The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-07-04
the world, he meant .hat We should use

| them for the purposes for which they
We're intended towit: AS money for the
people. We today reverse the traditions
of our country and declare that we will
use only one of these two metals. If the
American people are in favor of that. 1
have nothing to ay. Unjust submit to
the majority vote n majority voice in
this country of ours.
This proposed financial plank is a de-
~claration h a the republican party in
tends to maintain low prices and strin-
gent business for all time to come.
Mr.. President, there is a beautiful
provision in his platform about the
sariff. 1 subscribe to it. l believe in a
protective tariff and have advocated 1t
for forty years.
Il do not believe it. I do not believe
that the people are in favor of a single
gold standard. l believe that 80 per cent
Of the American people are in favor of
b%imetallism in the old fashioned mean
ing of the word up till 1873. / want TO
say Two things which may seem TO you
to be personal, and that ought not to be
introduced in an audience like his.
But l must beg you Indulgence IL L
seem transcend the proprieties of this
occasion in saying something personal
to myself. L nave formed my conclu-
stons of this great question after twenty
years of study, after twenty years of
careful thought and careful reading. l
have been trained In a school which lit
seems to mel ought to hit me fairly well
for reaching just conclusions fromestab-
lished facts. i nave formed my conclu-
sions to such an extent that they have
become binding on my conscience. l be-
lleVe that the adoption of the gold
standard in the United States will work
great hardships; that 1t will Increase the
distress; and that nc legislation touch
ing the tariff can relieve the difficulties
which (all now adInlD prevail in this
land l believe that the whole welfare
OF my race is dependent upon a rightful
solution OF the question; that the moral
ity. the civilizations; nay the religion of
my country Is at stake. 1 know and you
know thatmenin distress are never pa
triotic nor brave. You and l know that
hunger and distress will destroy pa
triotism and ove of country. 1 say to
you now, with the solemn conviction
upon me that this plank means disaster
and distress to my fellow men, / cannot
subscribe to 1t and l must, as an
honest man. my connec-
ton with a political organization
which makes that one of the articles of
its faith. l repeat here what 1 sail yes
terday to the committee. I would not
on my w Judgment Carefully as 1
have attempted to prepare ~ take this
step alone. But my friends, l am sus-
tanned in my views of the danger that
is coming to us and coming to the world
by the adoption of the gold standard. l
as sustained in it by the Intelligence of
the entire world and l would be recre-
ant to my trust given to me by the reo-
pie of my state if l came here to protest
and II l failed when the republican party
makes a single gold standard one If the
tenets of its faith to sever my
ton from that party"
Cr1es of No! No!' all over the hall)
DO you suppose that myself and my
associates who hold with me. and who
take the same view of this that | take
DO You suppose that we can take this
step without distress? Do you suppose
that we can take it for any personal ad-
vantage or for any honors that can be
conferred upo us? With us 1T is a ques-
ton of duty. You may nominate In this
convention any man you choose, If you
VIII put hin on the right
kind of n platform 1 will
vote for him. You may take any
method to nominate him which you
think proper. l Will defer to your judg-
ment and will support him if your plat
form is the right one. But when you ask
me to surrender my conscience as an
honest man, l cannot do it. CApplausel.
/ realize what it will cost us; ! realize
the jibes and sneers that will contin-
uafy be heaped upon us. But oh, my
| fa1ln,pa ntft1n,c I have ln.,, yI,,. IAc.,o
(Cheers). l have been there before the
political party to which you belong had
a being. l advocated a cause more un-
popular h the silver cause. stood
for the doctrine Of free men, free homes
and free speech. tCheers1. Do you
think that we can sever our connection
with a party like this unless it be as a
matter of duty, a duty not to our own
state alone but a duty to all the people
Of this great land. Mr.. President,
there are few men in the republi-
can party that have been more
honored than ! have been. There are
few men in this convention or anywhere
else who have been longer connected
with this organization than I. There are
few men in 1t who have been more active
and none In 1t, no not one, that is more
attached to the great principles of the
party h a l have been. And l cannot
go o u of 1T without heartburnings, and
yet cannot, before my country, and my
God, agree to the provision that will
put Upon this country n gold standard,
and l will not. cloud a~pplause).
Thanking you for Il iii atten-
tlon, retiring from O as / do, perhaps
never again to have an opportunity tc
address a republican convention, i can.
not do it without saying hat i have in
my heart the hope, the expectation, thai
better counsels will prevail and that il
you shall be foolish enough to adopt this
platform and force us to leave the lie.
publican party, better cpunsels will pre-.
vail and that ultimately, ppon a true re-
publican platform, ! shall have the in.
estimable privilege Of again addressing
you. cloud continued a~pplause.)
Senator Teller retired from the stage
at Has. There We're cries for Mr., For
aker to reply, but he merely moved thai
the Teller substitute be laid on the table
Colorado asked for q roll call, and Mon,
tana and Nevada seconded 1t.
The calling Of the roll was often greet
ed with applause when on a poll o.
states being demanded, some wei
known delegate recorded his vote. This
was particularly the case when U. S
Grant in the California delegation. fol
lowing AFTER IL, "A. bNeluoll lIafileiu
chum), and j. B. Spreckles, voted in ia
vor of silver by recording a may on thu
motion to lay Mr.. Teller's substitute OF
the table.
III Free silver Protest.
Senator Cannon of Utah read the free
silver protest to the gold platform, as
follows:
On announcing the purpose asserted
in this paper. 1t is due to our constitu
ents and to ourselves tina there shall b
a public showing of Indicating facts.
The sole authorized expression of ma
tional republican faith from June, 1885,
until the present date a been the plat
form adopted in the national convention
at Minneapolis. Neither the utterance
of state conventions nor the attitude O
individuals could change the tenor O
that platform or abate the sanctity o
its binding force. Every delegate to thi
convention was elected as its adheren
and its advocate. True, one of its mos
important paragraphs has been subject
ed to such a divergence of construction
as to make its language unsatisfactor
in the intervening time, n ddngerou
if continued in the future; but of the in
tent contained within that languag
there has never been a doubt.
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