Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-03

honest, patriotic and intelligent men who
cling with all the strength Of conviction
to the specious but unsound theory of Di-
metallisnt at 16 to 1. If their theory is de-
nounced as false and pernicious. no impu-
tation Is cast upon their character nor any
Slur upon their intelligence.
Free Coinage the Supreme Issue.
The free coinage of silver is and has
been since Mr.. Clevelands Inauguration the
supreme, overshadowing issue before the
country. Upon that issue the President
and a majority OF his party's representa-
tives in Congress took opposite sides. Ia
consequence he has been powarless to ef-
feet financial reform and secure immunity
from gold raiding on the treasury.
Since the inception of the struggle for
free silver no compromise has been pos
sible. Our brethren knew that thu battle
was on to the death. The nominee Of the
so-called democratic rarty has on several
occasions proclaimed the irreconcilable ma
ture of the conflict. 1t is a lifting cuimina-
ton of such contest for our brethren TO
obtain allies from populism at the price OF
Incorporating its nefarious doctrines in
their platform and attempting TO palm
them off as genuine democracy. 1t was tit
that to degraded and deprecated cur
rcncy should be added an assasssnated
judiciary and powerless executive.
Fellow citizens. we are not traitors 10
our party. We are in the house Of our
fathers. We cannot be driven from it.
We will defend the honor of our country
and the integrity of our principles as long
as life end1res. We can neither be ousted
from our political heritage nor forced into
the ranks of our old-time adversary. We
intend to preserve intact, unimpaired and
unsullied. by and through the organiza-
ton which we perfect today, the democ-
recy of Jefferson. Jackson. Benton and
Cleveland. We propose to furnish a refuge
and an abiding place for such Of our breth-
rem as. shocked and grieved at the be-
trayal of our principles at Chicago, are In
clined to go to the republican camp.
The principles Of democracy are inn
perishable They are antagonistc to the
paternalism of the republican and the
socialist; the destructiveness Of the an
archist and the vagaries of the inf1ationist
and repudiator- Byron wrote: While the
Coliseum stands Rome shall stand. and
while Rome stands. the world We say:
While democracy stands the republic shall
stand, and while the republic stands. hu-
man liberty.
For a season our party may stray after
false doctrines and founder amid Quag-
mires. until the beacon light of truth
breaks upon 1t. 1t will rise from every
fall, like Antaeus OF old, and "e'en in its
ashes will live its wonted fires If in the
decree of fate our party must perish, let
no historian write such epitaph on its tomb
as this: Came to an untimely end from
swallowing political and financial poison
but rather let this epitaph be written over
Its honored grave. dug amid the ruins Of
the Capitol: 1t did not survive the loss CT
liberty. the destruction Of the republic, and
the decay or public and private morals.
No New Creeda.
I'VE are the propagandists of no new
| creed. We are the upholders Of the old.
We appeal from democracy drunk with de-
fusion to democracy sobered by reason.
With an abiding faith in the intelligence
and honesty of our people, We lay before
them and the world the reasons that
prompt US to unfurl the old flag that has
a unY.h nd
defeat, and never yet been soiled by re-
pudiation or stained by dishonor.
We deem II wise to pursue an aggres
Sive rather than a negative policy; to be
Achilles dra ggfng Hector around the walls
of Troy. rather than Achilles sulking in his
tent. We propose to make a funeral pyre
OF the cadaSeIS OF populism and anarchy.
We propose to drag behind our triumphant
chariot wheels. in defeat and disgrace,
around TIE national capital the dead
Frankenstein personifying their pernic.ous
creed and their turbulent fanaticism.
We cannot make bedfeIIows even in a
night of furious storm and this darkness,
OF our lifelong antagonists. We cannot,
even to escape as great evils are the
necessary result of the success Of the Chi
cago platform. be the execu TONERS of our
loved and venerated party. We cannot,
even by implication. be held to the false
theory that the people can be made rich by
taxation. nor to the theory that the fed
eral power and treasury can or ought to
be used to impair the autonomy of the
| states, on one hand, and on he other to
| dspe nse largess to favored classes The
election Of Mckinley or of Bryan, with our
support, would mean the destruction of
our whole party for a generation. For.
when our people recover from the debauch
of populiSm and anarchy they will discard
the men who have led their orgy. II We
go TO Mckinley, those men Will be the rec
ognized exponents of democracy. When
the fumes of the debauch are .iisspated
and sober reason resumes her SWay our
fold find
1t destroyed. We, therefore. stand fast.
We sound bugle call throughout the land
for all democrats to rally for the support
of government and law, for the honor of
their country and for the main
| tenance and preservation Of their
creed. its memories and it's glor:es.
If not needed now, it Will be in the near
future. And those clouds which lowered
over our political horizon and darkened
our councils will take flight, those opposed
| eyes which lately met in party conflict
WIN De ,urheu All one way and united and
triumphant democracy will march on to
| victory under the aeSis of the Constitu-
| ton and under the precepts of the apostles
| of our faith
Adjourned to This Morning.
At the conclusion of Senator Caffery's
| sreech John P. Irish Of California was call
| ed for and responded with a speech. Mr.
| Irish has quite a reputation as an orator
| and fully justified it.
He said there was something appropriate
about the selection Of indianapolis for this
convention, as there in the days of the war
| democrats assembled, under the threat of
| shotted guns, and declared their faith
They were now threatened with something
orse than physical determination.
Their name had been filched and their
| principles dehauched by those who had DIS
| placed that code with creed to which the
| democratic party had been opposed since
| there had been division of parties in the
country.
His characterization of Mr.. Bryan as the
agent of the silver syndicate and the
| commercial traveller of the millionaire mine
| owners touring the country for business
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