Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-30

m.nstrations of thsi angel, he rushed into the arms of Wall street and the arms of the God-deifying nonopiltstic Jezebel and the cruel Ahdab.
 In his speech a. the Reform club, in New York, the O.hsr night, developed in an astonishing degree the spirit ard zeal of the egade-eXhausting the whole vocabulary of adjectives in denouncbng the democratic party and all who refuse to worship gold mopometallism as Ghe only true and wise financial policy of the age. He calls them agitators rad dem agogues;'' restless agitators." "scatter- ing the seeds of discortent," and 'cuI i- va ting growth of section and class suspicion ard distrust which threatens to choke and destroy that fraternal feel ing which leads 10 considerate counsel in the day of common misfortune" Says they are "trestiess and turbulent" en3en- dsring a spirit of greater license" to pay honest debts with a "depreciated opens his bat cry against the Chicago convention. compzEedi of regularly chosen delegates, but C. nies that they volcsd the sentiment of the party.
 IL is true that the delegates did not consult MT. Cleveland. Wall street and the army of milionair5s, syndica tes, com bines, trusts, manufacturing and the other special wards of the republican party and it's aiders and abetors in their encroa chmen.S s upon tEe liberties of the DsNf1le, Dut they ulu re-S enc t1e VQtce of the democratic party for a geld ari7 silver basic currency, which was uttered in every convention of that party for nearly 100 years. and indorsed by the people a. the polls in Nove n1ber last by a lsrge majority: and but for the un- b!ushing corruption of the ballot in cer- tain states William J. Bryan would to- day be gracing the seat now occupied by William Mckinley. the cariiidste of the moaied power-really the minority can didate. Palmer and Buckner represented nothing in the late campaign, except a veil, a curtain, 9 shadow from behind which MT. Cleveland's gold morometal faction could slip into the republican party. which they before determined to do if .hey c,nld not have ths ir wny in the Chicago convention. This is the simple truth, as the history of events has proven. And yet Mir. Cleveland had the face to offer the following Pharisaic pray CT at the goldbng supper:
 ''I insist that the path of duty and the best hopes of safety lie in an immediate and earnest attempt to accomplish the rehabilitation and regeneration of true democracy" Thus from his standpoint, the majority of the party al Chicago wsre not democrats. hui "turbulen: agi- tatore," and that the true demo-lacy" alone wns embodied in him and the in- finiit.simal following of Messrs. Palmer and Buckner.
 From my standpoint, the true demcc- racy"-the "regeTerated" democracy had a grand revival at Chicago. and needed not to be "regecreated," but to renew their allegiance to the faith of Jefferson and .he fatheTs-from which many had been ss dpced and aGienHted by .the machi- nations of just such so-called democrats of Cleveland, Whitney and others. They are the ones who need "regenera ttrn" and rshab:1itatiorp in garb of true de ntocracy." They are "unregenerate' to this day. as they. the minority. hope to convert; the grand majority to their faase view nf Jeffersoraan df,nncracy. Ma homat is said to have ordere1 the noun tat~ tN come to f,anl--IoaIt tho ulnnnta in seood fast, and he split the difference by