The herald., 1896-08-28
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4 of Norman T. Mack, editor of the only
free silver paper in Buffalo, was cheer
ed enthusiastically, as Mr.. Bryan had
been. Mr.. Tabor made a speech, in
which he said there was no need to dis
guise the fact that opposition existed
among New York Democrats as to the
y endorsement of the Chicago platform.
He did not believe that the opposi-
tion affected the great mass of voters
in the state. Mr.. Bryan, who was re-
iceived most unanimously, struck out
boldly with his advocacy of free silver.
Although almost exhausted by the
weeks campaigning and the days travel
and reception, he was far from being in
his usual form. and spoke with husky
tones He held the entire house clear
to the end of his speech.
Mr. Bryan said in part:
/ cannot express to you the gratitude
which I feel when 1 see the interest the
people of the empire state are taking
In this campaign upon which we are
f. just entering. lean carry back. to the
people of the west the news-not that
either because it is no longer news
that the Chicago platform is supported,
endorsed not by the west and south
alone but by all the toiling millions
of the east as well. (Great applause)
/ am aware that in the writing of
platform it is impossible to suit the
opinions of all; recognize that people
who think will differ and that we often
find in platforms things with which we
cannot fully agree, and we fail to find in
platforms sometimes attention to pol
III. a,1 it,1r
But platforms are not written by all
of the party they are written by ma
jority of the party. (Applause). And
when a majority of the party writes
q platform the others in the party must
either stand upon it or get out of the
party. (Applause) There is no other
plan known except the rule of ma
jority or the rule of a minority, and it is
better for a minority to be alienated
than for the voice of a majority to be
suppressed. Great applause) You
can support those who stand upon the
Chicago platform, although you may
dissent from part of it. But stand up
on the Chicago platform because l be- !
lieve in it from beginning to end.
While platform covers great many |
questions necessarily, because there is
no time, when there is but one subject |
but while there are various planks and |
various policies, there must be one su
preme issue, and in this campaign there
is a supreme issue. The issue is made |
between those who believe in a gold |
standard and those who oppose a gold !
standard. There is no middle ground. |
Those who are not with us are against |
us There is. no place between the lines |
for people to stand. (Applause)
Our opponents tell us that they wig
try to secure an international agree
ment, and that they simply want to
maintain a gold standard until other
nations will help lis to let go of it.
LauGhter) Can you trust the people
who wrote tn est. Louis platform to
resore bimetalism? Never until you
wipe out the Scriptures and gather figs |
from thorns and grapes from thistles. |
(Applause.) Those who are responsible |
for the gold standard are not the ones
10 whom we look for deliverance As |
we'll might you have asked Pharaoh to |
let the children of Israel out of bondage |
as to ask the Republican party to break |
the shack!es of a gold standard. CAP |
plause.) The Democratic party is op-
posed to a gold standard-not only op- !
posed to it, it is unalterably opposed to
it, II is so much opposed to it that it will |
rot permit the American people to be |
bound by it, though eVerp nation on
earth shall demand it, (Applause) We
did not achieve independence for the
purpose of bowling to the yoke of any
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people in this country who had not stud
led the money question until the Chicago
convention-people who supposed, Of
course, because they had been reading
the eastern newspapers, that the gold
standard must be all right, but when
they got to studying the question, they
found that the arguments which sup
port bimetallfsm are based upon the
solid rock of truth and they have been
coming over to the cause of bimetallism
with a rapidit ynever before known in
the history of the United States. CAP
plause) The arguments in favor of BIZ
metallism are directed toward the in
tellect Of the man who thinks and the
heart of the men who feel. The gold
standard argument is directed to the
poclletbook of the man who wants to live
while others die. Great applause)
When we declare for Independent ac-
tion we do not offend those who live in
other lands; we do not appeal to any
feeling of hostility against those who
are not citizens Of the United States.
We simply uphold the dignity of TO-
100000 of people to whose care alone
must be committed the policies which
are good for themselves. If some man
living in foreign lands should ask his
nation to surrender its power and its
right of elf-gOvernment and incest its
legislative power in the United States.
what would we think of that mans pa
triotism? II we would despise the for
eignor who would attempt or desire to
let the United States control his nation.
what contempt must Foreigners feel for
those Americans who are willing to sur
render the right to govern themselves?
Our opponents tell us in their platform
and theonly authorized way to construe
the platform emphasizes the declaration
that this nation cannot undertake to
open its mints to silver without the
concurrent aid Of other nations. 1t does
not say that we are not able to do so for
a month or for a year or for one presi-