Evening journal., 1896-10-22

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the candidate of party. but, my
friends. IL is a new party. Just born.
He is not the candidate OF the Demo-
cratic party; he does not stand upon "a
Democratic platform. Those who built
the platform on which he stands have
spurned and cast to the ground and
trampled upon every principle. tradi-
tion and teaching OF the Democratic
party of this nation and have started
a new child into the political world.
True, they have taken the old name
but It is also true that pirate crew
/ have scrambled over the side OF a ship
/ forced the crew over the rail and are
sailing under false colors to prey upon
/ the commerce OF the world. (Ap-
/ plause.) So these pirate have seized
the old Democratic ship.
"a convention was held. is true in
/ the city of Chicago. and il Is true that
10 that convention there went from the
state of New York and other states that
nave hitherto been supposed to know
something about Democracy. their
/ greatest and leading men prepared TO
stand by the principles of their
old party; men who knew the
names OF Jefferson, jackson. Monroe.
they taught. They We're set upon. their
views not permitted attention and met
with derision and scorn, and Debs.
Altgeld and Mary Lease dominated the
convention which enunciated the plat
form and which named the ticket.
Debs was there because he was op-
posed TO courts; because he was on
posed to government by injunction.
He had tried il and did not like It. Mr..
Debs in Chicago was commanded BY
the courts there to de6ist from the un-
lawful interference with the United
States mails and interstate commerce.
He refused to obey the command and
government by injunction landed him
in jail. He served his term and then
landed in the Chicago convention. Cap
plause)
Mary Lease was there In favor OF a
dollar that would stay at home. She
wanted a silver dollar put I'm the plat
form. All the money of the East rose
up against it, but Il did not avail and
Mary Lease carried the day IN favor OF
a dollar that would stay at home. Now
possibly, If Mary Leases husband had
married some other lady he might have
said that staying at home was a good
thing for a wife and mother CLaugh-
ter) We have learned that dollar Is
benefit only when We exchange Il fol
something.
John p Aitged was there. Tho
good people OF Illinois had made tn,
mistake of electing him governor o
that state, and there came a time wher
lawless men lifted their hands against
the government. They said that al
railroads should stop running in an,
out of Chicago. If you had been goinl
q through there you would have foun'
the command of a mob before you say
i ing Thus far shalt thou go, but n
O farther, because we men. who hat
3 property and property owners, hav
e concluded that the railroads shou
/ stop. Then IL was discovered that Oh
4 United States mails met with a hal
/ at command, not of bayOnets or auto
p Gratis or czars, but of a mob responsible
10 no one but to themselves for tn
spilling Of blood and destruction o
property. Then came the one act whicl
Will shine as bright as a shining sta
in the record of the present presiden
of the United States He said. 'Th,
! United States government shall be re
spected, even ia Chicagol The Unite,
Z States mails shall go and q few boy
I In blue were all that were needed, JUS
, two or three star spangled banners an,
few soldiers, and the trains move,
/ and Interstate commerce reopened
and the United States mails went with
out hindrance Governor Altgeld di,
not like il and he was i'm the Chicago
convention. lie said: We must hav
v a plank in our platform that shall de
4 nounce Federal interference in lOca
\ affairs as constituting a crime agains
j free institutions.
10 There was another class Of me
o there, who have been for the past fou
# or five years cultiyating the minds G
!. the American people and pouring int
l. their ears and setting before their eye
S arguments in favor of the unlimite
e coinage of silver dollars, made out d
y fifty cents worth Of silver. Ii Is n
r wonder that a convention which stol
e the name and flag of another party wa
j. willing to say that we shall stamp upO
4 the American currency an everlastin
e lie, and say that hereafter fifty cent
d makes a dollar. That was adopted, an
e all those other things that these an
a archistic and revolutionary people de
l. manded were patched into a platform
Dr and then an unknown man was sprun
l. upon the people and they were aske
~ to put him in the seat which Washinl
Q, ton. jefferson, Andrew Jackson an
D. Abraham Lincoln occupied. Applause
1t Is no wonder that under these eli
T. cumstances party lines have fallen o
and that the best and truest and wisel
men of the Democratic party all ov,
j. the land are turning to the standaI
Id raised by the Republican party at S
! Louis. There is no other place Il
W them to go. Some are little slow abOl
ly coming; some wish TO come half wa
ly and then stop but the majority
or them are close together clasping han,
ne around one flag and making a sui
re thing of IT, This country cannot star
OF a constantly fuctuating currency sue
m as that which exists in India. Chin
T. and Mexico.
d. Il believe there Is patriotism in Del
d, ware to-day as there was in 1776.
es believe the people Of Delaware wi
lu bear in mind that this great nation III
to built itself up among the peoples of Il
Of world because It has always kept
ut pledges. (Applause,) ! don't belize
Al a.