The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03


commerce of the republic and drive the
country to a discredited, deprecated and
depreciating standard; snite our finances
as with palsy and trade with a blight.
We held that the nations credit will fail
PROSTATE; its obligations will be dishon-
ored and its unsullied character will be
stained with fraud and deceit. We claim
thai these averments are true, estab-
liShed by historical fact, by unanswerable
reason, the opinions of the most dis
tinguished political economists and the
common sense and common honesty of
the largest portion of our fellow citi-
zens. The credulity and cupidity OF some
of our good citizens have been played
upon and aroused by artful fanatics and
cunning demagogues- There are, how
ever many honest, patTiotic and intel
ligent men who cling with all the
strength OF conviction to the SpeciouS
but unsound theory Of bimetallism at Is
TO l. If their theory is denounced as
false and pernicious, no iInputation is
upon their Intelligence.
The free coinage of silver is and has
been since Mr. Cleveland's inaugural ton,
the supreme, oVerShadowing issue before
the country Upon that issue the presi-
dent and a majority of his party took
opposite sides. In consequence he has
been poWerieSS to effect financial reform
and secure ImIn unity from gold raIdlng
on the treasury.
Since the inception of the struggle for
free silver, no compromise has been pos
sible. Our brethren knew that the
BATTLE WAS ON TO THE DEATH.
The nominee of the so-called Demo-
cratic party has on several occasions
proclaimed the irreccnciliable nature OF
the conflict. 1t Is a hitting culTnGnaluon
of such a contest for our brethren to OBJ
tain allies from Populism al the price of
Incorporating its nefar1ouS doctrines IN
their platform and attempting TO pass
them off as genuine Democracy 1t was
fit that to a degraded and deprecated
currency should be added an assassinaGed
Judiciary and a power1ess executive.
Fellow citizens, we are not traitors TO
our party. We are in the house of our
fathers. We cannot be driven from 1t.
We VIII defend the honor Of our country
and the integrity of our principles as long
as life endureS. We can neither be ouSted
from our political heritage nor forced into
the ranks of our old-tinae adversary. We
intend to preserve intact, unimpaired and
unsullied, by and through the organization
which we perfect today, the Democracy
OF Jefferson. jackson, Benton and Cleve-
land. We propose to furnish a refuge, an
abiding place, for such of our brethren as,
shocked and grieved at the betrayal of our
principles at Chicago, are inclined to go
TO THE REPUBLICAN CAMP.
The principles of Democracy are imper-
ishable. They are antagonisIc to the pa
ternalism of the Republican and the So
cialiSt; the deStructlVeneSS OF the anar-
chist and the vagaries of, the intlationist
Byron wrote: while the col
iseum stands, Rome shall stand; and while
Rome stands, the world" We say: "While
Democracy stands, the republic shall
stand; and while the republic stands, hui
man liberty"
For season our party may stray after
false doctrines and founder amid quag-
mlres unul the beacon night OF truth
breaks upon it 1t will rise from every
fall, ike Antaeus OF old, and e en- in
its ashes shall live its wonted fires"
If, in the decree of fate, our party must
perish, let no historian write such an cpl
taph on its tomb as this: Come TO an un-
timely end from swallowing political and
financial poison" But rather let this cpl
taph be written over its honored grave,
dug amid the ruins Of the capitol: 1T did
LOT survive the loss of liberty, the de-
struction OF the republic and the decay of
private morals.
WE ARE THE PROPAGANDA
of no new creed. We are the upholders
Of the old We appeal from Democracy,
1runk with deiuSlon, TO Democracy So
bered by reason. With an abiding faith
in the intelligence and honesty of our peo-
pie, we lay before them and the world the
feason that prompts us to unfurl this old
dag that has hoated over many a triumph
and many a defeat and never yet been
soiled by reputation or stained by dis
honor.
We deem it wise to pursue an agrees
sive rather than a negative policy; TO be
Achilles dragging Hector around the walls
Of Troy rather than Achilles suiking in his
tent. We propose TO make a funeral pyre
IF the cadaVers Of Popuiism and anarchy.
We propose to drag behind our tri-
Imphant chariot wheels, in defeat and dis
grace, around me national capital, the
lead FrankenStein personifying their per-
licious creed and their turbulent fanati-
,ism. We cannot make bedfellows even in
l night of furious storm and thick dark
hess of our lifelong antagonists. We can
lot, even TO escape as great evils as are
he necessary results of the success of the
Chicago platform, be the executioners of
)ur loved and venerated party. We can
lot, even by implication, be held to the
alse theory that the federal power and
can or ought to be used
TO IMPAIR THE AUTONOMY
If the states on one hand and on the other
o dispense largess to a favored class. The
election of Mckinley or of Bryan with our
would mean the destruction of
)ur whole party for a generation. For,
when our people recover from the de-
)auch of Popuiism and anarchy, they will
discard the men who have LED their orgy.
f we go to Mckinley, those men will be
he recognized opponents of Democracy.
When the fumes of debauch are dissipated
md sober reason resumes her sway, our
lock will turn toward its fold only to find
destroyed We therefore stand fast. We
sound bugle call throughout the land
or all Democrats to rally for the support
If government and law, for the honor of
heir country and for the maintenance and
preservation of their creed, its memories
md its glories. If not needed now, it will
)e in the near future, and then those
LIQUIDS which lowered over our political
ortunes and darkened our councils, will
axe flight; those opposed eyes which late /
Y met in party conflict will be turned all
me way, and a united and triumphant /
Democracy will march on to victory I'M
Ter the aegis of the constitution and I'M
Ter the precepts of the apostles of our
aith.
Senator Caffery's remarks were de- /
ivered with much force and were greet /
ID with continued cheering.
JOHN P. IRISH AGAIN.
At the close of Mr.. Caffery's speech,
,Tr. John P. Irish, of California, waa
and made a speech to the /
Abiding to the Democrat
C convention held in Indiana polls dur
ng the war under threat, he said, of /
physical determination, he remarked /
hat they were here today under the I
hreat of determination of that which /
vas dearer than life. They were here
o defend against further attack on
he public credit, the national honor
nd the private and personal honesty
Il the individual. (Applause.)
They We're met to face a crisis more
erious than any crisis that had been
aced before. They were met to oppose
he moral force of principle and con-
cience to those who would aSsail and
estroy the independence of the indi-
-idual citizen. They were here as the
representatives. of a party that OPP
'osed an organization that had filched
is name and had debauched Its prin-
iples. They represented that organiza-
ion and those principles, which under
he leadership Of Grover Cleveland,
we're in line with tha ancient ,orinoi-