The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 16, 1896, Page 2

SENATOR DANIEL'S. Temporary Charirman Opens the Chicago Conventiun. His Speech, ¢ “Mr. Chairman of the National democratic convention: In receiving from your bands this gavel as the battle of New Orleans of which it | was said: There stood Jchn Bal, ia martial pomp, but there was old Kentucky (Cheers. ) Brethren of the east, there | south, there is no north, there is no jeast or west in this uprising of the people for American emancipation \from the conspiracy of European | kiags, led on by Great Britain, which temporary presiding officer of this /secks to destroy one half of the convention I beg leave to express a sentiment, which, unapimoug: that no national conven- tion was ever presided over with than by yourself. (Cheers and cries of “Harrity. Harrity.”) “I can express no better wish for rayself than that I may be able in some feeble way to model my con- duct by vour model, and to practice | by your example. (Cheers.) The high position, gentlemen, to which you have chosen me involves both a great personal honor anda keen responsibility. For the honor I thank you The responsibility I would be wholly inadequate to bear did I depend upon myself, but your gracious aid will make it easy and its burden light. That aid I confi- dently invoke from you for the sake of the great cause under whose ban- ner we have fought so many battles, and which now demands of us such stanch devotion and such loyal sere vice. I regret that my name should have been brought in even the most courteous and serious complication with that of my distinguished friend the great senator from New York (applause), but the very fact that I have permitted it to be done refutes the suggestion that has been im- providently made on this floor, that either I or those whom I have the honor to represent wouldzever heap indignities upon that brave and in- dustrious head. (Great applause.) No candid, no dispassionate judg- ment, gentlemen, can ever misrep- resent your meaning. The senator from New York, himself, knowa, and as I know, that there is no person- ality inthe preferment which has been given to me. He must know and the whole country that watches these proceedings must know, that it is solely due to the principles that this great majority of democrats stands for, and that they know I stand with them. (Applause) And that itis given in the spirit of in- structions received by these repre- sentatives of the people, whom all democrats will ever bow to as the purest and original source of all power. The birth of the{democratic party was coeval with the birth of the sovereignty of the people. It can never die until the declaration of American independence is forgot- ten and that sovereignty is crushed out. (Great applause.) NEITHER PERSONAL NOR SECTIONAL. Iam happy, gentlemen, to know that as the majority in the conven- tion is not personal, neither in any sense is it sectional. It blends the palmetto and the pmes in Maine and South Carelina. It begins with the sunrise in Maryland and spreads into a sunburst in Louisiana and Texas. It stretches in one unbrok- en column across the American con- tinent from the Atlantic shores of the Old Dominion and Georgia and it sheds its silvery beams over the golden gates of California. (Ap planse.) It sends forth its pioreers from Plymouth Rock and waves over the golden wheat fields of Dakota. It has its strongholds in Alabama and Mississippi and its outposts in Minnesota, Florida and Oregon. It sticks like a tarheel down in the ‘money of the world and | I am sure, is} to make American maoufacturere, merchants, farmers and mechanics mere hewers |of wood and drawers of water. more ability or with moro fairness | There is one thing golden, whieh, | permit me, in the same good humor | which has characterized your con-| duct, to commend to you here. It is the golden rule, to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Forget not the greed of devils, and that an absolute acquiescence in the whole majority is the vital principle of the republic. Demo- crats, as you have been, democrats, as I trust you willever be, acquiesce gracefully in the will of this great majority of your fellow democrats, and only ask to go with them, as they have often gone with you. (Applause. ) THIRTY YRARS OF DEVOTION. Do not forget, gentlemen, that for thirty years we have supported the men that you have named for presi- dent—Seymour, Greeley, Tilden, Hancock and twice Grover Cleveland. Do not forget that we have submit- ted cheerfully to your compromised platform, and to your repeated pledges of bimetalism, and have pa- tiently borne repeated disappoint- ment. Do not forget that the last national convention of the democrat- ic part, in 1892, you proclaimed yourselves to be in favor of the use of both gold and silver as a stand. ard money of the country, coinage of both gold and silver with- out discrimination against either metal, and that tne only question left open was the ratio between the metals. Do not forget—and I refer to the fact in no inferior sense— that just four years ago ina demo cratic convention in this city, the New York delegation stood here stolidly and immovably for a eandi- date committed to the free and un- limited coinage of silver and gold, at tho ratioof 16to 1. And if we are still for it, let it not be forgotten that we owe it in some measure to their teachings. (Applause.) That we owe you much, gentles men of the east, is readily acknowl- edged, and will be ever most grate- fully remembered. We owe you much, gentlemen of the convention and what we owe you of the east are the force, and the McKinley bill, and the Sherman law, the triple infamy of republican legislation. The firat was aimed not more at ‘the scuth than at the great cities of the exst, and chief among them the great democratic city of New York, with its magnificent patronage. That bill got its death blow in the senate, but there was not a single democrat in New York or New England to vote against it. If you gentlemen have helped to save the south it has also helped to save you in the east, but whether the south should be saved or not, these great American repub- licans, Senators Teller and Wolcott} and your Jones and your Stanford of California, sank their partisan feeling on the order of their patriot- ism and came forward to the rescue of American institutions. No man, gentlemen, in the high noon of our country’s frateruity, can revive force bills now in the rec- onciled and reunited republic. Our opponents themselves have abandon- | old North State and it writes 16 tol jedthem. There is none that can on the saddlebags of the Arkansas| traveler. (Loud applause.) the mountains of West Virginia and makes # great lake in New Mexico. Arizona, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, Montana and Colorado. stands guard around the national capital in the District of Columbia (cheers) and it camps on the iers of Oklahoma. fines of Nebraska. massive batta Ilinois and Missouri. far from least, when I see this graud arrayand think of the British sold standard that was recently unfurled o jon an jour common country. Utah, jcago dressed southern giaves It| flowers, she buried sectionalism | der &@ mountain of fragrance. | Southern over theruins of republican prom.-| ises at St. Louis, I think, too, of the stand between the union of hearts }and the-union of hands, that Grant It pours down its rivulets from jin his d in un- soldiers cheered peace, peace, union and liberty, now and forever.” NO CLASS LEGIs: TION As the majority of the demucrats /mine, know that contraction for the | Slender majority in the Senate, was jeurrency sweeps away with the | silent and resistless force of gravita- tion the a 8 of theiz en- terprise They) al profi investments. and ig no) know, too, that the gold standard any economic is means contraction and the organiza: | tion of disaster. What hope is there for the country and what hope for the democracy unless the views of, the majorily here shal! be adopted? | | Do not the people know that it was ‘not silver legislation dictated by the! | advocates of the gold standard, | | that has caused aud now continues! the financial depression? Do they | not know that, when their demands upon democracy were complied with in 1895, and the Sherman law re-| pealed without a substitute, the | | very states of the east that demand- ed it turned against the democracy who granted it and swept away their majorities in a torrent of ballots? Had the silver men had their way then, instead of gold monometalists what storms of abuse would here today be emptied upon their heads! But the people, applying the power of memory and analysis alike to dis- cover the causes of their interested prosperity, need not go far ty find them. They do not forget when democ- racy came to power in 1893 it inher- ited from its republican predecessor the tax system and the currency system, of which the McKinley law and the Sherman law were the cul- minating atrocities. It came to power amidst a panie which fitly followed upon their enactment—with strikes, lock outs,riots and civic com- motion=, while the scenes of peaceful industry in Pennsylvania were mili- tary manifold oppressive features, the McKinley law hed thrown away fifty millions of revenue derived from sugar under the special plea of a free breakfast table, and bad substituted bounties to sugar planters, thus decreasing revenue aad increasing expenditure, thus burning the candle at both ends, and making the people pay st least for the alleged free breakfast. From the joint operation of the McKinley Jaw and Sherman law an adverse trade was forced against us in 1893. A surplus of $100,000,000 in the Treasury was converted into a deficit of $70,000, 000 in 1894, and engraved bonds prepared by a Republican Secretary, to borrow money to support the Government, were the il! omens of the preorganized ruin that awaited the incoming Democraey, and a de pleted Treasury. THE camps Besides balance of SHERMAN LAW More significant still, the very au thors of the ill starred Sherman law makeshift were already at confes- sional upon the stool of penitence and were begging Democrats to help them to put out the conflagration of disaster that they themselves had kindled. Sofaras revenue to sup- port the Government is concerned, the Democratic party, with but a not long providing it, and had not the Supreme Court of the United States reversed its settled doctrine porated in the tariff bill would long since have abundantly supplied it. Respecting finance, the republi- cans, populists and democrats,while differings upon almost all other sub- | jects, had united in 1892 in declar- ing for the restoration of our Amer- ican system of bimetallism publican and Democratic efforts jalike, the Sherman law was swept |from the statute books, the eager jness to rid the country of that re | publican incubus being so great that |mo prudent effort was made to pro | vide a substitute. ‘ ‘ law repealed, it was declared to be 100 years, the income tax incorpor-! By rej ofthe question and fight a sham battle over a settled tarift, for the question is the paramount issu fore the American people, ar icanisw, more than that presented to a Presid dential ele The « be- volves true ever Was at a presi- Whence comes tue idea that we are | upon it? No, are not upon any | goid stance , but we have a disor- dered and mi eous currency of nine varieties paper,the p of the rey ed worse by the Treas cratic successors. (Applause ) AS TO TAXES men: the whole mass of money in circula- tion. of avy bonds payable in gold, but distir y refused. The specie re- sumption of 1875 gave the surplus revenue in the Treasury, not gold only. Provision made by the Bland Allison act of 1878 added to our cir culation some $350,000,000 of stand- ard silver money, or paper based upon it, and all that mass of silver money is sustained, at parity with gold, by nothing whatever on earth but the silver in it and the legal ten- der functions imparted tc it by law. (Applause } We have no outstanding obliga tions in the United States except the small sum cf $44,000,000 of gold certificates, which are specifically payable in gold, and they of course, should be so paid. All of our specie obligations are payable in coin, which means silver or gold, at the Govern- ment option, or in silver specitically aud only. There is more silver paper based upon silyer in cireulation to-day than there is of gold, or paper based on gold, and that the gold dollar is not the unit of value is demonstrated by the fact that no gold dollar pieces can now, under our laws, be minted. gold standard, we must change the If we should go upon the existing bimetallic staudard of pay- ment of all public debts, taxes and appropriations, specifically pavable in gold. As we have $20,000,000,000 of three times all gold in this country to pay even one year’s interest upon it. We should be compelled hereafter to contract the currency by paying off $500,- 000,000 of greenbacks and Sherman notes in gold, which would nearly exhaust the entire American stock in ani outof the Treasury, and the take more than 000,600 of silver certificates should be paid in gold also, as foreshadow- ed by the present draft upon the jcountry’s stock of gold. This means an increase of the public debt of | $560,000,000, with the prospect of | $344,9C0.000 more. The disastrous consequeuces of such a policy are \only alternate suggested to fight for | before the people is the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 (cheers.) and the complete restora- tion of our hereditary and constitu tional system of American money. ASKED NOT TO STRADDLE We pray you, no more makeshiits jand straddles Vex not the country with your prophecy of smooth publican propaganda. (Applause) The fact that the European na Inthe very act of the Sherman | tions are going to the standard ren- ders it all the more practical that we jand to coin them j intrinsic into dollars of value. The republican try the issue of higher taxes, bonds and less money claimed at last, throwing away the , disguises, the British gold standard. more We can only expect should they | rowed gold have been insuflicient to} ying visions saw was coming | the policy of the United States of Should do so, for the limited stock | gels wings to all the sons of| America to continue the use of both | of goldin the world would have | When Chi-! gold and silver as standard money, {longer division and a smaller share | ifor each nation. Previous predic | tions have been punctually refuted When | party has now renounced tie creed/Wben prosperity was prophesied to| the | of its platform and of our national Come UpoR the unconditional repeal | front-| wounded heroes of the north. the! pledges and presented to the coun.| Of the Sherman law. Instead of prc-! f OI It sweeps iike | south answered back, “Let us have & prairie fire over Iowa and Kansas! and puts up a red light on the con-! It marshals its} ons in Ohio, Indiana, | Last. but by! 'tecting the Treasury reserve, as was lt has pro-| Prophesied it would do, an unpre-| |eedented raid was promptly made |on it, and the $262,000.000 of is not sectional, neither does it stend succeed, my countrymen, a specimen | guarantee its security. for any privileged or class legisla-/ of panic and a long prolonged per-! i The active business men of|iod of depression. Do not ask us to How to country, its manufacturers,/thea to join them in any of their flow of gold to Europe, and g@rcen-| primary interests to subse: ery farmers. sons of toil in| propositions. Least of all ask us! back notes and Sherman notes, ; not to join them upon tke jmoney Instead ot causing forei it has gn capital ted the stiz which = just much payable in silver as in money |} begun by republic2n secretaries and} unfortunately copied by their demo-| Then consider these facts, gentle- |< The Federal, State and mun-!: icipal taxes in this country are as-/~ sessed and paid by the standard of}- No authority bas ever been |~> conferred by Congress for the issue | | meantime, saving slone those | jand West in this nation. public aud private debt, it would] the} same policy would require the $344,- | appalling to contemplate. and the} is tha ' 14 % “SY Pye Os line of drugs and medicines pee Paar Instead of reviying idlers prices of our produce, this policy has lowered them, it is estimated, about 15 per cent in three years In- stead of restoring confidence, this | policy has banished confidence. In- | stead of bringing relief, it has | brought years of misery, aud for this reason it bas contracted the cur- rency of the United States $4 a head for every man, woman and child \ since November 1, 1893, and with | this vast aggregate contraction the | price of land and manufactured | goods and of all kinds of agricultur- | al and mechanical produce has fallen. | The public revenues have fallen, wages of labor have fatlen,and every- | thing on the face of the earth has | fallen but taxes and debts, which | have grown in burden, while on the other hand, the means of their liqui- dation bas been diminished. In the gentlemen, commercial failures have progressed with de vastating effect North, South, Eaet The divi- dends on bank stock haye shrunken. Three fourths of the railway mileage | of the United States is now in the hands of receivere, and the country | has received a shock from which it will take many years to recover. | | INTERNATIONAL Yet in this distressed and con- tracted condition, the new fledged monometallists ask us to declare for a gold standard and to wait for re- lief upon some ghostly dream of an international agreement. But the | people now do well know that the | conspirocy of European monarchs, led by Great Britain, has purposes of aggrandizement to subserve in AGREEMENT. the war upon American silver money, and stand in the way of such agree- ment To their credit they seek to enhance the purchasing power of thousands and millions, which is/ lowing them all over the world, and | which you owe to them. They draw jupon the United States of America | for their food supplies and raw ma | terial—wheat. corn, oil, cotton, iron, \lead and other like staples | they | Besides, Great Britain has large |gold mines in South Africa and things to come from the British Re-|South America, and by closing the lsilver mines has greatly enbanced | their products and their values. Recent British aggrression in | Venezuela in the settlements of South America was moved by the desire to possess more of these gold mines and by monopolizing the met- alas far as possible,to assert British commercial the world. No uation calls itself free and independent that is not great enough to establish and maintain a supremacy over financial system of its own. (Great To pretend that this,the foremost, stand most erful nation of i can not coin its own mon ley wit ing for an internation al agreement at the courts of Furo. | pean autocrats, who hare none but ve, has for many years been keld out at | | every presidential election. They What do you Suppo Is it the tact that the needs of the community have been looked after and that everything wanted in the because everything furnished is invariable the best— because you can feel absolutely certain aboat the quality of everything we sell you? system of fair prices and adoption of modern methods in conducting an up-—to—date drug store. ne Doubtles all these features are responsible. H. L, TUCKER, | SEZ NOZ NOZ NOZ NOZ NOZ NEA VAS Ney * . SENOS 1 aS SICK SEXGIEGIES te = gold, have been used to dip the gold | have made use of such an jout of the Treasury of the United and have foiled it after | States and to store it in the strong ee of the war lords of Europe. | business, this | folly has further depressed it. In- | stead of increasing wages.this policy | has further decreased them. Instead | of multiplying opportunities for em- | ployment, this policy has multiplied tain it, and to wait longer Instead of increasing the) ‘ced jour own people and degrade ¢ | ard is the only solution of the | cial difficulties that we can | the sinister power of autocracy wh | restoration of the metals toan | the value of money and bring | understood this question. eis ie ean be had bere? Or is it Or is it due to our Prescription Druggist, “ee q DWE Se a we have never, in all our bia had an international agreement} ona money question, and nom the founders of this republic dreamed that such an agreements essential. We have had three igh national conferences, in order ter them is to ignore the in national dignity, avd to advertigs all mankind our impotence andj folly. The concessions that come the gold standard of all Europe the restoration of the double the outlook before us. Thed tion of the English Premier and French Minister and the Government, which have been expressed, show that if its ceeda at all, it will succeed agai has been used against it. ITS VIRTUES. An international agreement for ity would be a bond of which would enable us to two metals upon a parity. Ale der Hamilton the great Secretary the Treasury under Washing the first financial act of thia which was passed in 1792, fixing unity our currency upon both for a double reason; first, tl exclude one would reduce it mere merchandise, and the oll that it would involve the diffe between a scanty and a full ei tion. Thomas Jefferson knew this he indorsed the work of Hi and George Washingtsn knew! when he approved it. Daniel ster knew this when he declared! silver and gold are the legal si ards, and that neither Congress any State has the right to eet any other standard or to di this ove. Gen. Grant knew when he looked to silver a8 sovrce of payment, and found astonishment that a Republic gress bad demonetized it he himself bad unwittingly @ the bill. The whole Uunited § now know this and they kno ~.’ | that they who would free them This | seek to get for the least money. , wust strike the blow. (Cheert The mejority of this Cow have the houor here to maintain that this great 4 nation, with a vatursl base empire, the greatest ever estall by man, with more territog / more productive energy thao} Britain, France and Germasy bined, without dependence g| ropean nations for anythi produce, and with Europeas dependent upon much that duce, is fully capable of constitutions! money goid and silver at equality other (Applause.) And as our fathers in 1770 our national independence world, so to day has the gre ccratic party, founded by Jefferson, the author of thatd tion, appeared here in Cb declare the financial indepen the United States of all tions and toinvoke all tried cans to assert by their # the polls, that our countrys placed where she right aa the freest, as the foremo , most prosperous and happi that ever blessed the life of / upon this globe.