The Portland daily press., 1896-07-18

for confsoation. From the West we saw
q representation of all sorts of architects
of ruin, and especially the wild sehemers
and dreamers and fog horns''-the man
who, as rule, having failed to conduct
successfully any business of their own.
think that they are entitled to take
charge Of the business of the nation
men of whom such amazing types yero
exhibited in the convention itself, and in
the fringe of political folly hanging
about it.
What other outcome from such source
could there be than policy OF confsca-
tion, ruin, distress and dishonor?
| What is the
| DUTY OF SOUND DEMOCRATS.
among whom your fellow citizens class
you, of men faithful to the traditions of
their party, who love 1t, who know the
value of it, who wish to save itp
| I will answer this question as one
who recognizes the necessity Of two great
parties, and the fact that each is neces-
sary to the other. 10 me partisanship
at this moment is nothing. Wero the
crisis reversed or the Republican candi-
dates standing on even half as wild q
|
| oago, and the Demooartic candidates
standing on anything approaching a
sound currency platform, L would most
certainly vote and work to the utmost
for the latter.
! I can see but one away eventually to
preserve tho Democratic party as we'll es
| to prevent national catastrophe, and
this trust. that you will allow me to
suggest. This one way is for you and
the sound democracy, frankly, boldly,
| unqualitiedly, to break loose from this
wild mob masquerading in the Demo-
cratic garb, and like the great war
Democrats, daring our civil struggle,
to cast in your lot fully, for the time at
least, with the party which you have
heretofore opposed. l fully believe that
this is not only the patriotic course as
regards the country, but the expedient
course as regards your party and your
selves. Cass, Dix, Dickenson, Butler,
Alyord, Siokles, and the host of other
strong
| 'iWAR DEMOCRATS"
who stood shoulder to shoulder with the
Republicans in the former great crisis
furnish your example and your encour-
agement in this. Their course was re-
garded by the great body Of the Ameri-
can people and has passed into history as
most honorable. They were welcomed
in the new party thus formed, to leading
places in its councils, and, after the crisis
had passed, those who thought it their
/ duty to return to the Democratic party
| We're welcomed all the more cordially and
| heartily because they represented the
| bold, patriotic, determined element
which placed the country above all party
ties, and by SO doing did much to save
the party from dissolution.
Of course know we'll that in doing
this you have to conquer your dislike for
certain minor doctrines. Your first
dif1iculty-probably your main difficulty
lis
| THE TARIFF QUESTION.
| You are perhaps for fres trade still, in
spite of the blow that free trade policy
has received in the past three years from
its alleged supporters. But let me ask
you candidly, after the experience of
these three years. do you see anything
better to be hoped for in the com bined
efforts of the Populists and their "Dem-
ocratio'' allies? Do you not feel that
even Republican administration, sup
ported at this crisis by patriotic Demo
carts, is likely to do far less violence to
your convictions, even on this question,
than this wild combination of Jack Cade
elements, no matter how loudly it pro-
claims it's Democracy?
| Even If you utterly reject the Rspub-
| lioan ideas regarding the development of
the national industries on another thing
and that infinitely more important
We are agreed. You know that the
FINANCIAL POLICY
! laid down at Chicago means individual
and national bankruptcy, distress and
dishonor. You know that it's premises
are false it's promises delusive, it's con-
sequences ruinous. You know that 1t
means. the wreck of life and fire insur-
ance companies, trust companies, savings
banks, banks of deposit, building and
| loan associations, and monetary institu-
tione to an enormous extent throughout
the country. You know that 1t means
vast loss to the very men 1t Ii intended
to lure, and to them above all others-the
farmers and working men. Fer as
REGARDS THE FARMERS,
to say nothing of diminished demand
for their products any probability of an
archist success in the approaching cam
paign will cause the foreclosure of thou
sands upon thousands of past due mort
cages, and as regards the working,nen, I
need hardly remind you that wages new
er rise SO fast or so far as imitation
prices. Tha disastrous results to mer-
| chants and manufacturers are too evil
dent to be dwelt upon. You know that
these anarchist doctrines contradict not
only all human experience but the doc
trines of the entire Dmocratio party
from the beginning. What are the things
which you. RS Democrats and which
sound money Democrats generally. have
most strongly opposed? They are pat
ernalism and despotism; but what other
paternalism was ever to be compared
with this infliotion of Reputation upon
the country under the pretence of caring
for the people? and what trick of de-
| spotism has inflicted greater misery OF
been more steadily opposed by sound
money Democracy than the plundering
of the people by the debasement OF the
currency?
might ado another thing. If you, as
Democrats, glory in one thing above all
Others in the
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