The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-17
HEARD BUCKNER.
A GooD-SIZED TENNESSEE AUDI
ENOE GREETs HIM.
They Listen Patiently, But When He
Mentions the Name OF Bryun, the
People Cause Demonstration
Thnt Almost Causes Force to BE
Used TO Subdue Ii. ~

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. 16-General
Simon Buckner, vice-presidential candi-
date for the national Democratic party
and Colonel John R. Fellows campaigner
of the Sound Money" league, tonight ad-
dressed an audience of $500 at the Audi
forum.
General Buckner was the first speaker,
and at once took up the financial ques-
ton. He contended that if the stamp Of
the government, by being placed upon a
piece of silver or of gold can give it a
different value from that in a commercial
sense that stamp can give any value it
pieases, even to a thousand times, SO that
the proposition is reduced to an abSurdity
He said in support of his proposition that
wherever country had undertaken to
infuse this value into the metal by COIN
ing it, the result had been commercial
CONFUSION, CONSERVATION and strife
among the people and rebellion against
the governments. Touching the
WORK OF THE CHICAGO CONvEN-
TION
and its power to bind the Democracy
General Buckner sail:
Last summer under the regular Of
ganization of the Democratic party, meet
lngs We're called in every county in every
state in the union. Delegates were APP
pointed to state conventions and state
conventions appointed delegates to the
Chicago convention. What We're those
de4egates instructed TO do? In nearly
every county in the United States, the
first resolution passed by the county con-
Ventions was TO reaflrm the principles of
Democracy. When the delegates thus
Instructed to discharge their duties as
Democrats went 10 the state conventions
those state conventions, almost without
an exception, reattirmed the principles of
Democracy and the delegates that they
sent to the Chicago convention were OBJ
liged to support Democratic principles
Every sentiment of personal honor, of
partisan duty compelled them to arrange
their platform on Democratic lines and
discard from it everything that was not
(Applause.) What did they do? They
went to Chicago, ard they arranged q.
ulatform from which the
LAST vEsTIGE OF DEMOCRACY
had vanished. 1 defy any man to at
tempt to point to a single article or
single line of that platform which enun-
ciates Democratic doctrine II announces
as principles of the Democratic party
principles which he have combatted for a
hundred years, during the time of Jeffer-
son TO this good hour. And yet. fellow
citizens, they have placed upon that plat
form a man for Candidate who has de-
ciared that he is no Democrat. And vet
fellow citizens, they say that we must
support their candidate and their platform
because it was done regularly. That re-
minds me of an illustration which nv
distinguished friend made a short time
ago He said, under the claim of regular
ity, Benedict Arnold had the right to
claim the support OF the patriots of the
revolution. He was regularly commits
stoned under the principals of West Point
and the Highlands by General Washing
ton. He issued orders through his stair
regularly and in an entirely regular way.
He issued orders which disposed the army
under his command and placed it in such
position that the enemy could come
upon it and
MASSACRE TIE LAST MAN.
1t was all done with perfect regularity.
The only thing wanting was a little mat
ter of principle. (AIplause.) Nor did it
seem to be in the minds of those gentle
men assembled in Chicago protesting to
represent Democracy. They said what
we have done was done regularly
Under that theory, General Washing
ton and the continental army were bolt
ers, because they would not follow
Arnold in his treason. Because we will
not follow these gentlemen of Chicago in
their detection from Democratic princi-
pies we are to be called boilers
In the course of his speech General
Buckner mentioned the name of the
Democratic presidential nominee, and no
sooner had the word Bryan. left his
mouth than the house was the scene of