The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-09

mark an epoch mere fatal than any
which has gone By since the uar-nen
OF the south 10 you neat speak DO
you want IS your nominee man
Y neSe decent, whose past career and
whose present attitude, AFFORD irrefras-
able guarantees Of sympathy and give
proof Of accord upon the great cues
tons with which re very existence Of
your people sss a race are tnvolvecZ tf
you want such q nominee what lacks
the candidate of California 70 COM
mend your confidence and enist your
support
Upon the mOmentous questions which
affect you, every sentiment Of his heart
is BY the sheer force of hereditary with
YOU The same blood that flows through
your veins courses through his Like
yourselves, his parents and foTefathers
belong to the south. On the maternal
side he comes from Virginia On the
paternal side. through genealogy
which parallels that Of her Jackson
and her Calhoun's, South Carolina
claims him as hers. The act OF his
life which his father loved 10 cherish
was the vote which he rose from his
dying bed To give IN the senate Of the
United States cast against that meas
uTe of Republican, tyranny itJingly
called the force Bill
His Views No Secret.
Nor are his views and sentiments a
secret. Speaking through the agency
of a public voice heard by millions in
every nook and corner of the country,
his thoughts have been given utterance
You know where he stands. You know
his as one who while insisting upon
justice for the black man, has set a
face Of flint against all attempts of Re
publican schemers to clothe him with
authority or to impose him as an official
over people in whose memory the hu-
initiation. the horrors and the untold
agonies of reconstruction measures are
stiH fresh You know him as one who
considers that the problem which, amid
fields devastated and homes made desc
late by the hand Of war. has come 70
you as dread legacy of the past. is
problem which you alone are COM
petent to deal with, and dealing with it
the government should let the south
alone You know him as one who, BY
unceasing appeals to their judgment
and sense of justice, has obtained from
the best men Of the north that sympa-
thy for the south which the ever-to- be
lamented Grady had pleaded for in
vain in the very heart OF Massachu-
sets.
Gentlemen of the convention. men Of
and of the west-accTedited repre-
sentatives of the Democracy to you I
say: Should your nominee be a man
whose views on public questions are
known, a man whose attitude on the
questions which at the time confront
the American people accords with the
principles of your party? If he should
where there will be found one equal
TO him whose cause we are here TO ad-
vocate?
Issue of Today.
It has been said, and truly said, that
no campaign ever decides more than
one issue. What, then, is the issue
which divides today the Democratic
and Republican parties, what is the
fundamental principle upon which they
are in antagonism? What is the es-
Sential thing which Democracy stands
for and which RepubHcanism antagO-
nizes? Is it a question Of tariffs or
tariff revision. A question of standards
of money, a question of regulating the
currency or controlling the baRks2 a
question of expansion or of imper-
islism? No. Important as these are,
the question is greater than any or all
of these It includes them all, it is
true but it includes much more. 1t is
a question which touches the very fOun-
dations of our institutions and strikes
at the very existence of our govern
ment. Let Euphemistic babblers gloss
over as they may; let trimmers who
shift their sail TO every political breeze
that blows evade it as they can: let
time servers who usurp the name OF
/ Democracy sheer at it as they VIII
still the question which confronts the
/ American people today-which has con-
/ frOnted them with ever growing insis-
/ tence since the civil warts whether
. this government shall be carried on for
/ the benefit Of the people, and of the
/ whole people or whether it shall be
manipulated for the benefit Of a priv
/ ileged class-whether it's great depart
ments, executive and judicial. shall be
| perpetuated for the protection Of the
| equal rights of all or whether they
/ shall be perverted into the plastic in
/ struments Of syndicated capital.
Opponent of the Trusts.
/ Gentlemen of the convention, II this
I is not the paramount issue of this cam.
/ paign. what is the issue If this is
/ not the fundamental question upoT
which the two parties differ in what dC
/ they differ? II the Republican party
( does not stand today as the party 81
| the privileged classes and as the expo
nent Of the moTey power, for whaf
| does it stand? and if the Democratic
! party does not represent The antithesi.
/ Of all this. what does it represent? i
/ the cause of the people-of the pIair
/ peopIe-of the unnumbered multitude!
who each morn impIore heaven to Civ
them their daily bread, and who bI
| daily toll earn the right 10 the fulfill
/ ment of their prayer, is not the caus.
/ of Democracy what Is its cause2
its mission is not to defend the equa
/ rights or those who constitute tn
! countless hosts OF lsbor-not of labo
! in a narrow or restricted sense, not o
] labor confined to those only who re
/ ceive daily wage, not of labo
! organized IN guilds of unions alone
I but Of labor in its broad aul
Catholic scnse-of labor which include
/ all those who work with hand or brain
| and who. whether in fields OF wavinl
grain. in the glare Of the forge. in tn
! smoke OF the furnace. amid the whirr o