The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-08-27
4 FLOW Of HOQU[NCE
COL. BRECKENRIDGE SPOKE TO
KENTUCKY GOLD STAND
ARD DEMOCRATS.
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Full List of Delegates to
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Louisville, Ky, Aug. 20.-Kcntuckl
democrats who are not in sympathy will
| the Chicago platform raised their stan
dard today and the Bourbon state vii
| lead the procession to indianapolis. Tn,
| convention. which met ut Music hall to
day, contained some 600 delegates. who
| filled the central portion of the hall SCI
apart for them, while on the stage were
many men who have fought democracy
battles in the state for quarter of Il
century. Two sessions were held. In
the afternoon temporary organization
was selected. and the selection of vari-
Gus districts for electors was made.
Col. w. c. T. breckenridge made an
address which was received with much
enthusiasm. Mr.. Breckenridge said, in
part:
1T was with profound pain. my fcl-
low democrats, that my duty laid upon
my conscience the obligation 30 refuse to
sustain the Chicago platform or to sup
port its nominees. CApplausc.) 1t was
somewhat like unto those days.
which | can not recall even now without
pain, that in opposition to some of the
best beloved of those who are near to me
| felt il my duty to enter the Confcd-
crate army and to risk my life and
everything else in the defense of what
believed to be the liberties of my state
and my people. (Applausc) 1t was
with scarcely less pain that saw my
self driven to the position that | have
taken. There were personal ties of
anection and gratitude to those who sur
rounded me, unGet peculiar clrcum-
stances, that | felt held me. if il were
possible, not to divide from them at this
tllne. | knew it would wound some
who loved me and to wound them was
an lhilnite grief to me. | was in every
sense of the word Il democrat who loved
ms party. (ApplauSc) | loved it be-
cause l believed the best interests of nv
country were involved inextricably in
Its success. 1t was the great tool bv
means OF which all that could be done
t3r liberty could best be accomplished in
the hands of Il free people And, there
iI0rc' 1t was with pain that | saw duty
tnat required step that should help to
a.lVlde that great party. | had given
infinite patience, with forbcarancc for
iloSe who disagreed with me, with Il
ianor that knew no cessation | had
lahorcd with some of its noblcSt lenders
TO bring 1t into power ON platform that
was courageous, sincere and truthful.
under democrat whose courage was
sincere. lApplausc.) On this very
PLATFORM, the last time | appeared upon
1t. | predicted that if the democratic
party mad the courage of its convictions
ana would nominate Grover Cleveland,
we would carry the senate of the
United States and the house of repre-
Sentatives. (Applause) | saw that
prophecy carried into fulillment.
4 nave helped to rcorganizc the party
before defeat In 1866, as thc humblest
ana most obscure of its soldiers, | hcpcd
Ill the work of recognizing that party
with no state but Kentucky being demo-
cratic. 1t was indeed an apparently
hopeless outlook. The south torn into
pieces, the north drunk with victory and
oppressed with all the burdens of war,
una we were, like C0ney, Il very small
whole. And yet, like David. taking the
pebbles of truth in our sling. we went
to the challenge of battle. Ind for thirty
years we fought that battle with vary
ing fortunes to final honor nnd success.
IL was Il success in which the seeds of
disaster had been implanted by our own
want of sincerity and by our own want
OF courage. We had made alliance with
lSlns; we had made double-faced plat
forms; we had gathered strength from
u power not as compact and not as a
homogeneous party, but as an allied
army of heterogeneous divisions seeking
opposite ends and held together only bv
the hope of victory and power and Office.
l-et us be Just to ourselves and our oppo-
hehts. The democratic party of 1892
was not party that believed all il
uttered and its various notes were not
gwen by men all of whom were demo-
crafts ana we are rcaping today the CON
sequences of that insincertv. In 1865
ut New, York the democratic party,
under the leadership of that most loved
., our American statesmen, George III.
Iendieton of Ohio, inserted in its
platform the heresy that in some
form or another the government
OF the United States had the
power to issue paper money to nav its
ucDts, not according to the honest tender
OF the understanding between the credi-
tor and the debtor. (Appause.) A gen
cral mistake was then made. and il has
followed us from that day to this. No
party can in the end survive-I do not
hesitate to say no party ought to sur
'n"t uocS not pace as the very
iounua tioh stone of all its policy honest
money III me discharge of obligations.
lApplause) This is the very first nostu.
late of all political honesty. of ali gov
ornamental integrity. No paltering in n
double sense and no equivocations nv
the words of statute, no attempt to
make uncertainty by the mere Language
OF the obligations; but an honest com
pliance with the known understanding
the government. which owes an obliga-
ton, pays it in such Il way that creditors
can trust it; all brave men defend il:
all honest men love it. Uong continued
applause.)
But, my friends. today the democratic
party in Kentucky has an opportunity. !
the third time, if not the fourth time,
in the history of Kentucky to mark the
policies that will govern the nation. To- |
day we stand as democrats and Ken