Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-08-12

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thing he did. cloud applause.) The
What if be does. l do not share th
the feeling that some people have tina
the Democratic party cannot take
candidate from the south. They sa
he was in the Confederate arm,
What If he was / don't share the bt
lief of those who say we cannot nom
nate an ex-Confederate. (PrOlonge
cheering and applause)
| MY friends, that war, that cruel wal
was forty years ago. It's issues ar
| settled; it's wounds are healed. TIL
participants are friends. We have go
another war on, and those who know
what the war between plutocracy an,
democracy means will not ask where I
| man stood forty years ago They will
ASK where does he stand today in tn
war. My friends believe that TIL
great issue in this country today Ii
plutOcracy vs. democracy. You hay,
| said that had just one idea, the silve
| idea4 Well, while back they said
had only one, but then it was the tarif
idea. There is an issue greater thar
the silver issue, the tariff issue, til,
trust issue. 1t is the issue between
plutocracy and democracy; whethe
this is to be government of the peo
pie, by the people and for the people,
administered by officers chosen by tht
people. administered in behalf of th'
people. 1t is either this or it is to b,
rule OF the mOneyed element of the
country for their own interest alone
The issue has been growing. l want
YOU, Democrats here assembled, to helI
us meet this question. You tell me tht
Republican candidate stands for mill
tarism. Yes, but he also stands fOl
plutocracy. You tell me he delights
/ | war. But there is another objection
TO him, and that is that he does not
enfore the law against big criminal
as be does against little criminal.
The laws are being violated today, and
those laws must be enforced. The
people must understand that we are
to have equal rights to all and special
privileges to none. (Applause.) We
have had the debauchment of elec
tiOns.
1t was stated the other day that in
the little state of Delaware Ss256, 900
was sent in the state in one day just
before the election of 1896. Some say
that we must have great campaign
fund and 60 out and bid against the
Republicans. My friends, want to
warn you that if the Democratic party
is to save this nation it must not save
it by purchase, but by principle. Zap.
plause.) Every time we resort to pur.
chase we cultive the spirit of barter,
and the price will constantly increase,
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bidder. Ii the Democratic party is to
save this country, it must appeal to
the conscience of the country. 1t must
point out the dangers to the republic,
and if the party will nominate a man
l care not from what part he comes,
who is not the candidate of faction,
who isjnot the candidate of an element,
but the candidate of party, the par
ty will stand by him and will drive the
Republican party from power and save
this country. (Applause.)
My friends, believe that you could
take man from any Southern State
who would go out and make a fight
that would appeal to Democrats, all the
Democrats who love Democratic prin-
ciples, and to Republicans who begin
to fear for their nation welfare-take
such a man and believe that be would
poll million more votes than the can
didate of any faction whose selection
would be regarded as a triumph of a
part of the party over the rest of the
party. applause
l simply submit it for your consid-
GRAFTON, am here to discharge a duty
that | owed to the party; l knew be-
T TO n
majority of the delegates would not
agree with me in my financial view. l
knew that there would be among the
delegates many who did not vote for
me when l sOrely needed their help. I
was not objecting to the majority
against me, nor to the presence of those
who went away and came back. But,
my friends, 1 came. not because l
thought it would be,delightful to be in
the minority in opinion, but because
owed duty to the six million brave,
loyal men who sacrificed for me.
>Cheers.) came to get them as good
q platform as could.
| have helped them to get q good
platform. (Applause.) came to help
to get as good candidate as | can,
and hope that he will be one who can
draw the faction together, who can
give to ms who believe in aggressive,
positive, Democratic reform, some
thing to hope for and to those who
have differed from us On the main
question that he can give them some
thing to hope for, too.
I close with an appeal that l make
from my heart to the hearts of those
who hear me: "Give us pilot who will
guide the Democratic ship from mill
tarlsm. the Scylla of militarism, with
out wrecking her upon the Charybdis
of commerclalism. Demonstration