Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-04

democrats in congress have won for sill
yer larger coinage, by 400 per cent, than
1t ever had in the history of our country,
and have fully restored the standard sill
yer dollar to the list of coins, under the
law; and have restored that dollar to its
full legal tender power.
.. We can appeal to the fact that con-
vention, honestly chosen by honest demo-
Gratis, and consisting of 920 delegates all
in their places-as honorable and as en-
lightened body as any of equal numbers
that ever met in a national convention,
voted by more than two-thirds of their
members for our platform and our nomi-
neeS.
7. We can appeal to the fact that this
body of democrats placed upon the
statute book the best, most equal and
least oppressive tariff that we have ever
had, and have driven from our code of
laws the denominations of the election
laws and the force bills, and have forbid
the employment of the standing army as
a posse comitatuS
8. We can appeal to the fact that we
have voted for Seymour, Tiden, Han
cock and three times) for Cleveland, all
New Workers; and once for Horace Gree
ley New Yorker, for the sake of peace,
harmony and unity in the party, and
sometimes at the sacrifice of our personal
judgment, and that we never deserted to
the enemy. If all this dispreves our de-
mocracy then we are not democrats; we
have only been fools.
8. 1t does not disturb my sense of duty
nor wound my pride that am shut off
from the privilege of appealing to the
sage of WolfortS Roost for justifica-
ton of my vote on the income tax, or to
the New York SUMS fountain of light at
Buzzard's Bay for the lamp of Diogenes
while searching to find honest men in the
bond syndicates who disdain dishonest
dollars. Neither am 1 distressed that 1
have not the faculty of a Palmer to palm
off a spurious pretense of democracy for
the true creed of our party, and to take
possession of the organization in virtue of
alleged credentials that have served as a
passport to every republican convention
and office in reach of the journeyman
politician, who was recently buried in his
third party baptism at indianapolis.
do regret that Mr.. Cleveland mstook
the party to which he devoted himself,
with such self sacrifice. during three
elections, two of them successful, as be-
ing his sort of a democratic party. 1t Is
sad thing to contemplate, that gentle
man should be thus betrayed into the
men who turned out to be silver lunatics
and "perfidious" betrayers of their sup
posed chief and master.
After proving his devotion to his ideas
of true democracy, in the appointment of
Gresham as secretary of state, as re-
ward for his lifelong services to the re-
publican party; and his devotion to pure
democracy, in the effort to fasten the no.
Bile queen, Lillioukillani, on her island
throne; and his devotion to the safety of
the country by putting the treasury un-
der the guardianship of the Rothschilds
syndicate. The democratic party aban-
doned him as a stranded mugwump. 1t
is not our fault that he made the mistake
of supposing that he was ever a demo-
crat 1t is said that he is man of noble
independence. That is a great trait
when 1t leads one to refuse offices and
honors, but when these have exhausted
the generosity of the people who confer
them it is not honest independence that
turns upon them and seeks to hand them
over to their enemies for destruction.
Talleyrand was Independent when he
helped to turn Napoleon over to the allied
powers, and to have him immured at st.
Helena, but his independence was that of
an migrate and his fame is still wound
upon the honor of France. am glad that
Mr.. Cleveland has sought his own and
that his own have received him.