The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-06
Mr.. OLDHAM Is ELOQUENT
FOR THE PRESIDENCY WILLIAM
j. BRYAN
EULoGIzED THE CANDIDATE
Pronounced Him Among the Grand
est of Americans and His Party's
IdeaI-Text of Nominate
ing Speech.

ing Speech.
KANSAS CITY. July Sin nominating
William Jennings Bryan for the presi-
dency of the United States Mr.. w. D.
oldham. of Nebras ska, said:
'Mr. Chairman: More than hundred
| years ago the continental congress of
America adopted declaration which had
| oeen drafted by the founder of the DEM
ocTat1c party, and the joyous tone of the
| Old Liberty Bell which greeted the act
announced to a waiting world that ma
ton had been born.
With hearts unchilled by the selfish
! sentiments of cold cOmmercialism, you
/ have responded periodically to each SEN
timent contained in Democracy's first
platform as 1t was read to you at the
opening of this convention, and in view
| of the radical departure which the party
In power had made from the principles
set forth In that historic document it is
meet that We-true believers in the re-
public of old-shouEd, when choosing
field and forming our lines fer the blood
| less battle of ballots now impending, say
| IN the language of one of the loved pa
! triots of long ago: Read this declara-
ton at the head of the army, and every
sword shall be drawn from it's scabbard,
ana solemn VOW taken to maintain it
or perish on the bed of honor
| Much of the history of this republic
| snail be made or marred by the action of
! this convention. You, as representatives
of the only party which is coexistent
|
which ever had within its own ranks
| sufficient constructive craftsmanship to
create a nation in which each citizen
becomes sovereign, have, true. to the
| traditions you bear, in your platform set
| out in simple language, with a decided
! American accent. plan for the peoples
redemption from each sacrilege and
| Schism taught by the Republican party.
The plan contains nothing but the APP
proved precepts of the elders and doctors
of your faith. If, on a platform, you
/ TaIon Nh, i
| blemiShed life shall stand as pledge to
the plain people that he, in good faith,
will carry out the solemn covenants made
| therein, then the hour of our ultimate
triumph is at hand
There is no greater honor reserved for
| citizen of these United States than to
! become the standard bearer of the Demo-
| cratic party. 1t at once enrolls his name
! on the scroll of the 'imnortals who are
| not born to die, and encircles him with
a halo of the glory of all the illustrious
and uncomfortable organization has en-
! blazoned on every page OF our nation
history. It entrusts to his keeping the
fame of that long line Of statesmen and
patriots who have knelt for a blessing
| at Democracy'S shrine
%, bright are the names Of those
! heroes and sageS,
That shine like stars through the dim
ness of ages,
Whose deeds are inscribed on the pages
of story,
Forever to live in the sunlight of glory
This high distinction must not be I'M
worthily bestowed. 1t must follow as
reward for noble actions bravely done,
! for unrequited tireless toll, for sacrifices
! made and strength displayed, for trusts
discharged and pledges kept. We must
seek a leader whose public anV private
life most nearly exemplihes his
PARTY's HIGHEST IDEALS:
who stands unqualifed.y pledged to every
issue we declare; who will carry the
standard we place in his hands, even as
| the Black Douglas carried the sacred
casket that enclosed the heart of Bruce.
''He must not declare fer rec trade with
Porto Rico, and then at the persuasive
suggestion of the sugar and tobacco trust
! sign bill for a tariff on the products Of
! that island.
'He must not denounce a policy as one
| of criminal aggression, and then at the
demand OF power behind the throne
pursue the policy he has 50 denounced.
HE must not, while protesting oppoSi-
ton to combines and conspiracies against
| trade, send his emissaTies to the trust
/ baron's castles to beg, like Lazarus, at
/ Dives gates, for subscriptions to his cam
| paign. He must not lend the moral sup
! port of his administration to a monarchy
| in its efforts to destroy republic. But
! he must ever sympathize with a people
struggling for the right of seif-govern-
ment.
Instead of the Republican policy Of
recommendation, he must offer the free ard
unlimited coinage Of the money metals Of
the constitution the gold that polished
the winged sandals of Hermes, ard the
silver that glitters in the bow of Diana.
! Instead of a panic-breeding credit cur
rency, controlled by the bank trust he
! must offer government paper controlled
! by the people.
HE must be able to distinguiz h between
! Democratic expansion and Republican i'm
perialism. The first is a natural growth
! territory into every foot of which Is car
ried the constitution, the flag and the
decalogue, and over the shoulders Of
| every inhabitant of the added territory is
| thrown a purple robe of sovereign citizen
| ship 1t is a growth that has added eigh-
| teen stars to the field of blue in the Ban
ner of the Free to symbolic the states
! that have been carved from territory an
nexed to the domain of this nation by the
/ wisdom and craftsmanship of the Demo-
! cratic party; this IS an expansion that is
! bounded on the North by the constitution
Of the United States, on the East by the
Monroe doctrine, on the South by the
| Declaration of Independence, and on the
West by the ten compartments.
policy Of the Republican imperialism,
| with its standing army and bayonet rule
OF conquered provinces; its government
of sullen subjects against their will by
! force and fraud: it's denial to them OF the
protection Of either the constitution or
| the command which says: Thou shall
not steaP-a policy that would send our
/ Uncle Sam off his American range with a
! cowboy nat rope and branding iron,
to rustic and brand over all the loose ISL
| ends of the Orient, white hypocriticallv
chanting the lOngm3ter Doxology.
Democratic skies are tinged with a.
roster hue today than when we met in
convention four years ago. Then a fnan-
eial catacIXsn bad spread over the coun-
try, and although i s every inducing cause
was easily traced to the errors and foliies
OIL the Republican party, yet We were in
power when 1t came, and were wrongly
held responsible for the wreck of shat
tered fortunes which followed in its wake
Torn asuEder by dissentions within, and
! disasters without, our party faced q,
| seemed to anger it's dissolution. The Prob
| lem then was to select a standard bearer
! bold enough to cover the rear of a re-
treat, and save the party from destruc-
ton If not from defeat
While discord with her flaming torch
confused the counsels there from out
the sunset realm champion came and
bade defiance to the oncoming host With
the strength of youth and the wisdom of
age, with knShtty mien and matehless
speech, he lowered above his peers and
all who saw him then with one accord did
hail him Chief and gave our party s
banner to his hand. Slowly despair gave
way to hope; confidence took the place
where timorous fear had been; the
! broken. shattered columns formed again
and behind him, singing. came 5000 20
valiant men to- that unequal fight
And the story of how well 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.
a. panied but unconquered hero of the
rights of man. Conscious of the rectltuie
of his purpose and cheered by the belief
| that no issue Is ever settled until If is