The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-03

| Two months nave tSSLlueQ most IOTCl-
bly, to the correctness of this judgment
and we are now treated to the peculiar
! spectacle of a candidate claiming his
candidacy by right of a nomination
made by the representatives. OF great
party in convention, finding his sup
port almost entirely among those who
have been for many years the secret
or open oppressors of the poor. Cap
plauSe). This distinguished gentleman
has claimed at different times in his
Canton speeches THAI he is devoted TO
! the welfare of the masses and every
monopolist whose uninoly wealth. has
been wrung from the sweat Of honest
toll, cries Amen" He declares that
he stands for the prosperity OF the
farmer, and the stock jobbers and grain
gamblers from their denS in Wall street
and Chicago, cry Amen" (Applause)
He declares that he stands for an
honest dollar and a staple currency,
and all the uSurers, graspinS tighter
their dishonest and appreciated gold,
cry: Behold another Daniel come to
judgment" (Applause0 He declares
that he stands for the purity and Sc
ourity of the American home, and
Colonel Breckenridge of Kentucky an
nounceS that he occupies the same po-
sition. Great applause.) He declares
that he stands for good government
and just administration of the laws
and all these men who for a genera
ton have prostituted the national veal
to private gain, cry again amen"
(Applause) These are the elements
that are advocating the election of the
Republican candidate for the presi-
dency, and these are the people who,
never making an investment unless the
profit is assured, are scattering
enormous sums of money in doubtful
states for the debauchery of the fran
chise. (Applause.) My friends, a man
is judged by the character of those
with whom he habitually associates,
and no man can handle pitch without
defilement. (Applause.) These are the
forces of our national life that are put
ting forth every effort in their power
and are now waging a secret and dis
honest warfare against the Chicago
platform and its candidate. (Applause)
If there were no other arguments
to be advanced in support of the po-
S1tion of the new Democracy, the very
fact that the Republican party is rely
ing upon the self-confessed enemies of
the people for the victory they hope to
win, should be enough to damn their
cause in the minds of honest men.
JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY.
1.-THE question may be asked, why has
the Republican party been selected as
the medium through which to ac-
complish the unpatriotic designs of
selfish men? The answer seems easy
TO me and think it should be easy to
any student of American politics. My
friends, a stream cannot rise higher
than its source, and political parties
must follow the precepts of those men
who first formulated their guiding
principles. During the formative period
of this republic, Alexander Hamilton
declared that only the rich and we'll
oh
could not be trusted with the powers
of self-government. With the passing
of time the party whose patron saint
he was and is, has fallen an easy vic
tim TO those who advocate the Hamil-
tonian fallacy. Those men who claim
the right to rule because of the posses
sion of wealth or the favor of birth
have captured the Republican organic
alton and are using it for the advance
ment of their own interests. (Ap-
plause.) Now let me tell you what L
understand Jeffersonian Democracy to
mean.
Remember. my friends, these things
that the Democratic party, having its
inception at the beginning of our ma
tionality, found its birth in the needs of
the people, found it's home in the hearts
OF the people, found its mission in the
salvation of the people, 1t is greater
than any man, greater than any meas
ure, greater than any clique, greater
than any faction. Men are born. live
their lives, fight their fights, die and
are buried, and other men come after
them, and they too go down into the
dark ways of death. Political par
ties arise, the leaders of which
cry 1--WE have the only true
faith and after a brief existence go
down unwept. unhonored and uns1ng.
and all the time above all, over all and
around all the principles of the great
party of the people shine deathless with
the stars. Great applause) This ma
ton may go on from glory to glory and
reaching the acme of her greatness go
down to her inevitable fall and the
beasts Of the field may howl through
her desolated palaces; another nation
to whom her history NAV be ont a
myth or tale of the night, may arise
in her place and IT, too. may go down
into that great grave where the nd
lions are buried, but whenever or wher-
ever there exists a man made in the
image. of God who loves liberty. and
has the pursuit of happiness in his
heart, will be found one of the funda-
mental principles, of the great political
party we serve. Whenever or wherever
there lives man who loves to sit about
his own fireSide and feel the loving
childrens fingers, in that mans heart
you will find the Democratic principles
that a mans house is his castle and
no one shall modest him there (Ap-
plause) Whenever or wherever you
find man who desires to serve the
God of his choice in his own way.-in
that mans heart you will find the
Democratic idea of religious liberty to
the utmost limit. Whenever or wher-
ever you find a man who believes that
so long as he tells the truth. does non
estly, lives uprightly and wrongs no
man, and is as good as his neiehbor
there you will find the essentially Dem
ocratic principle of human equality. and
these are what 1 conceive to be the
truths that guide and lay at the bot
tom of the great party in whose hands
the destiny of the nation now lives. I
glory in the past. l believe in its pres
ent and my heart beats high with hcpe
for its glorious future PROLONGED
applause)
THE CHARGE OF ANARCHY.
Turning his attention TO the policy
of the Democrats, Mr. Harris said:
To such desperate straits have our
opponents been reduced for legitimate
arguments that they have resorted to
abuse, and that has always been con-
sidered the sign of a bad cause. (Ap-
plause.) They allow the advocates of
bimetallism neither sincerity of motive
nor of conviction. They constantly re-
iterate the charge that every man VINO
declares for the money of the conssi-