The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-09

unexampled IN the history OF national oon-
ventions In this country, nominated you as
| the candidate of the national silver party for
| the distinguished Office of president Of the
| United States. You are now the candidate
for the great Office OF president of three
| great political parties, of which the silver
party Is not the least.
/ The convention selected committee to for
maily notify you of its action. and that COM
| mittee conferred upon me the distinguished
| honor OF advising you of your nomination
| as the candidate of the silver party for the
office of president of the United States. We
are met, therefore, at this time and place for
the purpose of performing the pleasant duty
imposed upon. us by the convention. I
! therefore. in obedience to the wishes of the
committee and of the convention. hereby for
mally notify you that you have been nomi-
mated by the nation" silver party its
| candidate for president spd request that you
] accept that nomination in the same spirit in
which 1t has been rendered you. You are
now the chosen commander Of a grand army
composed of three great divisions which Is
now mobilizing for the purpose of fighting
| in behalf of humanity Nov. g. 1896, the
most important. political battle of this or Of
any other age; battle which Is to deter
mine whether this nation shall be province
! of Great Britain and be governed and con-
trolled as that nation is. by the money bar
| ons OF Europe or whether it shall be- as the
fathers intended it to be, free and inde-
pendent and sovereign nation. The people
who constitute that grand army, inspired as
! they are by the noblest sentiments Of patriot
ism, under your leadership will, there can be
no doubt, on that day lift high their banners
In triumph over the defeated allied hosts of
! plutocracy.
1t was 1920 o'clock before Mr..
/ Groot's long address was concluded
/ Mr.. Bryan was Immediately presented
and made a short speech. He said:
ACCEPTED BY BRYAN.
Mr.. Groot, chairman and others, members
of the notification committee of the silver
! party: beg to reply at this time without the
! formality of letter. The platform adopted
by the silver party contains but one plank
and that plank, the plank upon the silver
/ question is identical in substance with the
silver plank of the Chicago platform.
AS have already discussed that plank at
4 length, it will not be necessary to enter into
any extended discussion at this time. l beg
to answer the committee that I accept the
nomination rendered by them on behalf Of
/ the silver party, in the spirit in which that
! nomination was presented. / can appreciate
/ the feeling which animated those who as
sembled In that convention. ! can appreciate
! there turned their backs upon the party with
| which they had been associated.
/ know something of the strength of party
/ ties, and because l was in position where
looked forward to possibility of like action
! on my part I can appreciate depths Of feel
| ing. that led them to place the interests of
4 their country above the welfare Of their party.
/ Great applause)
More than year ago, when we were en-
/ gagged in struggle to bring the Democratic
party to an Endorsement of free coinage the
! question was put to me whether, in Of
failure, would support the Democratic NOM
inee If he were gold standard advocate
running upon gold standard platform.
never believed such action was probable in
the Democratic party, but when those who
| questioned me were not content with the
probabilities and asked again whether in
that event, l would support the nominee,
! said, as you will remember, that under no
circumstances would my vote be given to
man who would, in the executive Office use
his influence to fasten the gold standard upon
the American people. Great applause)
stood where the members Of that silver
convention stood, and like them, would rather
nave the approval Of my conscience than the
approval of all the world. My convictions
upon this subject are not shallow convic-
claim infallibility-but believe that the gold
standard Is a conspiracy against the human
race. would sooner join the ranks of those
whose purpose it is to fasten that upon the
! American people than to enlist in an army
| that was marching to attack my home and
| destroy my family. l say. therefore, that
can appreciate the spirit which animated those
who have just rendered me this second nomin-
alton. pledge them that If elected they shall
never have cause to accuse me Of being false
to that platform.
My friends, when I declared that would
not support gold standard candidate. 1 was
standing upon the record Of the Democratic
party. | was defending It's principles as
well as the interests Of the country at large,
and when the Republicans, who assembled
in the silver convention at st. Louis, re-
fused to worship the gold image which
|
the history of the Republican party The
Republican platform of 1888 denounced the
Democratic administration for having at
tempted to degrade silver. And in 1891, on
the 18th day of February, In Memorial hall
at Toledo. O., at the Lincoln day banquet,
the present candidate for president upon the
Republican ticket used the words which L
snail now read to you. l have found these
words published in a Toledo paper and they
have been published 80 long without cor
rection that we may safely assume that he
was correctly reported. If he hereafter de-
nies the correctness of this report, l shall
hasten to do him Justice by retracting these
to have used:
During all of Grover Cleveland's years at
the head of the government he was dishon-
orlng one OF our precious metals, one of
our own great products. discrediting silver
and enhancing the price OF gold. He en-
deavored. even before his Inauguration to
once, to stop the coinage of silver dollars
and afterwards and to the end of his admin
istration, persistently used his power to that
end. He was determined to contract the cir
culating medium and demoIetize one of the
coins OF commerce. limit the volume of
money among the people, make money scarce
ara therefore dear. He would have increased
Of everything else, money the master, every
thing else the servant" Great applause)
REPUBLICAN TRADITIONS.
Following these same lines the Republican
convention in 1892 declared at Minneapolis
that the American people from tradition and
voice, "fhat's so.' y That is the language in
1892 that the American people from tradi-
ton and interests are in favor of bimetal-
ism Have traditions changed In four
years? Have interests changed in four years?
NO, my friends, and yet, forgetting the plat
form of 1888, forgetting the denunciation ut
/ tered by their distinguished leader in 1891
forgetting the platform of 1892 the Repub-
lican party, In convention assembled declared
that the American people must forego the ad-
! yantages Of the bimetallic system, to which
! tradition fnfnrnct crnd 4:r
foreign nations should bring those advantages
to them. 1t Is not strange that men who had
! looked for bimetallsm in the Republican
party shouid have given up hope and turned
elsewhere for relief. The Republicans cannot
pc crltlclzed for leaving the Republican party
Iney have done what every American citizen
mas right to do. They have done better
than our Democratic advocate of the gold
! standard have done, because the Republicans
| when they left the party Joined with those
| who had chance to succeed while our Dem
ocrauc advocates Of gold standard sought to
secure the election Of the Republican candi-
dates by nominating a Democratic candidate
TO show you that the action Of the Republie
ans Is defended by experience and by example,
| let me carry you back to the period fust
| preceding the war. If you will turn to q hooL
recently published, entitled "John Shernan.s
RecoIiections" you will find on page 112 of
the first volume portion of a speech which
ne ne delivered in congress in 1856 Let me read
| this extract: o
II am willing to stand by the compromises
| OF lS20 and 1850, but when our white brethren
OF the South allow this administration to lead
| them on from their principles, when thev
abandon the position which Henry Clay would
| have taken, forget his name and achieyements
| and decline any longer to carry his hanner
| they lose all their claims on me- And T say
now that until this wrong is righted until
kansas act s., Is ADMITTED as free state, cannot
| There was distinguished senator from
ONO asserting to the people of this country
upon the moor OF congress that he was willing
off