The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-06
H STANDS FOR Liberty
WEBSTER DAVIS RENOUNCEs RE-
PUBLICANISM AND BECOMES
A DEMOCRAT
WILL SUPPORT PEOPLES CAUSE
Arraigns the Administration for
Aggression and Oppression, and
Announces His FeaIty to
Bryan and Democracy.

KANSAS CITY, July SIN his speech
renouncing allegiance to the Republican
party, Webster Davis said:
Mr.. Chairman and gentlemen Of tbe
convention:
1 appreciate very highly the honor
conferred upon me by inviting me to
say few words at this time, and I shall
not detain you but a moment I have
been honored highly by another party
than this in the past. have served that
party well, and have rendered services as
good as the honor I received and the ac-
count is balanced now. Great applause
and cheering) Life, human life, IS but
narrow span between two great I'M
known eternities, and life Is too short Cor
a man to sacrifice his principles or his
love OF country for money or for office
In this republic. Enthusiastic applause
and cheering) have never yet read or
heard a platform that was so intense
Iy American as the platform read hero
In this convention. Continued applause
and cheering) Old questions have pass
ed away and a good many new ones ara
now before the American people. 7 care
not the snap Of my finger for party or
private criticism. I care nothing for Of
flee, because I gave up one voluntarily
better than any you can give me. Great
applause and cheering)
THE man or newspaper that makes the
statement that was forced to leave
the administration against my will, alb
solutely, unqualifedly and maliclousIy
lies. applause and cheering1
JUSTICE FOR ALL.
i love liberty, I love equality Of rights
and love justice. When the party that
belong to has been too cowardIy to take
stand for liberty, to represent govern
ment against British aristocracy and
monarchy, I leave it and leave 1t for
good. Ovid and enthusiastic applause
anc cheering) In every part of Europe
and Africa the charge is made by the
British press and the British Officials that
there Is a secret alliance between this
country and Great Britain to the effect
that In case of any foreign nation at
tempting to intervene in behalf of the
poor Beers, that this republic will stand
by Great Britain with Its army and navy.
CCries of mo, no.') I have yet to lux
Of the administration denying that rez6et.
l defended the administration In every
since my unfortunate visit to that conn
try-for me say unfortunate, financially
and poltically-but 1 say now / will nevor
defend 1t again, because it has not taken
the chance at its national convention to
tell the American people that we are
for liberty and republican forms Of gov
eminent. Great applause)
MUST WHISPER LIBERTY.
Liberty! We all love the splendid word
the sweetest word that ever blossom
ed upon the tongue Of man, and as one
great Republican senator said in the
United States senate, 1T has come TO
pass that we must whisper the word i!b-
erty IN Washington" Is It n fact that
liberty Is to become obsolete In the Ame.-
lean lexicon? Is It a fact that this great
republic must chain itself to the chariot
wheels of the British empire in Its mad
race for land and gold?
Il sympathize with people struggling
for liberty everywhere. I sympathized
with them as they struggled for liberty
In Greece, and when the war broke OUT
with Spain we said then that it was not
war for conquest, not for glory, but
Tor carrying liberty to people who were
crying for help at our feet cloud ap-
plause) And the boys marched Up from
the Northland, whose fathers once
marched in tattered blue, with the song
their fathers loved, Ny Country. IT'S of
Three and the boys came from the
Southland, they whose fathers once
| marched in ragged gray to the music Of
Way Down South in Dixie (applause)
and they followed the man who once led
the Northern and Southern armies down
TO Cuba and into other lands and into
the islands of the sea. They marched I'M
! der one flag In behalf Of one country to
the music Of one splendid melody, as
they felt in their hearts the music that
! inspired the men in days gone by
! In the beauty Of the lilies, Christ was
| born across the sea
! AS he died TO make men holy, let Us de
10 make men free"
GREAT DEMONSTRATION.
The crowd at this point broke out into
demonstration, yelling and waving
| flags and hats, and it was some little time
before order was restored. The speaker
attempted several times to go on, but
was forced to wait some little time
He finally proceeded as follows
Up until that point the war was right
but when We passed beyond that point
the administration went too far But it
was another indication of following the.
| footsteps Of Great Britain. When cur.
! flag rose over the flag of the rotten Span
| ish monorchy, the American republic
! could not resist the temptation then OF
! following in the footsteps of Great Brit
| ain, and it thirsted for land and gold
and that is where the mistake was made
! We should have stopped at the end OF
the Spanish victory, when be brought
liberty to the people who were being.
! ground to death under the heel Of Span
| ish tyranny. We do love liberty The
masses of the American people stand for
/ the blessed idea of liberty. justice and,
/ equality of rights, and I dare say today
! If it were possible to get the news over
the British cable to the Boer farmers in
the two South African republicans, that
these representatives Of six or seven
million American voters send a word of
sympathy TO them, many a Boer would
shout for JOY in the hills of the Trans
vaal. Grander struggle for liberty was
never made in all the worlds history
than the struggle being made by the re-
publicans and democrats in South AZ
| RIGA. Let US sympathiZe with them, and.
I am glad that you have taken this ac-
ton today, and at the polls in November
follow it up. Let American principles
| ever live. Let them go on down for years
! as an institution to generations yet un-
! born. Liberty, love of country, one flag,
| one country, one splendid destiny alone.
81 stand upon this platform TO support
Williams Jennings Bryan"
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