The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-09
THE SPEECH OF DANIEL.
What He Said After Becoming
Temporary Chairman.
PRAISED HARRITY's FAIRNESS.
Regretted to Nave Been In n Contest
with Senator Hll-The Nation United
Under Democracy-strongly Advocates
the Cause of SILVER.

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GREETING to have been in the contest
with Senator Hill, said that the birth
of the Democratic party was coincident
with the birth of the sovereignty of the
people. Said he;
1t can never die until the declaration
Of American independence is forgotten
and that sovereignty is crushed out.
Great applause. am happy gentlemen,
TO know that as the majority in this con.
vention is not personal, neither in any
sense is 1t sectional.
He then in beautiful way spoke Of the
Democratic party blending together all
sections and all interests. He spoke spec.
tally Of the arrival Of the time of which
Grant spoke in his dying vision, when the
south and north should be united.
Said he:
When Chicago dressed southern graves
in flowers she buried sectionalism under a
mountain of fragrance. When southern
soldiers on yesterday, cheercd the wounded
hero of the north in Richmond, the south
answered back Let us have peace;
peace, union and liberty now and forever" "
Last, but by far from least, when l see
this grand array and think of the British
gold standard that was recently unfurled
over the ruins Of Republican promises at
st. Louis, think, too, of the battle of
New Orleans, of which il was said: "There
stood John Bull in martial pomp, but
there was old Kentucky" Applause.l
Brethren of the east, there is no south,
there Is no north, there Is no east or west
in this uprising of the people for American
emancipation from the conspiracy of Eu-
ropean kings, led on by Great Britain,
which seeks to destroy one-half of the
money of the world, and to make Ameri-
can manufacturers, merchants, farmers
and mechanics mere hewers of wood and
drawers of water.
There is one thing golden, which, per-
nit me in the same good humor which has
characterized your conduct, to commend
to you here 1t is the golden rule to do
unto others as you would have them do
unto you. Forget not the greed of devils
and that an absolute acquiescence in the
will of the majority is the vital principle
of the republic. Democrats as you have
been, Democrats as / trust you will ever
be, acquiesce gracefully to the will of this
great majority of your fellow Democrats,
and only ask to go with them as they have
often gone with you. lApplause.l Do
not forget, gentlemen, that for 30 years
we have supported the men that you have
named for president, Seymour, Greeley,
Tilden, Hancock and twice Grover Cleve-
land. Do not forget that we have sub
mitted cheerfully to your compromised
bimetallism, and have patiently bore re-
peated disappointments as to their fulfill
ment.
Do not forget at the last national con-
vGNtion Of the Democratic party in 1892,
you proclaimed yourselves TO be in favor
of the use of both gold and silver as a
standard money of the country, for the
coinage of both gold and silver without
discriminating against either metal; and
that the only question left open was the
ratio between the metals. Do not forget
and / refer to the fact in no inferior
sense-that just four years ago in Demo
cratic convention in this city, the New
York delegation stood here solidly and
immovably for candidate committed to
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
and gold, at the ratio of 16 to /. And If
we are still for it, let it not be forgotten
that we have it in some measure to their
teachings. Applause. That we owe
much, gentlemen of the east, is readily
acknowledged and will be ever most CRATE
fully remembered. We owe you much,
gentlemen of the convention, and for
what we owe you of the east is the force
bill and the Mckinley bill, and the Sher-
man law, the triple infamy of Republican
legislation. The first was aimed not more
at the south than at the great cities of the
east and chief among them, great Demo
cratic city of New York with its magnih.
cent, That bill got it's death blow in the
senate, but there was not a single Demo.
crat in New York or New England to vote
against it, If you, gentlemen, have
helped to save the south, 1t also has helped
to save you in tie east; but whether the
south should be saved or not, those great
American Republican senators from the
west, Teller and Wolcott, and your Jones
and your Stanford of California, sank
their partisan feeling on the order of their
patriotism and came forward to the rescue
of American institutions.
No man, gentlemen, in this high noon
of our country's fraternity can revive
force bills now in this reconciled and re-
united republic. Our opponents them
selves have abandoned them. There Is
none that can stand between the union of
the two sections.
As the majority of the Democrats are
not sectional, neither does it stand for any
privileged or classed legislation. The
active business men of this country, its
manufacturers, merchants, farmers, sons
Of toll in countingroom, factory, field and
mine, know that contraction of the cur
rency sweeps away with the silent and re-
sistless force of gravitation the annual
profits of their enterprise and investments.
They know, too, that the gold standard
means contraction and the organization
of disaster. What hope is there for the
country and what hope for the Democracy
unlbSS inc NlbWS VI lI6 luuJOflly mere
shall be adopted? Do not the people
know that IL was not silver legislation
but legislation dictated by advocates of
the gold standard that has caused and
now continues the financial depressionY
Do they not know that when their de-
mands upon Democracy were complied
with in 1893 and the Sherman law re-
pealed without a substitute, that the very
states of the east that demanded 1t, turned
against the democracy, who granted It,,
and swept away their majorities in tor
rent of ballotsY Had the silver men had
their way then, instead of the gold mono
metallists, what storms OF abuse would
here today be emptied upon their heads,
but the people, applying the power Of
memory and analysis alike to discover the
cause of their arrested prosperity, need
not go far to find them. They do not for
get when Democracy came TO power in
1898, 1t inherited from its Republican pre-
decessor the tax system and the currency
system of which the Mckinley law and
the Sherman law were the eliminating
atrocities. lt came to power amidst a
panic which ftly followed upon their en-
aotment with strikes, lockouts, riots and
civic commotion, while the scenes of
peaceful industry in Pennsylvania had
become military camps, Besides mani
fold oppressive features, the Mckinley
law had thrown away $50,0 ,0OOof reye-
nue. derived from sugar under the scep-
tral plea of a free breakfast table and had
substituted bounties to sugar planters
thus decreasing revenue and increasing
expenditure, thus burning the candle at
both ends and making the people pay at
least for the alleged free breakfast.
From the joint operation OF the McKin-
ley law and Sherman law and adverse
balance of trade was forced NJ inst us in
1893; a surplus of 800, 900, 900 in the treas
ury was converted into q deficit of $40, ,000-
900 In 1894, and engraved bonds prepared
by Republican secretary TO borrow
money TO support the government, were
the Ill omens of the reorganized ruin that
awaited the incoming Democracy, and a