The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-27
THE SOUTHERN DELEGATES.
NJ. l.. Crawford, of Texas, Makes u
Mastery Address.

The remarks by the speakers in regard
to the South brought Rufus Bullock, of
Atlanta, Ga, to his feet, and he made al
fusion to the remarks of Mr.. Bullitt, of
Pennsylvania in regard to the South fear
of negro supremacy.
The gentleman from Kentucky, by way
of Philadelphia, stated exactly the reason
why the people of my section are political
ly wrong on many of these national issues,
which has been and is the fear OF negro
supremacy in political and local affairs.
said he. But / can assure you, gentlemen,
that is passing away. CApplause) With
those States OF the South where there was
any danger of a numerical majority OF
negro votes, we are adopting new const-
tutions and basing the franchise on prop
erty and intelligence, and when that dan
ger has disappeared you will find our peo-
pie as patriotic, as honest, as ready to SuS-
tain every good issue as any people on
Gods green earth.
There seemed to be disposition on the
part of the convention to hear from the
Southern delegates, it being an oft ex-
pressed opinion of members that the South
was not welded to silver, because of its
belief in silver. but because of old political
affiliations with the wing of the party
which controlled the machinery at the Chi
cago convention. There were cries for
speakers from different Southern States
and quite loud cries for Texas, which be-
ing Southern State and on the border OF
Mexico, the convention wanted to hear from
it, When the State was called Judge Nj.
L, Crawford. of Dallas. Tex. arose and at
floor, but there were cries of platform,
platform, and he proceeded to the stage
and addressed the audience in what was
generally conceded to be the most master
ly address of the convention. The applause
was great at different points in his speech
and at the close he received an ovation.
Mr.. Crawford spoke follows:
LAS tho audience has been generous
enough to invite me to the platform. de-
sire to make a few observations only upon
two points, embraced in this monetary sys-
tenn. The first is, the bill comes out hon
estly. fairly and squarely for the single gold
standard. There is nothing in it from one
end to the other that can be tortured into
a dalliance with the mythical bimetallism
The same cannot be said about any poit-
icaI platform adopted by either of the great
political parties of this country in 1885, save
and except the platform adopted by the
Democrats which assembled at Indianapolis.
(Applause.) That has been one of the great
sources of weakness in this effort at mon
etary reform. 1t has been the want of
courage. (Applause) We have known for
years. or as Mr.. Bullitt said, since this
agitation began in 1893, that when people
began to be students of the financial sys-
tenn of the country that the contest was be-
tween the gold standard and the silver
standard; that there was no middle ground /;
two metals. under any possible condition,
except on the universal principle of equality
of value, could circulate side by side, was
either ignorant or hypocritical.
CLUB BRYAN USES
Now what have we got TO do? Can we
finances? If we take their last official ut
terance l undertake to say that as a party
the Republicans cannot be relied upon to do
it, and the declarations in their St Louis
platform-now l am not going to make a
political speech--in which they dallied with
bimetallism and spoke of international BIZ
metallism, to-day furnish Bryan and his
crowd the most effective club which they
use against the honest money plan. 1t has
been the habit of the people of this country
since 1875 not to ask Europe for what it
wanted but TO light out and get it; TO take
IL not by the consent of European nations,
but in defiance of European nations, and
Mr.. Bryan. when he told his
people that bimetallism is good
thing, says: Why do l say so? Why.
the Republican platform upon which
Mr.. Mckinley was nominated at st. Louis
declares that bimctallism is good thing,
and pledges that party 10 bring it about
in a certain way International bimeta!-
lism Is not a whit worse than individual BIZ
metallism. He says again: 1t is good
thing, for the Democratic party in Chicago
declared in favor of bimetalhsm. II is q