The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 23, 1896, Page 2

YD WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, DEMOC ! BRYAN’S :SPEECH Before the Chicago Conven- tion. The Hon. W. J. Bryan of Nebras- 4a, said: : “Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of this Convention: I would be pre. | sumptuous, indeed, to present my- | celf against the distinguished gen- tlemen to whom you have listened, | if this were but a measuring of abil- ity, but this is not a contest among persons. The humblest citizen in} all the land when clad in the armer | of a righteous cause is stronger than | all the hosts of error that they can | bring. Tcome to speak to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty, the cause of hu- manity. (Loud applause.) When this debate is concluded a motion will be made to lay upon the table the resolution offered in com mendation of the administration and also the resolution in condemnation of the administration. I shall ob- | ject to bringing the question down to a level of persons. The individual is but an atom—he is born, he acts, he dies—but principles are eternal, and this has become a contest of principle. Never before in the his- tory of American politics has a great issue been fought out as has this issue, by the voters themselves. On the fourth of March, 1895, a | law of the largest citizens 1 | | RATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT. we speak would never be willing to put him in a position where he could thwart the will of the democratic party. (Cheers.) I say it was not a question of persons; it was a ques- tion of principle, and it iss not with gladness, my friends, that we find ourselves brought into contlict with those who are now arrayed on the other side. The gentleman who just preceded me, Governor Russel, spoke of the old state of Massachusetts. Let me assure him that not one person in | all this conventien entertains the least hostility to the people of the state of Massachusetts (applause), but we stand here, representing peo ple who are the equals before the in the state of Massachusetts. (Applause. ) | When you come before us and tell jus we shall disturb business interests, we reply that you have disturbed our business interests by your course. (Great applause and cheering ) We say to you that you have made too limited in its appli- cation the definition of business men. The man who is employed for wages is as much abusiness man as his employer. (Continued cheer- ing.) The attorney in a country town is as much a business man as the corporation counsel in 2 great metropolis. The merchant at the cross roads store is as much a busi- ness man as the merchant of New York. The farmer who goes forth your \ treaties Lavejbeen disregarded | 4 ple in this country. (Great applause) It is for these that we speak. We do not come as aggressors. war is nota war of conquest. Ve are fighting in the defense of oir | homes, ¢ Be d posterily- hi (Loud app | + We have petitioned and our jhave begged, and they have mok- BB jed, and our calamity came 'no longer; we entreat no more; weed money before the change was | thing, we po | petition no | (Great applause and confusion | the silver delegations The gent! | man jfrom Wisconsin has i frat} he fears a Robespierre. My frimd,| in this land of the free, you med more; we defy ther fear no tyrant who wili spring up! from among the people. What we} need is an Andrew Jackson, to} stand as Jackson stood, aguinstthe | encroachments of aggrandzed | Great applauss. | wealth. | DEMOCRACY UNDER NEW CONDITDNa# “They tell us this platform jas! made to catch votes. We repy to, them thet changing conditions nake new issues; that the principles upon | which rest Democracy are as ever Insting as the hills, but that -hey must be applied to new condifions are they arise. Conditions have atisen and we are attempting to meet thuse conditions. They tell us the in- eome tax ought not tc be broight in here; that it is a new idea. They criticise us for our criticisms of the Supreme court of the United States. My friends, we bave not critiased. We have simply pointed attertion | to what you know. If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opin- the | ion o! court. That will give} | : | ;you ciilicisme. “They stitut: : (Applause. | y we passed an uicon-| law. I deny it. The lax was nut unconstitutonal | when if was passed. It was not! when it went to the Supreme court the first fime. | It did not become funconstitutional until cone judge changed his mind, and we can not be expected to know when a judge will change his | mind. (Applause, aad /a voice, ‘Hit | j‘em again.) The income tax is a just law. It simplyzintends te put the burden of government justly upon the backs of the peopl. I) am in favor of an income tax. (Ap- plause | “When I find a man who is not willing to pay bis share of the bur- den of the government which pro | tects him, I find aman who is un-| worthy to enjoy the jimeom unconstitutional blesaings of a whi : m-{laws, are mad Welifhe: man from New York says that he; and place legislative control in will propose an amendment provid-|hands of foreign potentates and | iness—TI will not slander ei Osr/ ing that this change in our law shall | powers. ‘Cheers. aiready made. that there isn But in not system with goll ur monetary We leg | out protecting those who have loan-! that the gold when, in ean ke find author protecting the debtors of IST: aw or in mor ity tor not when the 3 was passed, but now insists that we must pro- tect the creditor.” zmend “Ho says he also wants to this law and provide i nat if we fail r to maintain a parity within a ye that we will then suspend the co age of silver. We reply that when we advocate a thing which we be we are not lieve will be successful compelled to raise a doubt as to our i ity by trying to show what we Task him if he sin lo if we can will ap does not apply it to ;himself. pi He cory the} i “We go forth contident that we Why? Because upon the issue in this pot of greund up AN PLATFORM ATTACKE? shall wi. ; paramount campaign there is not a 2 which the enemy will dare to chal lenge battle. Why, if they tell us standard is a good | nt to their platfo: that’ their platforn ofa jand tell th pledges the party to get rid aud substitute bi-! Applause) If the gold | standard is a good thing, why try to | get rid of it? (Laughter and ap gold standard | metallism plause jI might call your attention to the | fact that some of the very people | who are in tlis convention today, international bi- metallism, and thereby declare that the gold standard is wrong, | declare in favor of and | better. these very people, four ply his logie to us, why be} months ago were openand avowedly advocates of the gold standard and says what he wants is for the coun-| telling us that we could not legis try to try to secure an international agreement. Why doesn't he tell us what he is going to doif they fail to secure an international agreement? There is more reasen for him to do that than for us to fail to maintain the parity. They have tried for thirty years—for thirty years—to secure an international agreement, and they are waiting for it most pa- tiently, and don't want it at all. (Cheering and laughing, long con- tinued.) } “Now, my friends, let us come to the great paramount issue. It they ask us here why it is we say naore on the money than upon the tarift question, I reply that if protection has slain its thousands, the gold standard has slain tens of thousands. If they ask jus why we did not embody all these things in our platform which we believe, we reply to them that when we have re- stored the money of the constitu- tion all other necessary reforms will be possible, and until that is done there is no reform that complished. ( Cheering.) “Why is it that within months such a change has come over the this country? Three months ago, when it was con- fidently asserted that those who be- lieved in the gold standard would frame our platform and nominate question We say can be ac- sentiments of | three late two metals together, even with all the world. (Renewed applause and cheers). I want to suggest this truth, that if the gold standard is a good thing, we ought to declare in favor of its retention, and not in favor of aband- oning it: and if the gold standard is a bad thing, why should we wait un til some other nations are willing to help us to let go. (Applause.) Here is the line of battle. We care not upon which issue they force the fight. We are prepared to meet them on either issue or on both. If they tell us that the gold standard jis the standard of civilization, we we reply to them that the most en- earth, has never declared for a gold standard, and both the parties this year are declaring against it. (Ap- plause) If the gold standard is the standard of civilization, why my friends, should we not have it? So if they come to meet us on that we can present the history of our nation. More than that. We can tell them this, that they will search the pages of history in vain to find a single in- stance in which the common people | of any land have ever declared them- i selves in favor standard. | (Applause. ) | They can find where the holders of fixed investments have. Mr. Car- of a gold | States will declare our helpleag to 70,000,000, ‘less independent than our fy } if the ’gold standard—and lit till some nation helps us, we re and who tell you that we ought to/ England have bimetallism |that the principle of bimetallism is | lightened of all the nations of the} | of their delegations aud pushed ther nation able to attend to ita ownp | by saying that the People of potency a nation to atteng to our ness. It is the issue at + When our ap j 3,000,C00 had the courage tod own b 1776 over age their independence of every nation upon earth. Shall we. they > descendants. when we have gro declare that we ane rs? No my frie ds, it will Lever be: he judgment of the people. Theos If they say dite. \tallism is good but we can not hay fore, we care not upon what lin battle is fought. that instead of having a gold stand, vard because Exp gland hasit, we shall jrestore bimetallism and then it ithe United States has it. (Applaugy |If they dare to come out and in the open defend the gold standard ry good thing we shall fight them ty the uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of this nation and | the world. Having behind pg the |commercial interests and the labor ing interests and all the toiling may see, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying ty them, you shall not press down on the brow of labor this crown of # thorns. You shall not crucify map, $A kind upon a cross of gold. (Grea ; applause.) : BRYAN MADE A GREAT HIT, The conclusion of Mr. Bryan speech was marked by the most em. | thusiastic demonstration of the con. vention, up to that time. The whole convention sprang to its feet, ang 20,000 throats roared, while twice twenty thousand arms waved franth cally. Handkerchiefs and flags flew } wildly. Hats were hurled aloft Umbrellas were waved. Men shout ed like maniacs. From every quart. er of the hall came the hoarse roar, Suddenly a member of the Texas | delegation uprooted the banner of the Lone Star State and carried it to where stood the standard of Ne braska. Above the roar rose piere- ing shrieks, which sounded like & volley of siege guns above the com tinuous rattle of 10,000 small arms, | Other delegates grasped the etal way to the Nebraska delegat Soon the staffs of two-thirds of the States were grouped about the par: ple standard of Bryan’s State. Qaly the standards of Connecticut, Del vent like ours. that gove (Applause. ) | He say: are opposing the national bank currency. It is rue. | few democrats, most of them mem- ! bers of congress, issued an address | to the democrats of the nation, as- ( in the morning and toils all day, | begins in the spring and toils all | summer, and by the application of | our candidate, even the advocates | of the gold standard did; not think we could elect a President, but they had good reasons for the suspicion, lisle said in 1878 that this wasa struggle between the idle holders of idle capital and the struggiing mas- ware, Massachusetts, Maine, Minae sota, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Vermont, South Dakota, serting the money question was the | paramount issue of the hour; assert- | ing also the right of a majority of | the party to control the position of the party on this paramount issue; | concluding with the request that all believers in free coinage of silver in | the democratic party should organ- ize and take charge of and control | the policy of the democratic party. Three months later, at Memphis, an | organization was perfected, and the | silver democrats went forth openly | W@ving- The cheers were renewed |function of government. and boldly, and courageously pre- claiming their belief, and declaring , that if successful, they would crys- talize in a-platform the declaration which they had made, and then be- | gan the conflict with a zeal approach- | ing the zeal which inspired the eru- | from their hiding place the precious | levy laws for taxation. the | metals to be poured in the channels | saders Hermit. SPREAD OF THE SILVER who followed Peter MOVEMENT. Our silver democrats went forth in @ backroom, corner the money of/ion from,the gentlemen who have| from victory unto victory, until they are assembled now, not to discuss, not to debate, but to enter up the point broke forth in tremendous | to this proposition tell us the issue | judgment rendered by the plain people of this country. | Wealth, is as brain and muscle to the natural re- sources of this country, creates much a business man as the man who upon the Board of Trade aud bets upon the price of grain.” goes INTERRUPTED BY CHEERS. The sentiments of the speaker were cheered again and again, and the galleries seemed to be 2 mass of white, because of the handkerchiefs again and again, and it was some minutes before Mr. Bryan could be heard. He proceeded as follows: “The miners who go a thousand feet into the earth, or climb 2,000 feet upon the cliffs and bring forth of trade, are as much business men as the few financial magnates who, the world.” The'iree silver delegates at this cheers, standing on chairs and jIf you will read what Thomas Ben- j ton said, you willjtind he said that in searching history he could find) but one parallel to Andrew Jackson. | That was Cicero, who destroyed the conspiracy of Catalin and saved] Rome. He did for Rome what! Jackson did when he destroyed the| bank conspiracy and saved America. | (Applause ) We say in our plat-} form that we believe the right to} coin money and issue money is a! We be- lieve it is a part of sovereignty, and | can no more with safety be delegated ;to private corporations and indi- | viduals than we can afford to del- egate to private individuals the power to make penal statutes, or “Mr. Jefferson, who was once re-| garded as good Democratic autbor-! jity, seems to have a different opine | |addressed us on the part o! the! (minority. Those who are opposed jof paper money ig a function of the Applause.) | Waving their hats and banners fran- | bank and that the government oaght | In this contest brother has been ar. tically. Order was finally restored | to go out of the banking business. | rayed against brother, and father against son. The warmest ties of and Mr. Bryan continued: “We come to speak for this ‘I stand with Jefferson rather than! | with them, and tell them, as he did, | love and acquaintance and associa. broader class of business men. Ah, / that the issue of money is a function tion have been disregarded. Old ™y friends, we say not one word jof the government aad that the teaders have been cast aside when agaiust those who live upon the | banks ought to go out of the goy- they refused to give expression to the sentiment of those whom they Pioneers who braved all the dangers | Atlantic coss:, but those hardy |ernment business. “They complain about that plank | would lead. and new leaders have Of the wilderness, who have made which declares against the life tenor | sprung up to give direction to this eause of truth. (Cheers Thus has the contest been waged, and we ing their children near io nature's! mean. the desert to blossom those pioneers away the rose- + rear- in Gfiice. They have tried to strain! it to mean that which it does not | What we oppose in that} have assembled here under as bind- heart. where they can mingle their plank is the life tenure that is being | ing and solemn instructions as were ever fastened upon the representa- tives of a people. We do not come as individuals. Why, as individuals, we might have been glad to compliment the gentle. man from New York (Senator Hill) but we know the people for whom i voices with the voices of the birds: out there where they hare erected school {houses for the education of their young, and chur where they praise their Creator. and ceme- terie3 where sleep th es of their dead—are as deserving of the con- ty Sideration of this par as any peo- i built at Washington, which excludes from participation in the benefits! | the humbler members of our society. I can not dwell longer in mj Cries of “ FORCED TO time CONTINUE “Let me call attention to the two or three great things The gentle-; i because there is scarcely a State to- day asking for the gold standard {that is not within the absolute con- trol of the Republican party. (Loud cheering MCKINLEY —NA POLEON — WATERLOO. “But note the change. Mr. Mc- Kinley was nominated at St. Louis | upon a platform that declared for the gold standard until it shoula be changed into bimetallism by an in- ternational agreement. Mr. McKin- ley was the most popular man of the Republicat party, and everybody three months ago in the Republicac | masses, who have eyer been the} through the aisles of the pit. party prophesied bis election. How ses who produce the wealth and pay taxes of the country, and, my friends it is simply a question that we shall ;decide upon which side shall the Democratic party fight? Upon the side of the idle holders of idle capi- | tal or upon the side of the strug- gling masses? That is the question that the party must answer first and | then it must be answered by each in- | dividual hereafter. DEMOCRACY FOR THE MASSES. | ‘The sympathies of the Democratic |party as described by the platform jare on the side of the struggling | foundation of the Democratic party. is it today. What—that man who!(Applause.) There ate two ideas used to boast that he looked like’ of government. There are those who|exhausted. Whea all were sested| Napoleon (laughter aud cheers),! believe that if you just legisiate to) Delegate Saulsbury of Delswat® that man shudders tcday when he) make the well to do prospercus,that | climbed back on his chair. He andj thinks that he was nominated on the anniversary of the battle Waterloo.” At the suggestion of a coincidence between McKinley's nomination and the fate of Napoleon at Waterloo, thesilver men showed their ap preciation of the point by a yell and an uproar which for twenty or thir- ty seconds prevented the speaker from proceeding. At length, when things calmed down a trifle, he re- sumed as follows “Not only that, but as he listens he can hear with ever increasing dis-| tinctness, the sound of the waves as they beat upon the lonely shores of. St. Helene. Ab, my friends. evident to anyone who the matter. Cheers Vhy change will acter, however pure: no versonal popularity, however great. that can proteét from the avenging wrath of an indignant people the man who! will either declare he is in favor of fastening the gold standard upon! nor the State of New this people. er who is willing to sur. | ing that when its cit render the right of self-government | fronted with the proposition is this 1 look at Itis no private char- | their prosperity will leak through on of | those below. The Democratic idea | State gave three cheers for Bryst |has been that if you legislate to jmake the mass prosperous, their | prosperity will find its way up and | through every class and rest upon jit. (Applause) You come to us jand teli us that the great citics are jin favor of the gold standard. I tell ‘you that the great cities rest upon | these brord and fertile parties. Burn down your cities and leave our farms jand your cities will spring up again jas if by magic. But our farms and the grass in the streets of every ci destroy will grow ty + t eountry. {Loud applause “My friends, we shall declare that ‘this nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, with- out waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth./app e, and upon that issue we expect to carry every single State in the ion. ‘Applause ler the fair State I ehall not sland- of Massachusetts rork by say- 208 are con- Rhode Island and Pennsylvania wee | left standing when the demonstm tion was at its height. Meanti the awful roar from the galleria # continued. The band played, the music could not be heard } jthe Niagara-like tumult of sousd Like an angry ocean it swept 08, breaking, at last receding, falling ® | back, only to rise again. Delegates farily jumped for joy Some of them took possession of the aisles and marched. 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