The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-07-04


limit Of rp1npromfse ana, for he purpose
Of SUCCESS to be willing to compromise
the principles upon which He stands
Ting IS. a. surrender that ought not to be
made by any patriot, and eaffont long be
made by any political party.l While the
will. Of the men who belong to al party
must yield to. the Will Of the M jortty upon
methods Of procedure, and somewhat upon
matters Of form, 1t is just as essential that
the minority should never yield on ques-
ton of vital principle. (APplauseJ 1t
that be done parties become mere engines
Of self1shness interposed betty eeH the citi-
zens and the government. III only safety
lies in the final appeal, wheel great issues
are presented, to the honest Judgment and
conscious Integrity Sof the people. It is
to that tribunal that I mako my appeal. to-
night and in this canlpaign.
My motives have been questioned, hap
PLY by few only am glad to accredit
| to~the majority of my critic{ a desire to be
fair, and the disposition I'd use a proper
| and gentlennanly tone in Heir comments
1t has, however, here and there been mint
ed that some sinister motive has governed
me in~rthis position. ask you what it
! could possibly be? Did I dot have every
thing to. gain, in the ORD nary sense IN
whtc h the. politician looks 1t these things?
If LIDO say itemyself, whefe is the young
man that stood better in the graces of his
party When / got to st. Louis, and
when found the grand OF party OF Lin
coin and Grant and Blaite delivered up
to the money changers Of Vail street ana
Lombard. street (chee1s) I will do myself
the credit to say that mf eyes were not
proof against tears. 1t Was to me sol
efnn moment i had contemplated rt IN
advance, as a dire and ttrrible necessary,
but had hoped and prayed that 1t might
pass by. Time and again had been asked
to state what I would db If this. that Or
! the other thing happenedf i foresaW what
my decision would be, but still hoped
and prayed that the old $prit Of the party
woAld~assert.. itself, ANDY that 1t would be
true tosthe people OF CHI United States.
! Wben~I vast ghting the battles; of the
Republican party it wa{ as believed, at
| any rate. the Same old ptrty that had orig
inally come into existence because OF a
l-damand and in the interests Of the COM
mon people Of the country. The Repub-
| lican party that'I BELONGED to was party
| to- which belonged the / great statesman
from whose utterances upon the question
now under discussion In this country I
ask your indulgence for moment that
I may QUOTE: Said this great statesman,
which is and was at the time good Re-
publican doctrine when he said 1t, and it
was good Republican doctrine until
quarter Of 2 o'clock on the 18th of June,
t1Sg66 .
I'll believe gold and silver:coin to be the
money of the constitution, indeed the
| noney-4of the American people, anterior
tor the constitution, the money which the
organic law Of the republic recognizes las
independent of It's own existence. No
puNer was conferred on congress to de-
clare that. either metal should not be
Money Congress has, therefore, IN my
Indictment, no more power TO demonet'ze
SILVER. than to demonetize gold. No more
monetize both. lin this statement-I am
but repeating the Judgment of the first OF
the opinion, said Mr.. Web$ter, that gold
and silver, at rates fixed by congress,
constitute the legal standard of value in
nor any state has authority to esta blish
any other standard or to displace this
standard. Few persons cAn be found, I
apprehend who will maintain that con-
gress possesses the powerS to demonetize
both gold and silver, orr that congress
ase~of-both, aHd yet in logic and moral
construction iteWould be difficult to show
whore and why the power Of congress is
greater over silver. than oyer gold, greater
over either than over both II, theref pre-,
silver has been femonetizfd, I am in favor
q
been prohibited, J. am In favor of ordering
II to be resumed II 1t ha4 been restricted,
am in favor of ordering # to be enlarged"
Fellow citizens have Head you from the
language of James @. Elaine. hong and
continued applause d.. That is the .Repub
licanIsmi II that Isprefess. That Is the Re-
publieanism that was Hnnunciated. and
protested IN the platform of 1892, adopted
at Minneapolis, whereins the national Re
publican convention declared. THE Amer
lean people, hyAntereet Ind tradition. be-
l1eve lin binetalNsn and demand the use
Of both gold and silver is standard moh-
ey." They did not say il that platform in
what way that object should be effsctu-
ated." They had not vet gotten to the
point of formulating policy, but the end
was clearly announced, and to the waiting
hopes of the American people this grand
old party held out the CERTAINTY Of final
RECOMMENDATION of silvers AS long as that
object remained, as longSas that faith was
kept, however much might differ from
! those temporarily managing the party In
the -mehns of bringing II about, l still was
willing to subordinate emy judgment to
theirs. But on the 18th sday Of June, 1896,
there came time when that end was re-
jected and repudiated; when they surren-
der abjectly and shan(efully to the de-
nrands of the representatives of Wall
cafes and put into theirSplatform the dec
laratdn td,perpetuate tHe existence Of the
goid Standard. {Applaqse.)
Now / ask you, any Fman, who is dis
posed to criticise nay course, ask you
as honest men, what On earth was I to
do? I had declared was bnletallist.
I was. had declared in congress and
elsewhere in this district that in my
Judgment the welfareFof the people of
the United States demanded a system
wherein both gold and silver should sub
serve the purpose Of / ultimate money
which must follow and succeed, and that
speedily, the existing fold standard that
! had Been imposed upon US by English
syndicates. had DECLARED that in my
opinion and Judgment the fostering Of
| the gold standard In this country, with
It's falling prices. withilabor absolutely
| thrown out Of employment, would force
| the people Of the UNIFIED States into uni
versal slavery to those who control the
gold supply Of the world. In the presence
Ola problem. like that overshadowing in
ny judgment. all Other questions COM
bined fof the rnornentf when it was pro-
posed to surrender thes remedy and to ac-
! cept the disease and tosperpetuate it, what
| could I as an honest man do? (Cries Of
! "You did rightly ooupd do but one thing,
and did it, and 7 IN not sorry for it.
| ({Applause.lr e... ~ .sEs,
me- and a matter most astounding in the
| discovery which It compelled me to make
|. as to the weakness bf4 human nature in
! places where had n9t expected to find it,