Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-23
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Hon. T. NJ. Patterson. who made the
notification address, spoke III part as fol-
lows:
Mr.. Bryan-we are here to-day that. as
the mouthpleCe of the national conven-
ton of the peoples party, we may form
ally notify you of you nomination for
president of the United States by that
convention.
Only extraordinary public conditions
and extraordinary faith in you could
have prevailed upon the peoples party
to so outside of its own organization for
its presidential candidate.
Its convention met when congress had
struck the inal blow against the con-
stitutional rights of the people over the
money of the nation, and had reformed
every public obligation against the inter-
eStS of the masses for the benefit of the
holders of the obligations. Silver could
no longer be used in the payment of the
public debt. s~reenhacks were in process
of Punishment. to make room for the
paper of the bank ring. Congress had
abdicated its power to regulate the vol
une of paper money and had turned that
function of government over to the banks
with power to expand and contract the
volume of the currency at pleasure, and
thus control the price of every product.
1t had closed the minis to the free coin
age of silver and opened the government
printing office to the free coinage of bank
currency IOf the Dene1I OF ule money
syndicate, With the war against Spain
which had been the provocation for
odious and burdensome stamp and rev.
enue taSes-formally closed. the people
We're yet harrassed by these taxes, UNI
:abated. The reign Of the rich had been
i~naueurated. They had taken the reins
of government from the hands of the
many. The few had intrenched them
selves behind the vicious power of their
money to steal away the political power
of the masses and subordinate it to their
selfish and avariciouS designs.
This has been inevitable in the life of
every republic. In ours the burning
question had been whether there was
such living virtue in the work OF the
fathers as that the American people, ov-
grooming every influence that the forces
of aristocracy and plutocracy would ar
ray against them, might continue to be
the eustodians of the great principles OF
civil liberty and self government.
The great problem that confronted the
Sioux Falls convention was, How can
the peoples party best assist in relieving
the country from these manifold
wrongs?" 1t recognized that to sue
coed, a president and congress must be
elected pledged to unceasing warfare
upon them. The convention was wise
enough to know and frank enough to
confess that the peoples party could
not win the election alone. Only a
stronger party could, with it's assistance,
succeed. The convention determined to
place faith in the democratic party-in
the democratic party as ~reorga1lized in
1S96-and that had shown the virtue and
courage necessary to adopt the Chicago
PLATFORM. In the democratic party that
had nominated you. sir, four years be-
fore, after a struggle in which the army
of plutocracy, intrenched within the
lines of the democratic party, was driven
out. to be. we pray, excluded forever
from IT'S councils.
But above and before all the conven-
tion of the peoples party determined
to rest it's faith upon you. In you they
recognized the broadcast. brayest, purest
and most sympathetic of our country's
public men. To you they We're willing.
SO far as their votes could, to entrust
the glorious but arduous duty of re-
deeming our common country from it's
peril and disgrace.
Mr.. Bryan, nothing that I can say
can add to the %fullness of the honor.
faith and affection in which American
patriots hold you. Whether native to.
the soil or born In foreign chimes, =
patriotic Americans they look to you as
the defender of the faith of freemen and
protector of their assaulted institutions.
Those who fled from the tyranny of
their own country to find liberty in o.
assuming the duties of citizenship,
STORE before high heaven with uplifted
~ ~ l" PloANAl LII oCItild Liz ct311SCl-
tuition of our country. It is this onsti-
tuition that is assaulted, and our foreign
born citizens will not forget the oath
which admitted them to share. it's bles-
sings. You ave a stupendous struggle
before you-one that must try to the ut
most the moral, intellectual and physical
qualities with which the Creator. has
endowed you. But. sir, we are assured
that the just and merciful God that
raised you up to be the leader in this
great national struggle for preserving
70 this and all other countries that are
Drought Within our power the inalien-
apie fignes or man. whatever his creed
eoiof or nativity, will be with you. and
guide and protect you through all perils
mat may beset YOUR pathway.
MIR. BrNan. replying to notification by
the populists' notification committee Of
MS nomination as presidential candidate.
said
Mr.. Chairman and Members of the No.
nncallon Committee-In accepting the
preSldentlal nomination which you ten
der in behalf of the populist party, I
feslre to give emphatic recognition to
the euucatlonal work done by your par
". The populist party, as an organiza-
ton, and as the Farmers Alliances and
as the labor organizations from which
5us7S nave sprung, have done much to
arouse the people to a study of economic
and industrial questions. Believing, as T
do. that truth grows not in seclusion but
IN The open field. and that it thrives best
in the sunlight of full and free debate, I
have confidence that the discussion which
your party has compelled will aid in
reaching that true solution of pending
problems toward which all honest citi-
zenS aim.
l desire also to express my deep appre-
citation of the liberality of opinion and
devotion TO principles which have led the
members OF your party to enter the
ranks of another party in the selection
of a candidate.
While I am grateful for the confidence
which the populists have expressed in me.
j am not ain enough to regard as per-
pnal their extra ordinary ,anifasta+;,r