The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-10

might think that you did not know it. There was not in all this vast assembly one sigle solitary man who did not al- ready know that Judge Parker was a gold standard man I have been one of the most consistent and perhaps radical free silver men in the United States and 1 knew that he was a gold standard man, he never made any attempt to conceal II from anybody He had supported their candidates and had said that although he did not agree with them upon this plank he was still a democrat. (Ap- plause)
 PurposeIy Avoided Many Questions.
 ..No. my friends, we had. so far as the question from monetary standards were concerned in a campaign which was so fraught against imperialism, against exc cutive usurpation, we purposely mace platform so far as the monetary stan dard is concerned, upon which " u. Bryan could have stood or Grover CleVe- land could have stood, or anybody eise who was with us in the pending i've campaign issues could have stood. lAp- plouse)
 MT. Williams' declarations that Par
 
 the convention was received with faint applause. He asked Senator TillTnan to read the message, but there was q snort delay owing to the difficulty experlencea by the senator in deciphering the hano- writing of Mir. Williams.
 The senator asked for quiet, saying that he had undergone an operation on his throat, and that his voice had lost that nightingale quality that it once possess ed" He then proceeded to read, when Mir. Williams interrupted him with the remark: Here is a typewritten copy
 For which 1 thank Almighty God, retorted the senator. He then read the following message to Judge Parker
 The platform adopted by this con- vention is silent on the question Of money standard, because 1t is not regarded by us as a possible issue in the campaign, and only campaign issues were mentioned in the platform. Therefore there Is nothing in the views expressed by you in the telegram just received which would pre- clude a man entertaining Glem from ac- cepting a nomination on said platform. (Applause.)
 Mir. Richardson Asks for Floor.
 As MT Tillman concluded the reading of the message, Representative Richard son of Alabama arose and said, T want to dispassionately discuss the message to be sent to Judge Parker"
 Chairman Clark said that he had recog- rized Senator Tillman who also desired to discuss the matter. MT. Richardson bowed and retired Tt once and Mir. Till man proceeded:
 Senator TiIlman's Speech.
 "Mr Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: As l entered the hall tonight passing among some gentlemen whom l I oh hU of them, a distinguished democrat from Missouri, who, looking me in the eye said:
 "rilman, we are depending on you to see that there is no trickery or hocus pocus here tonight (Applause) In an- swer to that challenge or expression of confidence, for I took it as something of both. looked him in the eye and re- sponded:
 Upon my hnor, I am going to tell you the truth the whole truth and noth- ing but the truth, and I will allow no man to tri1e with you in this case (Ap- plause)
 Nov, what is involved in this situa- ton? We have been laboring here Tor five days, many of us more than that, having been on the ground before the convention assembled, and some of us have been in positions which require at least no sleep for two nights and very little in the day, I among those unfortu- mates We have Wrestled with one an other We have exchanged opinions. We have battled with one another at least in the committee on resolutions, for l was in that committee in it's session of nt- teen 5or sixteen hours continuous work and I know with how much of travail how much of anger, the platform which has been adopted by this convention was framed.
 aIt was necessary in that committee for us to give and take There were pro nounced views antagonistic, which had to be reconciled and after the long and la borious work of that committee we sue ceeded in bringing about what l thought at various times in it's deliberations was an impossibility; we succeeded in bring ing to you platform adopted by your committee on resolutions unanimously. (Applause0
 Would Commit Some BIunder.
 General Grant once said that the dem oeratic party might always be relied upon to commit some fatal blnnder when con- ditions pointed to the defeat of the re- publicans and thus save them from the results of errors or sins. l am quotins the substance rather than the exact lan- guage. Tonight, when l became acqualnt- Cd with the fact that a telegram had been sent here which seemed to be an insult, and an attempt to dictate, l sought the gentleman to whom 1t was ad- dressed 1 read it hastily and l confess fellow democrats, that anger in me which Is often too quick to rise, surged up in a hame and l took 1t to the idea of any man who has any respect for himself and had been a free silverite, that an indig- nity was being put upon usi and that some one was attempting to trife with ,1s and swore by the Almighty God that I. for one, would not endure it. (Ap- plause) I asked a conference with some of the gentlemen who are. leaders on both sides We went into the hall we confer red first as to what we ought to try to do, what was out duty, both to ourselves and to our constituents at home and to the people of the country at large. It looked like an almost hopeless situation but after we adjourned the convention and the few who could be reached hur- riedly got together, met in conference at one of the hotels, and considering the telegram, considering the condition in which we found ourselves, it was deter mined that this was the proper, the sane, the safe and probable the only way by which we could escape from some great disaster to the party
 Review of Conditions.
 ''Now let me review for a moment the conditions. Judge Parker had been nomi- mated on the first ballot, showing that with the lights before us, he was the choice of an overwhelming majority of this convention, and received enough votes and accessions on the first ballot to give him the nomination. We were pro- ceeding to complete the ticket, and by this time had expected to have happily concluded our labors and to be quietly ncf nf 1T