The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-03

recess until P. NJ. During the interim the
committee on permanent organization
carried out the programme of the National
committee by selecting Senator Caffery of
Louisiana for permanent chairman. John
X. Wilson of Indiana, the temporary Sec
rotary, and the remainder of the tempo
rary organization were chosen for perma-
nent officers.
The convention reassembled at 4 80 with
very large attendance. The report of
the committee on credentials stated that
there were S24 delegates present, repre-
senting forty-one States and three Terri
tories, and recommending that those pres
emit be entitled to cast the full votes of
their States and Territories. The report
was agreed to without question.
DR.. Everett of Massachusetts, was intro
duced to fill up with speech the time
until the report on permanent organiza-
ton should be ready. He addressed the
convention as fellow-p patriots, and said
Massachusetts, had sent her delegation,
nearly sixty strong, to aid in repelling the
invasion which had risen against the
ancient honor and credit of the whole
country. [Cheers.l Massachusetts was
for gold. [Cheers.] Talk about an inter
national agreement for bimetallismI Why
had we not now all the nations of the
world whose name was worth anything
for the gold standard? [Applause.1
Massachusetts, he continued, is here
against all class distinctions. [Cheers.
Massachusetts, Democracy knows no dis
tinction between North and South, be-
tween East and West [applausel, and,
above all, the Democracy of our State will
not stand any insult against that man
who has protected the credit and honor of
America. We stand tonight with Presi-
dent Cleveland.
Here the convention rose to man, and
there was a scene of great enthusiasm.
Delegates cheered and shouted. and waved
hats, fans, handkerchiefs and flags, and the
spectators in the galleries took part in the
demonstration.
When DR.. Everett was able to make him.
self heard again. he said: We of Massa-
chusetts are not here to act for any special
candidates. Gentlemen from the South
and West, gentlemen from the Pacific and
center, give us any two men, any men
the country knows and honors for
distinction, for purity, for worth in public
or private life, North or South, civilians
or soldiers, and Massachusetts, will do all
that she can for their support. Prolonged
applause.
eve are told that we might do as well
by casting our votes for the candidates
nominated at st, Louis. 1 mean the first
st. LOUIS convention, not the second.
[Laughter.] We are told that for sound
moneys sake we have nothing to do but
to go over to that camp. Mr.. President,
respectfully decline to admit that all pub
lie virtue is conferred in the Republican
party. [Applause.l If it were only for
this year, if it were only for this campaign,
l might think differently of what we are
to do. But we are not here only for this
campaign. We are here for 1900, we are
here for the future. There are hundreds
and thousands of young men growing up
and asking for whom they are to vote and
who know nothing of the traditions of
party. They want to know to what party to
join themselves, to know which is the
progressive party, the party OF the day
and hour, and / say this convention is to
be not the last. but the first of series of
conventions. Loud applause.]
This is to be the first convention of the
party of young America. [Cheers. We
are fighting not merely for the honor and
historic principles of our party; not merely
against anarchism and populism; not
merely against protection and paternal-
ism, but we are lighting that the United
States may stand in the face of her sister
nations, undimmed in honor and Un-
shaken in courage"
DR.. Everett resumed his seat amid loud
and long continued applause.
The report of the committee on perma-
nent organization was then presented by
the chairman of the committee, James w.
Eaton of New York. Senator Gallery was
escorted to the chair by Mr.. Bullitt OF
Pennsylvania and Mr.. LAWYER of Mime
sofa, and spoke as follows:
l tender this convention my deepest thanks
Tor the honor conferred by selecting me to
preside over It's deliberations. shall always
regard it as the highest ever conferred
upon me.
charged by our party with the function OF
ministering in its temple of faith and teaching
the people its true doctrines, our priests ave
oesecrated its affairs, broken its shrines and
taught false doctrines to the people. We now
enter the sanctuary of the temple and take
possession OF the ark of the covenant of our
falth, which we will hereafter vlgilantly
guard. protect and defend. We will purify its
aesecrnted affairs and rebuild its broken
shrlnes. And, lest the hearts of the people be
sloien away from true Democratic faith, the
ialth OF our fathers and founders, we must
separate from our brethren who have wrought