The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-23

! OF congresses or pariaments or kings to Gre
ate values by laws or proclamations.
] This is the kind of Democracy l believe in
and my support will be given to the candi-
dates who represent it in this contest. Every
man who has read the history Of this country
KNOWS VINO they are. John M. Palmer and
Simon Boliver Buckner are not strangers to
the American people, they were not discov-
cred yesterday by the bewildered delegates to
political convention, and they will not be
forgotten when the sound and fury of this
remarkable campaign have subsded. They
are soldiers and statesmen, ripe with the ex-
| perience derived from long public service at
critical periods in our history, and they stand
| conspicuously IN this contest for law and
| order, for the inyiolability of contracts, for
] the independence and manhood of all classes
of our people, for just and equal taxation for
/ public purposes only, for sound and stable
currency and for the maintenance of the
| tional authority and national honor under all
! circumstances.
| Let us inquire for moment how far mere
considerations of regularity are influencing
! the actions of our critics in this campaign.
The nominations made at Chicago have been
partially ropudiated by the very men who
Union The national and state committees,
appointed to carry on the campaign and
! pledged to support both the nominees of the
| Chicago -convention-to the support OF one
! just as much as to the support of the other
in twenty-six or seven states deliberately
entered into
| AfLRAlN0EAELNI . AMI 4O4NO
! to depriye one Of the nominees of a large
number of electoral votes, and give them
to- another candidate, not nominated by
that convention by any other convention,
even pretending to be Democratic, and yet
these gentlemen have the assurance to call
US boilers, and the presidential candidate
himself, who has countenanced and encour-
aged the sacrifice of his associate on the
ticket. whose nomination was as regular
as his own, tells us that we cannot get
back into the Democratic, party unless we
come In sack cloth and ashes
| Gentlemen, we are not out Of the Demo
cratic party, and we do not intend to go
| out or be put out Here in Kentucky, the
state committee, without authority, and in
! defiance of the action of the state convention,
which nominated a full electoral ticket, has
entered into contract by which 1T has
traded off part of the votes of the people;
| actually bargained, sold, assigned and trans
| ferred them from some of the electoral can
! didates regularly nominated by the Demo-
cratic convention at Lexington to the electoral
| candidates selected by the Populist commit
! tee, thus making it impossible for any cit
izen of this state to cast his vote at
! the approaching election, as TO give the nom
! ineeS of the Chicago convention the entire
! benefit of his support. Have we ceased to be
! Democratic because we refuse to support
this lectoral ticket, not nominated by the
state convention. but nutiated and disfg-
! ured by the names Of new electoral candi-
| dates, pledged to cast their votes for wild
and reckless Populist for vice president of
! the United States, who, If elected, might be-
/ come president and vested with all the
/ powers of that great Office? This is not a
! Democratic electoral ticket; 1t represents
/ political policies, no one of which Is DEM
/ ocratic to any doctrinal or historical test
that can be applied. On the great question
which is engrossing the attention of the peo-
! pie, and which the presidential candidate is
now seeking to subordinate all others-the
| free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to
| these platforms are directly in conflict
! with the declarations made upon the subject
| by. all prior national Democratic conventions
| held in this country.
The act dropping the standard silver dollar
from the coinage and making the gold dollar
! the sole legal standard of value was passed
Feb. II, 1873, and the first national Democrat
| ic convention held after that date met at St
Louis in 1876. and the very first declaration
| in its platform was: Reform is necessary
1 to establish sound currency restore the
public credit and maintain the national
| honor
Upon that platform Samuel ]. Tilden Sc
cured the largest Democratic vote ever cast
in this country UP to that date, and was as
we believe, legally elected president of the
| United Staes. In 1880 the party declared for
home rule, honest money consisting of
| gold, silver and paper convertible into coin
/ on demand; the strict maintenance of the
for revenue only"
This is concise and accurate description
| OF the currency we now use and have used
continuously since 1S73-gold and silver and
paper convertible into gold and silver on de-
mand. Substantially the same declaration
was made on the currency question in 1884
/
I'VE believe in honest money the gold and
silver coinage of the constitution and cir
culating medium convertible into such money
| without loss."
In view of the record of the party I insist
that the proposition to revoIutionize our mon
! etary system by legislation, authorizing the
free and unlimited coinage of legal tender
! silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, when the true
commercial ratio is about 81 to l. must be
considered and decided entirely on it's own
merits, without any support from the as
{ 0f lSr100n rot lin frriT4
| that it is consistent with any Democratic
financial policy heretofore authoritatively an
nounced. If such policy is right, if it is
not Incompatible with the honest observance
| Of public and private obligations and would
! be beneficial to the country, the fact that it
originated with our political opponents, and
Its wide departure from our past declara-
tons on the subject ought not to prevent its
| favorable consideration. The question is not
whether the United States alone has the
| power to adopt free coinage and
SILVER MoNoMETALLIsM,
but whether, in view of our own domestic
conditions and interests and of our extensive
commercial and financial relations with other
/ great civilized nations of the world, it would
be good policy and good faith to make such
/ radical change in our currency and such
| wholesale reputation of our obligations. 1t
4 is not question of power; it is not a ques-
ton of national independence; but it is a
question of national prosperity and national
honor
On point only do we question the power
/ OF the United States in respect to the sub
ject. We deny absolutely that any legisla-
! tive or executive act of this government or
i of any other government, however great and
| powerful make so cents in silver equal
! in value to 100 cents worth of gold or equal
! in value to the commodities which 100 cents
| in gold will buy.
Mr.. Carlisle then made an exhaustive argu
ment against the free coinage of silver i'm
which he contended that it was a dangerous
| doctrine, which, if it became law of the
land, would result disastrously to all business
| and occupations, and to none would its ef-
fects prove more harmful than to the farmers
! and the wage-earnes. Continuing he said
| If the American people will declare by an