The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-08-29

see now you can gamer Sucn a Grove
as this without having some sinner
I IN 1t. ILaughter.l
Now, II there is a single misguided
erring Democratic brother within tn,
sound of my voice, il there is one sin
| gle, solitary unburied mothers SOL
Of them who proposes committing po
litical treason and suicide next No
vember, let me appeal to you mis-.
taken brothers. / am not going tc
abuse you. Don't get scared and run
away; | am not going to say an un-
kind word about you. feel too sorry
for you. / want to pray over you,
want to pray with you. | want to get
you to join with me in an humble petit
tfon to the Lord to stretch His divine
mercy to the utmost in order to re-
claim and save you. | am not going
to drive you away If you go, I swear
you shall not say drove you off with
out telling an unregenerate lie. / am
not going to abuse anybody. ] hope
there are such people in this crowd.
II there were this many Democratic
boilers in Graves county and the First
congressional district of Kentucky, l
would be glad to know that every
Gods blessed one of them was here
and that there was nobody else
Christ never came into this world to
pentance," and they are the people
Goebel and ! are after | want to talk
to these people and | won't indulge in
any harsh language, either. Hard
words never made votes, and votes are
what we are after and votes are what
we want, although votes are not what
we absolutely need, as we shall show
you we have enough when November
comes. But let me argue with you.
Before / get through ] am going to adj
dress myself to that element, if you
are afflicted with any such
] am not here to preach any new
doctrine, but to tell the same old story
I have been preaching to the Democ-
racy of this great old county for 20
years and more. The same parties to
the conflict are still in the field. The
issues between Democracy and Repub-
licanism have never been settled.
There are those who will tell that sill
yer Is no longer a live issue in Amer
lean politics. We shall see. We have
heard that before. There are those
who tell you that Bryan's Democracy
is that Of the specialist, and that the
to the rear and that other great issues,
developed by the Spanish war, are to
take the place Of it. 1t is not true, my
Don't listen to these
false teachers. The currency question
is as much unsettled today as it has
been at any time since 1873, when the
party, under the leader
ship of John Sherman, robbed and pill
LACED and plundered the American
people of their liberties and interests
and rights by striking down and de-
stroying One-half of your money. That |
money issue has not been settled any
more than it was in 1896, and, by the |
Lord Harry. it never will be settled |
until it is settled on the side of JUS
tee and right. the side of the people, |
and not dictated by the money chang |
7rs and bOGdholders of this govern |
nent. The very same identical issues |
lpOn which you made the fight of 1896 |
ire here, unsettled between the parties |
low.
Hydra-EIeaded Trusts.
There are other issues that have
arisen since that time which | admit |
We are not skulking and lodging or
wedding discussion and settlement of,
md those are the war issues. We are
'Ourting the fight. We have thrown
Town the gauge of battle and dared
he Republican party to lift it from
he earth. The Democratic party
tands today IS Il has stood for more
nan one hundred yeaTG-the cham
ZION Of the rf0r'a on every issue that
lgs C1o. e-..--d I'D divided the at
o' iCD cf g." Co,ig.al parties in this
u..C'-. ..-.r &c other issues that .
re to be me, gart you. Since 1896
he trUg- L~s TGiE-d, its hydra-head |
mOng our people and frightened and
auses the masses Of our citizens to .
ear for the preservation of their lib
rites and their rights. I am here to
peak for nv party. apOlOgizing for
Othirg. DENYING no responsibility, but
efanding and maintaining every SEN
enCe. every line, every word and every
yllable that was uttered at Chicago
n 1895 and re-enacted at Louisville
n the 2Gth Of June. We apologize for
othing Pick out any plank in that
latfOTm you please and as a humble
ut honest exponent of Democratic
aith I am here to defend it. That
latfOrm tells you that we demand the
estOratiOn Of silver at the ratio of Is
o l. free of mintage, without discrim-
nation on even terms with gold. with
ut asking or caring whether any other
alton on this earth stands by us or
OF. That platform tells you thatwe de-
ounce the usurpatiOn of the products
t labor by aggre gated wealth and its
reed and rapacity as represented by
he combines and trusts, [Applause.1