Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-02
Delivered in Louisville Wednesday
Night.
ONLY HOPE OF SUCCESS
ho Declare. That Two stand win
out Qualifications, Reservc, or con.
ditions For the FREQ and UnIini.-
cd Coinage or'itvcr and Cola at u
Raj" oiIo 10 ~ Den,ocrney's Po~
a sttion.
(By Telegraph to virg!nian-pilot)

(5J Telegraph to Nirg:nian-Pilot)
louisville. Ky, June 1.-The speech
of Hon. James Y. Tarrin. president OF
the Ohio Valley Bimetallic League, last
night, was pronounced one of the bes,
and ablest ever heard in this city. He
had the attention of his audience for
more than an hour. With reference to
currency reform he said
WHAT WE STAND FOR.
we stand without qualification, re-
serve, or conditions for the free and un-
iiniied coinage of silver and gold at the
ration of IL To i, by the United States,
without awaiting the action of any
oihsr country on earth. We express our
opinions tina this plank ought TO be in
tie Democratic National Platform OF
lsUv. We are of the opinion that no
steps should be taken to obscure this
uortrliIe, or 10 relegatc it. We believe
taat the Democratic National ConVen-
tlon OF 1900 should adopt the Chicago
Platform OF 1886 without the omission
GA WORD, Il letter, or punctuation
ozark; ana that ii should add thereto ii
specific and an appropriate declaration
against the existence and the olganiZa-
ton Of trusts and combinations and a
SPECIFIC promise OF Legislative action
looking to their determination; and
that II should add thereto IL declara-
ton against any policy of imperialism,
z appropriate to an absolute government,
put irepuenant to very line of the Bill
of Rights and the Constitution of the
United States.
= ,ssaNe ;yeGtnraat0e6Spress the opinion
ought TO be made by Democrats, ana
that those who are not Democrats
ought not to undertake to dictate what
that platform shall be. We believe that
those who made the platform of 1886
and who contended for the success of,
that Platform IN that year, and who
placed the Democratic organization un-
der the control Of the people, should
make the Democratic platform of 1900.
We believe that the Democratic Ma
tional Convention of 1900 should b.
composed OF those who are now in SYM
-athy with and III accord with the
Democratic party as now organized
and not of those who are hostile to it.
and IL Il convention so composed should
see 1T to take away from or to alter
The Chicago platform OF 1896, ii will
then remain Ia be seen whether the
people Of this country will endorse it.
! am we'll aware Of the fact that In
1895 thousands OF intelligent and sin
oere American voters refused. because
Of honest conviction. 20 support the
Democratic nominee for President am
aware that many Of those had for years
belonged 10 the Democratic party. We
have 10 right TO crticisc such men for
leavirg their part or for voting their
convictions. they had the right to so
leave. and they had the right to SO
vo;c, md no II n ourfT7-tu IN r-z1T--ctTTi
to wee contrary TO his Judgment and
his conscience, no matter what the
convention of any party may have de-
cla:ed. Many of those Democrats have
concluded that they We're wrong and
hoy want 10 come back. They have
the right to como back, expressing their
belief In. nnG thei- adherence To, the
doctrines and The platform Of Democ-
racy as now established. and no one has
any desire TO keep such men away.
ANOTHER CLASS.
But there is another class made UP
OF men who have spent their lives in
the public service, and who have spent
years in office by the grace OF Demo-
cratic voters. and VINO have for wears
expressed their belief in the cardinal
doctrines OF the Chicago platform Of
1S96--men who abandoned their party
violated their convictions, disregarded
their expressed beliefs. and sought to
destroy those who had bestowed upon
them every dollar and every honor they
had ever known. These men acted un-
der influences, and the doors OF the
Democratic organization ought to be
closed to them, IL they seek to re-
turn ii Is for the purpose only of be-
trayal. We have some of them in * en-
lucky, some of them who declared that
they would support the Chicago plat
form CT 1896 after it's adoption and even
then changed their minds. TO men of
this class we may say that we followed
them for years, but that now our path
lies one way and their path lies another
way. We may say to them that they
have been tried and found wanting.
and that we do not want our course or
our platform to be marked out by them
We may say &c them, Goodbye, and
God be with You-for You VIII Need
Him
THE TRUST.
1.-THE trust Is the highest form of
concentrated wealth yet known. It is
the perfection of the ownership by the
monied class of all the fruits of labor
of all the land. The trust meets with
universal condemnation, yet we may
observe that some of those who con-
denim, have the power to destroy the
trust, but fail to do so. We may OBJ
serve that the office of Attorney Gen
eral of the United States, through which
the trust could be destroyed. has been
filled by one who was the Governor of
New Jersey, the hot-bed and birthplace
of trusts. and who was created and who
is owned by the trusts. We may OBJ
serve that those connected with the
present national Administration con-
Aamn trusts, and yet the power OF the