Show paryHEARD HEARD BUCKNER i t a A GOODSIZED TENNESSEE ATJDI EXOE GREETS HIM They 1iaten Patiently But When He Mention tin > nmc of Itrjuii the Peoyle Cause l Urintinttiatiuii That Almost Causes Force to He BeetS to Subdue I It MEMPHIS Tenn Sept 16 General f Simon Buckner vicepresidential candi1 I date for the national Democratic party I I and Colonel John R Fellows campaigner I of the Sound Jloner league tonight addressed I ad-dressed an audience of 2500 at the Auditorium I Audi-torium General Buckner was the first speaker and at once took up the financial question I ques-tion He contended that if the stamp of j the government by being placed upon a j piec of silver or of gold can give I a I different value from that in a commercial I dIferent vaue sense that stamp can give any value it gud i f sag pleases even to a thousand times so that I I the proposition is reduced to an absurdity He said in support of his proposition that I wherever a country had undertaken to ht ft I f en infuse ISa value into the metal by coining I coin-ing it the result had been commercial I convulsion consternation and strife among the people and rebellion against the governments Touching the WORK OF lH CHICAGO CONVENTION CONVEN-TION and its power to bind the Demqcracy General Buckner sail Last summer urder the regular organization or-ganization of Democratic party meetings meet-ings were called In every county in every 1 state in the union Delegates were appointed ap-pointed to state conventions and stato conxentions appointed delegates to the Chicago convention What were those delegates instructed to do In nearly every county in the United States the first resolution passed by the county conventions con-ventions was to reattlrm the principles of Democracy When the delegates thus instructed to discharge their duties a Democrats went to the state conventions those state conventions almost without an exception reattirmed the principles of Democracy and the delegates that they sent to the Chicago convention were obliged ob-liged to support Democratic principles Ever sentiment of personal honor of partisan duty compelled them to arrange their platform on Democratic lines and discard from It everything that Was not Applause What did they do They went to Chicago sad they arranged a ulatform from which the LAST VESTIGE OF DEMOCRACY had vanished I defy any man to attempt at-tempt to point to a single article or a single line of that platform which enunciates enun-ciates Democratic doctrine It announces as principles of the Democratic party principles which he have combatted for a hundred years during the time of Jefferson Jeffer-son to this good hour And yet fellow citizens they have placed upon that platform plat-form a man for candidate who has declared de-clared that he Is no Democrat And yet fellow citizens they say that we must support their candidate and their platform because It was done regularly That reminds re-minds me of an Illustration which my distinguished friend made a short time ago He said under the claim of regularity reglar ity Benedict Arnold had the right to claim the support of the patriots of the revolution He was regularly commissioned commis-sioned under the principals of West Point and the Highlands by General Washing ton He Issued orders through his staff regularly and in an entirely regular sta He issued orders which disposed the Issue disposd army under his command and placed It In such a position that the enemy could come upon It and MASSACRE THE LAST MAN i It was all done i11 perfect regularity The only thing wanting was a little matter I mat-ter of principle Applause Nor did it seem to be In the minds of those gentlemen gentle-men assembled in Chicago professing to represent Democracy They said what we have done was done regularly Under that theory General Washing ton and the continental army were bolt er because they would not follow Arnold In his treason Because we will not follow these genlemen of Chicago in their defection from Democratic principles princi-ples we are to be culled boIlers I In the course of hla speech General i Buckner mentioned the name of the of Democratic presidential nominee and no1 I sooner had the wo d Bryan left his I r mouth than the houe was the scene of I JI the wildest demonstration of the evening even-Ing The cheering continued until the chairman of the meeting was compelled tp ask the audience to give the general a respectful hearing At the concusion of General Buckners speech Colonel John R Fellows was Introduced In-troduced That silver dollars and paper dollars of this government today were equal to gold he said was due to the method of the government by which they were exchangeable ex-changeable for gold and that the govern ment kept enough reserve to make Its credit good before all the world for the redemption of Its promise that it will pay its debts In gold What if that function should be destroyed Oh says Mr I Bryan I believe If you would give us Tree and unlimited coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1the demand for silver by this new Issue you have given It would raise It at that ratio to a level with gold I would be worth 2 an ounce Well we simply say but suppose It should not Mr Bryan what then Suppose the commercial com-mercial world refuse to accept i at that valued Have you ever stopped to think what an awful calamity would be precipitated pre-cipitated upon this country If that single ftef Mr Bryan ul in behalf ft which he challenges the votes of his countrymen should not be realized a a fact not one hour would your gold remain as a circulating circu-lating medium in this country General Buckner and Colonel Fellows left at 1110 p m for Louisville i |