The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-24

read in one OF the local papers, 1
think it was on Thursday-it would be
invidi0us for me to call the name, but it
was evidently a Mckinley paper-a
statement that the Populist convention
in this great metropolis OF the Missis-
sippi valley was preparing to die.
have not the slightest doubt but that
the expression was
PROMPTED BY DESIRE
upon the part of the gold power and
their representative upon the Repuibli-
can ticket that the Populist party
would perish from the face of the
earth. but if the editor of that paper is
in this convention tonight, if he has
witnessed these extremes of enthusi
asn7. these soul-stirrilg scenes of patri-
otisfl, beg him TO materially change
his opinion respecting this great party.
GApplause.) In the Populist party we
know no section; we know no north, no
SOUTH no east, no west. applause and
cheers1 The man. who lives upon the
Gulf Of Mexico, or in Florida, is as
sacred to US as the man who ives on
the border of the British possessions.
or up near the line of Canada. The
man who dwells upon the Atlantic
ocean is loved by Populists, if he is
TRUE MAN AND A TRUE PATRIOT,
as much as the patriotic citizen who
dwells UPON the shores of the Pacific
ocean. (Applause)
II thank God it was one of the great
missions of this great party of the peo-
pie to destroy sectionalfsm (applause),
and as one citizen of northern birth
and raising, say in this great pres
ence 4 have as profound respect for
the rights, the citizenship of the man
who dWeEs in the south as / have for
my own or my neighbours.
The old political parties have been
gradually dropping sectionalism in this
country and dividing north and south
of Mason and DiXcn's line Our fell
low citizens north were told that all
that was required for the destruction
CT the union was to cause their brethren
OF t1il south of Mason and DiXOn's line
TO come into. possession Of this union.
The same thing, in substance, was re
peated in the other sections of our
country And all this time while we
were following the hammer of the Re
publican party on the one hand and
the bsnner of the Bourbon Democracy
on the other,
THE GOLD POWER OF EUROPE,
represented by agents in the United
States. was fastening such chains of
industrial slavery upon the people that
it would take almost a generation to
strike off (Applause) 1t was a part
of the mission Of PoDulism to free the
people from this sectional prejudice
with which they had been imbued-
Now we can meet in a great conNen-
ton ike this. represented by some 1900
delegates, from AZ states Of this union
and the various territories. struggling
and .nentending for the mastery among
ourselves. and when the majority has
spoken its will we bow to that wild
with a determination to carry it into
execution at the polls (ADplause)
IF any man has come to this con
vertion or occupies these galleries who
SUSPECTS that there will be bolt, as
it III called. from the action Of this con
venti0n LET me say to him that ne is
mistaken. loud cheersD
ty7hen every representative ana
evety state and territory. shall be heard
here a. Ii N the result shall be known
and dispassionately considered II any
such thinker has any suspicion That
there will be q bolt can say for my
friends from Texas and Maine that
they will ell bow to
THE WILL OF THIS CONVENTION
as crystalized by the majority ex-
messed upon the floor. (Applause9
T have no doubt that in Wall street,
this moment, there is a hope that this
great convention will split to pieces and
s0nEt the PopuGlst party WIZ be disrupted
and absorbed principally by the Re
publican parry, because this is the
party that will be supported by Wall
street this fall. Cries of good; that
rigGht.')
Il have no doubt that in this build
ing at this moment the milMons OIL
Wall street can be found. ceres Oh
'.8llsts right; good boy.'O
..rThey have gone to the hotels ait
might clothed in badges with lie upon
their lips. saying they were Delegates
representing some state in this Union,
in this convention. (Applause)
."They were and are the purchase and
chattels; of gfae British gold power. Gap
plause) They are the ninfons' of that
mower that has ensiaved our people
for a quarter of a century, tnat would
fasten the manacies of industrial ser
vieude upon us so strong that we could
nor force tllem from cur limbs. But
my fellow citizens, we have been able
to
DISCOVER THESE CREATURES.
The good sense, the patriotism and
good judgment and the honesty of del
eeutes has caused them to avoid any
creatures of this kind. And when this
convention has spoken its will, when 1t
has named the neXe president of the
limited States tremendous cheerng)
and shall have. put q. ticket in the field
that wiz achieve a great victory in
November. these creatures walo have
1r,a,yled around like jackals around a
graveyard, will go back to their home
without any of the fruit of victory from
tG1eir mission in st. Louis. loud cheer
insr.) MY fellow citizens, let me say
10 YOU. and especially to those of you
VINO are net Populis'ts, it has been a
+ common expression Of our enemies chat
the Populfst parry was a parry of an
acllis.s. (Cheers.) We see it in the
public print-in the goldbug press-in
that kind of press which has a gold
hand around it's neck with chain a.
tiached to ii, and thar chain held by
Rortlieeht2ds or. their agents. applause
we hear it upon tine fps Of ignOcanL
rar,sisans: we meet the expression
! among. men who vote the Republican
ticket
3 BECAUSE THEIR FATHERS VOTED
IT
! a quarter of a century ago; we meet
! ii. my fellow citizens, here and there
I among both the old political parties
when l first entered Congress, /
i found than IL was common thing TO
sreak of the Popuiist party as anach-
ISIS. l declare to you, my fellow citl-
zenr. as l understand Populism and
Popuitstic principles, tgley mnan just
and enlightened government, where
there is justice for both person ana