The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-08

being no dissent, the chair appointed
Senator Jones of Arkansas Hon, X. t,
Heating of Nevada and Senator White
of California a committee to escort
Senator Daniel to the chair.
The greatest demonstration of the
day UP to this time occurred when Sem
ator Daniel came forward. Delegates
stood in their chairs and yelled with
might and main, waving canes, hand
kerchiefs and flags. The band aided
the enthusiasm by starting up patri-
| otto air, and the delegates stamped,
olapped and cheered with a vociferous-
ness that threatened to drown the eff
| forts of the musicians.
Senator Daniels Speech.
Senator Daniel, on taking the chair,
expressed profound gratitude for the
honor conferred upon him, and express
ed his regret that his name should have
been brought in even the most courte-
! Gus competition with his distinguished
friend, Senator Hill, and would readily
recognize the fact that. there was no
personality in the matter 1t was sole
| ly to the principle which the great ma
| jority of the democrats stood for, he
! (DanieD standing with them.
AS the majority of the convention
was not personal in its aims, neither
was 1t sectional. 1t began with the
sunrise in Maine and spread into a
sunburst in Louisiana and Texas. 1t
stretched in unbroken lines across the
continent, from Virginia and Georgia
to California It swept like a prairie
fire over Iowa and Kansas, and it light
| al ba iynr IN Nahra sta When
he saw that grand array and thought
of the British gold standard that was
publican promises at ST. Louis, he
thought of the battle of New Orleans,
of which it had been said:
There stood John Bull in martial
pomp;
But there was old Kentucky
There was no north, south, east or
west In the uprising of the people for
American emancipation from the con-
spiracy of European kings led by Great
| Britain, which sought to destroy one
half Of the money of the world and to
make American manufacturers, mer-
chants, farmers and mechanics hewers
of wood and drawers of water. He
appealed to all democrats to acquiesce
in the will of the great majority of
their fellow democrats and to go with
them, as they had oftentimes gone with
those to whom he appealed.
Mr.. Daniel continued: do not for
get that in the last national convention
OF 1892 you proclaimed yourselves to be
in favor of both gold and silver as the
standard money of the country and for
the coinage of both gold and silver
without discrimination of either metal
or charge for mintage and that the only
question left open was the ratio be-
tween the metals. Do not forget that
Just four years ago in that same con-
vention the New York delegation stood
here solid and immovable for a candi-
date committed to the free and unllm-
tied coinage of silver and gold at 16 to
1, and that we are for it still. That we
owe you much is readily acknowledged
and gratefully acknowledged, but are
not our debts mutual and not one-sided
to each other?
''As this majority of democrats is not
sectional, neither is it for any privi-
lege OF class or for class legislation.
The active business men of this coun-
try, its manufacturers, its merchants,
it's farmers, in sons of toll in counting
rooms, factory, field and mine, knows
that contraction of the currency
sweeps away, with the silent and re-
lentless force of gravitaton the annual
profits of their enterprise and invest
, ment-and they know, too, that the
gold standard means contraction and
, the organization of disaster CAP
plause). What hope is there for the
country, what hope for democracy I'M
less the views of the majority here are
, adopted?
"The republican party has now re-
nounced the creed of it's platforms and
of our statutes. 1t has presented tc
T the country the issue of higher taxes
more bonds and less money and has
proclaimed for the British gold stand
! ard. We can only expect, should they
succeed, new spasms of panic and q
long, protracted period of depression
Do not ask us then to join them on any
+ of these propositions. If we should &C
upon the gold standard it is evident
that we must change the existing BIZ
metallic standard of payment of al
public debts taxes and appropriations
save those specifically payable in golt
only And as we have twenty billions
of public and private debt it would take
more than three times all the gold il
the country to pay one years interes
in that medium.
1--WE should be compelled hereafter t
contract the currency by paying the
five hundred millions of greenback'
and Sherman notes in gold which
would nearly exhaust the entire Ameri
| can stock in and out of the treasury
and the same policy would require tina
the three hundred and four millions o
silver certificates should be paid in golt
as foreshadowed by the director of tn,
public debt by five hundred million dol
lars of interest bearing gold bonds will
the prospect of $40, 900, 900 to follow
much zeal in attacking the good nam,
"The disastrous consequences of sucl
a policy are appalling to contemplate
and the only alternative suggested il
the free coinage of silver as we'll al
gold and the complete restoration o
our American system of binetallism
Bring US, we pray you, no more make
shifts and straddles. Vex the countr!
with no more prophecy of smootl
things to come from the British repub
lican gold propaganda. We maintain
that this great nation, with natura
base, as Gladstone said, of the creates
continuous empire ever established b,
man, with far more territory and NOR
productive energy than Great Britain
IL.