The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 3, 1896, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1896. WANDERING WILLS WEARISOME WILES He Practices Them on Un- suspecting Citizens of Ohio. TOOTS HIS SILVER HORN Addresses Delivered in the Buckeye State by the Boy Orator. SLIGHT ACCIDENT AT KENTON. The Democratic Nominee Met by Large Crowds at Every Stop- ping-Place. TOLEDO, Ono, Sept. 2.— When the train bearing Mr, Bryan arrived at Spring- field the crush from the steps of the car to the platform was simply terrible, 20,000 people being present. Mr. Bryan spoke as follows: Ladies and gentlemen—For & few moments only Ishall occupy your attention, because a lerge portion of my voice has been left along the liue of travel, where it is sull calling sin- ners to repentance. I am told that in this city you manufacture more agricultural imple- ments than are manufactured in any other city of the country. Tam glad to talk to you, who recognize that the dollars which you received are earned by those who convert the natural resources of this country into money, those who till the soil, for from its fertility springs this Nation's primary greatness. Upon the prosperity of the great producers of wealth, whom we call the masses, as distinguished from the classes, de- pends all the prosperity of this city. If you have a gold standard you legislate the value of money up and you legislate the value oi property down. The very legislation that increases the pur- chasing power of a dollar simply enables that dollar to buy more of other things. How can a dollar be made to buy more of other things? By making more wheat sell for a_dollar, more corn for a dollar, mo-e oats sell for a dollar, more potatoes sell for a dollar, more of the produect of toil exchanging for a given amount of money. It isagood thing for the man who owns money and buys property, but 1t is a mighty bad thing for the man who hasto psy money with the property that he produces. [Applause.] How does the gold standard affect you? You make your implements and sell them to the farmer. Suppose the farmer finds his taxes don’tgo down, but the price of all that he seils goes down. What does it mean? It means that he has less and less money to expend on agriculiural implements and the support of his family. [Cheers.] If you sell bhis sagriculiural implements he promises to u and the legislation destroys his ability then you fiud fault because you have ¢ your implements back and sell them second hand to somebody else. Reaching Urbana at 11 o’clock Mr. Bryan found there an enthusiastic audi- ence, which flocked around the rear plat- form of the candidate’s car gad cheered, Joudly. He was presented as the next President of the United States, and in re- sponse said that whether or not this pre- diction would prove true would depend to | a great extent on what the people about the car would do this fall. Mrs. Bryan was also introduced to the gathering and ‘was given three cheers as the train drew out. A large number of men, women, boys and girls, bearing slips of yeilow paper containing the inscription, *“McKinley Club,” were in the crowd of several hun- dred gathered at Belie Fontaine. Al- tnough the Bryant contingent, in the dis- tance seemed to be in the minority, it had plenty of enthasiasm and succeeded in making a great noise. Mr. Bryan re- ferred to the color of the baages in his speech. Farmers from the surrounding country kept coming into Kenton all the morni 1o attend the reception given there 1o WE J. Bryan, and when he arrived the demon- stration was most enthusiastic. Mr. Bryan made a vigorous speech at the courthouse square that won frequent applause. While it wasin progress part of the speakers’ stand gave way with a crash, carrying a score of people with it. No- body was hurt, but the wildest excitement reigned for a few minutes. Mrs, Bryan barely managed to save herself from béing precipitated into the hole through which those near her fell. A special coach, char!ered by the Toledo Teception committee, was attached to the train on which Mr. Bryan left Kenton. Mr. Bryan was given a flattering reception in point of the number of veople who as- sembled to hear him speak at Findlay. If the crowd was rot so enthusiastic as at other places there were plenty who did honor to the full extent of their lungs. Fully 6000 people were present. After leaving Findlay stops were made by the Bryan tramn at {Vn]ker and Cynet, where there were small crowds but much enthusiasm. Mr. Bryan made brief re- marks at both places. At Bowling Green a stand had been erected & hundred feet from the railway tracks and about it 2000 people were closely acked. They cheered the candidate when he appeared and listened attentively to a brief speech. The Ladies’ Silver Club, composed of young woimen attired in white frocks and wearing silvered caps, was a feature of the reception there, and a brass band had also been retained to meet the candidate, Miss Carrie Layman, a member of the Ladies' Bilver Club, presented Mr. Bryan with a bouget of flowers and made a little ad- dress. ““These flowers,” she said, ‘‘were gath- ered from the richest agricultural soil in this great State, where the people, and especially the farmer, notwithstanding their splendid soil, are in great financial distress.” Another vast audience, unprecedented in political campaigns, heard William J. Bryan deliver a speech in High School Square, here to-night. The concourse at Columbus last night was the largest Mr, Bryan ever addressed. DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEEMEN., Chairman Jones Names the Ewmecutive, Campaign and Advisory Member: CHICAGO, Iin., Sept. 2. —Chairman Jones of the Democratic National Com- mittee sprung a surprise late this after- noon by announcing the appointment of members of the executive, campaign and advisory committees. These appoint- men's have been pending for some time, and it was thought they would not be an- nounced until after Satarday’s conference with Mr. Bryan and mempers of the Na- tional Committee. The committee as announced is as fol- lows: Executive—James J. Jones, chair- man; Thomas O. Towles, secretary; Henry D. Clayton, Alabama; Thomas C. McRae, Prescott, Ark.; J. J. Dwyer, San Francisco; Adair Wilson, Durango, Colo.; lf?:ichsrd !ét Ken;:ey. Dover, Del.; Samuel asco, Monticello, Fla.; Geor, insli Boise City, Idaho; John C. K%lfi:‘k‘l‘i‘;: Evansville, Ind.; C. A. ‘Walsh, Oitum wa, Jowa; U. Woodson, Owensboro, Ky.; N C. Blanchard, Sureveport, La.; Arthur P, Gorman, Laurel, Md.; D. J. Campau, De- troit, Mich.; William J. Stone, Jefferson City, Mo.; W. H. Thompson, Grand Isl- and, Nebraska; James Smith, Newark, N. J.; Josephus Daniels, Raleigh, N. C.; William C. Lesitkon, Grafton, N. D.; B. R. Tillman, Trenton, 8. C.; James M. Heid, Nashville, Tenn.; Peter J. Otey, Lynchburg, Va.; E. C. Wall, Milwaukee, Wis.; Marcus A. Smith, Pheenix, Ariz.; Lawrence Gardner, Washingion, D. C.; Thomas Marcum, Muskogee, 1. T. Cumpaign—Daniel J. Campau, Michi- gan, chairman; Jjohn R. McLean, Cincin- nati; William J. Stone, Jefferson City, Mo.; Clark Bowell Jr., Atlanta, Ga.; J. G. Johnson, Peabody, Kans. ; Thomas Gahan, Chicago; William A. Clark, Helena, Mont.; Jomes Kerr, Cleartield, Pa.; Frank Bosford, Michigan, secretary. Messrs. Clark and Kerr are the additions made to this commiitee to-day and there is still one vacancy to be filled. W hether this is left for Senator Teller of Colorado, as hinted yesterday, is a matter of con- jecture. Eiialaigioe s FOEMULAZTING RESOLUTIONS. Preparing the Planks for the Sound- Money Platform. INDIANAPOLIS, Isp.,, Sept. 2—The committee on resolutions metat the Grana Hotel shortly before 5 o’clock and organ- ized by selecting Senator Vilas of Wiscon- sin chairman and Albert Watkins of Ne- braska secretary. It was deemed best to leave the actual construction of the plat- form to a sub-committee, ana after an hour of discussion the following were selected to do this work: Hon. W. F. Vilas (chairman), C. V. Holman of Maine, C. P. Lew1s of New Jersey, Hon. Virgil P. Kline of Ohio. Comnptroller of the Cur- rency James H. Eckels of Illinois, £d- mund Cooper of Tennessee, Thomas G. Jones of Alabama, Jobn P. Irish of Cali- fornia, Henry W. Lamb of Massachusetts and Albert Watkins of Nebraska. The informal discussion of the members disclosed the fact that the great majority of the committee was of one mind on the leading propositions to be submitted. It is understood that there will be no refer- ence to bimetallism, but that the money plank will declare unequivocally for the existing single gold standard. Along this line the plank submitted by C. E. 8, Wood of Oregon, heretofore given in these dis- patches, appears to have met with gen- eral approval, for its reading was %reeted with applause. While it is probable that the declaration will be put in a different dress the ideas advanced will likely form the basis of the financial plank. That pro- posed plank is as follows: We favor the use of gold and silver as money, but insist upon the maintenance of our present gold standard and that silver should only be used so far as it safely may be and consistently with the firm maintenance of such gold standard. We oppose all forms of fist money and con- sider 1ts retirement from circulation as rec- ommended by the present administration in. dispensible to a steble currency and to the maintenance of the gold standard. The retirement of the greenback has many strong advocates, among them Virgil ]Y{Iinke of Ohio and Perry Belmont of New ork. Equitable and just pension laws will be indorsed. 3 The tariff plank will be along the usunal lines. A vigorous opposition will be ex- pressed to nfl forms of fraudulentand mis- guided paternalism. The Chicago platicrm will be arraigned, notably on account of 1ts *‘attacks on the Supreme Court” and its *“‘upholding of anarchy by denying the right of the use of Federal troopsin a State to suppress the violations of the United States law in those States.” Among propositions offered and read for the information of the committee was one by C. Vey Hoiman of Maine re- garding the merchant marine. It was, he said, radically different from the plank pressed upon the committees of the St. Louis and Chicago conventions — and adopted by the latter—by the representa- tives of the American Shipping League, of which Arthur Sewall is president. Itreads as follows: We demand that henceforth modern and liberal policies toward American shipping shall take the place of our imitation of lge Te- strictive statutes of the eighteenth century, long ago abandaned by every other maritime power but the United States. To this end we iavor the repesl of those navigation laws which, to the Nation's humiliation, have driven American capital and enterpriseé to the use of alien flags ung lien crews, have made the Stars and Stripes an aimost unknown em- blem in foreign ports, and have virtually ex- tinguished the race of American seamen. We oppose the pretense that discriminating duties will bromote shipping: that scheme is an invitation to commerciai wariare upon the United States, un-American in the light of our great commercial tresties, offering no gain whatever to American shipping while greatly increasing ocean freights on our agricultural and manuiacturing products. The sub-commiitee to-night began the work of drafting a platform, a task which Senator Vilas said should be well and thoroughly performed, regardiess of the time required todo it. The sub-committee reviewed the propositions before them and decided that more satisfactory proeress could be made by a further sub- division of labor, so the general divisions of the platform were assigned to the fol- lowing named members for preparation: Preamble and general declarations, Kline, Curtis and Jones; financial plank, Vilas and Eckels: tariff and economic subjects, Irish, Watkins and Holman; civil service, Lamkb, —_—— VERMONT'S GREAT VICTORY. Increased Republican Majority in the New England State. WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vr., Sept. 2.—Returns from 325 cities and towns in the State give Grout (R.) for Governor 52.565; Jackson (D.) 14.627; Battelle (Pop.) 616; Whittemore (Prohib.) 511. Grout's vlurality, 37,938; majority, 36,811. In 1892 the same towns and cities gave Fuller (R.) 38,239; Smalley (D.) 18,903; all others 1721, Fuller's plurality, 19,336; majority, 17,615, —e JAPAN AGAIN CONVULSED, An Earthquake Destroys One Town and Badly Damages Others. Many Persons Reported Kiled and Injured—A Typhoen in the Southern Prov:nces. YOKOHAMA, Jarax, Sept. 2.—Reports have been received here to the effect that a severe eartbquake caused a great amount of damage Monday in the northwest provinces and on the main islands off that coast. Particulars are very meager, but it is known that the town of Rukago has been partially destroyed and other villages severely damaged. Many persons are re- ported to have been killed and injured, and the property loss is believed to be tre- mendous. The provinces visited by the earthquake are the same as those devastated by the terrible earthquake and tiual wave of June 15, when a large number of towns were wiped out and the estimated loss of life was 30,000, The provinces of Rekuzen and Rikuchn, along the coast from the island of Kon- kasan northward, are where the principal sufferers are to-day. The recollection of the havoc to human life wrought by the convulsion causes great anxiety as to what further reports may show as the result of Monduy’s earth- quake. On the same day a typhoon caused ex- tensive damage in Southern J pan. —_—————— ‘West Woolwich, Me., is in not haying a dog wit limits. thaps unique in thp: vm'l.. s i i I Interior of Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis, Indiana, Where the Gold Standard Democracy Is Holding Its National Convention. Scene as Viewed From the Stage. LOLDENRQD MOCRACY [Continued from First Page.) ment in our industries, and part has been hoarded for the day when 1t should bringa high premium. Our Government can get none except by increasing the National debt and the burden of taxation. About $100,000,- 000 in gold is in the United States treasury to support the parity, not alone of the £346,000,- 000 of greenbacks, which was its original function, but the $625,000,000 of silver cur- rency which has been issued since. That frail foundation has been trembling since 1890 with the additional weight put upon it. Only by heroic means has the Government been able to prop up the immense superstructure. But even the prospect of unlimited silver coin- age under present conditions would make that foundation disappear as if jn a gqnick- sand, and you and I and-every man who has property or wages would find their value changed from a gold to a silver measure. This will be the certain resuit of imposing such an additional burden upon the Govern. ment, but when with that in view we consider the disposition of foreign Governments to strengthen their gold reserves and the sus- pension of free silver coinage in India, which has heretofore been the world's sink for all its surplus silver, but it is so no longer, the con- clusion is inevitable that we would be reduced to a silver basis and to a very cheap silver basis at that. One characteristic of political remedies ad- ministered and recommended by quack po- litical doctors is that they are alleged to cure all diseases. To every man in distress in any part of the country the demonetization of sil- ver is pointed out as the cause of his misery, and the remonetization of silver as his remedy. By reason of perfectly simple causes the prices of wheat and corn and other agri- cultural products have declined, but this de- cline is attributed by these political quacks to the demonetization of silver, and the farmer, along with every other man who finds it hard to make both ends meet, is told that by re- monetizing silver wheat will go to a dollar a bushel and other farm products will rise pro- portionately. If this were true, rising prices would affect the commodities which a farmer buys, the interest he pays on his debts, the freight rates which determine the cost of getting his pro- ducts to market, and he would be relatively no better off than before. To expect the farmer to accept so great a delusion is to pre- sume upon his intelligence. Ask the farmers of my State why they are giving up the pro- duction of wheat and corn, and they will tell vou it is because of the depreciation of silver. They will point to these great Western prairies and tell you they cannot compete with these in the growth of the staple cereals. And they have taken to raising other crops which are more profitable and less competitive. The same tendency Is the case throughout the agricultural world. Not only have thousands of acres of Western lands in America been thrown open to cuitivation within recent years, but in Russia, India and the Argentine Republics, railroads end enterprises have brought large additions of acreage under cul- tivation and poured millions of additional bushels upon the markets of the world. The same cheapening in the cost of boots and shoes, of hats and coats and other cloth- ing which has followed excessive production in the manufacture of these articles, has been manifest in the excessive production of agri- cultural products. It 1s the old familiar law of supply and demand. In my State of New York hay is selling at $15 per ton; last year it was $10. Do our silver friends attribute that to the demonetization of sitver? They ought | to if they wish to be consistent. Silver dollars in the pockets of the mine-owners are of no benefit to the Western farmer. What they want is prosperous conditions which will put silver dollars in their own pockets—dollars which when they are taken out will buy justas much as gold dollars. Ageainst such threatened calamities we have met as Democrats, as patriots, to protest. Oar purpose is too serious to permit differences on minor matters or personal jealousies to divide our councils or weaken our influence. We have come here as Democrats {o exert such influences as we may have among Demo- crats for the good of our country and the pres- ervation of our party organization for other periods of usefulness. Renouncing as un-Dem- ocratic the work of the party organization at Chicago let us be true to every Democratic in- stinct at Indianapolis. Let no man say that in this convention any false note of Democracy ‘was sounded. We stand for all that should in- epire good citizenship, for honest money, en- forcement of law and order, respect for author- ity, the preservation of the National credit, the just payment of debts, the dignity and welfare of labor, the prosperity and fair name of America. United in such a cause we can go forward with the American flag as our banner and the words “National Democrats” inscribed on its folds. We know no sectional issue or in- terest. We stand behind the broad shield of patriotism, and in that sign we shall conquer. The speech was very warmly received. The States were then calléd for the selec- tion of members of the various committees | recess until 4 p. M. During the interim the committee on permanent organization carried out the programme of the National committee by selecting Senator Caffery of Louisiana for permanent chairman. John R. Wilson of Indiana, the temporary sec- retary, and the remainder of the tempo- rary organization were chosen for perma- nent officers. The convention reassembled at 4:30 with a very large attendance. The report of the committee on credentials stated that there were 824 delegates vresent, repre- senting forty-one States and three Terri- tories, and recommending that those pres- ent be entitled to cast the full votes of their States and Territories. The report was agreed to without question. Dr. Everett of Massachusetts was intro- duced to fill up with a speech the time until the report on permanent organiza- tion should be ready. He addressed the convention as fellow-patriots, and said Massachusetts had sent her delegation, nearly sixty strong, to aid in repelling the invasion which had risen against the ancient honor and credit of the whole country. [Cheers.] Massachusetts was for goid. [Cheers.] Talk about an inter- national agreement for bimetallism ! Why had we not now all the nations of the world whose name was worth anything for the gold standard? [Applause.] Massachusetts, he continued, is here against all class distinctions. [Cheers.] Massachusetts Democracy knows no dis- tinction between North and South, be- tween East and West [applause], and, above all, the Demecracy of our State will not stand any insult against that man who has protected the credit and honor of America. We stand to-night with Presi- dent Cleveland. Here the convention rose to a man, and there was a scene of greatenthusiasm. Delegates cheered and shouied, and waved hats, fans, handkerchiefs and flags,and the spectators in the galleries took part in the demonstration. When Dr. Everett was able to make him- self heard again, he said: We of Massa- chusetts are not here to act for any special candidates. Gentlemen from the South and West, gentlemen from the Pacific and center, give us any two men, any mcen the country knows and honors for distinction, for purity, for worth in public or private life, North or Bouth, civilians or soldiers, and Massachusetts will do all that she can for their support. [Prolonged applause.] “We are told that we might do as well by casting our votes for the candidates nominated at St, Louis. I mean the first 8t. Louis convention, not the second. [Laughter.] We are told that for sound- money’s sake we have nothing to do but to go over to that camp. Mr. President, I respectfully decline to admit that all pub- lic virtue is centered in the Republican party. [Applause.] If it were only for this year, if it were only for thiscampaign, I might think differently of what we are to do. But we are not here only for this campaign. We are here for 1900, we are here for the future. There are hundreds and thousands of young men growing up and asking for whom they are to vote and who know nothing of the traditions of party. They want to know to what party to join themselves, to know which is the progressive party, the party of the day and hour, and I say this convention is to be not the last, but the first of a series of conventions. [Loud applause.] *This is to be the first convention of the party of young America. [Cheers.] We are fighting not merely for the honor and historic principles of our party ; not merely against anarchism and populism; not merely against protection and paternal- ism, but we are fighting that the United States may stand in the face of her sister nations, undimmed in bhonor and un- shaken in courage.” Dr. Everett resumed his seat amid loud and long continued applause. The report of the committee on perma- nent organization was then presented by the chairman of the committee, James W. Eaton of New York. Senator Caffery was escorted to the chair by Mr. Bullitt of Peunsylvania and Mr. Lawler of Minne- sota, and spoke as follows: I tender this convention my deepest thanks for the nomor conferred by selecting me to preside over 11s deliperations, I shaii always regard it as the highest ever conferred upon me. . Charged by our party with the function of miuistering in its temple of faith and teaching the people its true doctrines, our priests have desecrated its altars, broken its shrines and taught false doctrines to the people. We now enter the sanctuary of the temple and take Ppossession of the ark of the covenant of our feith, which we will hereafter vigilantly guard, protect and defend. We will purify its desecrated altars and rebuild its broken shrines. And, lest the hearts of the people be stolen away from true Democratic faith, the {aith of our fatbers and founders, we must and -at 2:10 2. M. the convention took a Aupsnu from our brethren who have wrought this evil, and from those who have followed their evil teaching. We cannot follow them in the road they have taken; for their feet are swift to destruction and their way is the way of death. The ties that bound us were as strong as hooks of steel, but we part from them, though in sorrow. Loyalty to party discipline and to organization hasever been the pride and strength of our party. Loyalty to principle has ever been and ever will be its cardinal and leading tenet, param ount to eli others, bind- ingin conscience and guiding the action of every true Democrat. The Chicago platform has the stamp of our party and claims its allegiance, but it is a mere simulacrum, & form without the substance of Democracy, and no Democrat is bouad by it, nor is itentitlea to his fealty. The declara- tions of that platform are “open, palpable and flagrant” departures from all that Democracy has stood for. They assail the money standard of the country end declare for the inflated and depreciated standard of silver at 16 to 1. They assail the right ana power of the executive to enforce the law and to protect property under the control and in the custody of the Federal courts in any state in the Union; they attack the integrity of aco-ordinate branch of the Government; they declare that the function of issuing paper money is to be exclusively exercised by the Government itself; they assail the right of the citizen to contract payment in any legitimate commodity, for they declare that the obliga- tionsof the Government for which gold was received, and for the payment of which in the same coin the National faith is pledged, may be paid in depreciated coin. And we declare each and all of these attacks and declarations are un-Democratic. They are an assault upon the constitution, the time-honored principles of the Democratic narty and the distinguished patriot and statesman who has twice led it to the only victories it has achieved in thirty-six years. Itis the Ismael of platforms. It raises its hand against some of the principles of both parties and nearly all the principles of the Democratic party. It is begotten of the un- hallowed union between so-called Democracy, Populism and anarchy, and that the Seriptures may be fulfilled “it will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the fece of the earth.” We hold that no argument is needed to show the revolutionary and anarchistic character of the doctrine thet the laws can be en- forced in e State to protect property which is in the jurisdiction of Federal courts, or to protect the United States mails, or that the Supreme Court ought to be reorganized, or that the National honor should be stained, or the National faith violated, or that the free- dom of private contract ought to be iimited, or that the function of issuing paper money ought to be exclusively exercised by the Fed- eral Government. We hold that the theory of free coinage of silver with gold et the ratio of 16 to 1 admits of argument, but we hoid that the weight of authority, thestrength of reason- ing and the facts of history ali point to its fallacy and the ruinous consequences of its adoption. We hold that it will rob the poor man of his wage and the rich man of his wealth, the widow of her savings, the child of his patrimony, the soldier of his pension, the industrious of the fruits of his toil and the inventor of the re- ward of his genius, We hold that it will de- moralize and seriously disturb the immense trade and commerce of the republic and drive the country to & discredited, depreciated and depreciating standard; smite our finances as with palsy and trade with a blight. We hold that the Nation’s credit will fall prostrate; its obligations will be dishonored and its unsul- lied character will be stained with fraud and deficit. We claim that these averments are true, established by historical fact, by unan- swerable reason, the opinions of the most dis- tinguished political economists and the com- mon-sense and common honesty of the largest portion of our fellow-citizens. The credulity and cupidity of some of our good citizens have been played upon and aroused by artful fantasies and cunning dema- gogues. There are, however, many honest, patriotic and intelligent men who cling with all the strength of conviction to the spacious but unsound theory of bimetallism at 16 to 1. If their theory is denounced as false and per- nicious no imputation is cast upon their char- acter nor any slur upon their inte:ligence. The free coinage of silver is, and has been since Mr. Cleveland’s inauguration, the su- preme overshadowing issue before the coun- try. Upon that issue the President and a ma- jority of his party took opposite sides. In con: sequence he has been powerless to effect finan- cial reform and secure immunity from gold raiaing on the treasury. Since the inception of the struggle for free silver no compromise has been possible. Our brethren knew that the battle was on to the death. Thenominee of the so-called Demo- cratic party has on several occasions pro- claimed the irreconcilable nature of the con- flict. It is a fitting culminauon for our brethren to obtain allies from Populism at the price of incorporating its nefarious doctrines in their piatiorm and attempting 10 pass them off as genuine Democracy. It was fit thattoa degraded and depreciated currency should be added an assassinatea judiciary and a power- less executive. Fellow-citizens, we are not traltors to our party. We are in the house of our fathers. We cannot be driven from it. We will defend the honor of our country and the integrity of our principles as long as life endures. We can neither be ousted from our political heritage nor forced into the ranks of our old-time ad- versary. We intend to preserve intact, unim- paired and unsullied, by and through the or- ganization which we perfect to-day, the De- mocracy of Jefferson, Jackson, Béuton and Clevelund. We propose to furnish a refuge and an abiding place for such of our brethren as, shocked and grieved at the betrayal of our principles at Chicago, are inclined to go to the Republican camp. The principles of Democracy are imperish- able. They are antagonistic to the paternal- ism of the Republican and the Socialist, the destructiveness of the anarchist and the vagaries of the inflationist repudiator. Byron wrote: *‘While the Coliseum stands Rome shall stand, and while Rome stands, the world.” We say: “While Democracy stands the Republic shall stand. and while the Re- public stands, human liberty.” For a season our party may stray after false doctrines and flounder amid quagmires until the beacon light of truth breaks upon it. It will rise from every fall like Antwmus of old, and “E'en in its ashes shall live its wonted firés."’ If it is fated that our party must perish let no historian write such an epitaph on its tomb as this: “Came to an untimely end from swallowing political and financial poison,” but rather let this epitaph be written over its honored grave, dug amid the ruins of the Capitol: “It did not survive the loss of liberty, the destruction of the Republic and the de- cay of private morals,” We are the propaganda of no new creed, we are the upnolders of the old. We appeal from Democracy, dronk with delusion, to Democ- racy, sobered by reason. With an apiding Iaith in the intelligence and honesty of our people, we lay before them and the world the Teason that prompts us to unfurl the old flag that has floated over many a triumph and many a defeat and never yet been soiled by repudiation or stained by dishonor. We deem it wise to pursue an aggressive rather than a negative policy; to be Achilles dragging Hee- tor around the walls of Troy, raiher than Achilles sulking in his tent. We propose to make & funeral pyre of the cadavers of Popu- ulism and anarchy. We propose to drag be- hind our triumphal chariot wheels, in defeat and disgrace, around the National Capitol, the dead Frankenstein personifying their perni- cious creed and their turbulent fapaticism. We cannot make bedfellows, even. in a night of furious storm and thick darkness, of our lifelong antagonists. We cannot, even to es- cape as great evils as are the necessary result of the success of the Chicago platform, be the executfoners of our loved and venerated party. We cannot, even by implication, be held to the false theory that the Federal power and treasury can or ought to be used to impair the autonomy of the States, on one hand, and, on the other, to dispense largess to favored classes. The election of McKinley, or of Bryan, with our support, would mean the destruction of our whole party for a generation, for when our people recover from the debauch of Popu- lism and anarchy, they will discard the men who have led their orgy. I1f we go to McKinley those men will be the recognized exponents of Democracy. When the fumes of the debauch are dissipated, and Eober reason resumes her sway, our flock would turn toward its fold, only to find it destroyed. We, therefore, stand fast. We sound a bugle-call throughout the land for all Democrats to raily for the support of government and law, for the honor of their country and for the maintenance and pre- servation of their creed, its memories and its glories. nesr future, and then those clouds which low- ered over our political fortunes and darkened our councils will take flight; those eyes which lately met in party conflict will be turned all one way and a united and triumnhant Democ- racy will march on to victory under the @gis of the constitution and under the precepis of the apostles of our faith. Senator Caffery’s remarks were deliv- ered with much force and were greeted with continued cheering. When he bad closed, John P. Irish of California was introduced and made a speech to the convention. Alluding to the D-mocratic convention held in In- dianapolis during the war, under threat, he said, of physical extermination, he re. marked that they were here to-day under the threat of extermination of that which was dearer than life. They were here to defend against further atiack the public credit, the National honor, and the pri- vate and personal honesty of the individ- ual. [Applause.] They were met to face & crisis more serious than any crisis that bad been faced before. They were met to oppose the moral force of principle and conscience to those who would assail and destroy the independence of the individ- ual citizen. They were here as the representatives of a party that opposed an organization that had tilched its name and debauched its principles. They represented that organ- ization and thoze grinciples which, under the leadership of Grover Cleveland, were in line with the ancient principles of buman liberty. [Applause.] Thev were here to swear, with Jackson, “By the Eternal’’ that the marrow and streigth of the Demogratic party should not be obscured or belittled by Populism, [Ap- plause.] He did not care whether it was attempted by the Populist convention at Chicago or the Populist convention at St. Louis. The two conventions of the year, alike in purpose, alike in declaration, alike in the folly of their principles and the contemptibilities of their vagaries. [Ap- plause.] These were in fact the two twin conventions of the year—and not ‘“‘the heavenly twins” either. [Laughter.] *“We are here,” Mr. Irisn continued, “to denounce right and left the enemies that we have gained since 1884, We are here to dencunce on the right hand the Republi- can party, for by the extravagance of its Congressional appropriations it has so enlarged the deficiency of revenue as to form an excuse for a renewal of the per- nicious paternal policy of protection. We are here to denounceand antagonize on the left hand the Populists of Chicago and St. Louis, for they by their threats involving tue free coinage of silver and a slump to a financial foundation, maae up of a depre- ciated and fluctuating currency, have so destroyed public confidence as tufi:ralyze the activities of the people of this Republic and limited trade to such an extent that the present impost laws passed by Con- gress do not produce the revenues they would if confidence and prosperity were abroad in the land. “We arraign thes: two enemies of the plain people of the Republic as co-con- spirators in a complementary and recipro- cating policy, which has produced the condizions about which both hypocriti- cally raise whining voices of complamnt and accusation. [Laughter and cheers.] The candidate of one combination stand- ing for an advance of price by that artifice called protection, the othet conspirators represented by a candidate for the Presi- dency who is preaching to the people the ospel of high prices to be secured by re- gueing the purchasing power of our money — each policy meaning burdens upon the industry of the laborer, upon the profits of enterprises and upon the avails of investments. [Renewed cheers.] We stand were Jefferson stood, where Cleveland stands, and say to these daugh- ters of the horseleech, ‘A plague upon you botn.” [Cheers and laughter.| Mr. Lrish spoke of part of Bryan’s stock in trade being a denunciation of trusts, ana went on to characterize Mr. Bryan as “the agent, ?ropng-ndist and commer- cial traveler of a syndicate greedier than the cormorant’” [cries of ‘“‘Good’” and cheers]; a syndicate which gained mil- lions u«on millions from the silver mines of the West and of Mexico; a syndicate which stands confessed upon the tongue of its representalive now traveling the country touting for custom for it {loud cheers], and now in the field for the sole and only purpose of advancing the price of its products by making the people be- lieve that will be an advantage to them. [Applause. Mr. Irish, continuing, said he brought words of good cheer to the convention from the Pacific Coast to assure them that arter November it would be found that California and her younger sisters, Oregor:. and Washington, had stood by the faith, and if they had not finally vanquished one daughter of the horseleech they had left ber without a sister, Mr. Irish’s speech wasreceived with en- thusiastic applause throughout. As he re- sumed his seat the band played “‘Rally Round the Flag,” and there was quite an ovation. The committee on platiorm not being ready to report the convention at 5:15 7. 3. adjourned until to-morrow at 10 A. M. SRR Watterson Says “Stand Firm. INDIANAPOLIS, Ixp., Sept. 2.—The If not heeded now, it will be in the | following telegram was received this after- noon from Henry Watterson: GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 2. W. B. Haldeman, Indianapolis: Another ticket our only hope. No compromise with dishonor. Stand firm. HEeNRY WATTERSON. oo Tl ¥OR THE GOLD STANDARD. Mass-Meeting of Democrats Held in Ine dianapolis. INDIANAPOLIS, Inp, Bept. 2—A mass-meeting called in support of the sound-money movement was held this evening in the convention hall. The at- tendance was as large as could be accom- modated in the building. The chairman, Jobn R. Fellows, made a strong speech, the striking points of which elicited fre- quent applaus-. Louis R. Erich, dne of the Colorado delegation, was next introduced. He said be had come to the convention against the advice and entreaty of many friends, who had to!d him that public opinion was much inflamed 1n his State. He admitted that it was so, but did not believe that the State of Colorado had descended to a level where it would not tolerate and respect the free expression of honest opinion. He prefaced his further remarks by a personal statement, as showing thestandpoint from which he had investigated the question. He suid that he owned large interests in silver mines, and that the contmued silver agitation had made his property unsal- abte, e then, at great length and with very pointed personal references to both the Senators from Nevada, traced the history of the silver agitation to the development and decline of the twenty mines on the Comstock lode, which, after paying at one time over $47,000,000 in dividends, had so fallen away that they paid not one cent. He charged that the silver child was born in the Comstock bed. Thereafter began the silver legislation of Congress. He fol= lowed this in detail, speaking of it as sil- ver poison which had begun to underwine our monetary system, and the cure offered was poison in larger doses. The silver poison, he said, had affected our business relations externally as well as internally. The nations loak upon us with suspicion. Our securities are thrown back on us and our zold drained from the country. Our foreign trade is diminishing. The world hesitates to do business with a nation which threatens to depreciate its money standard. He concluded as follows: “I have no fears as to the result of this | election. Its outcome will teach the on- looking nations that the crown of over one hundred years of political life under republican institutions shall not be the national impairment of debt obligations, and it will be held up asa warning to our children and our children’s children that a public policy that is tainted with but a breath of dishonesty will be indignantly spurned by rhis pround American people. “I have the deepest sympathy with many of the free-silver adberents. They are my neighbors. I am bound to them by my interests my associations and my affections. They are honest and sincere men. They love their country and would not willingly plunge it into destruction. But they have been deluded and misled. ‘The best friend of truth is time,’ and as time rolls on our misguided fellow-citizens will yet be grateful to those who helped check them in their mad rush to self- destraction; they will yet thank God for the defeat which will overwhelm them in November, and they will bless us who are assembled in Indianapolis this day. By courage and patriotism the influences of this convention will make that defeat in- evitable.” Hon. David Lawler of Minnesota and several others made earnest addresses and the meeting adjourned at a late hour. gt NEW NATIONAL COMMITTEE., Men Who Will Manage the Third-Party Campaign. INDIANAPOLIS, Ixp., Sept. 2.—The following are the members of the new Na- tional Committee: Alabama, J. A. Faulk- ner; Arkansas, C. B. Moore; California, E. B. Pond; Colorado, Louis R. Ebrich; Connecticut, Joel A. Sperry; Delaware, John G. Rosselle; Florida, D. G. Ambler; Georgin, Thomas F. Corrigan; Illinois, Ben T. Cable; Indiana, John R. 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