The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-10-01

dio young anu WHO In the course OF
nature must 1.-Two under our govern
ment for many years are interested in
making that government good enough
to live under. (Applause.) | desire
to call your attention to two blanks
IN the platform adopted at Chicago,
before touching on other matters con.
nccted with the campaign. | speak
or these two planks because they cor
cern the people who live in tho Dis.
trict of Columbia. The Chicago plat
form contains this plank 1--WE favor
the admission of the territories of New
Mexico, Oklahoma and Arizona into
the Unlon as States, and we favor the
early admission of all the territories
having the necessary population and
resources to entitle ZEN to statehoodY
ana while they remain territories we
.lold that the officials appointed to ad-
minister tho government of any terri
tory, together with the District of Co.
lumbia and Alaska, should be bona
dde residents of the territory or dis
trict in which the duties are to be per-
formed" (Applause.)
/ desire to emphasize these words {:
Tho Democratic party believes in
home rule" (Applause.) | believe in
that platform and in that plank of the
platform and that portion of the plank
which l have emphasized, and when [
say l believe in homo rule, [ do not
mean that there shall be home in the
district or in tho territories after the
rulers commence to rule, but that they
shall live there before they arc an-
pointed. (Applausc.)
Let me read another plank: "We
are opposed to life tenure in the public
service. (Applause.) We favor ap-
polntmcnts based upon merit, fixed
terms of Office nd such an administra.
tion of the civil service laws us will
afford equal opportunities to ali citzens
OF ascertained fitness except as other
wise provided by the constitution of
the United States"
We are in favor Of q civil service re-
form that means something and not 4
civll service reform that permits Il
President to suspend the civil service
until nc can get his friends into Office
anu sustain the service jIst AS he is
gong out SO as to keep his friends in.
,hpplausc.) We believe in appoint
ments based upon merit and such a
method OF appointment as will omen
the Offices to men Of ascertained fitness.
we arc in favor of fixed terms OF Office
IN the several departments Of the
government. We want it SO that when
\ man goes in we will know how long
hc IS going to stay and when he is
gong out. We don't want 10 build w
In ollicc- holding class and fiji the
1ilccS for life, SO that when Il man gets
.n Office he will have no more con
;ern about his country than to draw
his salary. (Checrs.) We believe
that the life tenure which relieves !.
nan from all furthnr care is dcstluc-
live OF the highest forms Of citizenship
and is not to be tolerated in a country
ike ours.
Our opponents are doing us much for
is in this campaign as we arc able to
10 for ourselves. uaughter.) OF all
he public documents recently issued,
,hc most important one is the letter
ust given to the public, written by the
secretary OF the treasury, from which
desire to quote one sentence: ut
$ the duty Of the secretary of the
ana Of all other public officials
% execute in good faith the policy de-
'lared by Congress-" and, mark these
words, land whenever he shall be
that the silver dollar cannot
De kept equal in purchasing power
With the gold dollar except by receiv-
ng it in exchange for the gold dollar
when such exchange is demanded, it
Will he his duty to adopt that course"
want You to mark these words, be-
cause in those words the secretary of
he treasury tells you that whenever
he secretary is satisfied that it is
necessary that he will commence re-
ieelnlng silver dollars in gold. laugh
err l now call your attention to it
because l want to emphasize the de-
;eptlons wh ch have been oracticcd by
his administration on the money cues
lion: (Applause.) When this ad-
advised the repeal of the
sherman law, you were told the repeal
IL the sherman law would remove the
illllculty, and yet as soon as the Sher-
nan law was repealed, the same au-
'hority which promised relief as soon as
,hat was repealed came to Congress
With the demand that the grcenbacks
md treasury notes must be retired by an
ssue OF gold bonds in order TO stop the
lrain on the treasury gold.
The secretary of the treasury in
0rms you that if the grcenbacks and
Dhe treasury notes Werc all retired.
50 that there woLld not be a dollar of
paper money to be presented for gold.
yet it would be his duty to commonce
10 redeem the silver dollars in gold and
10 start another endless chain that
would drain the treasury. According
70 the doctrine laid down by Mr.. Car
isle, you cannot stop the drain upon
The treasury until you retire all the
silver dollars and leave nothing hut
gold in the treasury vaults. ! am
y!ad that our opponents arc thus COM
PEELED to expose TO the public eve, their
hcartless, morcilcss and criminal policy.
am glad that they have told the pub
lie we must have gold alono and thus
have confessed that we arc in the hands
Of two banking syndcates and must
pay them what they want. Talk about
and trusts and here thew
propose to establish the most gigantic
trust-a money trust-and to let the
men who own the gold dole outfit to the
other 100000 OF American citizens. I
donounce that policy as more cruel and
hcartlCsS than would be the domina-
tion Of any foreign power. | would
rather, as has been said, put our army
in the hands Of II foreign general or
our navy in command OF % foreign ad-
miral than put the treasury depart
ment in the hands Of IL secretary who
would barter it away to syndicate.
(Chccrs.) ! would rcsist such q linan-
cial policy with as much earncstncss
as would the aggressive and invading