The age-herald., 1898-01-09

tent that man should advocate something that would rebound to the good of all the people and he was one of the people.
 He said that political parties should be candid with the people. The democratic party had been a little misty in recent years. Some of the democratic principles had been eating and sleeping with republi- can principles, and they were liable to be- come contaminated. This was the reason the eternal principles of democracy were so clearly enumerated in the Chicago plat form
 The senator did not like to see a political party or a candidate straddle a question. "To see anyone straddle a question: said he, reminds me of a woman in boomers on bicycle" Qaughter)
 He said lots of people thought they were voting for the restoration of the free coin- age of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 in 1892. He knew whether a baby had cholic or appendicitis, and thought he had average intelligence, and he confessed he thought he was voting for the dollar of the "daddies' when he voted for Cleveland.
 He added there was no reason to doubt the meaning of the platform made at Chicago. There was no mugwump about it. there were no republican principles in it., and it contained no breath from Wall street. Some good people, he repeated twice, said it was populistic, and some very bad people said it was anarchistic. If it was populistic he was that much of popu- list. If it was anarchistic it was one that sought to smash to smithereens the hydra headed monster-monopoly.
 The humorous feature of Senator Cum ningham's address was his characteriza- tion of the much talked of Mckinley wave of prosperity.
 Didn't Touch a Pebble.
 "Much has been said of that wave Of prosperity said the senator, as he looked up, as though in search of something in the air, and performed an act with his mouth similar to boy blowing soap bub- bles as he watched them float away into space.
 Tt was a parting wave" he declared, land the wave hasn't touched a pebble on the beach," He said it wasn't wave, It was wind. He then drew picture of girl sitting by a brook bathing her feet, as the minnows nibbled at her blue toes. He said so weak was this breeze that coming down the mountain side 1t would not have dis turbed the curls on her forehead. Meta phorically speaking, 1t would not have had the velocity of an evening zephyr. It would not have ruf1ed the traditional Whiskers of an honest populistic farmer in the field.
 He then paid his respects to the plan of Secretary Gage to save the country and McKinleys Wolcott commission. He said some resigning ought to be done, and he believed Mckinley would do so if Mark Hanna would let him. Amid the laughter of the crowd, he said the democrats would take anybody in the regular election. He felt a kindly feeling toward those who had gone off, but he thought they ought to be made to take the tail end of the procession for year at least.
 I've have got all the populists, he said "We have got them, sure" Then, drawing a comparison between the strength of the populists and the gold bugs, he said that if a lever was placed across the state house at Montgomery, with Mister Tom Jones at one end and the populists at the other, Tom would go up so high he would never be. heard from. If the wind of the populis.s breathed in one second was transformed into carbonated hydrogen and put in balloon, with Mister Jones and his cohorts to stay the flight upward, that balloon would not stop going until man got so high he could sit on a silver dollar.
 Palmer and Buckner Blister
 The senator said he did not like to irri- tate those who had strayed off, but they had blistered themselves by unrighteous practices The Palmer and Buckner p.as- ters always left blister and vixen little mustard was rubbed on it hurt.
 Ia oIo hU ties for the success of the democratic two classes of fools. One which believed that with McKinley's election there would be prosperity Another which believer if Bryan was elected the country would go to the dogs. They had all learned better. There would and could never be prosperity under present conditions.
 The Ideal Democrat
 A letter from Jay F. Durham of The Age Trerald addressed to H. K. White, chair an of the entertainment committee was read It is as follows:
 T thank you very much for honoring me with place upon your list of speakers tonight in celebration of the memory of Andrew Jackson to be given by the Bi- metallic league. I regret exceeding that 1t is impossible for me to attend as my du- ties in the office are so imperative at this particular time that it is quite out of the question for me to get even an hour away.
 Andrew Jackson was the ideal demo- crat of American history. He was the one president who stood always as the friend and protector of the peoples rights He lived before the days of mugwumps He left his imprint so indellibly upon Ameri- can history that it should indeed be a pleasure for any democrat to join in conn meomrating his memory and valor. I am heartily in sympathy with any action the Bimetallic league may take toward the forthcoming political contest. The banner so triumphantly raised at Chicago in 1896 must still be the emblem of the partys honor. Take no step backward The reso- lutions endorsed at the Chicago convention were approved by more than 60 GOO voters. The cause for which the party then con- tested is still the cause of the people. If Andrew Jackson were alive today, he