The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-12

only true democrats IN the United states.
(Applauee.)
The Republican party today has three
planks in its platform-the foreign control Of
our primary money; national bank control
the taxing power of the United Stats. These
are the real articles of the creed which We
have to meet. 1t is only. recently that its
last election have the people seen it in all
It's hideousness. In the last campaign the
Republican party pledged itself to do what
1t could to get rid OF the gold standard, and
substitute international bimeta-llsm, but now
the secretary OF the treasury openly states
that his plan is to mora thoroughly commit
the United States to the policy which the
Republican party helped the nation TO get
rid OF. (Applause.) We sent our commi slon
abroad: After visiting several other coun ries,
1t landed in England, and the news came
back to Us that there was great confidence
that an International conference would be
sc ured. On the I'D day q SEPTEMBER NEE
ing was held in the clearing house IN L2I don,
attended by the representatives Of all the
leading bankers of that city. They met
behind closed doors and pledged themselves
to secrecy, and adopted a resolution unani-
mously protesting against any concession to
bimetallism. The English government. in a
short time, announced its decision In h-rmoly
with the decision made behind osed do1rs,
and the work of cur commission was fall
ure. They may tell you that the commits
sion is net yet through its work; taey may
delay the final announcement OF the failure,
but, my friends, there is only one thing
that will ever revive that commission. If
country as TO scare these people, and make
them sure that something must be dCEe. they
may retrace their steps and hold out just
enough OF promise to fool tie people ior
another four years. (ATplause) AT present
there IS no prospect of i1t rna ional bimetal
ism; not because our people are opposed to
cause the people Of other countries are OPP
posed to bimetallfsm. They are much
b.me.aldsm by international agreement be-
cause handful OF English fnanciers have
decided that it would not be good for them
for Us to have bimetallsm. l do not ex-
aggerate the condition. l point them out. l
say to you there has never been a danger
menacing this country equal to the danger
fnanciers who seek to control the Ameri
can people. (APplause)
Now, my friends, these are the cond tons
which ale confronting US. Neyer ut THIS
time has there been an opsn and declared II
tempt TO- make the gold standard permanent
in the United States. Never until this time
has there been a open and declared attempt
to take the government out Of the business
of issuing paper money; never before al
open and declared at en.pt to give to n2ticn Il
bankers the control Of the volume or or
paper money; never in our generation 10
obvious an intention to allow the truss and
combinations to handle the raxing power for
their own good rather than for the COED OF
the rest CT the people. You are orgaLt ed
to meet these things.
Our opponents will be very busy from nov
on trying to prevent cooperation between the
opponents Of the Republican ideas. If they
were sure they could whip US together, they
would not be anxious to defeat US. one
OF the great occupations OF the newspapers
which oppose our ide1s will be to crea-e
d ssensiCns betws en- tho e who, / they not
agree on all things, are agreed on those
thngs which are immediate in front of Us.
l have on various occasions expressed my
appreciation Of the devotion OF those Wh)
in other parsi IS joined last year in trying TO
secure American financial system for tn
American people. I speak Of 1t now, be-
cause, my friends, those Ct US who call our
rl1rv. nd tNrf1n n a
Chicago platform, and who have atyoc3'et
those Democratic pr nciples Ir- mulgatsd by
Jefferson and defended by Jackson, f-u1d
ourselves last year weakened by SCI ion;
from cur ranks, ard a. that time. when we
were enfeabled by those who were aV NJ
US we found support from the Silver Repue-
licans and Populists, who, without ag e Ing
to all in our platform, and who, without find
ing in cur platform all that they liked, were
yet wiling 10 walk with Us part o the way
while We secured those things upon Whlch
we did agree. l am not willing, as our
cause grows. as our prtncirles seem 10 re
gathering to them more and mere in force,
| am rot wiling to forget those who wsre
our dependence ard our help in the hour OF
darkr ess.
l am proud of the six and half millions
who marched under the flag OF lver. may
be pardoncd If l say to you that I an
proud to remember that not one in all that
six ard half millions voted our ticket be-
cause he was compelled to do it. Six and
hqlf millions of people. unpurchased, unint:m-
idated voted with their hearts as wet as
their bands (ADpI8use.) | would rather have
gone down to defeat with them than to have
lived without the support of such people.
want to ask you not only TO De as dillgent In
the future you have been in the last few
weeks; 1 want you to increase that diligence.
1t Is not necessary that you snail take mucn
time from your business. 1t is not necessary
that you shall in season and out of season
present these principles to your neighbors.
It is important that you shall be showing
them all the time the logic of the position
which you have taken, and then 1t is neces-
sary that you shall encourage them in the
spirit of independence that will enable them
to stand up and vote for those principles in
which they believe. We had last year g. ma
jority of the people Of the United States who
actually believed that bfmetallism would be
a good thing for this country, but we had too
many who were rot in a position to be indie
pendent in the expression of their ideas.
can cite to you men who were so situated
that they could not sit upon platform where
silver was being discussed. They were afraid
to attend a meeting, lest some one would
say: Art thou also with them?" When you
add those who were intiInidated not to
vote YOU Will find that there were enough to
have changed the majority from one side to
the other.
The thing that made most migrant
during the last campaign was the fact that
instead of leaving the American people to set
tie this question for themselves there were
foreign influences at work to determine the
action of the American people. The employer
in many instances called his men out and
told them that if silver went they could have
no more employment but IL sound money pre-
vailed they could have work l do not be-
lievc that any circumstance will justify an
employer in intInidating those who worked
for him. yet we must not be too severe in our
judgment of these men. for many OF them
believed that the triumph OF silevr would ruin
them.
The first question Is: Have we right to
attend to our own business? I have no doubt
what the verdict will be when this question
is pressed home to the American peoule and
they understand it in all its magnitude. l
have no doubt that when the people of our
finance means to them that the majority on or
side VIII be so great that it will be hun
dred years before any other party ever d9res
to submit American affairs to foreign dicta-
ton, as it has been 100 years since any party
ever did 1t before.
After Mr.. Bryan concluded, leading Demo-
Gratis read papers as follows:
LEGAL Organization" T. T. Hudson, Du-
luth.
.'CIub Organization" H. H. Gllen, Still
water.
How to Secure an Honest Count" B. F.
Worries, Fsirmont.
Home Rule" H. H. Bonniwell, Hutchin-
son.
Finance" John l.. Townley St Paul
Country Newspapers J. H. Johnson, Wi
mona.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
A telegram was sent to John Lind ex-
pressing the sympathy of the members upon
the affection of his family. The following
resolutions were presented and were adopted