The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-24

owners of the silver mines? (Applause.) AS
l say, every honest man, every statesman
OF this country up 10 a recent period, has in
sisted that the very basis Of good money is
| to have the full commercial value of the
metal In the coin in order that the people
who receive it
SHALL NOT BE DEFRAUDED.
II, then, sir, we are to have the free coin
age of silver, let Us have it the honest
ratio. Let the miner, for whose benefit this
law is to be enacted, let him be required to
bring to the mint of the United States a
hundred cents worth of silver to put in a
hundred-cent dollar. (Applause) And what
does that mean? / want you Bryan men to
look-that is what it means-that is the
amount of silver he would bring to make it
an honest dollar. Look at the difference.
Exhibiting to the audience two pieces OF
silver. one being an American silver dollar
and the other very large piece.) But you
insist, you poor, deluded men (applause), you
insist that, If you can ever be induced to
work at all (laughter), that you would have
that dollar-that you would have a dollar
that size instead of the full value Hike that.
These men who toll for their living who have
families depending upon them and who toll
from morn till night, not only have a right
to expect but to demand, that when the sill
yer miner brings his silver to the mint to be
coined they shall give him full value for his
labor (Applause.)
These outcries, Mr.. Chairman, are not new
to me. l have been. over thousands of miles
of territory; | have heard them in nearly
from men who either will not work at all
or who, having surrendered their true man
hood, come to these meetings obeying the
dictates, virtually the servants and slaves,
of those men who send them here. ZAP
plause)
]. j. McCafferty-That's a. fact.
Mr.. Chairman, l respect any man though
his opinions may differ from mine, most
vastly respect any man who having honest
convictions, does not hesitate to utter them;
but when he has emasculated himself, when
he has surrendered his rights freeman,
when ne obeys the behests of those who be-
long to the most corrupt, the most agrees
sive, the most greedy trust in this or any
other world he ceases to command my re
spect and is really not entitled to exercise
the rights Of freeman. Great applause.)
| will pass, Mr. Chairman, from the discus
sion of this monetary question to some other
points which We have a right, and which it
is our duty to consider. l may be asked, sir,
fore this audience this evening. There was
a meeting held in Chicago in July last. 1t
protested to be a gathering of the Democracy
of the country. Persons were sent there.
under call of the regular officials Of the
Democratic party, to select delegates to meet
in Chicago and formulate a Democratic plat
form. The call regular; the primary
meetings were held in the various counties
throughout the nation. In almost every in
stance the first act Of those primary meetings
was to reafirm the fundamental principles OF
the Democratic party.
When the delegates (sent by them under
those instructions to the state conVentions1
met. they also began Jnelr proceedings Dy
reaffirming the fundamental principles of the
Democratic party. Therefore, the delegates
sent TO the Chicago convention were in
structed by the state and county conventions
to go as Democrats and to frame a Demo-
cratic platform for the Democratic party. On
reaching that point. however, designing men
obtained control of that organization, induced
a majority of that convention to traffic of
and sell out the last principles of the Demo-
cratic party to Populist convention. ZAP
plause.) Instead of furnishing us, sir. with
| Democratic PLATFORM, they formulated q
platform about nine-tenths of which was
of principles discarded even by the Republi-
can party. (Applause.) And that they pro-
pose to palm off upon US as Democracy!
Mr.. Chairman, this question was very aptly
handled by young orator in my state not
long ago. Perhaps you have all heard the
Kentuckians profess to be very fond OF
horses-they think they do. One Of these
young orators said, adapting his remarks to
| the character of his audience: Fellow cti-
zens. If 1 appoint an agent to go into the
market and buy me horse, and he brings
me a jaekass, I'm not bound TO take thai
| jackass.'' Great laughter and applause.
| And in like manner, Mr.. Chairman, as he
! said. when my agents going to Chicago to give
me a Democratic convention present me with
| a purely Populistic convention, I'm not bound
to take that as Democracy
| What Is there of Democracy left IN that
platform? Or what trace Of it can be found
! from one end of it's declaration to the other:
| Not one. Why, there's an old Democrat down
| in my county who. when this platform was
| read to him. think made a very Just criti-
| cism of it. 1t was read to him by one of the
! advocates of the platform. Here said he
lis a perfect Democratic platform for YOU
! You Old Democrats ought to know what 1t is
| and want your opinion of it, He read II
to him. Said he, "old man. / have been yo.
ting the Democratic ticket for over forty
years NEARLY as long as our venerable bu,
distinguished friend here), and said he