Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-05
A KEYNOTE FOR VICTORY.
The Democracy OF the East sends Greet-
ing to the South and West.

H. p Belmont, at the great Democratic
gathering at Dallas, Texas. Tuesday
evening:
Il have not come so much to speak to
you as to listen. | have com in response
to the cordial invitation | received and in
appreciation of the honor conferred upon
me by that invitation, and to witness this
| great rally of Democrats, preparing to
march to victory. l have come also with
the pleasant task of bringing you the
greetings of the Democracy Of the Empire
State, and to tell you that we are waiting
TO march as a unit to victory with you in
1909. All factions are com,ng together. Al
wounds are healing and all scare are dis
| appearing.
Gentlemen, the questions that the peo-
pie of this great republic have come face
TO face with, have caused every man Who
ever had the slightest Democratic senti-
ment in his makeup to register his deter
mination to elect a Democratic President,
and TO restore the Democratic party to
power.
Time is pressing and I must hurry on.
We gather in the name of Democracy on
the eve of a tremendous political cam
paign. With the convention still months
away, our STANDARD bearer is practically
settled upon by the people. The nomina-
ton will be a mere Formally. The name
of Bryan, Democracy's next candidate
and the country s next President, is heard
on every lip. On the subject of the ticket,
therefore, l need not pause.
las to issues, 1 will say but little. Not
that l feel lightly about them. Like you,
1 feel hat the very tenure of American
institutions is at stake. Our war in 1900
viii be as much a war for liberty and in
dependence as was that of our forefathers
in 1776.
mo; I do not slight the issues in my
talk to-day because they are insignificant,
or not constant in my mind. They were
never of more moment. Imperialism, mo-
nopoly, militarism, finance. income
tax, all clamor for consideration
You have already heard, and will
again hear of them all. While l
may fail to more than touch upon them,
their sure elaboration is in safer, better,
wiser hands than mine.
There is one topic, however. on which
1 may briefly expand. 1t is Democratic
harmony and party union. 1t must be in
voked. There must be an unbroken party
front TO build up victory and win triumph
from the battle of 1899. The man who
raises his voice 10 disturb il will be guilty
of a great crime.
And, now in the name of harmony, let
me speak one word concerning the Democ-
racy of New York; the Democracy from
which l come to you, and which 1 strain
no truth when L say / fairly represent.
The New York Democracy will be solidiy
with you in the coming battle. 1t will
stand by and stay with you to the glorious
last. l might say the same OF the whole
region east of the Alleghenies. Papers ard
politicians, mugwump, Republican and
traitors wearing the mask of Democracy,
all moved by the power of money and
| greed, will ever and anon tell you of Demo-
cratic disaffection in the east. Such are
the lies and wiles of the enemy. They are
paid for by Republican money. Their in
spiration is Hanna. Their purpose is the
! REORGANIZATION of Democracy, and to set
the South and West against the East.
Il am here to-day to refute these sto-
ries. 1 have come $500 miles to brand
these Hanna-suggested falsehoods. The
New York Democracy, the whole eastern
Democracy, has never in its history come
closer to the general party heart than it
/ has to-day. Name Bryan; make your
platform what you will, and in the east,
not one in a hundred of all who ever
wore the party badge will be missing from
Democracy's muster in November, 1900.
More thai that, there will be with them
thousands upon thousands of others, who,
| being Americans and honest men long be-
fore they are Republicans, will leave that
party of Imperialism, foul with plumber,
rotten with misrule, and side by side with
the followers of Jefferson, strike one blow
for Bryan and the nations safety.
Look at what we have done in New
York. In 1896, we lost the State by two
hundred and forty-six thousand plurality.
The New York democracy like the party
ship in many other States, went down,
scuttled by Clevelandism.
cit is not my purpose to extensively
speak of that lone fisherman who sits at
Princeton. Yet l tell you in candor, he
was the blight. 1t was he who prepared
Democracy for defeat in 1896, and who bur-
led it in New York under a landslide of
which history never knew the parallel.
But the eclipse of Cleveland did not
stay. 1t has all but passed. Last fall by
trick and money and by vigorous beating
of the San Juan drum, the Republicans
elected Roosevelt by a scant $4,000 plural
ity. Quite a difference between the two
llO.IUIGd anu 1OiAy EClA iACOEttAAo ~ W.
| short years ago, and sixteen thousand,
And the Hanna party exhausted efforts
to do that.
you of the South and West may not
only look for party harmony in New York,
| YOU may expect to see Bryan sweep the
State next year by fifty thousand. 1t is
no longer the 'Enemy's Country it is
the country and home Of your friends. The
party has gone back to the teachings and
examples of such as Horatio Seymour and
Samuel Tilden and August Belmont; and
every one, Democratic, worthy to guard
the names and memories of these mighty
leaders of a mighty past, is around the
party standards.
LAS for that slim one per cent. of Democ-
racy I named as disgruntled and desert
ing, their places have been filled one hun
bred fold by new recruits. They are but
disease of party at best, and Democracy
is improved in health and strength by their
elimination.
las 1 close, I say to you Democrats of
Texas, whatever else you may doubt, be
sure of the eastern Democracy: be sure
and certain of New York. 1t is loyal to the
general party: loyal TO you as it is loyal 10
itself. If New York's Democracy were in
control of the party the convention work
next year would be simplicity itself. 1t
would make Bryan the candidate; Bryan
the issue: Bryan the battle cry. As the
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