The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-10-11
WE ALSO DENOUNcE THE NEW
YORK DELEGATION

If We had possessed the gift of ora
tory we would have denounced the
New York delegation from the plat.
form of the Baltimore convention.
We would have done so in the face
of the fact that we had been taught to
love the democracy of the Empire
state and revere the memory of its
leaders.
How they troop before US!
Horatio Seymour, its great war
governor, who in the stress and storm
of that conflict, braved the odium OF
"copperhead" and other opprobrious
names rather than abandon the ira
ditions and principles of the founder
of this great and militant party
Those northern war democrats were
made of the stuff that gave birth to
heroes.
We were taught to worship at the
shrine of Samuel ]. Tilden, who at a
crucial hour gave renewed and abun-
dant inspiration to the democratic
party throughout the nation.
How we southern people revere or
should revere the name of David Ben
nett Hill, who by his courage and in
fiuence and the exercise of his pow
er, prevented the adoption of the
ruinous and offensive force bill, and
showed by his other acts his love of
the south as an integral part of the
nation.
With New York's long list of demo-
cratic heroes and their wonderful
achievements we sat in our seat at
the Baltimore convention, mad to the
very core, when Mr.. Bryan was lam
pooning the democracy of New York
and Tammany hall to see that every
man of that delegation, with the ex-
ception of Stanchfield, sat like sheep,
and when Mr.. Bryan smote them on
one cheek with his mighty wrath they
meekly turned the other.
How we longed for a Seymour, a
Tilden or Hill.
With democracy as bright and lu-
minous as the rays Of the sun itself,
why did the men composing that del
egation sit quietly in their seats and
take the scourging like a gally slave?
Judge Alton B. Parker says it was
because of their intense loyalty TO
the party. That the delegation did not
want to split the convention in twain,
as Mr.. Bryan seems to have been bent
on doing
Then he goes on further to say:
Years ago the distinguished gen
tleman whose name has been mention
ed here Mr. Bryan was not only OBJ
posed to me as candidate, bit
against me personally, was good
enough to write me letter thanking
me for my contribution to the dem
ocratic platform; he was good enough
to write me inviting me to Lincoln ::
he was good enough afterwards to ac.
cept my invitation to visit me at ESQ
pus. He requested the national com
mittee that | should render such ser
vice as | could on the stump, and
wherever l was asked to go by that
committee, in ten states in all, | at
tempted to lift my voice and do work
in behalf of the ticket"
Intsead of attempting to placate Mr.
Bryan at that convention, which only
added to his demands and his pow
er, if the New York delegation had
been composed of men and had fought
out the disagreement between
them to a finish on the principle
of IAN eye for an eye and a tooth
for a TOOTH" Mr. Bryan would not
have dared to insult and outrage
them, and they would have command
ed the respect and admiration of that
convention.
1t had the power, and should have
been manly enough to exercise it, de
spite the consequences We are mad
with Tammany
Keep your Tiger alive, with his
teeth always showing, and you will re
tain the respect of your friends. and
if not the respect you will at least
command the fear of your enemies.
The world loves a fighter, and hates
| the very appearance of cOwardice.
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