Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-07-12

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When our report of the great national
gathering OF the representatives of the
Democracy at Kansas City closed last
week, the organization had been com
pleted and the Convention awaited the
report of the Committee on Resolutions.
This report was presented Thursday after
noon, and adopted unanimously. and viii
be found il fall on the Fourth page of this
paper.
Immediately after the adoption of the
platform, Attorney General Willis D Old
ham, of Nebraska, mounted the platform
and nominated William Jennings Bryan TO
be the standard bearer of the Democratic
party in the campaign of 1900.
THE NOMINATING SPEECH
Mr.. Chairman-More than hundred
years ago the Continental Congress of
America adopted declaration which bad
been drafted by the founder of the Demo
cratic party, and the joyous tones of the
old liberty bell which greeted the act an
nounced to waiting world that nation
had been born.
| With hearts unchilled by the selfish
sentiment contained in .Democracy's first
platform as If was read TO you at the
opening of this convention, and in view
of the radical departure which the party
| in power has made from the principles
set forth in that historic document, it is
meet that we-true believers in the repub-
| lie Of old-should, when choosing field
! and forming our lines for the bloodless
battle of ballots now impending, say, in
the language of one of the loved patriots
of long ago -
Read this declaration at the head of
| the army and every sword shall be drawn
| from its scabbard, and solemn VOW
taken to maintain it or to perish on the
bed Of HONOR
Much of history for this republic shall
! be either mads or marTed by the action
OF this convention. You, as representa-
tives of the only party which IS cocks
tent with the nation ITSELF the only party
| which has ever had within its oan ranks
sufficient constructive craftsmanship to
create a nation in which each citizen be-
comes a sovereign, have true to the ira
ditious you bear in your platform set out
in simple language, with a decided Amer
lean accent, a plan for the peoples re-
demption from each sacrilege and sehism
taught by the Republican party. That
plan contains nothing but the approved
precepts of the elders and doctors of your
faith II, on such platform, you place
a candidate whose devoted and unblem-
ished 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
a citizen of these United States than to
become the standard bearer of the Demo
cratic arty. 1t at once enrolls his name
on the scroll OF the Immortals who are
not born to die" and encircles him with
halo of the glory of all the illustrious
achievements which that unconquered and
unc0DqueTabIe organization has emblsz med
on every page of eur nations history. Il
entrusts to his keeping the fame of that
: long line OF statesmen and patriots who
: have knelt for a blessing at Democracy s
shrine.
20, bright are the names of those heroes
and sages,
That shine like stars through the dimness Of
ages,
Whose deeds are inscribed Oh the pages OF
story,
Forever to live 10 the sunlight of glory
This high distinction must not be I'M
worthily bestowed. 1t must follow as q
!, reward for noble actions bravely done, for
unrequited tireless toll, for sacrifices made
and strength displayed, for trusts dis
charged and pledges kept. We must seek
a leader whose public and private life
4 most nearly exemplifies his party's h gh-
est ideals; who stands unqualiiedly pledg
ed to every issue we declare; who will
carry the standard we place in bis hands,
} even as the Black Douglas carried the
sacred casket that enclosed the heart OF
Bruce.
He must not declare for free trade with
Porto Rico and then at the persuasive
: suggestion of the sugar and tobacco trusts
sign bill providing for 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 pnr-
sue the policy he has so denounced.
/ He must not, while protesting opposi
ton to combines and conspiracies against
trade, send his emissaries to the great
J baron castles to beg, like Lazarus al
Dives gates, for subscriptions to his cam
paign.
He must not lend the moral support of
his administration to a monarchy in its
efforts to destroy a republic. But he
4 must ever sympathize with people strug-
Cling for the right of self-goveTnment.
Instead of the Republican policy OF
monometallism, he must offer the free
and unlimited coinage OF the money met
ais of the Constitution, the gold that pol
J isbed the winged sandals of Hermes, and
the silver that glitters in the bow of Diana
Instead of panic breeding, credit cur
rency, controlled by the bank trust, he
must offer government paper controlled By
the people.
He must be able to distinguish between
Democratic expansion and Republican I'M
( perialism. The first is natural growth
by the addition Of contiguous American
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
purple robe of sovereign citizenship. 1t
is growth that has sdded eighteen stars
to the field Of blue in the banner of the
free,n to symbolic the States that have
been carved from territory, annexed to the
domain OF this nation by the wisdom and
craftsmanship OF the Democratic party
this is an expansion that is bounded Oh
the north by the Constitution of the United
States, on the east by the Monroe Doctrine.
on the south by the Declaration of indie
pendence and on the west by the Ten
Commandments.
Il How different this from the bandit FOL
icy of Republican imperialism, with its
standing army and bayonet rule of con
qnered provinces, its government Of sui
len subjects against their will by force
and fraud, its denial to them OF the pro-
lection of either the Constitution or the
command which says "Thou shalt not
st al, . policy that would send our Uncle
Sam of bis American range with a cow
f boy hat, a rope and a branding iron to
rustic and brand over all the loose islands
of the orient, while hypocriticaIly chanting
the long metre doxoiogy
Democratic skies are tinged with a roster
hue to day than when we met IN conven-
ton four years ago. Then a financial
cataclysm had spread over the country,
and although its every inducing cause was
easily traced to the errors and fOllies OF the
Republican party, yet ne were in power
when it came, and were wrongly held
responsible for the wreck of shattered
fortunes which followed in its wake. Torn
| asupder bV dissensions within and disasters