The San Francisco call., 1896-06-24

section OF the Union, declared for single
gold standard. The great States of the
West, under the leadership of Henry NJ.
Teller, withdrew from the convention.
What will our National Convention do?
viii the East control its action and write
its platform? Rest assured that 1t will ex-
haust every effort to do so. If they fail in
effort, will they remain loyal to party or
will they bolt? don't know, but l would
have our National Convention declare its
purpose fearlessly and explicitly and let
those bolt who will"
When the temporary chairman asked
who should lead the people out of bondage
there were great shouts of "Boes, " fol-
lowed by cries OF Bland Somebody
yelled Teller" at which there was great
confusion, with cries of NO" The great
est demonstration came when the speaker
proceeded to express hope that God would
forgive them for their share in the last
election of Grover Cleveland. A hurricane
of cheers came from every part OF the
great hall. When it subsided there were
yells of Say it over againl" Hit him
again!' Tell the reporters to put that
down, followed by another round of ap-
pIause. Altogether the demonstration of
antaeonism to the President was very pro-
nounced.
Goats, vests, collars and suspenders were
discarded by most ot the delegates when
the convention reassembled at O. clock,
and for nearly five hours thereafter 1000
people contributed toward making the
tabernacle a seething furnace. Hon.
Charles K. Ladd was presented as perma-
ChaIr n nd ada
in which he said the West was ready to
light the torch of liberty that would shine
over the continent and to swear by the
Goddess OF Liberty that present conditions
should exist no longer.
The committee on resolutions not being
ready to report, two hours of speech max
ing were in order. Ex-Congressman n. E.
Worthington Of Peoria declared the East
ern golobugs were responsible for 40-cent
wheat and $40 horses, but there was a SEN
timent brewing in the West that would
paralyze them.
Just as the speaker was concluding Gov
ernor Altgeld made his appearance on the
platform and was given a tremendous
ovation. On being presented he spoke at
length.
''Four years ago." the Governor began,
'our people met under brighter skies. The
country was tired of that governmental
policy which made the few mighty and
the many poor. In Illinois the people re-
belIed at the interference of the State in
the personal affairs of the individual.
We promised democratic government in
| National affairs and a business adminis-
tration in State affairs. The people took
us at our word and they gave US their con-
hdence aud we swept the country by such
majority that fidelity to Democratic
principles would have insured supremacy
for quarter of century.
but, before the inaugural festivities
had ceased at Washington the head of the
new administration sought strange gods
and espoused alien principles. He called
into his councils prophets who knew not
Democracy or the tenets of it's fathers.
Our people were asked to bow to affairs
which they had been taught to abhor. The
| interests of money were placed above
those of humanity. Organized greed was
fed with golden spoons while the cry of
! the husbandman was unheeded and the
sweat of the toiler brought him no bread.
at soon became apparent" he con-
! tinued, THAT the new administration was
| trying to displace the Republicans in their
| principles and place its feet on their
| ground. Then came defeat to the Demo
| cratic party. Some reaction was to be ex-
| pected after 1892 because of the necessary
disappointments in office seeking and be-
cause of the hard times. But this reac-
ton would have been short in duration if
| any sympathy had been shown for the
suffering masses. All might have been
well if the administration had respected
republican institutions and not used its
great powers to increase the burdens of
our people for the benefit of foreign and
| Eastern Shvlocks.
But" the Governor asserted, 1.-The peo-
pie are beginning to gain new courage.
First one and then another repudiated the
| golden calf which the sons of Mammon'
had set up in the East and which all men
had been ordered TO bow to on penalty OF
| social and political DEATH"
| He said that if all the men who thought