Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-10-04
Resolutions Praise President.


at is with qualification that we recur 10
the fact that every business prediction
made by the Sound Money association in
1896 has been fully realized. ON the other
hand, the truth of the statement Is con
ceded that not one of the prophecies of our
opponents made at that time has Deeh
borne out by experience.
"The fulfllment of the pledge made by
the republican party to pass the necessary
laws to put the monetary system OF the
country on a sound basis was prompt ana
met with universal approval, resulting IN
the absolute restoration of confidence ana
an increase in the volume of trade that was
unurecedented. During the past four years
tba total amount of trade balances in our
Il Tor has exceeded the total sum OF
trade balances in our favor during
the hundred years preceding the pres
ent administration The marvellous
growth of the savings bank deposits
during the past four years shows that
more labor has found employment and has
been better paid than at any time ,in the
history of this or amy other country. In
deed the difficulty in securing the neces-
sary labor to move crops and to construct
and reconstruct railways during the past
year has been pronounced, and stands out
in strong contrast with the situation four
years ago. when so many hundreds OF thou-
sands were without employment.
Resolved, That the prosperity which
has been so general and bountiful during
the past four years-that has given employ
ment to the unemployed-that has brought
enterprise out of stagpation and security
out of chaos, had for its foundation sound
money and commercial honor and that in
behalf of continuance of the blessings of
rosperty we again pledge ourselves to the
support of William Mckinley and Theodore
Roosevelt"
Chairman Beifeld then introduced
Mr. Eckels as a man who had been and
still was Il democrat-"a true demo-
crat one or rhe Cleveland and John NJ,
Palmer school, the kind that republic
ans had ever recognized as honorable
foes and as worthy antagonists" Mr..
Eckels said:
with each recurring presidential can
vass for &c years | have thought it my duty
and privilege to address my fellow citizens.
| have done so always as democrat, haV-
ing full faith in democratic principles right
~ applied and properly interpreted. have
yet that faith. and | am yet democrat.
But my democracy is not the democracy
that finds itself the convenient lying-in
asylum of every element of discomfort and
disorder in the country. When my duty
TO my party cannot align with my duty to
the state | maintain my self-reSpeCt and
my democracy by refusing to follow the
democratic organization.
This movement of yours is fraught with
good to the city, state and the country al
large. 1t is movement to demonstrate
that the people of this country hold il as
sacred duty to retain unimpeachable and
untarnished the honor and integrity of the
government. If democrats could not aC-
cept Mr.. Bryan's views in 1896 because he
stood as the embodiment of party that
had put in its platform an assault on the
honor of the land how can he be any more
acceptable now? What has he done since
Of H..
lie that he is any more capable of discharg-
ing the duties of the high office he seeks
to-day than he then? If the govern
ment was endangered in 1886 by the theories
of socialism. populism and Organism, is it
any less endangered to-day?
Duty of Business Men.
The business men of the land owe il to
themselves to band together against
party pledged by all the acts of its leaders
and by all the platforms it has made to a
work that must be revolving to all right
minded men, a party that has the audacity
to declare that, as far a $ it is concerned the
sacred right of private contract shall be
abrogated, a party that within its own fold
will not for moment entertain a single
suggestion from those true democrats who
appeal to it in the name of patriotism and
honor. / deny that that party is any long
er the democratic party and declare that
the democrat who truly believes in demo-
cratic principles demonstrates his featy
to democracy by voting against Bryan and
assisting in the reelection of President Me
kinley.
"A democracy that prefers a Tillman A
Weaver, Altgeld and a Towne to a JEFF
ferson, a Jackson and a Cleveland is not
democracy at all, but a hybrid-the result
of unholy alliance with an organization
which always has been and always will be
prostitute in politics. What man is there
among you who fails to understand the mo-
tive back Of the plank declaring against
what it calls government b. injunction?
1t lies in the fact that democratic presi-
dent, now repudiated by this hybrid or
ganiZation, had the honesty and the ster-
ling courage to say that in this city of ours
law and order should prevail at all costs
and a all hazards.
National Currency Threatened.
"The so-called democratic organizat ton
to-day is socialistic. populistic, EryanistiC.
There is not single democratic doctrine
for which it stands. 1t sacrificed the Is
sue upon which it drew to itself the sup
port of the business and intellectual ele-
mentS of the country when ii allied itself
| with the silver republicans of the west and
| the silver populsts of the south and after
| all its professions of a fTeer commerce and
| trade accepted IS its doctrine instead the
worst kind of protection-the protection of
| the silver mine owner, which would have
meant the debauching and deba sement of
| the national currency.
| above all others the laboring man ought
| to repudiate this heresy as he would Crap
! pie with man who assaulted his personal
safety. For the capital of the laboring
| man is his daily wage, and when he has no
| labor he has no capital to live upon, and
| when he has no capital he comes face to
| face with distress. Mr.. Bryan says that
| Mckinley is not to be trusted because he
| stands for something in foreign parts that
| he does not approve of. / myself have
| never been an eXpansionist. But this
| question ought to come to every man who
| takes the position that | do: How is il pos
| sible for Mr.. Bryan, entertaining as he does
| an erroneous idea, on every domestic ques-
| tion, to have a right and proper idea of the
| solution of any foreign question?
| I'VE may set it down safe common
| sense proposition that, If we have a sound
| and conservative administration at Wash
| tngton now, the same man who is RESPONSE
| BILE for it maybe trusted to act in similar