Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-08

carried 1t out, have the audacl'y' the
impudence and the insolence TO say
that because they certify that what
they did was regular, you cannot 20
behind their certificates.
"They tell you that the law Oh the
party i'm Illinois permits the state COM
mittee to present the chairman ana
they deny the right of the convention
to override the wishes of the commit
tee.
such n doctrine would be un-Defno-
cratic if true, for sucn n doctrine Woulh
permit a past committee to faSten Itself
upon a new convention ana dominate
new set of delegates. But that Is not
all. For John p. Hopkins two years
ago (the same chairman OF the same
cOmmittee) presented the recommends
ton of the committee and asked Il vote
upon it and submitted it to the con-
vention. Two years ago he recognized
the right Of the Democrats in the state
convention to elect their temporary
chairman. This time he did not dare
to do it for if he had done it, he
would have been repudiated by the
convention there assembled. The mi
nority presented a minority report, or
wanted to, but the chairman of the
committee, Mr.. Hopkins, brought Mr..
Quinn up to the convention platform
and handing him the gavel said that
| he was chairman of the convention and
| Mr.. Quinn, seizing the gavel began his
rule Of tyranny, despotism and unfair
ness.
"Then they had their state commit
| tee, putting on the roll the delegates
| whom they wanted, but when the Gre
dentias committee brought in mi
nority report they refused to consider
| it and refused to allow n report upon it.
And yet. i'm spite of the fact that their
convention was not allowed to act upon
| it's own credentials was not allowed to
decide the merits OF its own delegates.
yet with all they seated they did not
seat enough for more than half of the
men actually seated by the Hopkins
committee have signed petitions ask
ing that they be sent back home and
| that Democrats who represent the peo-
pie of that state be substituted for
them in this convention.
1.-THE Democrats of Illinois are not
| like the Democrats of the South. Down
| south the Democrats have all the local
| offices and they can reward their men
| for their loyalty to the party. Up in
| Illinois there is a strong Republican
| majority and the Democrats in Illinois
| are in many parts of the state Strug-
Cling against overwhelming odds; but
| they are actuated by love of principle.
| not by hope of office. But what will
| YOU tell those men? Give the Democrats
| Of Illinois something to hope for. Do
| not tell them that when they go to Il
Democratic convention they must go
| armed as to war. prepared to fight their
| way up to the chairman of the conven-
ton. Let the Republican party stand
| as a representative of physical force if
| it will. Our party stands for govern
ment by the consent of the, governed.
THAT convention was so openly. 80
VIGOROUSLY a gag ruled and 4 gag run
| convention that two of the men who
had been out and had made a canvas
| in the state for governor, refused to
| be candidates before that convention:
| his honor Judge PrentiSs of Chicago
| and Mayor Crolius of Joliet to honor
| the men who refused to so out as cam
| didatrs Of that convention. and if Mr.
| Hopkins and Mr.. Gable had any re-
spect for The rights OF Il ma jority to
| rule they would be ashamed 10 be here
| the representatives of Il minority: But
| if they have not learned to be ashamed
to miSrepreSent Il great state you
| ought to teach them that they cannot
do it with the approval of the Demo-
cratic party of the United States Now
the situation rests on these men. You
do not bear it. Rut when you, if you
so decide. to-Seat these men, these dele
gates from the districts, against the
evidence presented in regard to the
contestants from the districts and
these two national delegates. in spite
Of the protests Of S71 members,-if YOU
do that. then YOU take from the should
ers of Hopkins and Quinn and Cable the
odium that they do bear and put it
upon the Democratic party of the ma
ton ana endorse that attempt.
''You have not this condition in other
states, today, but let this convention
endorse this conduct and the next
national convention will see more than
one state here as the result of gayal
rule. And it is because this question
transcends the interests of any state
or any candidate or any faction that
! am here to present the minority re-
port and to ask you to do to the Demo-
Gratis Of Illinois that justice that this
gang denied them, deliberately and in
solently."
AS Mr.. Bryan concluded he was
greeted by an outburst of cheers. He
mad occupied 90 minutes and asked to
be given 10 minutes to conclude after
the other side had been heard. The
cheering that followed his conclusion
lasted several minutes and the audi
ence showed n disposition to become
unruly. but Mr.. Williams threat to
have the unruly ones elected had the
desired effect.
Delegate MenZies Of Indiana. a MEM
Der of the credentials committee was
then recognized in opposition to the mi
nority report. Mr.. Menzies was bitter
at the outset. When he criticised Mr..
Bryan for his interference in Illinois af-
fairs, there were boots. Kisses and an