The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-08
FIRST BLOOD FOR SILVER.
Continued from first page.)

ong with "Hail to the Chief" and there
were more cheers.
When order was restored Mr.. Har-
rity said: Gentlemen of the conven-
| ton, / have the honor of introducing
as your temporary chairman the Hon.
| j. w. Daniel, of Virginia" while the
| delegates and everybody was yelling
Chairman Harrity passed the gavel
| over to Mr.. Daniel who took it and
| spoke as follows:
MR.. DANIELS SPEECH.
'NIr. Chairman of the National Dem
| ocratic convention: In receiving from
| your hands this gavel, as the Temporal
ry presiding officer of this convention,
| l believe / express q sentiment which
| / am sure is unanimous, that no Ma
| tional convention was ever presided
over with more ability or with more
fairness than by yourself. Cheers and
| cries of 'Harrity, Harrity.") l can ex-
| press no better wish for myself than
that I may be able in some feeble way
to model my conduct by your model to
practice by your example. (Cheers.)
1.-THE high position to which you
have chosen me involves both great
| personal honor and keen response
1 W L y
responsibility / would wholly be in
| adequate to bear did I depend upon
| myself. but your gracious aid will
make it easy and its burden light. That
AID | confidently invoke from you
| for the sake of the great cause under
| whose banner we have fought so many
battles and which now demands
| such staunch devotion and such loyal
| service.
"I regret that my name should have
been brought in even the most courte-
Gus and serious complication with that
OF my distinguished friend, the great
Senator from New York. (Applause).
But the very fact that 1 have permitted
il to be done refutes the suggestion
that has been improvidently made on
this floor, that either | or those whom
/ have the honor to represent, would
ever heap indignity upon that brave
and illustr'ious head, (Ghreat applause).
mo candid man, no disPas-
sionate Judgment. gentlemen,
can ever mislnterpret your
neaning The Senator from New
| York himself knows. as you and l must
| know, that there is no personal prefer
ment which has been given to me. He
must know that the whole country
| watches these proceedings, and must
know that it il solely due to princi-
pie that this great majority Of Demo-
Gratis stands for, and that they know
| stand with them (applause), and that
it is given in the spirit OF the instruc-
tions received by these representatives
of the people, from the people, whom
| AL Democrats viii ever bow to as the
Durest and original source of all power.
The birth of the Democratic party was
coeval with the bipth of the sovereignty
OF the people 1t can never die until
the declaration of Fhe American Inde-
pendenee is forgotten, and that sover-
eIgnty is crushed out" Great APP
plause).
STICKS LIKE A TAR HEEL.
al am happy, gentleman to know
that as The majority in this conven-
ton is not personal, neither in any
sense is it sectional. Is blends the
palmetto and the pines in Maine and
South Carolina. It begins with this
sunrise in Maryland and spreads into
sunburst in Louisiana, and Texas.
(Applause.)
1T stretches in one unbroken column
across the American continent from
the Atlantic shores of the Old Domin-
ion and Georgia and it sheds it's silvery
beams over the golden gates of Cali
fornfa. (ApplauSe.) 1t sends forth
its pioneers from Plymouth Rock and
waves over the golden wheat fields
| of Dokota. 1t has its strongholds in
| Alabama and Mississippi, and it's OUT
posts in Minnesota, Florida and Ore
| gon. (Applaue.) 1t sticks like Tar
| Heel (applause) down in the old North
| State. and it writes sixteen to one on
the saddle bags of the Arkansaw tray-
| eIer. cloud applause.) 1t pours down
| it's rivuIets from the mountains OF
| West Virginia and makes a great lake
| in New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming,
| Utah. Nevada, Montana and Colorado.
| Tt stands guard around the National
| capitaI in the District OF Columbia,
| fCheers) and ii camps on the frontiers
/ of Oklahoma. Tt sweeps like prairie
| fire over Iowa and Kansas and puts up
| a red light on the confines of Nebraska.
| Tt marshals it's massive battaions in
| Ohio. Indiana. Illinois and Missouri.
Last, but by far least, when ! see
| this grand array and think OF the
| British gold standard that was recently
unfurled over the ruins of Republican
| promises at st. Louis, I think too, of
the battle of New Orleans, where ID
| was said: There stood John Bull in
maxtial pomp but there was old Ken
lucky (Applause.)
NOT A SECTIONAL QUESTION.
Brethren of the East, there is no
| South, there is no North, there IS no
East or West in this uprising or the
| people for American emancipation
from the conspiracy OF European
kings, led on by Great Britain which
seeks to destroy one half of the money
Of the world and to make American
manufacturers, merchants, farmers
and mechanics mere hewers of wood
and drawers of water.
There is one thing golden, which
hermit me in the same good humor
| which has characterized your conduct,
TO commend to you. 1t is the golden
rule. to do unto others as you would
have them do unto you Forget not
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