Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-10-11

nave not come so much to speak to you as to listen. have come in response to the cordial invitation 1 received and in appreciation of the honor conferred upon me by that invitation, and to wit ness this great rally of Democrats, pre- pairing to march to victory. have come also with the pleasant task of bringing you the greetings of the Empire state and to tell you that we are waiting to march as an unit to victory with you in 1900 All factions are coming to- gether All wounds are healing and all scars are disa ppearing.
 Gentlemen, the questions that the people of this great republic have come face to face with have caused every man who ever had the slightest Demo cratic sentiment in his make up to reg ister his determination to elect Demo cratic president and to restore the Dem- ocratie party to power Time is pressing and I must hurry on
 We gather in the name of Democ- raey on the eve of a tremendous politi- cal campaign with the convention still months away our standard bearer is practically settled upon by the people. The nomination will be a mere formal ity. The name of Bryan, Democracy's next candidate and the countrys next president, is heard on every lip. On the subject of ticket therefore, I need not pause. Applause
 'A3 to issues, 1 will say little Not that I feel lightly about them Like you, I feel that the very tenure of American institutions is at stake. Our war in 1900 will be as much of 8 war for liberty and independence as was that of our ferefathers in 1776 No, I do not slight the Issues In my talk today. because they are insignificant, or not constant in my mind. They were never of more moment. Imperialism, monop- Oly, militarism, finance. income tax, all clamor for consideration. You have al ready heard and will again hear of them all While I may fail to more than touch upon them, their sure elabo- ration is in safer, better, wiser hands than mine.
 There is one topic. however, on which 1 may briefly expand It is the Democratic harmony and party union. It must be invoked. There must come an unbroken party to the front to build up victory and win triumph from the battle of 1900 The man who raises his voice to disturb it will be guilty of great crime And now, in the name of harmony, let me speak one word con corning the Democracy of New York, the Democracy from which l come to you and which /! strain no truth when l say fairly represent. The New York Democracy will be solidly with you in the coming battle It will stand by and stay with you to the glorious last, and I might say the same of the whole re- zion east of the Alleghenies. Applause
 Papers and politicians, mugwump, Republicans and traitors wearing the mask of Democracy, all moved by the power of money and greed will ever and anon tell you of Democratic disaf lection in the east Such are t1e | z and wiles of the en mics They are paid for by Republican money, Their inspiration is Hanna. Their purpose Is the Reorganization of Democracy and to set the south and west against the east. am here today to refute these stories. 1 have come 2500 miles to brand these Hanna-suggeste falsehoods The New York Democlac the whole @ ast- ern Democracy, has never in its history come closer to the general party heart than it has today Name Bryan; make your platform what you will and in the east not one in hundred of all who wore the party badge will be missing from Denocracy's muster in November, 1900 Prolonged applause.
 More than that, there will be thousands upon thousands of others who being Americans and honest. men, long before they, were Republicans, will leave that party of imperialism foul with plunder, rotten and misiule, and be side by side with the followers of Jefferson, strike one blow for Bryan and the nations safety. Applause.
 Look at what we have done in New York In 1896 we lost the state by two h. ndred thousand plurality. The New York Democracy like the party ship in many other states, went down scuttled by Clevelandism. Applause l It is not my purpose to extensively speak of that lone fisherman who sits at Princeton Yet tell you in candor he was the blight It was he who pre- pared Democracy for defeat in 1896 and who buried it in New York under a landslide of which history never knew the parallel
 But the eclipse of Cleveland did not stay. It has all but passed Last fall