New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-08
BRYAN'S SPEECH.
Mr.. Bryan's speech follows:

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen Of This Convention:
would be able tc agree on platform and on can
didates. and have nothing 10 stir the feelings or
rouse contention. tApplause) l still hope that
We shall be able 10 agree upon platform that
Will represent the sentiments Of all Of US, so that
We present IL to the country as the platform
OF united party. prolonged applause viii 90
able to present to the country ticket behind
%Gn can stang unIeq parry Loud Gmeers ana
come in at this time, and present a subject upon
one temperate principle more fundamental than
plause); If you destroy the binding force Of that
principle there is nothing that can hold party
And. my friends. It is because I want tho Demo
cratic party stand on that Jefersonan principle
In the SIT o. illinois the Inaforty was not
allowed TO rule That convention was dominated
by a clique Of men who deliberately, purposely
OF Illinois. My friends, the evidence shows that
upon a train more deliberately or with less con-
science tnan they did. (Applause) And these
have the audacity the impGdence and the insolence
to say that because they certify that what they
vention. it ought 10 be good doctrine in a court
and il, it is good doctrine in oourt. then the
only thing that train robbers have TO DO in the
over their own signatures, Great laughter and
their crime all that train robbers will have to do
is TO certify their signatures that it
poses and deny you the right to go Behind the
returns turns daughter b6 and aPpIause9 tn .t,, ~
Illinois permits the state committee to present
convention to override the wishes Of the COM
mittee such a doctrine would be undemocratio
committee to fasten itself upon new convention
But. my friends that is not all. for John p
Hopkins two years ago dhe same chairman OF
, ton OF the COMMITTEES and asked vote upon It,
and submltted, it to the S9nyention TWO years
the State convention TO elect their temporary
for II he had done it he would G have been re-
pqdiated by the convention there assembled The
minority presented a minority report. or wanted
to- but the chairman OF the committee. Mr.. Hop
platform, and, handing him the gavel said that
he was the chairman Of the convention and Mr.;
tyranny. despotism and unfairness. Great ap-
Then they had their State committee putting
on the roll the delegates whom they wanted. but
minority report they refused TO consider It and
reused 70 Ga aH2 low report upon It, ana yet IN
allowed to act upon its own credentials was not
yet with all they seated they did OF seat enough
for more than half the actually seated by
ing that they be sent hack home and that Dem
ocFats VINO rel % the people Of that State be
In the hearing before the committee 1t was
in the Committee appointed to select del5sStes
at large? Well my friends there was a contest
in that committee There was opposition to Hop
kns. but why would you expect that a minority
It ti When " they had already held that az minority
report only advisory. and could be put into
They are estopped from asking why a minority
report fled. They made attempt. they do
clared purpose. to substitute delegates for tho
various districts, and my friends. admit IN the
that if they had openly intended to substitute
other for the men selected by the districts.
they might have done so. but TO do so II would have
to be the act of the convention, The convention
never attempted 1t. The convention was not asked
TO do II, and the evidence shows that the resou-
ton that s a part Of the record. and upon which
they relied, never introduced. never
passed. but IS fraud, pure and simple. presented
here to this convention to-day. loud applause)
DUTY OF THE CONVENTION.
cratic convention? The Democrats OF Illinois are
not Ike the Democrats OF the South. Down South
the Democrats have all the local Offices and they
can reward their 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. struggling against overwhelming odds;
but they are actuated by love of principles by
nope or ONCE But what will you tell those men I?
VIII you declare that the action of that conven-
ton is right? VIII you support the methods en-
ployed? II they had majority Of the convention
| why did they not permit rolcall? Why would
they deny 1t II they had the votes there? Men do
necessary 70 carry out some object and the only
way that you can decide that these men did wrong
| unnecessarily Is TO decide that they per-
Verted IN conscience that they did wrong from
| cholce rather than from necessity applause
Their whole conduct shows that their purpose was
conceived in sin, born in inquity and carried out
| 70 the destruction Of Democratic hopes in that
| State Give the Democrats of Illinois something,
{ to hope for. Do not tell them that when they so