The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-23


much assunder happier circumstances he
could buy for two, vet there are today
IN this fair land of ours millions of men
who have no opportunity 10 earn a. dollar
Our homes, our liberties are passing into
the hands of cold, crafty organized
wealth. Is there no remedy for these
evils? What Moses shall arise to lead
us up out of the land of Egypt and out
of the house of bondage? What m.nu
shall conceive, what tongue shall speak
the words that will fire the hearts Of
our people and give back to us the con-
ststutional rights and liberties enjoyed
by our fathers?
Il believe that none of these great
social and econom questions can be
rightly solved except by and through the.
Democratic party. 1t is the party of
equal rights; the party of the common
the equal patriotism or intelligence of
my Republican neighbors. But the Re-
publican. party is powerless to redress
these wrongs. 1t is securely dominated
by the Northeastern States of the Un.nn.s
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Mas
sachusetts, Rhode Island. Connecticut.
New York and New Jersey dominate the
Republican party and through It have
ruled this land Through It they have
impoverished the West to- enrich tne
East. We might as well pray to tAe
gods of the heathen as to seek remedy
through the Republican party The East
party. -Four years ago we nominated
a man for the Presidency from the State
Of New York, in spite of the protests of
the delegation from that State May
a limit to Divine wrath, for we have
since then been beaten as with "a
scourge of scorpions The Republican
Natlonal Convention last, week dolni-
t,an- -fevy, +ix.1, f|f =,
Union, declared for a single gold stand
ard In my minds eye I can see the
conspirators at their work There are
Platt and Quay, Depew and Hobart,
ignorant negroes, who for ready cash
would sell themselves and their posterity
into a worse slavery than their race ever
knew Moved by selhshness that
folding greed. they seal the compact.
The great States of the West under
the leadership of Senator Henry NJ Tel
Ter, Withdrew from the convention.
lrils What will our National Convention do?
VIII the East control its action and
write It's platform? Rest assured that
It will exhaust every effort to do So If
they fail in their effort will they renaaii.
loyal TO the party or will they bolt? II
90 not know, but | would have our Ma
taonal Convention declare its purpose
fearlessiy and explicitly and let those
bolt who will. I am. tired of followinE
New England or New York Let inn
perial Illinois lead the way. Let Illinois
be henceforth the empire State. we have
been suckers long enough. God forbid
that | should preach spirit of sectionas-
ISM; we have had sectionals1n to our
prejudice and I resent it, If we must
have sectionalisrn 1 want my section to
get the benefit of It. When he hold our
National Convention we will have to go
to large city. No ordinary city win
accommodate us. We have within our
fft nm ,ic
Continent, our matchiess Queen, Chi
cago. There we will go and / have no
doubt that the convention will un-
equivocally declare for the free and un-
ratio of Is to /, immedia tely, whether
England says we may or may not
Ihere are some Democrats who say
r rney are bimstallsts. l,1ss but, are not
doctrine. They say that the
ratio IS not the essence of bimerall;sm.
] hey say they are in favcr Of declaring.
it is for Congress to declare a. ratio. We
are told by some of our friends that We,
must have ha rrneny in the party and that
Ior Isl laTmonys sake we must compromise.
We ", must conciliate, we must straddle.
There VIII be no straddling IN this cam
palgn. We cannot compromise with error.
We cannot daily with s,n without po.u-
right limo Ithat may not lead eternally
astray. When our national convention
declares for 16 to / bimetallsn what Will
be I,a the result? God only knows. But
s sll,s s, great question must be settled and
year, but it will be settled. The duty
to act fearlessly is upon u.s. the result
Is with the great God of nations who
doetn all things well.
The great agricultural States of the
West and Sonth are to be arrayed against
ine = oondnoldlng manufacturing East. It
common feeling against the unfeeiing
avarIce Of organized wealth. It is the
soIden nelds of Illinois against the golden
would enslave us ~ -
This great question cannot be avoided
or compromised 1t must and viii be
settled.
At the conclusion Of the address. .whica
was vocsferously aplauded at every period.
the usual committees We're named