The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-20

a platform. We have to nominate a
ticket, and that is the work OF this
convention. Had you come to this
convention instructed for any man tc
the extent of majority, I rot only
would not have asked you to disregard
your instructions. l would not il I
could have prevented it permitted you
to disregard your instructions. /
believe in the right Of the people to
rule. l believe in the right OF the
people to instruct their delegates,
when a delegate is instructed it is
binding upon him. But, my friends
not majority came instructed fol
any candidate. That means that
you we're left upon your responsibility
to select a candidate, and a grave
responsibility it is. Grave Is the re.
sponsibility resting upon these dele
gates in this convention.
DID NOT ATTEMPT TO DICTATE.
I have not come TO ask anything OF
this convention. Nebraska asks moth
ing but to be permitted to fight the
battles OF Democracy. Some Of you
have called me dictator. 1t is false:
You know it was tsalse. How have
tried to dictate! I have suggested
that l thought certain things ougn!
to be done. Have not you exercised
the same privilege? Why have | not
right to suggest? "a voice: You
have.'') Because I was your canol'
date AN I now stopped from ever
making suggestions? (Cries OF NO!
No"O
Why, sir, if that condition went
with nomination for the presidency,
no man worthy to be president would
ever accept nomination, tor the right
Of a man to have an opinion and to
express it is more important and sa-
cred than the holding OF any office,
however high. I have my opinion
about the platform. I make my sug-
gestions. Not all Of them were re-
received. I would like to have seen
the Kansas City platform reaffirmed.
am not ashamed OF that platform.
I believe in it now, as I believed in it
when I was running upon it. Tnen l
was your candidate, but the people in
the Democratic party did not agree
with me, and their will was supreme.
When they veto my suggestions l
have to accept. There is no other
court which can appeal to. 1 nave
not attempted to dictate about candi-
dates.
PLEADS FOR A GOOD TICKET.
have not asked the Democrats Of
this nation to nominate any particular
man. I have said that there were
many in every State willing to oe
president, and have said that out OF
6,5Oo,00O who voted for me in both
campaigns we ought to be able to find
at least one good man for president.
l hare made these suggestions only in
general way. I am here tonight as
delegate from Nebraska. have not
confidence enough in my own opinion
to tell you that can pick out the man
and say that this man must be nonl-
mated or we shall lose. I have. l
think, a reasonable faith in my own
opinion; at least I have this faith:
that I would rather accept my own
and stand by them, if believed them
right, than to accept anybody elSe'S if
I believed them wrong. Nebraska is
not here asking for the nomination of
any man. We now have a platform
on which we all can stand. Now give
US a ticket behind which all Of US can
stand. (Prolonged cheers
DOESN'T BELIEVE IN STATE PRIDE.
You can gointo any State you please
and get him. I have not as much
faith as some have in the value OF a
locality. I have never been a great
stickler for the nomination Of candi-
dates from a doubtful State on the
theory that personal popularity would
elect them. I have had so much faith
in the virtue OF Democratic principles
that thought a Democrat ought to
vote for a good man from any other
State before be would vote for a bad
man from his own State.
do not believe much in this doc
trine Of State pride, and I found that
when people come with a candidate
and tell us first that we must carry a
certain State, and that that man is the
only one who could carry the State,
they do not put up bond to deliver
the goods if they are accepted. And,
anyhow, a State that is 50 uncertain
that only one Democrat can carry 1t
cannot be relied upon in great crisis.
Now, we have our platform. Select
your candidate. II it is the wish OF
this convention that the standard
should be placed in the hands of the
gentlemen presented by California
(Hearst), the man who, though be has
money, pleads the cause Of the people,
the man who IS the beloved, l think l
can safely say, among laboring men
Of all the candidates proposed, the one
who more than any other, represents
opposition to the trust question, we'll
and good.
WOULD TAKE A GOLD MAN.
II you eastern Democrats who have
insisted that your objection to me was
my belief in free silver, if you Demo
Gratis are willing to take gold man |
am willing to let you have your way
on that question in this man, for l
will trust his honesty in all questions.
But, my friends, 1 do not, Nebraska
does not, demand that. I only men
ton this candidate as an illustration.
SECONDS CoCKRELL.
I come here to second the nomina-
tion of man and I come to second
his nomination not because l can as
Sert to you that be is more available
than ary other person who might be
,,oaS b,,t hoco,co lnva tha man and