Show I A MAGNIFICENT t DEI1NSTRATION r r Friends of Silver RaHy to Ratify the h Nomination of Bryan and Sevai if r It PARTY LINES i WERE WIPED OUT Iii J I Democrats and Republicans t United in a Common Cause r J t THE POPULISTS t FALL IN LINE f ff All Declare For the New Didara Ia t tion of In ep nde ice r t xMayor Ifcskia CLtlls the Sleeting to Order mid Makes a Few Fitting Remarks Introducing the Yonus Orator Fisher S Harris as the it Chairman of the EtcnisiR Time of Orator Entlii2 iRsiii anil Great t EarnestiscNa Jloat Elcijaeiit Au j dresses I5y Hon J L Ivaivlins F B Stephens C S Varian R B I Shcpranl O IV Powers Sirs La Hartlic Dr Fers < ison Warren Foster and O there Great Overflow Over-flow Electing Adurcsed By lion c V u Ring 1 M Benny George E Blair R VI lon and Others The Salt Lake theatre has been the scene of many notable political gatherings gath-erings during its thirty years of history but in many respects the demonstration demonstra-tion last night was the most remarkable remark-able Men and women of all political I complexions came like mighty hosts cast aside partisanship and enlisted in I the white army ot brain and muscle lighting for our countrys financial independence in-dependence It was a great ratification by far I the most enthusiastic held in the state for years i r Everything was Bryan Sewall and I free silver From the moment the I throng rushed through the doors and k caught sight of a likeness of the silver hosts standard bearer until the ast speaker had uttered the magic name of Bryan the cheering and enthusiasm i was kept up The gray haired Republican Republi-can whose first vote had probably been j f cast for Lincoln and whose form had grown bent in the service of his party sat side by side with the followers of j I Old Hickory and cheered every mention men-tion of the boy orators name and j the great principle it stands for And this was the way the greatest people of the grandest city in the youngest f state of the Union made known their approval of the Democratic nominee K > As early as 7 oclock l crowds began to gather on the steps of the theatre Promptly at 730 the doors were thrown open and the swaying jostlingmass of humanity poured into the play house f until every foot of available space was filled And still there were hundreds on the outside who failed to get in Held band which had been parading the streets playing patriotic airs came in and rendered several selections while the throng was waiting for the speaking Ii speak-ing to commence t The interior of the building was appropriately t ap-propriately decorated with flags The t i t L boxes on both sides were a mass of fr national colors Just above the stage J on the right side had been hung a I picture of Bryan and this was ihe signal sig-nal for cheers whenever his name was H mentioned and the speakers pointed toward I I ward it In the extreme rear of the stage was a manycolored large painting paint-Ing of the great seal of the state showing show-ing off beautifully against the stage setting of mountains and green hillsides hill-sides On the stage had been reserved several sev-eral hundred chairs for specially invited in-vited guests and these were filled almost al-most as quickly as the immense auditorium audito-rium in front Among the people on 1 the stage could be numbered some of the leading men o the state irrespective irrespec-tive of party affiliations aflatons And prominent promi-nent ladies too who cheered the sentiments senti-ments expressed as freely and as enthusiastically en-thusiastically a the members of the I sterner sex CALLED TO ORDER It was 815 when exMayor Baskin stepped to the front and when the applause ap-plause subsided he said after calling the meeting to order that the campaign about to be now entered upon was one i of the most important ever waged I V was a conflict between the laboring > r people the masses and the money 1 power Something was wrong when capital and labor clashed They should work together hand in hand The monetary system of the country prIor I 4 to 1873 prior to the demonetization of I silver was commended I wa a good I and under system one which the nation na-tion prospered phenomenally Since 1873 when a degenerate son of America I tricked the legislators and the people i I and struck down half the money of the j people at one blow everything had 1 gone all wrong poverty and distress I stalked through the land The rich were becoming richer and the poor The only sign of poorer sgn a change I when the wrong would be corrected I the action of the was acton Democratic convention con-vention ai Chicago Through that vnton Chcgo convention f con-vention the winter of our discontent 1 made glorious summer by the g O 3 lant l son of America William J Bryan Great applause This our gallant young leader will be the means of restoring re-storing happiness and prosperity by the restoration of silver money to its former and proper place Before the ides of next November he will bust the gold wing of the Republican party I He will give their leader such a dose of sure pop thathe will be a very sick I bug indeed Applause Fisher S Harris was introduced by I Judge Baskin as chairman for the evening I j S I I U I lION lGSE5 THAiCHEU ing The young orator was received with cheers and by way of introduction said Isaid FISHER S HARRIS ADDRESS I Fellow Citizens This great audience is gathered here tonight for the purpose of placing the stamp of its approval upon the nomination of that great tribune of the people the Hon William J Bryan oft of-t skd ana tor tne further purpose at expressing its gratification at the attitude at-titude of the national Democracy upon the question of the free coinage of silver l the snades of the dead men who by their lives made this nation great and gave it a declaration of independence and a constitution could look upon us from their homes in the skies they would indeed in-deed conclude that something of the spirit of 76 still lived in the hearts of the people fo they would see gathered hereunder here-under one roof united in one cause men who but a brief while ago were contending contend-ing desperately one with the other on political po-litical battle fields Here are Republicans believing in the doctrine of protection Democrats advocating advo-cating a taritl for revenue Populists crying cry-ing against the established order of things political difatinct as the waves in these matter of minor importance but one a the boundless ocean on the vital issue of the free coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1 And it is well that it should be so it is well that men should sometimes shake from their necks the sometmes yokes of partisanship and standing clear of unpatriotic influences renew their allegiance legiance to the principles of the fathers and declare unceasing warfare against selfish men who for private gain seek to fasten false and unfortunate conditions condi-tions upon a free people One unacquainted with the political circumstances cir-cumstances existing in this nation at this time might well ask the question why this unanimity of thought and action among men who were formerly enemies We do not have to seek far for the cause The masses those who labor in the field the farm the factory the mine and in the numberless occupations of a great people peo-ple cried out against their masters and said Our burden is greater than we can bear we can no longer mae bricks without straw The voices of the suffering suffer-ing ascend to heaven but the masters lolling in complacent ease in their castles in the hills and palaces by the sea shore heard not the sound thereof they were sitting at the modern feast of Belshazsar But the time has come as i came once before when above the noise of the feast above the laughter of the feasters above the sound of the singing girls and the j I stringed instruments there came from the shadows that lurked about the cornices of I the banquet hal a handit was the I strong white hand of doom and it wrote Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting The time of the people has come the time of the oppressor has I passed the salvation of the people wH b accomplished not by the red hand of w7 HON 0 W POWERS bloody revolution but by the peaceful L power of the ballot which is mightier in the hands of an intelligent people than flashing swords on bloodstained battlefields 1 battle-fields The people who cry for the change j which all sincere men admit is necessary I are not anarchists they are not Incono i i clasts but citizens of a great nation i I proud of their heritage of freedom loving i 1 their homes and jealous of their liberties This reform which for many years ha been seething beneath the surface finds It expression in the candidate of the Democratic party for the presidency and I it seems to me that all men save those who live upon the labor of others should I be glad that a great political party has I had the courage to hear the cry and to reach its strong arm down through the black clouds and lift up and comfort the people I seems to me that there are many men who are glad to know that this 1 i holy and patriotic thing has been done I Idle workmen gazing silently at the closed factory noting us smokeless chimneys and silent spindles the miner working underneath under-neath the ground the farmer reaping a abundant harvest and receiving nothing for it the business man who has seen his substance slip away from his helpless hands all these must have been glad All the young men of the nation and particularly particu-larly those young men who born in poverty pov-erty surrounded by shame have found their pathway to better things blocked by the dead blank wall of caste and prejudice pre-judice must have been glad The old marl looking hopelessly into the future must ave cried out when the news was brought to him let my spirit depart in peace for mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord But there is no unalloyed I un-alloyed joy in this world There were also those who were sorrowful The miser I gloating over the clink of hoarded sold the usurer growing fat his ill gowing fat on I gotten I I gains grinding the Taces of the poor the gatherers of pelf who live upon other I mens labor all these were sad The shadow of the coming of Bryan clothed JI I in rghteusness fell upon these hosts of j error The great battle between the army i of industry and the hordes of rapacity I was on HON J L RAWLINS Hon J L Rawlins was received with a hurricane of applause He said in part that the financial question at the present time overshadowed all others Tariff was relegated to the background People had quit cavilling as to whether I the duty siiould be 40 per cent or 45 per cent at least until the money question ques-tion was settled The Grover Cleveland Cleve-land party has declared against the free and unlimited coinage of silver unless un-less by international agreement Thai means they are in favor of a gold standard pure and simple The tariff plank in the Republican platform was very uncertain and ambiguous am-biguous It looked as if i the tariff schedules I sched-ules were to be disposed of to the highest I high-est bidder in order to raise campaign I funds to defeat the free coinage of silver I sil-ver With free coinage the struggle to obtain the needed money to carry i i on our business and to develop our resources re-sources would be less severe the struggle i strug-gle for existence would be less hard i and less hopeless The Republican I party is opposed to all this unless it come about with the benediction of England Until England says the word I we must drink this bitter cup to the very dregs This restoration of silver this debasement of the currency as they called i must be brought about by international agreement and this II by delegates to an international convention con-vention which is not clothed with power to do anything but report to their var i I ious governments Such a conference j f in 1S7S reported against free coinage of silver and added that it was a question j that each nation must decide for itself I How long would it be before other nations j na-tions would follow the lead of this i great and powerful nation if we adopt I the free coinage of silver at a ratio of IGto rr Notlong indeed The S1 Louis platform was meant t b = = < t t f Afl frJi WI UNi i 1 tf l il I J 1 7 1 t t < 1 f t ll ql I I 1 Y4 W lON G S VARIAN to deceive and should be spat upon by I every intelligent man and woman The i I peoples party and the silver party deferred I de-ferred their conventions purposely until after the great Democratic party had geat Democratc pary made its nominations and notwithstanding notwith-standing that fraud and foul treachery of every conceivable kind was used to defeat the will of the people in the Chicago Chi-cago convention these means failed The people sent men there with courage cour-age and honesty and the platform was there made according to the will of the masses of the people and will be endorsed en-dorsed by the Populist and Silver parties par-ties They asserted their independence applause and nominated a young man from the ranks of the people with firm convictions sterling honesty and the courage to act up to his convictions Then the gold bugs were silenced for a moment and many of them arose with the silver wing and hailed the man as one who had come to work out their deliverance What are we in Utah going to do Some say we must wait Why so Are not the issues fully and firmly defined Do you want to wait like poltroons and cowards to se who will be the victors and then rush in and get a share of the spoil God forbid that there is such ama a-ma or woman in Utah Applause Make your choice take the side of right and we shall march on to the salvation of our country Great applause ap-plause HON F B STEPHENS Mr Stephens after being greeted with uproarious applause said Sitting here with such men as Charles 11 Varian and Tom Kearns listening lis-tening to the scathing arraignment of the party we have always affiliated with and with the intention of declaring de-claring our allegiance to the standard bearer of the Democratic party loud applause it seemed to me that there was a question which rlss above all party and which appeals to the great mass of the people Loud applause In the few words I shall say to you I shall say nothing about either the I Democratic or Republican parties merely say a few words about the question and the man Applause A Republican friend asked me a few days ago i it was true that I was going go-ing to vote for Bryan I said yes and I I proclaim it from the housetops Applause Ap-plause He wanted to know if I could point to one single thing the Democratic Demo-cratic party had ever done that was any credit to itself or the country I replied the Democratic party has done one thing which history will record to Its honor and for which present and future generations will give it thanks I has given the American people an opportunity to make William Jennings < t f 1 Bryan president of the United States Applause The issue before the country in this campaign is not state rights nor centralization cen-tralization of power nor s it the tariff tar-iff question a our candidate says the money question Is paramount and all others sink into insignificance Applause When asked why the platform plat-form did not say moreabout tariff he replied tariff is not tho l Issue if protection I pro-tection has slain its thousands a gold standard has slain its tens of thousands I thou-sands And so my Republican friends can we say from our standpoint that if free trade has slain is thousands a gold standard has slain its tens of thousands Loud applause On the ground money question we meet on common I have no patience with silver Republicans Re-publicans who wH nt accept salva 1 i + r ri J L 9 t Pi 0 ilj i 4 cq H if 1 0 MWM V z < j r i = t 11 I l t 1 I i jr I lON DAVID EVANS I tion unless it comes through McKin ley and the Republcan party Loud applause What we have been pray ing for is a restoration of silver in accordance i ac-cordance with the provisions of the constitution and if denied it by I j our own party common sense and selfpreservation I selpreservaton say seek it elsewhere Lqud applause Tins clinging to tradition has blocked the wheels of progress all along the ages Christ met it in the Pharisees they I would not have him that way they wanted a Saviour but they did not want him out of Nazareth Some of i them like Saint Paul however saw a great light and each succeeding generation gen-eration has risen up t call thom blessed Others stuck to the old party and are now doing business under a threebail sign dictating the admin j istration of this government from Lom 1 bard street Loud applause otd I Martin Luther met this spirit when thundering against the corruption of the church but the church was purified nevertheless Cromwell met i but the yoke of a corrupt royalty was lifted lfed from the neck of the people neverthe i less The revolutionary patriots met i 1 but we achieved for a time our in i i dependence of England nevertheless Lincoln met i Those conservative men In the east wanted slavery abol i ished but not his way and right here I am reminded that history repeats itself These eastern gOld men say j the silver question is sectional that no one wants free silver now but a few I cranks in the east and a lot of lunatics luna-tics out w3St that some time we shall I get bimetallism by international agreement agree-ment Well this is not the first time tme that the west has been in advance of the east upon a great moral and economic econ-omic question Applause I read in the history of my country that while the citizens of Connecticut were still tearing down negro school houses and maltreating noble women for teaching negro children how to read and write while in cultured Boston William Lloyd Garrison was being mobbed and dragged out of a church for saying that slaves should be free while preachers in Princeton Theological seminar were still telling embryonic divines that slavery was a divine institution in-stitution noble libertyloving citizens in Kansas and Nebraska were striking I heroic blows and shedding their lifeblood life-blood for the cause of freedom Loud i j applause Abraham Lincoln of flu i nois was farther west than Bryan of 1 Lincoln Neb is today and as Lin coins Cooper institute speech became a classic in American literature so will Bryans convention speech thrill the hearts of future generations Applause Ap-plause No my friends this is a campaign whore youve got to be on one side or i the other Remember what Saint Paul did to the man who was neither cold 1 nor hot The gold Democrats and the I I gold Republicans will unite we must do the same i i These gold men seem to think that if Bryan is elected he will march down upon them at the head of his hosts and rob them of their gold Dont get i scared Bryan dont want your gold I but if elected he will say to you Give t back to the people their silver Applause I I 1 Ap-plause We who believe in the free coinage of silver are not anarchists 1 we do not propose to rob the rich but J we do say that they shall not rob us and we do know that given their I rights under the constitution tae tireless the heroic i industry heoic perseverance persever-ance the high intelligence of the I j kgr 4Pk 1Mf A I W I L 1 J I WIlf t i f1 t I Jf i 11 I I j sj I Wl T 9 I 1 rW 41 I fY J I J n f t l 1 11tij M lK 1 fft1 t I fW z L jiiIb W tot o o A j i i 1r i l l I t r i t f t m A f it 9rZ 1 JI f l jJ = l lON I N BASKIW American people will wrest the untold treasures from the soil and the rocks and they will make themselves rich to the injury of no one Applause Give labor a fair chance lift the crown of thorns from its brow and torns it will take care of itself Applause In this campaign the American voter wants first an unequivocal declaration of principles and second he wants to know that his candidate will be true to them My knowledge of the man ha given me an intense conviction that such a candidate we have in William Wil-liam J Bryan He does not owe his nomination to a barral of money or the manipulation of political organizations organiza-tions He was not nominated by the money powers of the east There is not gold enough In Wall street nor influence in-fluence enough in all the high places of the earth to swerve him from his own ideas of right and justice Loud applause The highest impulsesof i l I his own soul are the judges who render his decisions He is clad in the armor of truth and a the shepherd boy cJ old slew Goliath of Gath so will this champion of the people of today slay the Goliath of gold Applause Let the people understand that Bryan i ha the intellectual and moral qualities i fittingly and honestly to represent them and lie is sure of election No one who knows him will doubt for an instant that he is right both in the head and in the heart Applause I Bryans intellectual and oratorical I power became first known in 1890 when he was candidate for congress against W J McConnell one of the most able and prominent Republicans in the state of Nebraska Two years before I McConnell defeated J Sterling Morton by 3500 votes He was a brilliant man I an astute politician and the pride of I Omaha which cast almost as many votes as the rent el the district combined com-bined Bryan at once did as he always does fearlessly marched into the en emys camp and challenged McConnell emys joint debate They spoke both at Omaha and Lincoln and his presentation presenta-tion of the questions of the day was s masterly that he defeated McConnell by nearly 7000 votes Applause Serving in the Fiftysecond congress his ability was at once recognized by the Democratic leaders and he was placed on the ways and means committee com-mittee and recognized as an authority on economic Questions His first speech on the tariff in 1892 brought him prominently forward and gave him national fame not only a an orator but as a giant in intellect In August 1893 Mr Bryan delivered a great oratorical effort against the repeal of the purchasing clause o the Sherman act I ha been called one of the most finished speeches in the history his-tory of congress His speech in closing clos-ing the debate on the income tax was distributed by the Democratic national committee by the thousands a a campaign paign document His ability has been recognized by men of prominence all over the United j StteS On July 4 1S92 he spoke before be-fore the Tammany club in New York j city on All Men Are EQual The same year he spoke on Young Men I in Politics at Roanoke college Virginia Vir-ginia At its annual banquet on Wash ingtons birthday 1894 he spoke on Patriotism before the Union League club of Chicago and in March before thf < Greystone rlub in Denver He is conceded to be the best informed I formed man in the United States upon the money question Within the last year and a half by invitation only he has spoken in every state in the Union except Maine and New Hampshire and J has invitations far in advance of his possibility to fn i So much as a man of intellect but I what the people most want to know isis is-is he right at heart Can they trust him Does he know the needs of the i people I speak from an intimate knowledg of the man and I unhesitatingly unhesi-tatingly answer yes Loud and continued II con-tinued applause Bryan like Lincoln came from the people He was born on a farm in J Illinois March 19 1860 and to my mind the fact is significant that the same i j I year which nominated Abraham Lin j coin to be president of the United States gave birth to one whom I firm I ly believe in this the next great crisis in our nations history takes up the mantle where the martyred president i 1 laid it downoudapp1ause He f J tr t lfi c i tf t9 f l r j f1 1 gP t 1 r y t J hJ W il Y i j I f 1 I wf I jjtli lkh iIMh 1 I I II ii 61 11 1 < w 1 V f f Ii 1 71 I h FiSHER S HARRIS was brought UP on a farm in active manual labor He fitted himself for college and graduated with the highest high-est honors of his class I first met him at the Union college of law in Chicago wherel am grateful to say a friendship was formed which has lasted ever since His father died sixteen years ago leaving his mother while not in poverty pov-erty yet in straightened circumstances In order that his sisters and widowed mother might not be stinted he practiced prac-ticed the most rigid economy in completing com-pleting his education We were each at that time exercising a large amount of selfdenial in order to get through this I fact and other interests which we then had in common gave me an insight into his character and an intense conviction con-viction of his unswerving personal honor and of his sympathy for the needs of humanity which has never been shaken but which has strengthened strength-ened with every year of our acquaintance acquaint-ance Applause Injustice he would never tolerate He had an intense sympathy for the oppressed op-pressed He has those high moral qualities which lead him always to choose the right and ever to reject the wrong He never compromises with evilhe defies it A few Sundays ago I heard an em nent divine preach a sermon on faith He scored unmercifully that conception I of faith which exemplifies i in the I magazine picture of a puttyfaced maiden mai-den with more or less drapery hands clasped on her bosom and eyes looking up to heaven He said he would like to paint a picture of faith and he would paint it a lurid red in the foreground fore-ground he would put ravenous wild beasts venemous serpents war pestilence lence famine disaster disease death and all the temptations evils and woes 1 that assail mankind but in front of i them he would paint a noble youth with erect form strong limbs bold heart and flashing eyes with a helmet scarred with swords strokes and a shield dinted with javelinblow way I ing aloft a flaming sword and hurling defiance at all the powers of evil Since Bryans convention speech I have thought that I would like to paint a picture I would paint hungry men i I walking the streets begging for labor I with which to keep from starving I I would paint the overburdened debtor I and his wife and children looking look-ing with streaming eyes at the I home which was once theirs and trying to pay the deficiency judgment wiUh money worth double what i was I when the debt was contracted I would paint the farmer staggering under a I f f burden of interest which he Is trying I to pay in crops selling for less than the J I cost of production I would paint the great mass of supplicating humanity begging that there be given back to them that which was guaranteed by the constitution of their fathers And in front of them I would paint Lombard and Wall treets those twin avenues to national financial damnation Loud applause and cheers I would pant the administration on its knees before the money powers begging for a little more gold I would paint the president and Carlisle adding burden after burden to an already overburdened people I would pant the gold standard press answering logic with vituperation and pouring ridicule epithets and threats of vengeance upon all Who dare oppose I I i would paint the great army of gold men threatening that if the people peo-ple in this election vote to restore the money of the constitution that they will bring down panic upon panic disaster dis-aster upon disaster distress upon distress dis-tress and suffering upon suffering upon the entire country But between them with his face to the front with the heart of a lion and courage of steel I would paint the mag I nifiicent figure of William Jennings I Bryan applause and cheers standng there wvih uplifted arm and flashing eye uttering with splendid voice those matchless words of eloquence thou t shalt not press the crown of thorns upon the brow of labor thou shalt not Ii crucify mankind upon a cross of gold I I Long and continued applause As Lincoln stood in 18SO so Bryan stands today As the great heart of the i j i I martyred president was wrung with I a M L2 I 17 lION J L IKAWMXS anguish when he heard the clank of the chains upon the black so is the soul of Bryan aflame at the thought of sou gilded burdens upon the backs of the whife Rut oh my friends as surely as my sainted mother believed in her inmost soul that Abraham Lincoln was raised UD of God to strike the shackles from fourmillion blacks so surely do I be iifiie that the name of William J Bryan Bry-an will ever be written in history as the emancipator of ten times four million mil-lion whites Applause Bear with me but a moment mere and I am done Voices Go ahead go ahead I like not sectional feeling feel-ing I was born in the east in the state of Maine and I love the land of my birth though I love and stand ever for the land of my adoption Applause But fear not we shall triumph Truth I will prevail We shall regain our rights i and sectional feeling will pass away I Bitter words will be forgotten We i shall remain an undivided people Let us recall the prophetic words of Lin j coIns first inaugural j We are not enemies but friends 1 we must not be enemies Though pension pen-sion may have strained it must not j break our bonds of affection The mystic II I mys-tic chords of memory stretching from I i I every battlefield and patriot grave to every loving heart and hearthstone allover over this broad land will yet swell the i chorus of the Union when again touched touch-ed as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature Loud and continued con-tinued applause and cheers DR E B FERGUSON Mrs Ellen B Ferguson made a short and appropriate address The I people were assembled tonight she said not as partisans The subject was a vast one which related to the whole of humanity It was the struggle I strug-gle of labor to remove from its throat the clutch of the capitalist The mining min-ing farming and industrial interests of I the country were paralyzed They were struggling and groaning under a load i too great to bear History was repeating i re-peating itself We were on the eve of a second revolution as great as i that of 1776 The Chicago convention I had formulated a new declaration of j independence which would lift the i yoke of the gold barons of England from the shoulders of the American people Shall it be that Americans will be slaves I think not America j is great enough and strong enough to j be free and to take the lead and let other nations follow This can be ac I 1 1 7 I I FN I T j lf 1 F I 1 J f tr JJ 1 i > r W t Jv 1t I l 1 F gA n 4 8 G l f I ilwM W ll 1 1J73 UN IV II KING complished by adherence to the princi ples of the convention at Chicago and freedom to the nation and happiness will be restored to the nation through I William J Bryan The speaker closed by calling upon the people of Utah I the women of Utah particularly and twothirds of the Utah women were Democrats women were naturally Democrats vote for W J Bryan r FROM UNCLE BEN The following note accompanied by a beautiful bouquet was received from Ben Whittemore T6 Fisher Harris Chairman of the demonstration to ratify the nomination nomina-tion of W J Bryan and Arthur Sewall the popular candidates for President and VicePrssident FIsherWe will thank the Lord The people once more will place as ruler off of-f l j our United States the man of their < own choice a Silver Knight Please accept in remembrance of UNCLE BEN UNCL C S VARIAN Mr C S Varian after 3 storm of applause said Mr Chairman and Ladles and Gentlemen Gen-tlemen have no apologies to make for my present associations Applause Ap-plause nor have I any ipologies to make for my past associations I am glad now of the opportunity to vote as I have felt for the past ten years Loud applause There is but one issue is-sue now before the American people in my judgment and upon its determination determina-tion will depend the welfare of human ky Aye the stake is a great one I is not confined to state or section I does not belong to clique or people it comes out of the universe and it Is as o broad as the earth Applause We realize now what it means this question ques-tion that is presented to the people I means either the building up and carry ing outof a progressive and high civilization civi-lization or it means the striking down of the people of the earth and of this country It means either the building up or the degradation of mankind Tome To-me this call from Chicago was as a call to arms Loud applause It Is a i the drum was beating and the pip playing at a call of the country and men were dsmanded as they are demanded now and women tooto throw themselves into the breach and contest by their patriotic devotion to duty so that the love of country will not become one of the lost arts Applause Ap-plause Upon the volume of the money of the I nation must of necessity be buildsd the superstructure of its civilizatior As i shall become contracted made scarce or become out of reach and in accesible for crcnary and necessary industrial and labor enterprises of thE country so of necessity must ccme want pauperism and crime I should be stimulated and increased with the ever growing interests of conmerce and trade as yieoule shall multiply and as their demands shall arise and the exigencies exi-gencies of the case shall recUr so that there shall at all times be enough on which the business of the country may be based When that is done there will always be hope for labor hope for capital hope for the patriotic sentiment of the country there wll always be something upon which the I civilization Loud auplause of the country may grow You cannot withdraw onehalf of the surply of money of the world or of a I nation from the channels of trad and commerce and throw the burden of serving the country upon the ether half without ailing the land with trams and degradIng your women and children Poverty and want will follow in their wake crime will come and the country enters uoon the downward road at once Applause Evenbody knows that Who is he who can gainsay Ian say it That being so where is he be he Democrat Republican Populist Prohibitionist aristocrat or what not who dare say to himself I Till not j vote for the Chicago platform Loud applause Why under this system which is supposed to be for the use of commerce and trade a scheme nas been in existence exist-ence by which there is an endless procession j pro-cession out of the treasury of the Univ ed States from day to day week to I I week and month to month by the foreign for-eign banker and importer o all the i gold that flows into IL through the medium of duties put upon imports right across the Atlantic to Europe I for the uses and benefits of mankind i there With that scheme in existence the condition of the country will remain re-main as we find it today I The Republican party eight years ago pledged itself to the American people to correct that in the platform of 138S which was read in open convention colventon and written largely by the distinguIshed distinguish-ed gentleman who is now its candidate for the presidency I was then said we believe in the coinage of gold and silver and we denounce the president and his party meaning Cleveland and the Democratic party because of their attempts to demonetize silver In that is a negative pregnant affirm ton that it was the duty of the Republican Re-publican party to remonetize silver Many of us thousands of us all over the country believed thatfools that we were Loud applause and laughter Some of us have confiding natures Laughter When a man looks us in the face calmly and deliberately makes a nromise we are inclined to behave him The candidate nominated by that convention in his letter of acceptance stated he was in full accord with the resuiutions and the platform and he pointed to his services in the senate of the United States by way of confirma tion of his position upon the silver question Mr Morton the candidate for vice president put forward as the apostle of New York Republicanism was even more specific he said he knew the ef fect I would have ipon different sec i tions of this country and felt much pleasure in committing himself to the platform adopted at Chicago I was then thoughtI thought so and I thought the rank and file of my party thought soit was then thought that j it was true as that platform said re ferring to the Democratic party upon the tariff question and it wa read by Major McKinley in a manner thtt 1 brought out the plaudits of 10000 voices in that great assembly hall that it served the interests of Europe and Europ and that the Republican party served the interests of the people of America I believed that at that time Laugh ter Down in Boston about the same time Major McKinley talk d to the Market club upon the tariff question of course and said Let England do what she pleases and thinks best with wih her own subjects and likewise Germany J Ger-many and France but he said call V 4 ing upon the Deity uin Gods name let America look after Americans 1 1 Applause I believe that he meant It then Laughter I thought so four years later a > t Minneapolis The Republican Re-publican party again though not quite so pronounced perhaps but still with j more or less persuasion and signifi cance stated that it was in accord with the traditions of Republicanism f and it was in favor C bimetallism and the coinage of both gold and silver and irs candidates went to the country upon that platform And now after this after the Republicans in these j western states and territories in every ev-ery convention assembled from every 2 busting every village and every farm 3 have proclaimed to the people that they were unalterably in favor of the free coinage of gold and silver at the I ratio of IS to 1 that they were in favor cl the restoration of silver as a money metal They admit they have lied I was going go-ing to say laughter and applause but I will not because it wculrl require proof of intent to make vt a liethe national Republican party at St Louis J has irrevocably committed its organization organi-zation to the gold standard What does it mean I means that that organization is so enveloped and held in the grasp of the money power that the voices of the people are and will continue to be stifled and cannot 0 heard Their conventions are simply sim-ply the mouthpieces to carry out the behests of those who appoint the committeemen mitteemen So I is that I for one join with my Democratic friends join with Apolause the Democratic party this year Great God Is it possible that rnanf can close his eyes to the disacter fa o a 0 < < |