You may show me
particular kind Of food which is ex-
cellent in quality. but il there Is not
| enough OF II to sustain life I will never