West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-07-19


tianee to the oneoming host With the
strength of youth, and the wisdom of age.
with knightly mieu aud maiehless speech.
he lowered above his peers and all who saw
him then with one accord did hail him
Chief, aud gave our party's banner TO his
hand. Slowly despair gave way to hope;
confidence took the place where umorous
fear had been; the broken and shattered
columns formed again. aud behind him
singing, came SIX million five hundred
thousand valiant men TO that unequal fight
"And the story of how we'll he fought,
how fearlessly he fell, and how dearly the
enemy's victory was bought, has all gone
out into history now
"Back from his First Battle he came.
bafled but uneonquered hero of the rights
of man. Conscious of the reeti,uds of his
purpose, and cheeted by the belief 'that no
issue is ever settled until il is settled right
he eheerfully aeduiesoed in the result of that
campaign, and girded his loins for the neNt
great contest between the dollar and the
man.
"for four years he has waged an unoeas-
ing warfare agains, the peoples enemy;
for four years he has held up the party's
standard aud his voice has cheered the
hosts of Democracy in every state and
territory. When the trusts began TO in.
crease under the protection of Republican
administration, he was the first to point oat
the danger and prescribe remedy.
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL.
GLOW different this from the bandi,
policy of the Republican imperialism, with
its standing army and bayonet rule of con.
qnered provinces its government Of sullen
subjects against their will. by force and
fraud; its denial to them of the protection of
either the constitution or the command
which says; "rhou shalt not steal"--a
policy that would send our Uncle Sam off
his American range with cowboy hat,
brand over all the lost islands of the Orient,
while hypocritically chanting the long meter
doxology.
democratic skies are iinged with roster
hue to-day, than when we met in convention
four years ago. Then a financial cataclysm
had spread over the country, and although
IT'S every inducing cause was easily traced To
the errors and follies of the Republican
party, yet we were in power when it came.
and were wrongly held responsible for the
wreck of the shattered fortunes which fol-
lowed in its wake. Torn asunder by dis
sensions within, and disasters without, our
party faced gloomy and foreboding future,
which seemed TO augur is dissolution. The
problem then was to select a standard bearer
bold enough to cover the rear of retreat,
and save the party from destruction If not
from defeat
OFFERED ms SWORD rO ms COUNTRY.
"When the alarms of war for humanity
reused the heroic spirit Of our land, he
offered his sword to his coun,ry's cause on
the day that war was declared
'Wh n later he saw the administration
departing from the ancient landmarks of our
institutions, in its enchanted dream of EN-.
pre- and miliiarisn. he was the first to raise
a warning voice, and rcsigning his commits
sion on the day the treaty Of peace was
signed, h; threw himself into the co test for
the rcscus Of the republic
Realizing thai imperialism, like the
fabled Anaeus, was born Of earth aud that
con,ended with upon the selfish worldly
plane Of greed aud gold, it was of giant
strength; and if thrown down would rise
again refreshed from contact with irs mother
element. lie, like the mighty Hercules,
raised ii above the s1rdid here from which
its strength was drawn and on I'm. of
lofty palriJtism be strangled it,
"With the issues now clearly drawn, no
doubt now remains as TO the name Of our
candidate. On that question We are a re-
united Democracy
ALREADY worthy allies differing from us
rather in name than faith, have shouted for
our gallant ader again, aud every state
and territory has Instructed lis delegates to
this convention 10 vote for him here So il
only remains for Nebraska to pronounce the
name that has been thundcrcd forth from
the foot Of Bunker Hill, and echoed back
from Sierras' sunset slope, and that re-
verberates among the pine clad snow-capped
hills Of the north, and rises up from the
slumbedng nower-scented sayannahs Of the
south; and that name Is the name Of William
Jennings Bryan, her best loved SON"
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