The record-union., 1896-07-08

Official total. -. ....... .556 $40
| Not voting /.
| The Chair added: "The motion as
offered by the gentleman from Alabama
substituting Hon. J. w. Daniel of Vir-
| ginia for Temporary Chairman is
adopted" and there was considerable
manifestation of applause.
The Chairman said unless otherwise
instructed he would regard this as a
| practical rejection of the majority re-
port and would not put the question of
| its adoption to the convention.
There being no dissent the Chair ap-
| pointed Senator Jones Of Arkansas
| Hon. r. P. Keating of Nevada and SEN
ator White of California committee
to escort Senator Daniel to the Chair
| THE CHAIRMAN'S ADDRESS.
| The greatest demonstration of the day
| up to this time occurred when Senator
| Daniel came forward. Delegates stood
| on their chairs and yelled with might
and main, waving canes, handkerchiefs
| and hats. The band aided the enthusi-
asm by starting up a patriotic air, and
| the delegates stamped, clapped and
| cheered with a righteousness that
| threatened to drown the efforts of the
| musicians.
| Senator Daniel, on taking the Chair
expressed profound gratitude for the
| honor conferred upon him, and ex-
pressed his regret that his name should
have been brought in even the most
| courteous competition with his most
distinguished friend, Senator Hill, who
| would readily recognize the fact, how
| ever, that there was no personality in
| the matter. 1t was solely due to the
| principle which the great majority of
| Democrats stood for. He OanieD stand
ing with them.
| AS the majority of the convention was
not personal in it's aims, neither was it
| sectional 1t began with the sunrise in
| Maine, and spread into sunburst in
| Louisiana and Texas. 1t stretched in
! unbroken line across the continent from
| Virginia and Georgia to California. 1t
| swept like a prairie fire over Iowa and
| Kansas, and it lighted up the horizon
| When he saw that grand array and
| thought of the British gold standard
| that was recently unfurled over the
ruins of Republican promises at ST.
Louis he thought of the battle of New
| Orleans, of which it had been said:
There stood John Bull in martial
pomp.
But there was old Kentucky"
There was no North, South East or
West in the uprising of the people for
| American emancipation from the con-
spiracy of European kings led by Great
| Britain, which sought to destroy one
half of the money of the world and to
make American manufacturers, mer-
| chants. farmers and mechanics, hewers
| of wood and drawers of water. He ap-
pealed to all Democrats to acquiesce in
the will of the great majority of their
fellow Democrats, and to go with them
| as they had often times gone with those
to whom he appealed.
Mr.. Daniel continued: do not forget
that in the last National Convention
of 1892 you proclaimed yourselves to
be in favor of the use of both gold and
silver as the standard money of the
country. and for the coinage of both
gold and silver without discrimination
against either metal or charge for
mintage. and the only question left
open was the parity between the met
ais. Four years ago in that convention
| the New York delegation stood here
solid and immovable for a candidate
1t is in some measure from your teach
| ings that we owe you much that is al
ready acknowledged, but are not your
debts mutual and not one-sided to each
other? AS this majority of Democrats
is not sectional, neither is it for any
privilege or for class legislation The
| active business men of this country. its
manufacturers, it's merchants, it's farm
| - fo.J
| room, factory, field and mine, know
that a contraction of the currency
| sweeps away with the relentless force
of gravitation the annual profits of
their enterprise and investment-and
they know, too. that the gold standard
means contraction and the organiza-
tion of disaster. Applause) What
| hope is there for the country, what
hope for Democracy, unless the views
of the majority be adopted?
THE Republican party has now re-
nounced the creed of it's platforms and
of our statutes. IT has presented to
| the country the issue Of higher taxes
more bonds and less money and has
proclaimed for the British gold stand
ard. We can only expect, should they
| succeed, new spasms of panic and a
long-protracted period of depression
| Do not ask us, then, to join them on
any of these propositions.
If We should go upon the gold stand