Show WE ARE THE ONLY DEMOCRATS J Goldbugs of the Party of the tle Classes Have a Love Feast DRAW A GREAT CROWD CHICAGO COXVETVTIOiV IS ROUNDLY AXD SEVERELY SCORED The Majority in Tltnt Great and Glorious Glo-rious Gathering Hurt No Right to Rube But They Slioulil Ha > c Seated Seat-ed Themselves at the Feet of the Minority Who Hart All the Know leilKe anil All the Wisrtom Severn Very Ridiculous Propositions NEW YORK Sept 22 Madison Square Garden was crowded to overflow over-flow tonight when the candidates of the Notional Democracy faced a metropolitan > ropolitan audience and opened the campaign cam-paign for the sound money Democracy Democ-racy in the empire state An hour before the time set forthe I meeting the best seats were taken and at 730 a thousand people were standing at the back of the seats in the main man floor and in the galleries I The audience was one of the bestap pearing that ha been drawn together I by political meetings in this city A number of ladies were present The audience aud-ience recognized Roswell P FloWer William D Bynum Colonel Fellows and others and cheered them as they made their way to their seats Among THOSE ON THE PLATFORM were Rev Theodore Cuyler William B Hornblower of New Jersey C A Henriques Captain Hugh Gordon Peter E Terry Theodore Sutro Colonel Thos Hurley of Texas Colonel J M Faulkner Faulk-ner of Florida Charles Canda and Everett Ev-erett P Wheeler and Dr William Everett Ev-erett of Massachusetts Promptly at 8 oclock Robert A Wide man chairman of the state central committee com-mittee of th National Democratic party of New York stepped to the front of the platform and opened the proceedings pro-ceedings He said that the good old ship Democracy was going on the rocks when the Indianapolis convention took her in charge placed competent men at her helm and was now manning her for the fight which would bury Bryanism Watsonism and Sewallism so deep that GABRIELS TRUMPET j would have difficulty in resurrecting them He then introduced exGovernor Roswell P Flower the chairman of the evening who said Fellow Democrats We are met to ratify the nomination and platform of the National Democratic convention I held at Indianapolis We are Democrats Demo-crats and not Populists We are in favor of liberty regulated by la Wear We-ar not revolutionists We believe in maintaining our form of government in its full vigor the legislative department depart-ment to make the laws the judicial to expound them and the executive to enforce en-force them We believe in law and order not in riot and disorder We believe I be-lieve in dollars of full intrinsic value measured by the markets of the world j We a not 50cent Democrats We I favor a tariff for revenue only We declare that the government should not go into the banking business We are opposed to fat money We favor the merit system the fewer spoils THE LESS CORRUPTION in party politics Ye believe in economy in every department of the government We endorse the administration adminis-tration of President Cleveland Our principles point the way t stability in government not t doubtful experi melt to confidence in business not to uncertainty to prosperity not panics Fellow Democrats let us > take no step backward but march ir solid I phalanx for the preservation O our glorious republic and with 1 the grand old Democratic party Its ark of the covenant for 1S96 is i safe in the hands of our standard bearers nominated by the Irrlianapolis convention Palmer and Buckner and I now take pleasure in introducing the toll hickory of the Wabash my old i colleague in congress William D By num I Congressman Bynum was received I with cheers He started in by sing I that after thirty years in political life a a Democrat he found himself unable un-able t support the ticket nominated at Chicago for he did not believe the candidates to be Democrats Congressman man Bynum I WENT ON AS FOLLOWS I there is any principle halt i cardinal wilth the Democratic party it is the belief of that party from the very foundation of its organization down t the present time in the maintenance main-tenance o sound money This ques lion this campaign is the all important queytioni in Our volume o money consists today I o 600000000 in gold coin of more than 500000000 of silver coin of 34G I 000000 of greenbacks and about 210 000000 or more of national bank currency I cur-rency of 120000000 of treasury ncwi issued under the Sherman law and about 000000 currency rertlfica < I issued under the act of 1S72 All this money circulates not only throughout the United States but all over the world on a parity with < gold and what the National Democratdc party whIch I assembled at Indianapolis and promulgated i promul-gated 8 platform and nominated a ticket insists o is that all this money shall be maintained ali 0 parity with gold Our silver dollar today is worth not only 100 cents in the United States but worth 100 cents all over the world and what we Democrats that oppose the free and unlimited coinage of silver intend in-tend is that it shall be maintained a a parity with gold all over the world While the monetary value of our silver dollar is 100 cents the bullion value or the value of the silver contained in that dollar not only in the United States but everywhere Is only 53 cents I the policy of the platform at Chicago is carried out and our mints should be opened to the free and unlimited coinage coin-age of silver the effect would be to bring the monetary and bullion value of the silver dollar together Either the monetary value of that dollar would come down from 100 cents to 50 cents or the bullion value of silver in that dollar dol-lar would rise from 50 cents to 100 rse cents or one would come down and the other would go up until the two met at some point between the bullion bul-lion and monetary value Mr Bynum went on in a extensive presentation of the arguments against free silver He said that before the Indianapolis convention Democrats were afraid t mention the gold standard stand-ard but that since the convention they SPOKE OUT OPENLY He said that a good way to cure the free silver people would be to retire all the one and two dollar bills in the country and force the use of silver dollars dol-lars He declared that the statement of the Bryan supporters that free coinage coin-age would advance silver is a fallacy As Mr Bynum was closing his remarks re-marks the two candidates appeared on the platform General l Palmer was escorted es-corted by Charles S Fairchild who w I secretary of the treasury during President Pres-ident Clevelands first term General Buckner was escorted by State Com mltteeman John Dewitt Warner The 0 < D 7 J r 1 candidates Were greeted with hearty applause and cheers Three cheers for Genera Palmer were given with a will Chief and the band played Hail to the General Calmer put himself on a good footing with his audience by a few happy offhand remarks These were vigorously applauded Then he took his manuscript and read the speech General Palmer said I am here this evening in the attitude atti-tude of a candidate for the presidency of the United States Less than a month ago I expected this appearance as little as any one of my audience On the 3r of September the convention of National Democrats representing fortyone states assembled in Indianapolis Indianap-olis and honored me by presenting my name for consideration of the people pIe of the United States as a candidate I or the chief magistracy of this republic repub-lic I do not know nor do I believe that a single delegate to that convention I ho conven-tion expected that I could be or would ELECTED TO THE PRESIDENCY In fact in the preface to the declaration declara-tion of principles adopted by the convention con-vention i did not assert such an expectation pectaton The convention was composed of stern resolute men They were the Democrats of 1892 who contributed their efforts to the election of tha honest manly Democratic president of whom the convention said The fidelity patriotism I patriot-ism and courage with which President I Cleveland ha fulfilled his great public trust the high character of his administration admin-istration its wisdom and energy in I the maintenance of civil order and the enforcement of law its equal regard for the rights of every class and every section its firm and dignified conduct of foreign affairs and its sturdy persistence per-sistence in upholding the credit and honor of the nation are fully recognized by the Democratic party and will secure to him a place in history beside the fathers of the republic We also commend com-mend the administration for the great progress made in the reform of the public pub-lic service and we demand that no backward step be taken but that the reform be supported and advanced until un-til the undemocratic in it system of appointments shall be eradicated After paying this just and well deserved de-served tribute to Mr Cleveland the convention con-vention further said in its assertion of party principles The Democratic party is pledged to equal and exact justice to all men of every creed and condition to cre the largest freedom of the Individual consistent with good government t the preservatiopn of the federal government in its constitutional vigor and to the support sup-port of the states in all their just rights to economic and public expenditures to the maintenance of the public credit and sound money and it is opposed to paternalism pater-nalism and all class legislation This declaration embodies the Democracy Democ-racy of Jefferson and Jackson and Cleveland Cleve-land The delegate to the Indianapolis convention con-vention a I have said were Democrats not Republicans or Populists Applause Before the assemblage of the Chicago convention they desired and hoped forte for-te unity of this great a historic party and they would have MADE ANY ORDINARY SACRIFICE In order to maintain that unjty But when they saw the work of that convention conven-tion they had no further hope and felt constrained to announce to the country That the declarations of the Chicago convention attacked Individual freedom the right of private contract the independence inde-pendence of the judiciary and the authority au-thority of the president to enforce federal laws They av tate a reckless attempt to increase the price of silver by legislation legisla-tion to the debasement of our monetary standard and threaten unlimited Issues of paper none by the government They abandon for Republican allies the Democratic Demo-cratic cause of tariff reform to court the favor protectionists In view of their fiscal heresy and other grave departures from Democratic principles we cannot support the candidates of that convention conven-tion nor b bound by its acts The Democratic Demo-cratic party has survived many defeats but could not survive a victory won in behalf of the doctrine and policy proclaimed claimed in its name at Chicago I will be seen that convention was not composed of Democrats who would I first compos the ticket and then read the platform Nor was it composed of that PARTICULAR TYPE OF DEMOCRAT who seemed to flourish with so much I vigor in this noble state of New York It would no be possible for any delegate to that convention to vote for the candidates conventon te nominated in Chicago and reject the I platform as unsound and dangerous I therefore spoke in no uncertain terms in condemnation of the platform adopted by I the conventions in Chicago and St Louis The Chicago convention was regularly I called and If it ha adhered to the faith I the organization which I represent would have been entirely unnecessary Indeed I thousands of Democrats today have such I respect for orderly and regular organization i organiza-tion that they feel amost constrained to submit authority That some Democrats I I Demo-crats should doubt the policy of resistance I to the action of the Chicago convention I Is but natural That convention assembled assem-bled claiming to be a regular Democratic convention and thousands of us who resist sist its action do so only because it was I perfectly false to Democratic principles No Democrat can object to the condemnation condem-nation of the Chicago platform of arbitrary arbi-trary interference by federal authority in local affairs 80 much is the wellunder I I stood Democratic theory of the proper relations existing between the state and I the general government But the real I meaning is well understood to have been I intended as an endorsement of the governor gov-ernor of Illinois hisses and a condemnation I condem-nation of the president for acts which i were unanimously approved by the senate and in strict of the United States were conformity with his duty a the chief I magistrate of the republic That pat of the platform which refers re-fers to the money question attracts the largest measure Of popular attention and it is to that clause of the Chicago platform plat-form and the corresponding clause of the platform adopted by the Indianapolis convention briefly con-vention that I propose to direct attention I repeat the statement that the Indianapolis Indian-apolis convention In general terms assorted as-sorted the true I relation of the Democratic Demo-cratic party to the interests of this great country The Chicago platform declares and recognizes that the money question The is paramount to all others at this time lheFREE FREE COINNAGE OF SILVER as interpreted by Mr Bryan means the advance in commercial value of all the silver bullion and coin and indeed all commercial silver to equality in commercial com-mercial value with gold The real question then is can the American people by a law authorizing the unlimited coinage of silver dollars on private account at the ratio of 16 of silver to 1 of gold with full legal tender quality for all aebts and dues public and private make the silver coinage of the world of equal acceptability and value and of equal power in the markets and In the payment of debts with all the gold coined in the world This statement of the question is i made in unusual form but neither its truth nor Its exactness will be questioned by any thoughtful man after he has fully considered the rapid methods of modern intercommunication and the acticities of commercial life Applause In my judgment results such as I have described are I IMPOSSIBLE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT by the measure proposed I admit that silver bullion may be advanced in commercial com-mercial value by its increased usefulness but no advance to a parity with gold Is possible and the whole result of tho measure will be the depreciation of the yalue of the coinage the ruin of public and private credit the disturbance of business the disturbance of values and the overthrow of all American industries Every interest is opposed to this ruinous < measure The Democratic party true Ito Ito I I-to its principles and traditions is compelled com-pelled to oppose i Applause I invokes in-vokes the teachings and policies of its revered sages to arrest the destruction of that great party and save the country from humiliation and dishonor Ap plause The United States must continue con-tinue to enforce its own laws by its own methods In the states and elsewhere the courts must b sustained in the exercise exer-cise of their largest authority I legis I lation is necessary to enlarge expand I limit or define their jurisdiction that proper legislation must be adopted by the lawmaking departments of the United States and of the respective states Applause Ap-plause The credits of the United States and the several states and the municipalities munici-palities of the states must be maintained The people must not be invited to repudiation repudia-tion To thwart these OTHER DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES the Natona Democracy invites the cooperation people co-operation of their brethren and of all the j I When General Palmer finished and had been cheered to the satisfaction of ha I crowd Mr Flower introduced the candi j date for vice president ctil = General Buckner was received with 1 I great cheers He bowed his acknowledgements I acknowledge-ments Some one shouted Three cheers I for the southern general which were given while the band enlivened the scene with Dixie General Buckner referred to the cordial reception southerners received at the hands of New York audiences and then branched into a review of the issue of 1S61G4 and its relation to the present alleged attempts to revive sectional questions General Buckner then dissected the Chicago platform and told the story of the old musket handed down from former I generations which had none of the org geeraton 1 mal parts remaining except the touch hole pars said that Is all that is left of I said the Chicago platform Continuing he saidAnd yet we are told fellow citizens I that we must vote for the nominees of that platform and as the old Democrat said What sort of candidates have you on his revolutionary platform that you revolutonar I boast of We have on it said the Chicago Chi-cago man those who ought to command our earnest support Our cand ds at fnr president Is a man o such colossal proportions I pro-portions that he can stand on tIC pit forms at the same time He has BOLTED THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET when a candidate was nominated by a convention in which he sat as a delegate It is averred that claiming to be a Dem claming ocrat he voted for the Populistic delegate dele-gate for president against Cleveland and gte agnst he has announced In more than one place that he would bolt any Democratic ticket which did not conform in Its platform I plat-form with his own individual preferences Such a man therefore ought to command com-mand your earnest support as a Democrat Demo-crat says our Chicago friend I dont crt recognize that at all but our friend from Chicago regnize says You must support him because Chicg The he regularly nominated cause hE was reulaly nomlnatc i cuse proceedings of the convention were entirely prceedings en-tirely wrong Weir let us look at the record of the proceedings My distinguished distin-guished leader has told you i was called gished regularly though it may in some respects have been regular the Chicago conven regla tion was revolutionary at the conclusion tio wa revoJutonary There was a defection of those delegates from the defecton opposition and to of principles against which the adoption prnciples agnst we have contended for one hundred that of another The regularity was years other proceeding of wa we learn in told that Benedict Ar history We are Benetct nold was regularly commissioned by the centennial congress a a majorgeneral in the continental army General Buckner concluded his address Generl a few minutes after 10 oclock and was loudly Dr Wm cheered Everett of Massachusetts and Evert Colonel John W Fellows mae brief addresses dresses |