The times., 1897-07-06

most able and most eloquent of the living
disciples of the author of the Declaration
of william Jennings Bryan.
The resolutions We're as follows:
The Democratic clubs and citizens, in mass
meeting assembled, at the Capital of the
United States OF America, to honor the
birthday of the Republic and the living prin-
ciples embodied in the Declaration OF In
dependence, deem the occasion fitting to
recur 10 the uniform Endorsement OF those
immortal truths by every Democratic ma
tfonal convention, from the first at Balti-
more to the last at Chicago in 1886.
In the very words OF the Baltimore con
ven.ion, we declare THAT the American
Democracy place their trust in the intelli
gence, the patriotism and discriminating
| justice of the American people; that we
| regard this as distinctive feature OF our
| political creed, which we are proud to
maintain befure the world as the great
moral element In a form OF government
| springinc from and upheld by the popular
| will, and we contrast it with the creed
| and practice of federalism, under whatever
| name or form, which seeks TO palsy the
| will of the constituent, and which conceives
| no imposture too monstTous for the popular
| credulity.''
| In the very words of the Chicago cCnven-
| ton, I'VE 90 reaffirm our allegiance 10
those great essential principles OF justice
| and liberty upon which our institutions
| are founded, and which the Democratic
| party has advocated from Jefferson's time
| to our own-freedom of speech, freedom
| of the press, freedom of conscience, the
| preservation OF personal rights, the equality
of all citizens before the law, and the faith
| full observance of Constitu tional lini-
| tations.''
We indorse the time-honored Democratic
| doctrine that taxes should be laid for reve-
| nue. only, and limited to the wants of q
simple Government honestly administered,
| and W denounce the scheme of the Dngley
| bill and the various amendments thereto
| made In secret caucus as a more flasrant
| robbery OF the masses than the Repub-
lican law known as the Mckinley bill, y
twice repudiated by the people. Dictated by
trusts and monopolies, in part payment for
| moneys advanced to corrupt the suffrage, its
| main effects are to enrich the few at the
expense of the many, and TO release accu-
| mulated capital from all taxation, While
| restricting our trade and depriving the
| American producers of free access 20 the
| markets of the world.
We reaffirm the Democr attic doctrine
that the legaltender money of the people
should be issued by their Government, and
we demand that all paper representatives
of money shall be redeemable in coin, the
silver and gold of the Constitution. "And
we demand the free and unlimited coinage
Of both gold and silver at the present
1 rati Of tn l yyitbout attn fOy
the consent of any other nation - AS our
forefathers, one hundred and twenty one
wears age. declared that this people were
and Of right ought to be free from all for
eign domination and control, SO now dt
we demand that this people make It's own
national laws, all of them, without asking
the advice or consent of any foreign gov
ernment.
The Democratic party from the begin
ming has pronounced its sympathy witt
every people struggling for the right tt
govern themselves in their own way. SC
now do we extend our hearty sympath.
to the people Of Cuba in their heroic stand
for liberty and independence, and do de
clare that the day should be hastened, b!
all proper means, which shall see the lone
star of Cuba fixed forever in the constella
, tion Of American States, and we demarrdt th'
Immediate recognition Of the belligeren
| rights OF the Cuban people.
; We call the sober attention Of the peopl
J to the condition Of the country, wher
labor is taxed, though not always employed
while capital refuses to pay its share o
:: the cost of it's own protection; to tn
rapid concentration of wealth, persona
and real In the hands Of the few; to tn
! consolidation and pooling Of corporation
controlling the great artificial comnercia
] | ways, and to the menacing Increase @
{ | trusts, all combined to dictate the viciou
| legislation of the Republican party fo
, the pecuniary benefit of these alien e
t | domestic syndicates and corporations a
e | the expense of the toiling masses. An
s | we declare that true liberty, in person an
v | In property, and the pursuit Of happines