The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-01
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itself face to face with the hosts of socialism;
and in the long run no two great parties
ever faced each other in battle but that both
won, and in the long run there will come
a time when Populism will triumph, and
then, you gentlemen of the Republican party
who are advising to vote for William Nc
Kinley will be sorry II there is no Democratic
party. (Applause)
They tell us that there is no issue that
divides us except the issue Of protection and
free trade. There is an issue between,-in-
dividualism and neutrality-suspicious. that
divides US. 1t is an issue as broad as the
ocean and as eternal as time. AS long as we
feel we do and feel it as deeply as we do,
and as honestly as you feel your convictions.
we would be false to everything which we
should hold dear If we didn't vote our con-
VIZ ions we feel them.
Do you say that protection is not issue?
And yet, from the front porch at Canton every
day we Hear that same old song, Protection
is an isaue." Oh, for one hour Of Abraham
Lincoln or James G. Blaine (applause), or
even gallant old Tom Reed! Why, we watched
you fHf month, for two months, when you
were Preparing to nominate your candidate,
Democrats for once prayerfully hoping that
some one might be nominated who was big
enough and brave enough to say that there
was but one issue in this campaign, the issue
of sound money and national honor. ZAP
plause) But it didn't come, and for this rea-
son we are here today.
You tell us we are throwing our votes away.
The abolitionists threw their votes away and
the shackles were struck from the ankles Of
four millions Of slaves. Throwing our votes
away? The Republican party threw its votes
away in 1854 and 1t lived to maintain. the in
tegrity of the Union. Throwing our votes
away? The Populist party has been throw
Ing its votes away for six years and it has
lived to gobble up all that's left OF the Demo-
cratic party daughter and applause) except
the National Democracy. Renewed applause.)
Why, gentlemen, almost sixty years ago to-
night, somewhere down in the South, there
was gathered party of brave men within the
walls of a deserted church. and all about them
were the fierce eyes and the cracking rifles of
the soldiery of old Mexico and day after day
they starved and fought, and day after day
there went VI, the cry from the Mexican
ranks, Surrender or you will get no quar-
ter" and day after day went back the answer,
I'VE don't want any quarter, come and take
u.s." and they died there; died man by man,
man left TO defend the gray old walls; but
from the blood of the Alamo there rose a
spirit of liberty that gave independence to
Texas and gave Texas to the Union. ZAP
plause)
And I say to you of the National Democracy,
rally at once again around the same old
standard; haul up the flag that at Chicago
was pulled down when the black flag of Pop
ulism was run up in its stead, and from your
devotion in the years to come will spring a
party which will give new hope to humanity
which will be the envy of the nations and the
admiration Of the world.
Ladies and gentlemen, when at Chicago the
Populists hauled down the free flag of Democ-
racy and ran up the black flag of piracy, there
was one true Democrat, one leader in that
convention, who did not go home and wait
a revolutionist a Democrat; a man that
it didn't take four minutes to announce that
his battle cry was, "Repudiate the repudi-
atorS,' and, ladies and gentlemen, / have the
pleasure and the very great honor now to in
troduce to you a gentleman who has borne
many high honors we'll and who may look
without presumption to many higher honors
still, ex-Gov. Roswell P Flower, of the Empire
state. (Great applauSe.1