The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-21
REAL DEMOCRATIC PLANKS
HONORED PRINCIPLES OF THE
PARTY AFFIRMED IN THE PLAT
FORM ADOPTED
BUcKNER HEADS THE DELEGATION
Carroll, Breckinridge and Border
the Other Three Delegates-at-
Large Chosen.

Bourbon state will lead the procession
to Indianapolis. The convention which
met at Music hall today contained
some 300 delegates, who filed the cen
trail portion of the hall set apart for
them, while on the stage were many of
the men who have fought Democracy's s
battles in the state for quarter of a
century.
Two sessions were held. In the
afternoon temporary organization was
affected, the selections Of the various
districts for committeeman electors
and delegates were reported and an
address was delivered by Col. w. C.
p. Breckenridge that reused a whirl-
wind Of enthusiasm. The eleuuent
colonel's temperance into public life
was the occasion for one of his best
efforts. He pitched into the Chicago
platform with might and main and
declared it was the duty of Kentucky
Democrats to compass the defeat of
Bryan and Sewall, whose election. he
declared, would be the greatest caIam-
ity that could befall the people of this
country. Mr.. Breckenridge said:
ADDRESS BY MR.. BRECKINRIDGE.
1t was with profound pain, my fellow Dem
ocrats, that my duty laid upon my conscience
Ine oDHgatlon to refuse to sustain the Chi
cago platIorm or to support its nominee. ZAP
plausel 1t was somewhat like unto those
Gays which cannot recall even now without
Pain, when. in opposition to some of the
pest beloved OF those who are near to me-
felt 1t my duty to enter the Confederate army,
and to risk my life and everything else in
the defense of what 1 believed to be the lib
ery my uta STATE oardd and my people Appaqse
myself driven to the position that I have
taken. There were personal ties Of affection
ana gratitude to those who surrounded me
under peculiar circumstances, that I felt
held me, II 1t were possible, not to divide
from them at this time. l knew 1t would
wound some who loved me- and to wound
them was an infinite grief to me- | was. in
every sense of the word, a Democrat who
loved his party. (Applause.) l loved it be-
cause believed that the best interests of my
cess. 1t was the great tool by means of which
all that coudld be done for liberty could best
De accomplished in the hands Of a free peo-
PIE. ana, therefore, it was with pain that
saw duty that required step that should
seem to help to divide the great party. !
naq gwen 1t much of the best years of nv
IRE. with an infinite patience, with forbear-
ance to those that disagreed, with labor
| that knew no cessation, / had united with
/ some OF its noblest leaders to bring # intn
power, upon a platform that was courageous.
sincere and truthful, under Democrat who
plause) TAP
On this very platform the last time an
peared upon it. I predicted that if the Demp-
cratic convention had the courage of its cnn
vlcIons and would nominate Grover Cleve-
lend, we would carry the senate of the ITnitad
Ssa.es ana the house of representatives.
tApplause) I saw that prophecy carried into
nistory, and therefore, as / stood after tbe
Ghicago platform. and looked down the lonS
days OF renewed struggle, of bitter defeat
anu Oh al the sacrifice that would be reuujred
OF us before we could restore that nartv
purined by disaster, back to power. I confess
| shrank from 1T, and if I could have done
no Will VIII eo9o conscience, would have taken
But it was forced upon my heart that hero
was our country to be defended. and our
for ra.V y 70 De Kept In a separate existence;
lor LOT its separate existence is a national neces
slty' and, God helping us. at every sacrifice
we Will maintain 1t. Applause) / have
to Reen neoe IN the party "a in defeat have helped
70 Ieofganlze 1t before. In 1856 the humblest
and most obscure of its soldiers I helped in
the work OF reorganzing that party. no state
put put kentucky being Democratic It was.
indeed. an apparently hopeless outlook And
yet, like David, taking the pebbles of truth
In our sling. we went to the challenge of
patIIe ana for thirty years we fought that
battle with varying fortunes to final honor
the AZ "iii'n
SEEDS OF DISASTER
had been implanted by our want of sincerity
and by our want of courage. We had made
alnance with isms; had made doubie-
faced platforms; we had gathered strength
from heterogeneous element, until we went
into power, not as a compact and Homogeneous
party, but as an allied army of Heterogeneous
olvislon, seeking opposite ends and held to-
of Office.
Let us be just to ourselves and to our
opponents. The Democratic party of 1892 was
not party that believed all that it uttered
and its various votes were not given by men
all of whom were Democratic And we are
reaping today the consequences of that in
sincerity.
In 1858, at New York, the Democratic
party, under the leadership of that most
loved of our American statesmen George
II. Pendleton, OF Ohio, inserted in it's plat
form the heresy that in some form or other
the government of the United States had the
power OF the usual of paper money to pay
its debts, not according to the honest tenor
of the understanding between the creditor
and the debtor. (Applause.) A great mistake
was then made, and 1t has followed us from
that day to this. No parties can, in the
party ought to survive-that does not place
as the very foundation stone of all it's policy
honest money in the discharge of obliga-
tions. Applause) This is the very first
postulate of all political honesty, of all gov
ernmental integrity; no paltering in double
sense and no equivocations by the words
of a statute; no attempt to make uncertainty
by the mere language Of the obligations;
but an honest compliance with the known
understanding between creditor and debtor,
by which the government which owes an
obligation pays 1t in such a way that all
creditors can trust it, all brave men de-
fend it, all honest men love it. Nong con-
tinued applause.)
But. my friends today the Democratic
party in Kentucky has another opportunity
the third time, IL not the fourth, in the his
tory Of Kentucky-to make the policy that
will govern the nation. Today we stand as
Democrats and Kentuckians, pleading with
the national Democracy of the Union to save
the Democratic party to the country. (Ap-
plause) And we do it upon the old founda-
tion. We stand against all that is in the
Chicago platform. precisely as our ancestors
for hundreds of years have stood against all
that is contained in it. 1t Is the old, old
fight.
We believe in the three great departments
of the government; we believe that the execu-
tive has the right, under the law, to preserve
the law and to protect the property of our
citizens (Applause.) We believe that the last
refuge of a minority in time of excitement
is pure and Independent judiciary.
It NAV not agree with US. We deplcre the
result reaped IN the great case referred to-
Some of us think 1t is an erroneous result
But the rights OF property the liberties of the
citizens the preservation of liberty, depend
upon the sanctity of the court. And l appeal
to you, in the
NAME OF THE OLD DEMOCRACY,
that established the courts Of justice, that
made them Independent, that will enter
into no crusade against the courts to make
them cowardly, corrupt and subservient
There is for us no king, but the iaw. We be-
iieve In the supreme regency of the law. We
believe in the power of peaceful remedies.
We are Jeffersonized Democrats. We believe
in the laborer. We have stood by the laborer
But all grievances must find peaceful reme-