The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-08

some feeble way to model my course
by your model and practice by your
] example. (Cheers). The position, gem
tiemen, to which you have chosen me,
involves both great personal honor
and keen responsibility. For the
honor ] thank you; the responsibility
l would be wholly inadequate to bear,
did / depend upon myself, but your
gracious aid viii make it easy and its
burden light. That aid |
CONFIDENTLY INVOKE FROM YOU
in behalf of the cause under whose
banners we fought so many battles,
and which now demands such Staunch
! devotion ard such loyal service. re-
1 greet my name should have been
| brought in the most courteous and
serious cornplica ton with that of my
distinguished friend, the great senator
from New York (applause); but the
very fact l have permitted it to be
done refutes the suggestion that has
been improvidenfly made on this floor,
that either | or those whom l have the
| honor to represent would ever heap
an indignity on that brave and illus
trious head. Great appdause). No
dispassionate Judgment, gentlemen,
can ever miSlnteTpret your meaning.
The senator from New York himself
| knows, as l know and you know, that
there is no personality in the prefer
ment which has been given me; you
must know and the whole country that
watches these proceedings must know,
it is solely due to the principle that
this great majority stands for, and
they know | stand with them zap
plause), and that it is given in the
spirit of instructions received by these
representatives of the people, whom the
Democrats will ever bow to as to the
purest and
ORIGINAL SOURCE OF ALL
POWER.
The Democratic party was coeval with
the birth of the sovereignty of the peo-
pie. 1t can never be destroyed I'm
iJil the declaration of American
independence is forgotten and
it's sovereignty is crushed out.
Great applause.) l am happy, gentle
men, to know the majority in this con-
Vention is not personal, neither in any
sense is it sectional-it belongs to the
palmetto of South Carolina as well as
the pines of Maine. 1t begins at sunrise
in Maryland, and spreads to shutdown in
Louisiana and Texas; it stretches in
one unbroken column across the Amer
lean continent from the Atlantic shore
of the Old Dominion and Georgia and
spreads its silvery rays over golden
California (applause); it sends forth
pioneers from Plymouth Rock and
waves over golden wheat fields in Da
kota; 1T has its strongholds in Ala
bama and Mississippi, and its out
posts in Minnesota, Florida and Ore
gon (applause); it sticks like a tar heel
(applause) down in the old north state;
it writes 16 to L on the saddle bags Of
the Araansaw traveller Qoud APP
plause); it pours down. it's rivulets from
the mountains of West Virginia and
Arizona, Wyoming, Idaho Utah, Ne
vada, Montana and Colorado; it stands
guard around the national capitol in
the District of Columbia Cheers, and
it camps on the frontiers of Okla
hona; 1t
SWEEPS LIKE A PRAIRIE FIRE
over Iowa and Kansas and puts a red
light on the confines of Nebraska; 1t
nlarshaIs it's massive battalions in
Ohio Indiana, Illinois and Missouri.
Last, but by far from least, when
see this grand array and think of the
British gold standard that was recent
~ unfurled over the ruins of the Re
publican promises at St. Louis L think
too, of the battle of New Orleans, of
which it is said
There stood John Bull in martial pomp,
But there was old Kentucky.
Applause) 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 European kings,
led on by Great Britain, which seeks
to destroy half of the money Of the
world and make American manufac-
tureTS merchants, farmers and me-
chanics mere heWers of wood and
drawers of water. There is one thing
golden which permit 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 others do unto you.
Forget not the greed of the devil. and
that absolute acquiescence in which a
majority is a vital principle Of the re-
public. Democrats as you have been,
Democrats as I trust you will ever be,
acquiesce gracefully to the will of this
great majority of your fellow Demo-
Gratis, and only ask to go with them as
they have often gone with you. (Ap-
plause0
DO NOT FORGET
that for thirty years we have sup
ported men that you have named for
president-Seymour Greeley, Tilden,
Hancock, and twice Grover Cleveland.
Do not forget we have submitted cheer
fully to your compromise platforms,
and have pa tiently borne repeated
disappontments as to their fulfillment.
Do not forget that at the last conven-
ton of the party in 1892 you proclaim
ed yourselves to be in favor of the use
Of both gold and silver as the stand
ard money of the country for the
coinage of both gold and silver with
out discriminating against either met
al, and that the only question left
open was the ratio between the metals.
. Do not forget that just four years ago
in the Democratic convention in this
city, the New York delegation stood
, here solidly and mmovably for a can
! didate committed to the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver and gold at
the ratio of 16 to /, and if we are still
for it let it not be forgotten we owe
it in some measure to their teach
. ings. Applause).
That we owe you much, men Of the
east, we readily acknowledge. We owe
bill and the Sherman bill-the triple
infamy OF Republican legislation. The
first was aimed not more at the south
thar at the great cities of the east,
and chief among them the great Dem
. ocratic city of New York, with it's
magnificent patronage. The bill got
. its death blow in the senate, but there
was not a single Democrat in New
5 York or New England to vote against
1 it. If. gentlemen, it helped to save the
south, it also helpeGi to save you in
the east: but whether the south should
be saved or not. those
z GREAT AMERICAN REPUBLICANS
from the west-Teller, TTolcott, and