The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-09-05
GREATEST NATIONAL CALAMITY
BY the Help Of God He Shall Never
Have An Opportunity Democrats
Talk On Bryan Democracy.


The following in an extract from a
speech made by General Breckenridge
at the late Democratic convention in
Kentucky:
"In every part of that platform there
creep out the same troublesome here
sizes which the law and order people
from all time have had to meet. All
that is to be found In that Chicago
platform is in the more courageous
and ampler platform Of the Populist
convention at st. Louis. (ApplausO.)
You see in the Chicago platform the
half-ripe fruit. The blossom is in all
the heresies Of anarchy and despOtism
in the past; the half-ripe fruit is in the
Chicago platform; the not quite ripe
fruit is in the POpulist platform Of st.
Louis. The result is in the utter de-
structiOn of our institutions that will
come If that party gets into power.
"You need not tell me that 1t is q
regular Democratic nomination. /
walk not into the Cesspool of that mis-
cradle policy under any pretence or
binding whatever. 1t had no power
to make pledge of Populistic and
half Republican policy in the name Of
the Democratic party. 1t had no pow
er to take hostile principles and to
pledge the Democratic people to carry
those hostile policies into statutes.
And 1t it is not Democratic merely be-
cause it is clothed in the Democratic
robes and wears the Democratic gar
ment. 1t is the hand of Esau, it is
true, but we recognize the voice of ia
cob in every tone.
Fellow Democrats: Measuring my
words and weighing them with all the
precision of which l am capable, and
willing to bear whatever may come
from uttering them, speaking for my
self alone, believe that the election of
Mr.. Bryan is the greatest national ca
lamity that can befall our people; and
for one l shall do all in my power to
prevent it. Great Applause.) This is
above all personalities. Dear as they
are to me, and deaFer to me than to
any man living-aboYe all traditions Of
party affiliations, precious as these ira.
ditions are to me personally and to the
generations of my beloved family be-
hind me- higher than all other duties
of this moment, the duty of today is
for the Democratic party to defeat
Bryan and Sewell. prolonged Ap-
plause) And l believe If this conyen.
ton means anything-if you who have
come here from the field and the farm.
from the Office of the doctor and of the
lawyer, the banker and the merchant
this representative body that / see be.
fore me never surpassed in all the
history of Kentucky, which is the very
warp and wOOf of its substance and
form; If you mean anything, i: is not
merely the enunciation of q platform,
but it is the execution of a purpose
that Kentucky shall not vote for Mr..
Bryan at the coming election.
II am not here to make personal
charges or to use names. That seems
to me Lot to come up to the high level |
of the occasion. 1t is not as to whether |
Mr.. Bryan is the nominee. I have |
nothing to say of Mr.. Bryan that Is
not kindly and pleasant. take it for
granted that he believes what be utters
for the capacity to believe wrong
things in undevsloped and emotional |
youth is extremely great. (Applause
and laughter.)
Il have nsught to say that would In
any way reflect upon him. 1 think be
believes that platform, and as he be.
lleVes 1t, II he be an honest and cour.
ageous man-and / shall not doubt
shat-he win use the whole power Of
that Office to make that platform the
policy Of the American government
and thus believing out of compliment
20 his hOnesty-thus believing In ius.
ice to his good charaCter--by the helD
u 'iOd he shall never have an oppOr.
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