The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-09

those WnO dSSGlllDleu III tiIdl COINeI- tion. l can appreciate the hesitation in which those assembled turned their backs. upon the party with which they had affiliated.
 More than year ago, when We were engaged in the struggle to bring the democratic party to an endorse ment of free coinage, the question was put to me whether in case of failure I would support the democratic nominee if he were nominated on a gold plat form I never believed that such ac- ton was probable in the democratic party, but when those who questioned me were not content with probabilities, but asked again whether in the case of that event I would support the nomi- nee, said that under no circumstances would my vote be given to the man who would in the executive office use his influence to fasten the gold stand ard upon the American people. (Cheers)
 My convictions upon this subject are not shallow convictions. l may be in error. None of us can claim infallibili- ty. But we have experience of history to guide us and our judgment and our consciences and I stand where the members of that Silver convention stood I would rather have the ap- proval of my conscience than the ap- plause of the entire earth l may be in error, but I believe that gold is a con- spiracy against the human race. (Great cheers)
 q would no sooner join the ranks of those whose purpose it is to fasten that upon the people than toNenlist in an army that was marching to attack my home and kill my family. (Renewed cheerlng.) I can say, therefore, that can appreciate the spirit which ami mated those who have just tendered me this second nomination and I can, therefore, accept 1t in the spirit in which they present it.
 And I pledge them that if elected they shall never have cause for accus- ing me of being false to that trust. (More cheering.) My friends when declared that I would not support a gold standard candidate was standing upon the history of the democratic par ty. I was defending it's principles as well as the interests of the country at large and when these republicans who assembled in the silver convention at St. Louis refused to worship the gold image which their party had set up they were defending the history of the republican party. (Great applause.)
 The republican platform of 1888 de- nounces the democratic administration for having attempted to degrade sil yer. And in 1891 on the 12th day of February in Memorial hall, at Toledo, O., the present candidate for president upon the republican ticket used the words which I read to you, I have found the words in Tolrdo paper. These are the words which he is said to have used:
 During all Grover Cleveland's years at the heads of the government he was dishonoring one of our precious met als, discrediting silver and enhancing the price of gold. He endeavored even before his inauguration to office to stop the coinage of silver dollars and afterwards and to the end of his ad- ministration persistanty used his pow CT to that end. He was determined to contract the circulating medium and demonetize one of the coins of com merce, limit the volume of money, make money scarce, and, therefore dear. He would have increased the value of money and diminished the value of everything else--money. the master everything else the servant.
 "Following these same lines the re- publican convention in 1892 declared at Minneapolis that the American people from tradition and interest were in fa- vor of bimetallism. Have traditions changed? Have interests changed in four years? No, and yet the republi- declared that the American people must forego bimetallism These re- publicans cannot be criticised for leav- ing the republican party. They have done what every American citizen has a right to do. They have done bet ter than our democratic advocates of the gold standard have done because these republicans when they left the party joined with those who had a
 
 ic advocates of the gold standard sought to secure the election of a re- publican candidate by nominating 8 democratic candidate.
 "Compromise after compromise has been submitted to by the silver republi- cans in the hope that the party of their choice, oi their love would at last bring to the people the relief they desired. But the republican party has deserted it's traditions and its platform and these republicans have a right to say to their republican associates: We will go with you no longer until this nation is redeemed (Applause.) We are confronted to-day by the most gigan- tic trust that has ever been formed among men Talk about trusts in va rious articles which we produce. All these trusts together fall into insignifi- canoe when compared with the money trust, which has its hands upon our country.
 "Place the control of the standard money of the world with a few and times will be good for them, no matter what may overtake the rest of man kind I believe that John G. Carlisle did not exaggerate when he said: The consummation of this scheme means more of misery to the human race than all the pestilence and famine that ever occurred in the world
 "Who does not stand appalled, before misery like that? It is against the consummation of this scheme that the