The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-06
SOUND NIEEI5 UPHELD
MASS MEETING
HELD AT THE AUDITORIUM
LAST EVENING
LUsK, LAWLER AND PoELsEN
Eloquent and Earnest Addresses
Were Delivered by the Leaders
of the National DEM
Ocraycy of 1895.

A fair-sized audience that, either from
the cold or q lack of interest, rapidly
decreased in size as the evening advanced,
greeted th'- speakers at Inc sound money
meeting last mig IT. held in the Audito-
rum. A bunch of flaming yellow clary-
Santhemums on the speakers desk was q
decoration and a badge. PaIusoand flags
decorated the stage and the walls # the
Auditorium.
j. w. Lusk called tie. meeting t. order.
He said that it was 4 good sign to see
Democrats and republicans ont together,
a good sign for the welfare Of the ccCn-
try. This is. a ron Tiartiian meeting" he
said. 1.-THE Business Mems Sound Money
club has not been organized to interfere
with local politics. 1t was organized in
ST. Paul, as it was organized in Chiro go,
as a protest against the debasement Of
currency. (ApplauSe.' If at the end Of
the meeting, after you-. have heard the
speakers who are here to addrW you, you
believe Mr.. Bryan a Nafer man to vote
for than the no min ae % the Republican
party, why vote for him. tfy on The other
hand you believe that Mckinley is the
man to carry the country safely through
its present crisis, vote for William Nc
Kinley. The present campaign is Cne Of
the best that has ever been fought. There
has been less mud singing. Men have
been willing to listen to both sides. there
is no reason why men who go to the polls
tomorrow should not vote as their convic-
tons dictate. In hot presidential cam
paigns of the past, men have too often
stuffed cotton in their ears. [ am glad to
know that there has been little of that
sort of thing during this campaign
President Cleveland once said that the
man most interested in the sound money
question was the werldngman. It is of
more Importance tC him than 90 any other
class that the dollar he tolls for be an
honest dollar. The speakers who will ad-
dress you tonight are all good Democrat is,
and have always been good Democrats
But man is mt traitor when he re-
fuses to follow his party to perdition
Both men tonight have tie courage Of
righteous convictions when they refuse
to support party that mas broken away
from old-time Democratic lines. Gentle
men, take great pleasure in introducing
to you this evening, Hon. >. W. Lawler.
ADDRESS BY Mr.. -LAWLER.
Mr.. LAWYERS name was greeted with
loud and prolonged cheers, and it was
some seconds before he made any attempt
to speak.
Mr.. LaWler said
1t was an appropriate feature to COM
melce the proceedings of the evening
with the stirring melody of the national
anthem A meeting called under these
auspices could have no more appropriate
commencement. You have come here TO-
night to listen to one speaker born in
the Southern cline; on the other side Of
principles of the Democratic party, and
you have come to listen to another, the
presiding chairman of this convention,
also Democrat of Democrats: In the
days of the sixties the gentlemen to
whom [ refer were of different convic-
lions, but the enc from Illinois and the
one from WISCONSIN each had the courage
and manhood to put a musket upon his
shoulder and to test the sincerity Of his
conviction at the risk and the apparent
sacrifice of his life. They were true to
TO their convictions tonight, when, before
this audience, representing the con-
science, the political morality OF Ram
sey county, they arise to their feet and
salute a common flag and common
. country. The American people love sim
certify and straightforwardness in poll
cal matters; They have little respect for
the political party cor for that set of po
Htical leaders who, in the hot stress of a
national canvass, +skulk, in their tents.
or attempt to- act the part of q, trimmer
the Democratic party, who learned its
principles and drew inspiration from the
minds Of the great leaders of the North
western Democracy, we are here tonight;
on the very eve Of a memorials Sim
paign, to testify before our neighbers ami
our friends who love u.s., and whom we
love, mat we are sui true to the Prlncl-
pies Of Jefferson, of Tilden and of Cleve"
land.
PREVIOUS DEMOCRATIC HISTORY.
It is not necessary to recount to this
audience the history OF the Democratic
party Of the e. NoFwest The b rig ties
tory of the American republic are
those which record the history of that
great political organization fr2m 1860 to
1896. From the men who, In the days
of the sixties had the manhood and the
honesty to- vote for Stephen "A. Douglas
and bring about the election of Abraham
Lincolon, down to the men VINO, III 1898,
had the modesty and the Democracy to
vote for John NJ. Palmer and bring about
the election of William Mckinley. No
need to recount the old days i'll Wisconsin
and Illinois when men like your chair
man, representing the brain and Drawn
of those two great commemorative, men
like the Sibleys, like Flandrau, like Ed
mund Rice, and like Robert ~ Smith,
led it. Against such men and against
their records, put the men who are today
in control of the machine in Minnesota,
and of the states, we are not afraid Of
We remember the days when in a fight
for what our Democratic predecessors
believed to be the cardinal principles
in a hopeless minority, year after year,
in presidential campaign after 'Presiden-
tial campaign, every four years, they
came to their convictions and, imbued
with a principle of manly morality, put
their best men in the place of leadership.
They had leaders like Douglas, Horatio
Seymour, George McC1eHand and Tilden,
and in 1884 and 1892 they put in the ex-
ecutive chair at Washington the greatest
Democrat who filed it since the day of
Andrew jackson. ..-s@ss@..e~4--
In 1896, more than a million of the DEM
ocratic party voted for the candidate
whom the real Democracy had nominated
in opposition to- the -so-called regular can
didate. The Democrats of the old school
were opposed to free silver, mot only be-
cause it was reputation, not merely be-
cause it was an attempt on the part of
the government of the United States to
pay 100 cents with a, 50-eent dollar; not
merely because it would cut in two the
savings of the laborer;- not merely be-
cause it would put us on a level with
Mexico and China, but because the Dem
ccratic party of the old school saw that
che principle of free silver was the prin-
ciple of Populism, to which the Demo-
cratic party was always opposed,
SITUATION HAS NOT CHANGED.
Has the situation changed? Have the
men who obtained control of that organi-
cation four years ago, and who still main
tain it, have they abated a lot of that
platform of political neresies, which the
real Democrats OF this land spurned four
years ago? Have these men recanted
their errors? The leader of the regular
Democraue= party demanded a distinct
end definite endorsements for the purpose
OF pleasing his Populist allies of 1896
Many Of the Democrats who We're on
posed to that leader four years ago are
means to do harm, they say that he will