The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-04

| of this convention.
The resolution was adopted by a unani-
| nous vote.
RESPONSE BY MR.. EVERETT.
| On motion of a delegate from PennsyIva-
MIA. Mr. Everett. of Massachusetts was
| invited to the platform TO make a response
on behalf of Massachusetts to the forego-
| ing resolution.
| When Mr.. Everett reached the platform
| he said: 'Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of
! the Convention-There are occasions on
| which the State of Massachusetts is ready
/ to speak and TO speak with what force
/ and what clearness she may in response
| to any sentiment coming from the South or
/ from any other section of the country that
| expresses her feeling; but on this occasion,
| Mr.. Chairman when from our sister State
/ always our sister State of Tennessee-this
| tribute paid to the man that we have
| loved and lost the delegates of Massachu-
| sets do accept it with the deepest graft
/ tude and with the most fervent apDrecia-
/ ton of the feeling of this convention, and
/ they prefer for me to speak for them, this
| convention having accepted it,
/ Il feel it proper to say no more this
occasion. but to go home with our hearts
too full for utterance in gratitude at the
feeling manifested on this occasion by the
elected Democratic Governor of Massa-
chusetts (applause), and who, whether
! elected or defeated. was always admired,
| honored and beloved from the hills of Berk-
shire to the sands of Cape Cod. and who, if.
he had lived longer would have been hon
ored and loved and have been set on high
in this whole country he was in his "a
tive State" (Applause)
The memory of the lamented statesman
was then greeted by the convention by
! three rousing cheers.
! Judge S. S. Savage, of Kentucky-Mr.
| Chairman, I have been requested to read
| the following tell gram from William Lind
| say a Senator from Kentucky.
The Chairman-You may read the tele-
! gram if there is no objection
! No objection being made, Judge Savage
read the following telegram:
"FRANKFORT. Ky. Sept. 2, 1S96.-Hon.
! us an unequivocal Democratic platform
! and an old-time Democratic ticket, and all
! will be well. WILLIAM LINDSAY"
| Judge Savage-With such influential
as Mr.. Lindsay Colonel Breckenridge and
others of our State in favor of our ticket,
| with man like General Buckner as the
nominee of this convention for the office of
Vice President there is no more chance OF
Bryan carrying kentucky than there is of
the blessed Master visiting Chicago.
daughter and applause.)
John Dewitt Warner was invited to the
platform and made brief, but rousing,
address on the money question, in which
he said that the battle must be fought
upon the lines which had been pointed out
by the intelligent press of the country. He
ment to prosper in its affairs with free sill
yer coinage. He said the Democratic party
was in this battle in behalf at once of De-
mocracy and honesty, because he believed
that Democracy and honesty were and
inseparable. (Applause) A man had the
right to pay $40 for coat if he chose and
the other man has as well the right to sell
the coat for $40. Democracy, he said, de-
Tended the right of every man to buy such
a coat he pleased, and to buy it where
he pleased and it also defended the right
of every Democrat when he bargained for
dollars, to buy just such dollars as he
pleased and when he bargained for them
to receive the dollars for which he had bar
gained. For he believed that gold was
the best standard for the currency of this
country. He thought that our government
should regulate its affairs so that man
should receive compensation in the same
kind of money that which could be le-
gally rendered at the time the contract was
made. He thought that if any one wanted
to make contract for money payable in
silver they had right to do it, but he had
yet heard of no one, either Democrat Re-
publican or Populist, who had insisted upon
making any such contracts as that. He
said that it did not require legislatio to
buy and sell silver, that it could be done
Mr.. Warmers speech was frequently APP
plauded and well received throughout
MIR. LEHMAN, OF MISSOURI
At the conclusion of Mr.. Warmers speech.
Mr.. Cultivate, of Ohio, inquired if the
committee on resolutions was ready to re-
port, and on being informed by the chair
that it would be shortly, made a motion
to take a recess until 2:30 O'clock This
motion was greeted with cries of mo, no.
from all parts of the hail. and there being
no second Mr.. Cultivate withdrew his mo-
ton The chair then introduced Mr.. F.. w.
Lehman, of Missouri, who addressed the
convention follows:
Gentlemen of the Convention-The DEM
ocratic faith is simple and it is single.
1t may be expressed in one article and
that is: Equal opportunity for all
and special aid to none applause The
application of that principle is as various
and as manifold as the needs and emer-
gencies of government. We have met here
because We wish to protect the good faith
OF the Democratic party of the United
States in the application which it has pro
posed OF It's principles during the last twen-
ty years, and upon every one of which the
convention at Chicago put the stamp of
fraud and false pretense. applause We
are here because we are not willing to
meet with the people of this country and
tell them that whatever we professed to
them in the years gone by was lie. Cap
plause)
In 1876. under the leadership of Samuel
cratic principle TO the civil service of this
country, we declared that merit should be
the sole test of appointment to Office. Cap
Dlause) We renewed that pledge in 1880
again in 1884, and upon the faith of that we
elected Grover Cleveland to the presidency
of the United States. (Applause.) He, on
his part, accepting that an honest ex-
preston of Democratic purpose, undertook
to give it force and effect in his adminis-
tratiOn of the government, ana in 1888 his
action was approved by the Democratic
convention, and he was commended for
h inc not plxv
by example the purest function of govern
1892. and declared that public office is a
public trust (applause) and now. he hav-
ing given to that principle wider scope
convention meets in 1886 and says that this
system to which we pledged ourselves
through twenty years is a system of life
tenure and of oppression of the poor and
the humble. (Applause.)
''AcuuieScence in the will of the ma jor-
ity when constitutionally expressed in the
form of law is the absolute condition of
free government. No matter how genuine
the grievance, no matter how just the re-
sentiment which prompts to revolt and to
resistance of authority, whenever that re-
volt and that resistance makes itself man.
ifeSt the government must maintain it's
authority by all the force of its people
Under "a free government we cannot admit
the brand or the bullet as weapons of re-
dress. The only Weapon that we can ad-
nit is that of the ballot, a weapon which
down q 5 still a SnoWflakes fail uuOn