El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-06
HOgg's Outbreak
He Turned Tammdny Indepen-
denCe Day Celebration Into
A Silver Demonstration and
Astounded the Leaders.

A special to the Dallas News. July
saws: Jim Hogg raised thunder at tn,
Tammany wigwsm today by making I
short talk in which he declared fol
Bryan and free silver.
Neither Hogg, Bryan nor free silver
were scheduled for Tammany's blow
out, but when Jim Richardson of Ten
nessee failed to appear the megapho
neOus Texan was substituted without
having his speech censored. The re-
suit was q collision of Bryan and Var
| Wyck booms.
It is said that dogg had declined te
speak until he learned on Sunday tina,
Joseph J. Willett of Alabama was &c
take the platform for Judge Var
Wyck.
Then be informed friends that he
proposed to take the platform, too, and
say the south was for Bryan, with a
view to discovering just how solid
Bryan might be here in New York.
Tammsny leaders never caught on in
time, so when Hogg got the floor and
slung Brysn's name into the crowd,
half the audience in pit and gallery
Ieaped to it's feet and broke forth with
cheer upon cheer.
Some tossed hats ana others umbrel-
las in the air to evince their apprecia-
tion, while somebody got hold of the
band and started them to playing
Marching Through Georgia"
The demonstration for Bryan seemed
to be better organized than for Van
Wyck, which had preceded it. 1t GER
tainly was noisier.
That the Tammany leaders accepted
the outbreaks for Bryan and others
with serious annoyance became
evidenced when Congressman Cum
mings and Senator Grady both public
ly assured the southern orators that
the organization as it always has,
would support any candidate nominal
ed on any platform adopted by q demo-
cratic national convention.
Hog said among other things:
I'VE will again declare for the un-
limited free coinage of silver and gold
on an equal basis at the government
minis at the ratio of Is to l, so that
the people of south and west, rs we'll
as those of north and east may have u
sufficient supply of metal money to
meet their growing demands.
1--WE will declare against the English
gold standard, which American
funkyism has fastened upon this gov
less financial chain of recommendation,
which in Its circular motion draws
without limit bonds from the govern
ment and money from the people.
I'VE will declare against the repub-
lican protective tariff, which enriches
the few at the expense of many and
breeds trusts to menace every man.
1--WE will demand q graduated in
come tax as the best means Of equaliZ-
ing the burdens of government in
peace and which parslyze the strong
arm of American workmen in their
struggle for su bsistence.
I'VE will declare for the suppression
of trusts and for levying high federal
taxes upon their interstate shipments
with suitable forfeiture penalties.
I'VE will denounce the growing spir-
it of impe rislism which threatens the
stability of our republic and tell the
foreigners upon the eastern hemisphere
that while in war we are united until
victory graces our flag, yet in that
peace we would not have their terri
tory nor their citizenship, but in good
faith our congressional pledges shall
be kept.
1--WE will renew our pledges to the
Cubans that they shall have indepen-
dence, and when they knock at our
door for admission, conditions being
welcome them into the union as a
state.
1--WE will demand the construction,
the ownership. the operation and the
maintenance OF the Nicaraguan or
other isthmian canal by the govern
ment to the end that our commerce
may become free from foreign DONNA
ton.
'On platform embracing these I'M
equivocal declarations, the grand old
party of our national government in its
purity will go to the next campaign,
confident of trium plant success.
I'm this great contest we want the
sid of united Tammany-the greatest
local political organization on earth.
We want you to close up ranks, to set
tie your local differences, if they exist,
and to go arm in arm with the stall
wart bread winners of the south and
west to victory next year under the
leadership of the chivalrous, the daunt-
less, the matchless great American
William Jennings Bryan.