Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-07-23

among the republican party, and ev-
erybody three months ago, in the re-
publican party, prophesled his election.
How is it today Where is the man
who used to boast that he looked like
Napoleon. UaughtS and cheers.
That man shudders today when he
thinks that he was nominated on the
anniversary Of the battle of Waterloo.
mot only that, but as he listens, he
can hear with ever increasing distinct
ness the sound of the waves as they
beat on the lonely shores of st. Helena
(Cheers.)
why this changer All, my friends
is not the change evident to anyone who
will look at the matter. 1t IL no private
character, however pure, no personal
popularity however great, that can
protect from the avenging wrath OF an
indignant people, men who will either
declare he Is in favor of the fastening
Of the gold standard upon this people
or who is willing to surrender the right
of self-government and place the legis-
lative control in the hands OF foreign
potentates and powers. (Cheers)
1--WE go forth, confident that we shall
win. Why? Because upon the para
mount issue of this campaign, there is
not a spot of ground upon which the
enemy will dare to challenge to battle.
Why, If they tell us the gold standard
is a good thing, we point to their plat
form and tell them that their platform
pledges the party to ger rid Of the gold
standard and substitute bimetallism.
(Applause)
IF the gold standard Is good thing,
why try to get rid of it? daughter
and applause) And I might call [|lr
attention to the fact that some of the
very people who are in this convention
today, and who tell you that we ought
to declare that the gold standard Is
wrong, and that principle of bimetal-
llsm is better. These very people four
months ago were open and avowed ad-
vocates Of the gold standard and were
telling us that we could not leglslate
two metals together, even with all the
world (Renewed applause and cheers
want to suggest this truth, that If the
gold standard is a good thing, we ought
to declare in favor of its retention and
not in favor of abandoing it; and If
the gold standard is a bad thing why
should we wait until some other ma
tons are willing to help us TO let go.
(Applause.) Here Is the line of battle.
We care not upon which issue they
force the fight. We are prepared to
meet them on either issue, or on both.
If they tell us the gold standard is the
standard Of civilization, we reply to
them that the most enlightened Of all
nations of the earth has never declar-
ed for the gold standard, and both par
ties this year are declaring against 1t.
(Applause.) II the gold standard Is
the standard Of civilization, why, my
friends, should we not have it? So If
they come to meet us on that we can
present the history Of our nation. More
than that, we can tell them this, that
they will search the pages Of history in
vain to find a single instance in which
the common people of any land have
ever declared themselves in favor Of the
gold standard. (Applause.)
''They can find where holders of fixed
investments have been. Mr.. Carlisle
said in 1878 that this was a struggle be-
tween the idle holders of idle capital
and the struggling masses who produce
wealth and pay the taxes of the coun-
try and, my friends, 1t is slmplay a
question that we must decide upon
which side shall the democratic party
fight. Upon the side of the
idle holders OF idle capital,
or upon the side Of the struggling
masses? That Is a question that this
party must answer first and then it
must he answered by each individual
hereafter. The sympathies of the DEM
ocratic party as ascribed by the plat
form are on the side Of the struggling
masses who have ever been the foun-
dalton of the democratic party. ZAP
plause.)
There are two ideas Of government.
There are those who believe that if you
don't legislate to make fell, to do pros
porous, that their prosperity will leak
through on those below. The demo-
cratic idea has been that If you legis-
late to make the masses prosperous
their prosperity will find its way up
and through every class and rest upon
1t. (Applause.) You come to us and tell
us that great cities are in favor of the
gold standard. I tell you that great
cities rest upon these broad and fertile
pralries. Burn down your cities and
leave our farms, and your cities will
spring up again, as If by magic. But
destroy our farm and grass will grow
in the streets of every city in this coun-
try. cloud applause) My friends, we
shall declare that this nation Is able to
legislate for it's own people on every
question, without waiting for the aid
or consent Of any other nation on EARTH
(Applause) And upon that issue we
expect to carry every single state in the
Union. (Applause.) I shall not SANDER
the fair state Of Massachusetts nor the
state Of New York by saying that when
its citizens are confronted with the prop
osition that this nation Is able to at
tend to its own business, and l will not
SANDER either one by saying that the
people Of those states will declare our
helpless impotency as a nation to at
tend to our own business. 1t Is the Is
sue OF 1916 over again. Our ancestors
when but 100000 had the courage to
declare their independence of every 9TH
err nation on earth, shall we, their de-
scendants when we have grown to TO-
900, 900 declare that We are less indie
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