The age-herald., 1899-07-21

| | strike at the Chicago platform, and that is | just what those people who are now hght- | ing at that platform desire to do. If you | want to send forth the democratic party In | 1900 strong enough and great enough to | overthrow the party of organized wealth. 1 keep the Chicago platform inviolate, cling
 to every principle embodied in 1t and leave l it as it is now, declaratory of right, Jusuce l and humanity.
 'Eyery man is entitled to receive for him. self all that he can earn by his own labor. | That is the democracy of today, that is the | meaning of the Chicago platform, that IS the end we are seeking to attain NO pollu- cal party ever born can accomplish It. but | the spirit of human freedom, born In the 1 human heart and growing and developing through centuries and ages can accomplish l it and will accomplish it, acting through a | human organization, and that spirit IS act 1 ing and striving today by and through the | democratic party as its representative; ana we tonight are seeking to retain the meanS | and instrument through which that spirit | will dominate this country and government | and finally rule the world and bring to the dust every crowned head and every mon- | archial government on earth
 Willing to Swallow the Horror 1 "Tbere are men who in 1896 expressed l their utmost horror because the Chlca6o | platform dared to criticise men who nap | ppned to be judges on the supreme pehoi' l They are willing to swallow that horror now. if you will only surrender It To ]. | Won will find thousands who will agree to | anything. give up anything, if you Will ohly | surrender IS to Tiff you will only Inuellale @ | the Chicago platform, take away the iolc9 | and power of the democratic party ana 1 leave the organized wealth of the eouh- | try a clean sweep in 1900, acting through Us | representative, the republican party. "Why is it? It is because organized
 vealtb loves the gold standard more than l ii hates the tax on income; because It loves | the gold standard more than 1t loves the nroteetlve tariff: because it loves the gold | standard better than it loves government | bv injunction; because 1t loves the solu 1 standard better than it loves the robpery of the Philippines by imperialism; because | if loves the gold standard more than any | tl,ine, else together; because the gold stand | ard is it's bedrock and it's foundauon-the | one thing above all others that has adeu l in the concentration of wealth, III the | growth of corporate power; and that mas l ea,,tril,rted more than all other causes
 combined to the creation, organization anu existence of the trust. Organized wealth dominating the government and msuslnS | leeislation wants the gold standard aooVe
 all other things; and for that reason II TOT
 none other. the labor and producers ol the | land ought to declare that they oo hol | want it. and will not have it.
 "In vour efforts to put into application | the principles of the Chicago platform Tn 1 the administration of this government you | will find opposed to you the political forces | and agencies of the great cities or NeW | York of Chicago, of 1ndianapolfs. or ot' | T.ouis of Cincinnati and of Louisville TO | those in control of those cities the patron | age of the city departments is of more value | than the election of a congress and a pres | ident and they would bargain away any nripciple on earth for the sake or deputy- | shin in q municipal office. You must look | to the country and to the small towns TOT | the bulk of your support, anu ioA '''o YF | of vour success. ,, IL, u-ho | "Rut vou can win, and you will win. ne | courron people have the numpers' iou have hundreds of votes where orsahIzeu
 wealth can buy or intimidate one. me me weakness of McKinleyism, the coWaralce of AIgarism can not stay you; the brutal itv of Hannaism can not crush you' th9 | orruntion of Crokersm can not over | uhe1m you: individual thought, ana lhul- vidual freedom, the subjection or party eo | nrinciple, will give to you the government | that Jefferson dreamed of, that Jackson | tn,,ebf for that Lincoln prayed and died | for. and that Bryan lived and contends TOT | "You have to inspire and aid you the words and examples of men than who the | world holds none greater. You have oelore | vou the courage. the brain, the Vlgor ol | Char1as ToWne of George Fred Nl-
  l liam Jennings Bryan And here in Chl- 1 rago there lives in your sight an example or courage never surpassed. of herolsm
 never excelled, of unselfshness and sell | denial never equalled, in the person ol the natriot the scholar the humanitarian, ana, l hest of all, the American, John F. Alt
 geld.'' | Tho mention of the name Of Altgeid pro duced a great demonstration, men standing
 upon their chairs and cheering wildly. The next speaker, who was neatly lhtfo- duced was James F. Brown of New fork' | Senator Tillman, of South Carolina. came | next and was greeted with great applause. | Alexander Troup, the national committed | man from Connecticut, was humorousiy | brought forward by Chairman Darrow and | his address was greeted with great cheer- | ing
 | Win Continue the Battle
 | Senator Tilman in the course or his | speech said:
 "The last time had the pleasure of ad- | dressing a Chicago audience was the night | before the election in 1896, and they were inst as we'll and roared just as loudly as l YOU do But what did you do next day?
 You surrendered to the dictates of the men
 who had you employed, if any of you are
 humble and obscure enough to be em- l ployed.
 "You went to the polls and voted for your
 own slavery" Senator Tilman continued at some length,, concluding IS follows
 I've will hght this battle in 1900 and
 1904 and 1908, and along the future simply | because we are now industrial slaves liv-
 ing here year in and year out with noth-
 ing more than a bare competence, nothing
 more than a bare living, and We have
 sworn by the Almighty God that we will
 fight along that line until the men of the
 west are aroused to their interests and
 keep the gold bugs of the west and Of the
 east at their backs. We can not afford to
 give up the Chicago platform. If 1t was
 right in 1896 it is right in 1899. It will be 1 right next year and right is right, and
 right means right in the language Of Abra- | ham Lincoln"
 George Fred Williams spoke at consider
 able length, denouncng trusts and the pol
 icy of the administration in the Philip ! pines His remarks concerning what Ee | termed the war of aggression in the Pill | ippine Islands were greeted with cheers. l He concluded with an earnest appeal 'n
 the democrats of Illinois to make up their
 differences and support the Chicago pat