The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-13
United Democracy Called
Him, Said Smith.
NOW BEHOLD TEDDY
Hoke Smith, Speaking to Three Thous
and Democrats at Queensborough,
Compares the Calm Parker With
Our Present Rampant
Chief Executive.
(By the Associated Press.)

New. Y Ork, Aug. LII Offner SecTe-
tary of the Interior Hoke Smith, of
Georgia, was the principal speaker
tonight at the annual outing of the
Democrats at Queensborough, held this
afternoon and tonight at College Point,
J.. L. Over three thousand Democrats
were present.
Mr.. Smith said in part:
''This is a great day for Democrat
ic rally. Our candidate has spoken IN
response to the formal notification or
his nomination. His plain, clean dec
Iaration in favor of obedience to law.
his devotion to constitutional govern
ment his equal and just recognition
of the rights of person and property,
give joy and hope to all who love
their country.
His nomination was due to no ef-
fort of hi sown. 1t was due to no eff
fort of his personal friends. No ten
men i'm New York, and no fifty men in
any State secured the delegates for
Judge Parker. The people of the |
United States nominated him.
changing over them like a dark
cloud was the possibility of the cleo
ton of a man whose restless egotlSm
placed the entire country i'm state
of uncertainty. and about whom the
enquiry. with no feeling Of hope was
constantly maze, what VIII ne w
neXt?'
MIR. Roosevelt, as President, had
overridden the rights of Congress. He
had violated the Constitution. The
feeling of doubt and uncertainty pro-
duced by the administration OF Mr.
Roosevelt had checked the prosperity
made possible by the administration
of Mr.. Cleveland and realized under
the administration of Mr.. Mckinley.
conservative Democrats every
where sought a candidate who would
represent respect for the Constitution
and laws of our country; who would
recognize the office of President to be
one of no unlimited authority; who
would not be carried into reckless ac-
;iyitv by intense adulation of himself;
who would prefer to exercise the leglt-
innate duties of the office of President
to startling the country continuously
by sending warships to Morocco, or
acting as agent for some European
powers to force our Southern neigh
bors to pay the debts.
"They selected a man of even ana
conservative temperament, devoted 10
law and it's enforcemnt; brave, abla
and modest, ready to discharge legitl-
mate duties but not prompted by over
weening ambition to assume the re-
sDonsibilities of all others.
A Republican Dodge.
"Well may the Republicans shrink
from comparison of the candidates.
Adraitly did the Secretary OF the
IRE: nv here endeavor to present IN
issue which is not involved IN the
present campaign.
speaking in this borough a few
weeks ago he sought to give especial
prominence to the financial question,
and more particularly to the golu
standard. He reviewed some OF the
history of legislation and some OF the
party Platforms claiming that the Re-
publican party had been nearly always
right and the Democratic party wrong.
He claimed that the success OF the
Democratic party would endanger the
gold standard, but he omitted lnucn
that was pertinent upon this subject.
Reviewing the legislation on gold
and silver from the formation of the
government, Mr.. Smith said that the
fixed legislation under which the Sill
yer dollar, now part or the com Oh
the realm, went into circulation was
the joint work of Democrats ana lie
publicanS. 1000
The Republican platform of 1888,
he continued, was presented TO the
convention by William Mckinney.
Among other things it contained the
following language:
'"rhe Republican party is in favor
of both gold and silver as money, ana
condemns the policy of the Democratic
administration in it's efforts to demon
etize silver.
This became a part of the Republic
can platform upon which President
Harrison was elected, and the Repub-
Iican party was then cirticiSing the
Democratic administration of Mr..
Cleveland for it's effort to demonetize
silver
In 1900 the Sherman act providing
for the purchase of 100000 ounces
of silver monthly, and the immediate
introduction of this large volume of
silver into our currency, by coinage
or by silver certificates, passed Con-
greSs. This was a, Republican meas
ure and received the approval of a
Republican President. All the silver
dollars and silver certificates in circu-
lation in the United States have been
placed there through these two acts
The first. the work of Democrats and
Republicans, and the second pre-emi-
nently the work of Republicans.
Result of Sherman Act.
The situation was bad under the
Bland-Allison act, it was rendered far
worse under the Sherman act.
The Republican administration, go
ing into power under a platform pledg-
ed TO silver, and criticiSing Mr.. Cleve-
land for opposing silver instead of
protecting the gold standard had by
the passage of the Sherman purchas-
ing act almost brought the country to
monometalSm. The Democratic adj
ADMINISTRATION under Mr.. Cleveland re-
pealed the Sherman purchasing act.
put a stop to the imitation of our cur
rency with deprecated silver dollars,
and made possible the prosperity
which followed.
mot to the Republican party, but
to Mr. Cleveland and his Secretary of
the Treasury. Mr.. Carlisle, more than
all others is the country today indebt
ed for the stability and prosperity
which has come to pass under the gold
standard.
Both parties during past years have
advocated silver coinage, but against
the Republican party stands the