The record-union., 1898-10-19


were in, and I tell you that, even here
In California, the alarm was such that
over thirty millions of dollars was with
drawn from our banks and savings in
stltutions. in expectation, or in dread
that the time would come when the
gentleman from Nebraska would take
his seat at Washington.
And the banking records of to-day
show-for I have examined them my
self-that of that money, more than
tWenty-Seven millions of dollars nave
come back into the banks and savings
institutions of this State, by reason OF
the restored confidence Of the people ID
the institutions of this country
(Cheers.)
/ know my friend Mr.. McClatchy OF
the Bee" has had it in for me- for
good while on the silver question.
And the Bee" - little busy Bee -
hummed that story into the ears OF the
rest of the press Of California, that
had been an open advocate of the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at the
ratio of is to 1, and backed out OF II
when the Republican National ConVen-
tion said mo-
He is mistaken, and I will bet MI
McClatchy here now a hundred dollars
to hve, the money to be paid to any
institution of benevolence in this city,
that he cannot find one single, solitary
word of mine ever uttered on that SUD-
ject at all, except an answer to let
ter which Mr. McClatchy wrote me
himself asking me what I supposed
the conventions were going to do, and
was goo goo" enough to answer him!
(Great laughter) And in that letter
/ said this, and nothing more: That /
was very certain the Republican party
would not accede to the demands OF
the silver men, nor did 1 think
the Democrats would do so, and there
fore I believed that, before that cam
paign was over, there would be a third
party in the field with a silver plat
form and a silver man on it; and that
is all ever said about it. There it
stands.
SIXTEEN TO ONE.
All, yes; a man asked me the other
night in a meeting a question involving
this thing-if l hadn't been in favor of
the ratio of 16 to /, and I told him
yes, I had" Everybody looked a lit
tie surprised, and my dear friend Mr.
Gage, who knows, for we have dis
cussed these subjects privately more
than we have publicly, that that was
not exactly so, looked his surprise as
we'll.
And I told this man why and when
I was. I told him that, last Feb
ruary, into the harbor of Havana float
ed white ship like dove of peace,
and folded her wings and rested at
peace on the murky waters of that bay
The American flag hung over her taft
rail in all it's beauty of blue and white,
and red, and stars; and the men, in
their white tropic dresses, did their
work beneath it, safe as in the very
hand of God Himself; and at night
they unslung their hammocks, put
them in their places, and, as the noble
ship swept on the changing tide, they
rocked with it and dreamed of home
and friends and father, mother, sister,
sweetheart, wife and children. And
in a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye, from beneath that ship came an
explosion of 500 pounds of dynamite
fired by an electric wire from MORO
Castle, and the great limbs Of the ship
We're rent asunder, her turrets reeled
and swept overheard, her great guns
went to the bottom of the bay, and
aloft went the souls of 563 American
seamen to the throne Of God, un-
shrived of all their sins!
Did I say unshrived? No, For the
blood of the martyr is the seed Of the
church; and they were the martyrs of
liberty. first heralds to proclaim that
Spanish power and cruelty and torture
was to be swept from the face of the
earth; and, as was said by Sterne of
Uncle Toby's death, as the accusing
angel flew up to heavens chancel with
the story of his sins, he blushed as
he gave them in; and the Recording
Angel, as he wrote them down, drop
ped a tear upon them and blotted them
out-forever That was "one." (Trc
mendous applause)
Last May Day in Manila harbor Ad-
miral Dewey on the Olympia, and with
his ships behind him (cheers), made
three times the circuit of that bay,
and-not counting the little ones-ten
battleships and vessels went to the bot
tom of the sea- On the Sd of July
there came out of Santiago de Cuba
the Cristobal Colon, the Vizcaya, the
Maria Theresa, the Almirante Oquendo,
the Terror and the Furor-and in two
hours those ships lay on the southern
coast Of Cuba, shattered like the
galleons Of Anthony at Axtium. And
there were ten at Manila, six at Santi
ago de Cuba, and that is the only time
I ever approved of the ratio of 10 TO
l." (Tumultuous applause)
So 1 merely mention that for the ben
eft of my friend Mr. McClatchy
Gaughter) I have known him fo-
many years, and I shall be very glad
to receive his apology and take him
into fellowship, any time he will come
around. (Applause.)
WHERE THEY DIFFER.
The platform of the Republican and
Democratic parties are pretty much
alike. On all the subjects which are
matters of State consideration, one
might be exchanged for the other. ex-
cept in two particulars-one exceeding
" significant: while the Republican
platform declares in no mistakable
terms it's satisfaction and pride that
the Hawaiian Islands have become
part of the territory of the United
States. the Democratic platform is alb
solutely silent on the subject. Why?
The most important event that has
happened in the history Of this coun-
try since the acquisition Of Cali
fornia and the other adjoining terri
tories under the treaty Of Guadalupe
Hidalgo-why should the Democratic
party of the State OF California refuse
to say to their fellow-citizens whether