The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, July 16, 1896, Image 1
__ HE PEOPLE'SJORNAL
VOL. .6.---NO. 26 PICK ENS, S. C., T'URSIAY, JULY 16, i&6 OblE DOLLAR A TEAR.
Silver Men in Control.
THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
SENA'TOl DANIEL THIE TILMPO
IRARY CHAIRMAN.
An Bloquent Adtdress froa the Great
Virginian-The Tarifr and Currency
Issues.
The opening tight in the National
D)iocratle Convention upon the ton
pot-ary chairman resulted In Ia completo
victory for the Silver men. Sonator
Daniel, of Virgina, was olected over
Senator David 13. Hill, of New York,
byi a vote of 5.51; to :Ii'. The aIlI)nnoulnce
ment of the vote wias received with
great denc'stration. of applause.
Senator Joncs, of Arkansas, it. I'.
Keating, of Nevada, and Selnltor
\Vhite Were appointd to escort Sena
tor Daniel to the platform.
As the comii jttee appearle(l on the
platfom witl the Virginia Senttor
the demonstrations of the silver men1
wore renewed. Senator Dauiol having
the appelarlce of an old-tioi states
man, smooth face, long hir and wear
ing the conventional frock coat, look
ed as if ho had stopped out of some
picture of the Senate of the past. lie
bowed plrofoundly in response to the
ovationl h received.
IEscorted by the coiiuittee, Nr.
Daniel passed to the platfoil, where,
when he appeared, he was received
with an imumense eruption of cheers
and yells. The band helped the thing
along with " 1-ail to the Chief," an(i
thoro Were more cheers.
When order was restored Mr i*. lar
rity said : " Gentlemen of the conven
tion, I have the honor of i ntt-oduciing
as your temn porary chairm1an the lon.
John W. Dlaniel, of Virginia."
When the delegates and everybody
else in the house wvro yelling and
cheering, Chalirman hartrity p)assed
the gavel over to Mr. Daniel, wh~o took
it and spoke as follows :
Mr. Chairman of the National Demo
cratic Convention : In receiving firom
your hands this gavel, as the t ,nm po
rary presiding ollicer of this convun
tion, I believe I express a sentiment
which I am sure is unanimous that no
natio,:al convention was ever presided
over with more ability or with more
fairness than by yourself. 1 can ex
press no better wish for myself than
that I may be able in some- feeble way
to make my conduct by your model and
to practice by your example. (Cheers.)
The high position, gentlemen, to
whicl you havo chosen me, involves
both a great pe-sonal honor and a keen
responsibility. For the honor [ thank
you. The responsibility I would wholly
be inadcquate to bear (lid I depend
upon myself, but your gracious aid will
make it easy and its burden light.
That aid I confidently invoke from you
. the sake of the gr<:at cause under
ioso banner we have fought so many
bit es and which now demands of us
suC"b\ Ataunch devotion and such loyal
servir I regret that my name should
har.' -t brought In even the most
coArteoi, and serious complication
with thatg f my distinguished frieind,
the great seuator from Now York,
(applause,) but the ve.ry fact that I
have permitted it to bo done refutes
the suggestion that has been improvi
dently made on this loor that either I
or those whom I have the honor to
replresent, would ever heap indignity
upon that brave and Illustrious head.
(Great ap)lause.) No candid man, no
dIispassionate jud gment, gentlemen,
can over misinterpret your meaning.
The Senator from New York himself
thiows as5 you know and as I know that
there is no personal ity in the pre1fer
ment which has been given to me. lHe
mu lst, know that the w hole counltry
waltches' these proceedinogs and mlust
know that it is solely luo to principle
that this great majority of Democrats
standsl for and they know I stand with
themi. (Appilause.) And that it is
given in the spirit of the instruction5
received b~y these representati ves of
the peole, from the people1, whom all
t').mocrats will ever bow to as the
pur iest and original source of all powe'r.
T1he birth of the Democratic party waIs
coeval with the birth of the sovereign
ty of the people. It can never (lie until
the dleclarationl of American indopen
de'nec Is forgotten and that sovereign
ty is crushed out." (Great applause.)
I am happy, gentlemen, to know that
as the majority In this convention Is
not personal, neither in any sense Is It
sectional. It blends the palmettocs
and the pines of Maine andl South Car
olina. It begins with the sun rise in
Maryland1 and spreads in to a son burst
in Lou isiana and Texas. (A plause.)
It stretches In one unbroken coinumn
aLcross the American continent, from
the Atlantic shores of the Old Diom in
ion and Georgia, and It shows its sil
very beams over the golden gates of
Call ifern ia, (applause): it sends Yorth its
piloneers from i 'ly imo th IRoek an)d
waves overC the golden wheaZt licids of
lDakota. It hats Its stronghold In Ala
humna and Mississippi and1( Its outpost0
in Minnesota, Fliorida and Oregon.
(Applause). It sticks like a tarheel,
(applause)d(Own In the old North State,
15md It writes sIxteen to one on the sad
dlebags of Arkansas with the traveler.
(Loud alplause). It pours dlown Its
rivulets from the mountains of West
Virginia and makes a great lake Ir.
New Mexico, Arizona. Wyoming,
idaho, U1tah, Nevada, Montana and
Colorado. It standl(s guar-d around the
national espItol In the Isltrict of Co
luinhia. (chieers), and it camps on the
frontiers of Oklahoma. It sweeps like
a prairio tire over Iowa and Kansia',
and pults upi a red l ight on the confines
of Nebraska. IIt maishmals Its muassive
battalions in Ohio, Inudiana, Illinows
and MI esourl. Last, but by far from
least, when I see this gr'and array and
think of the lit ish gold etandard that
was recently unfurled over the ruins
of I t publIican iprom ises at St. ILouiis, I
think, too, of the battle of New Or
leans, of wh11ich It Is said :There 81t00(
.1 ohn I ull Iin martial piomip, but there
e oldi Kentuoky."' ( Applause).
reth ren of the ILast, thore is no
51outh, there is 1n0 North, there Is no
F~ast, ther-e Is no West In this upris
ing of the people for AmerIcan eman
cination from the conspiracy of Europ
can kings, led by Great Britian, whiol
seeks to destroy one-half of the mono;
of the world and to make America
manufacturers, merchants, farmer
and mechantksmoro hewers of wooc
and drawers of water.
There is one thing golden, which
permit me, in the same good humoi
which has characterized your conduct,
to commend to you here. It is the
golden rule to do unto others as you
would have them do unto you. Forgel
not the greed of devils and that an a)
solute acquiescence in the will of thc
majority is the vital principle of the
republic. Democrats as I trust you
will ever be, acquiesce gracefully in
the will of the great majority of your
fellow Democrats and only ask to ge
with them, as they have often gone
with you. (Applaube.) Do not forgot.
gentlemen, that fra thirty years we
have supported the men that you have
nmed for Presiden. Secretary Sey
mour, Greely, 'Tilden and Hancock
and twico Cleveland. Do not forget
that we have submitted cheerfully to
yourm conpronmised platform and to
your repeated disItsters to their fulfill
nient. To get at the last convention
of the Deinocrat.ic party ir 1892, you
)I'o9huieId you'ri stIerVices to bO in favor
of the use of both gold and silver as a
standard money of the country, for the
Coinlage of hotih gold aild silver without
discrim insating against either metal;
and that the only question left open
was th ratio botweeu the metals. [Do
not forget-and I refer to the fact in
no inferior sense--that just four1' years
ago in a Democratic convention Iin thi,
city the New York delegation stood
here solidly and immovable for a can
didate committed to the frco and un
Iinited eoinage of silver and gold at
a ratio of 16 to 1. And if we are still
for it, lot it not be forgotten that wo
owe It in some measure to their teach
ings. (Applause). That we owe you
much, guntlemen of the l'ast, is read
ily acknowledged and will be ever
most gratefully re mem bered. We
owe you much, gentlemen of the con
vention, and for what we owe you
of the EIast is the force bill and the
McKinley hill, and the Sherman law,
the triple infamy of Republican logis
lation. The first was aimed not more
at -u-La2tl than at the great cities of
the lEast and -AtA among thom, the
great i)emocracy oT1w~grk, with
its magnilicent patronage. .t-.5,4 I1
got its death blow in the Sonato, btl
tliere was not a sin-Ie Democrat In
New York or New England to vote
agains; it.
No man In this high noon of ou'
country's fraternity can revive foro
bills now in this reconciled and re
united republic. Our opponents them
selves have abandoned them. There
is none that can stand between the
union of hearts and the union of hands
that Grant in his lying vision saw was
coming on angels wings to all the sons
of our coimmon country. When Chica
go dressed Southern graves in flowers
she buried bectionalism under a moun
tain of fragrance. When Southern
soldiers yesterday cheered the wound
ed hero of the North in Richmond the
South answered back: * Let us have
peace; peace, union and liberty now
and for'ccr.'
As the majority of Democrats Is not
sectional neither does It stand for any
privileged or class legislation. The ac
tive business men of this country, its
manu fa -turers, merehants, farmrom's,
sons of toil, in counting' room, factory,
field and mine, know that the contrac
tion of the currency sweeps away with
the silent and resistless for of gravita
tion th annual prolits of their en
terprise and investments. They ki ow
too that the gold standard means con
traction and tbic organization disaster.
What hope is there for the country
and what hope for the Democracy un
less the views of the majority hero
shall be adopted Y D~o not the people
know that it. was niot silver legislation
ha legislat ion dictated by iLbc advo
cates of the gold standard that has
caused andl now continues the financial
dleprtession y Doi they not know th at
w eni their dlemiands upon01 the [Democ
:'acy' were compieid with ini 1593 andl
the~ SherInIILIanhw repealed w.ithiout a
subistitute that the very States of the
l'last lihaIt dhemandIIed it tu rned( arainu.-t
the IDemnocracy that gran ted it andl
swept away their majority in a torrtent
of ballets y' Ilad the silver men had
thelir way then inustead otf the goldl
mnonomnetal ists, wvhat stormns of abum~
woul 1h iore today'1) be emp)t~Cied upo
their head but the( people, ap~lylinrg
the power of nmemiory andl analysis alike
to discover the causes of thelir arrested
pro'sperity, need not, go to find thenm.
They do not forget when Democr-acy
came to power in 189)3 it Inherited froma
its Republican pr'odecessror the tax sys
tem and the currency system of whi:-h
the McKinley law and the Shermaiar
law were the culminating atrocities
It came to power amidst a panic, wht Ich
litly followed upon01 their Olnat tineni
with strikes, lookouts, i'iots and civic
commotions, while the scenes of peat&ce
ful industry in l'ennsylvania had be.
comoi iiitary camps.~
Besides manifold oppressive featurea
the McKinley law had thr',wn awa)
fi fty millions of revenOmue derIived froar
sugar' undler the specora'li plea of a fret
break fr8si table and had siubstitu tei
bounties to sugar- planters, thus d~o
creasing 'revenue and incereasintg ex
p~end iure, thus burning tihe candle a1
both endts and1 miaking the people)1 paa
at least for tihe allegedl free breakfast
1" ronm the joint operations of tihe Mc
Kinley law and Sher'man law an ad
verse balance of tr'ade was for'ce(
agaiust us in i893, a surpllus of one hun
dred millions of dollars In the treasura
was converted into a deficit of sovonta
mill ions in 18941, and engraved bondm
prep~ared~ by a Itepublican Secr'etary t<
borriow money to suppiort the govern
mnent, wer'e tihe ill omens of tihe pr'o
organized ruin that awaited thle incom
lng D~emocr'ats, and a depleted treasur my
Mor'o significant still, the ; cry au~hora
(of the ill-starred Sherman law make
shift were already at confession upo)0
tile stool of penltence, and wver'e beg
ginp D~emocr'ntlc help) to put'ou(at tiu
con ilagraition of disaster that the,
themselves had kindled.
So far as revenue to support tihe gov
enment is concerned the D~emocrati
par'ty withl but a slender' maj~ority ii
tihe Senate was not long in pr'oviding
iand bad not the Supreme Court ()
the United States r'ever-ed its somtle<
do)ctrine of l100 years, the income 'ax
ineor'poraited in the tarilf bill. wo't,
since have abundantly supplied it.
The liep~ublican party hlas now r'e
nonncd th crednf Ins latfrmm -n
of our national pledges and presente(
r the country the issuc. of higher taxeo
1 more boids and less money. It. hat
J proclaimed at last, throwing away the
I disguises, the British gold standard.
We can only expect should they sue
cOed, my countrymen, ia spechimen 01
panic and a. long proti acted period of
depression. Do not ask us then to join
them ii any of their propositions.
Least of all ask us not to join them
upon the moncy question and fight a
shami battle over a settled tar, for
the money question is the paramount
issue before the American people and
it Involves Americanism more than
any economic issue that was ever pre
sented at a Presidential election.
We pray you, no more imakeshifts
and straddles. Vox not the country
with your prophecies of smooth things
to come from the British-I teiuIlican
propaganda. (Applausi.) Tho fact
that the European nations Ire going
to the gold standard renlers it alI th,
more inpractieablo that we should do
so, for the limited stock of grold In the
world would have longer division and
a snaller share for each nation. 'r
V'ous pred ictionlI have been Jlpromptly
refited When IOsperi 1.3y WI 1r01ph.
ciel to coie 11pon tlhe ulnie-wI iti,,nal
ri,e'II of time Sleriman latw. I--tLe;L'
of protecting tih trethuiry r ..ve
was prophie(Aod it wouhi jIo, an jrIpire
cedlenitedl rait was Ironmpitly rm
It and two hundr d awl mixty-tW,, I..
lions of horrowl- g'oldhave u>e:, :r.
ellicenImt to garante it ner.. e,
stead of castinigij foredgn vapital to .w
to us it has tiM tihir ted tihm 1 w1,0W of Jr,;';
to 'urope and the greenbaek nbotf e ane
the Shermnan noites whlich are- piu-t a;
pityab le In ilver a4 in gold havi: b''*rn
iaed to di p the gold out of t he tri.. -
uiry of the( Uniteu States atndi to mitrrr
it In tbou strong box of the war lords of
Eu rope. Instead of reviving huisi nes
this policy has depr-css(ed it. I nstead
of increasing wages this p$oli)0icy ais
further decreased thein. Inrastead of
imultiplyinrg opportuniti!s for (nlialoy.
ment this paolicy hilts 1mul itiplied idlers.
instead of increasing the pricos of
our products this )oicy has lowered
themin, and it is estiiated at about, 1.5
per cent. in tbreme years. I nstead of
reviving conlidonco tihe policy ias
banlsheid confidence. i nstead of bring
ing relier it ias brought, years of
miserVy and for thiis reaSoln it h as ('oi
tracted tho cur'rontey of tho Un ited
'%' - four dolars a heiamd for every
niian;1'td. %" and Child since Novetimbiher
I1, I83 an~' ud ,t' - qis. vast aggroegate,
Cotllrtaciitill the pr i- . . ld ]andt of
lianufactured goods anti ofs,, g
agricultural and mereautile p.
has fallen.
The public revenues have '....
wages of labor have Ra. ad e
thing on the face of the tar:". has .
but taxes and dehit whoet hs-e -
dened. while on the other r;ar. &
lignidation has been nimi:r. isec
No nation can ca : frC- r..
dependent that is not grets er. , .
ostabli-h and mnaintain a :narcea. m
tem of its own. i Great avp'.ause.
To pretend that this foremost ard
richest and most powerful nation in lt e
world cannot coin its own money with
out suing foe' an internationai agree
mont at the courts of European auto
crats, who have none b'it primary
interests to subserve. has for man'
years been held out at Presidentia'l
election ; have made use of such an
agreement and have failed afterwards
and we have never in our history had
an international agreem nt on a money
system and none of the founders of this
republic ever dreamed that such an
agreement was essential. We have
had three international conferences in
order to obtain it and to wait longer
upon them is to ignore the interest of
our own people and dgrade our na
tional dignity and to advertise to all
mankind our i mpotenco and our a folly3.
T1he majority of this conventionm
maintain that, this great Amearican
nation, without duoondence upon11
European nations for~ anytlihng that
they produce, and with European na
tions deplendenat upon01 much that we
prIodunce. is ftul ly catpable of restoring
tis colnsti tu tion3 mI1oney~ Syst'5 oA llf gold(
andi silIver' at eqatl ity wt icLh each other.
Ad a~Iis our I fathercas ini 177I'001e ctld
our11 naitionail I ndeplaledece oIf allI the
worldi, so to-thry' haus theC great I3emao
cra'Itic partlty, founde by(013 Thloma Is .1 (f
fe rsonm, the azuthor oIf t haat d eel aration,
appeaolred i'L roin Cicago( to dleclaro
the linunial Ind(eende'nco of the
Uit ed States oIf atll other unations and(
toa invoke all true A mier'icanis to assert,
it lby thiair suffriages at the 1)o1ls, thaat
(oltur)1 coutry may be placedO~ whIere she
bly right belo~ngs as to the frecst, as
tihe foremost, as tile mo1st parosper'ous
andI happy nation that evear blessed tile
life of malnind uplona this globo.
-Ex-Seeretary oIf the T.Lreasumry' Ie'os
ter testi lied betfore thle ways and1( means
colmmitItee of the I lousc, Iivye weeks be
forec I resident C leveland begain hIas
i~resent toirmi, that the n rvenueis y'id d
eId by the htKiiley tarif wouli not,
he1 enloughm, ini is op iio, 1by $oO,00,.
(100 a year to prov'ide for' the needs ofi
titi Govern menat. " Thiis one fact," say
Ih Iliatrtfor'd imeaas, "eknbocks out atll
tie atrguiietats oIf .Mley103 and the
par'tisani pr~s that, thme pre'(sent titfI ii
tile (causo of thleca mbatrrmasmiont (If thet
ttreasuray and rtarLIdation (of buisiness.
Ileause tihe Siipremo Court deoclared
unconsti tutionial onofeattur to (f thet pres'
ent tar if latw to whIch the It mieublicat
p~arty made no eppos itioni whatever thit
reovenlues atre~ insullicient. I hit thaev at
posibl lagerthamn they woulld Imav(
10e i the Inloy Act lad remain
etd ir for'ce."
--A pinter' in "ma~king up"' tha
forml," getting r'eatdy to pr'inlt, took a
handfu~tl of type fr'om time tail end (If
firte item, andl by mnistaike puat It aigaints
the firtst part of a funeral potico. Ii
the paper' it r'oad 1like tis: '"Tme il
boar'eiis lowered thec b~ody Inmlto the
a'so, and as It was Ocosignled to tim
lianmes there wore few if any recgrets
for time old1 wreck had been an OyOsoru
to tile toawn for years. Of courise thleri
was intdiavid ual loss, bitt that wmas cover'
ed by insurance.'' The11 widowv thin1ki
time editor wrotte the obituar'y thamt wai:
beOcaulse the lamenltedl Jartner (of lhe
joys and Sgmrrows owed 1111m fiv yearlOt
suabscripItion. TIake warninog, delini
(quenmts.
- Is a great fault to h)0 conltinuall'
I fault-finding.
hman and Hill.
AN EXCITING EPISODE IN CHICAGO.
C1111'11,30 AND H1 IdSICs FOL TiIbI
MAN.
lie Makes a littelr Attack Upon
Clevelanl anir Deles the Galt
lerles.
Ono of the inost exciting episodes li
the National Donocratic Convention
was the debate oi Thursday hotweeni
Till man and 1 IIl on tio eu rrency issue.
Tito pres report IH itsa follo ws :
Senator Blen Tillman, of South Car
(li.a, joiited the stage to open the
pt't, debato In h1hal of frto colinage.
A triking figurec he was as he faced
tibe audiene68. With no pretersiionH in
drr-H4, sIhaby ciOated, wearingI a heavy
ilvier chbain icro-s his lbr#iast, li in
6. I t ,jy 'I i:w i lte f:yE:8i of thfe 20,00ti$ I.o
p14 r :t.. Thie:y r tL tw)viard hi rue
at's h we : ani ant~ gonst. if . thle i:k.
nInlcJ i fig for, ws h e',f i':
i f"; a. f,.' ( :' It r 0; /;?. f, i -fe:aI1, t i r,:.
h r b r j ' -, o.,, - ':- .01
9: fa ',6:........... . .
(heer,, muingled with htib,c
itr. Mr. lichardson, who was W
ig tibe gavel , Iih th aid of the as
Hihtal tl g a 61t-it-eLL- .s-, sudbd.-Ily qu1- y
pressei(d the deontrat,en. II is first,si.
tenoi slowed thlut le had a good, well
Iodul it,ed voice, ht tas he lrocetuled
ho pitehoid it I i key so Shrill that It t
grated likhe ai i. I t was chelautoris
tie from the hogi1111ig.
Tillman reali-/ed that so far ais 1-1 1
galleries woro contcornieil, hIo facod nill
au11di(ieeO which he folt was largoly
hosti l. Ik.lie in trod iudced hii1f to
theis hy iying that, le ce ume before
them as he was ; lot. as " the lying
newspa pIeros had represientltedim Is to le."
A roudti of applauSse groeeted this an- 5
noutncO1leent. but it was drownie'd inl the I
storms of hisses 'froim till galleries .
-hich was inreased tO at porfet whir'.
Of a..; 110
- P h 6 iErpen-t:"d a manr
Ra eI and dreissn tLe
'a. .er - he s o.ed that the mnan who
- hi- S uth C.rolina forgot the h-is
1.ory of the revolution when that State
kept the fires of liberty. This pro
voked a wild demonstration.
"South Carolina, i .1860,'" he said,
led the light in the Democratic party
which disrupted it."
"Secession," ho continued, while the
galleries hissed, " brought about the
war, the war which emancipated the
black main.'
" Now," he added, sweeping his hand
through the air above h is head, "wo
are leading the light to omancipate
the white slavOs." Th11is tLimo the sil
vor. m11oln had their inninrgs, but they
did not IpIlauid very louidly wh.lt he
dleclaredi that wViths ~ond(1itions r ~eersod <
he was61 wlinitg to a~ga in see the D~emo
As\ lhe lprocee(ded thei gallo:'ioes aigain
ih issedl anid several t ime~ the sergeant
at-arms thtrealtefnod IC) ear the gal-i
leries. Tihe silver men had a chance
to) shout their approval when he (IC
claredl that they were adopting a new
I )cclaration of I ndopondence of "'I6 to
I" or hush,.
Th'Ie storm of hisses Iisedl forth
again when he repudiated the diial
that this was a sectional con test.
"'I say it is a1 sectionial issue6',"' he cried,
"and6( it wll i pre'1vail."' A fter' the p)yro
tehnte1 C expressions., so characteristic
(of thbo man16, lie drifted inLto staltitics t~o
show Lthe( bondalsgo of the Souith and
West Lto the iiast, and1( thiese dr y higur es
gave the galliorios another opportounity
to cry himi downs.
"T''sim, Lime, timie,"' they shouted.
Th'lis rousedl the Senator alga is nLto angry
resentment,. Hoe pacedl the platforma
like an enraged lion.
"I know, I know,'' he cried, wvithi arma
aioft, "you are .(raInst us. TIhoro is
not a paper in Lhbs city that is not in
the power (if thes money inlluoiinees.
TIhiey wviii not give 'us a fair- showv.
They chsaracterizo us8 a- howling dor
v ishes aind silver I unaiticsb'
Ialny of the dolo~gates crowuoui up,
the aisles 66ndl stood at the foot of thle
stg6suyng i ntenitly the fcaituires of
t~ihe masn becfore them.
Hunautor T.'ii ila declred tha Li~t the
onl1 y way to avert a1iCVi rvlution was Lto
seh-et, a mniI whiose record wol d lit the
platformi. Soon the hissing began
again at. some11 rail 1utteranco and
the South Cunrol inlian took occalsion to
say thaut "fousr years aigo the NOW Yorik
Senator was18hissed15as 61am now.
Where is Nw Yori'k no0w ? Where is
New York's leader ?-' lFrom the gal
Ier cam~5iie Liib. 'ry, "lin the sou5p,'"
wViihih brousght down4 'I a wave of cheers
fori liili, topp~edi withs a foalm (if hisses.
Tillniin stayedi, waII iig for th e noiso
Lto5 ssidie, 1and1 thsen puSttinrg hiis lhantd
beifore'li. hismouth for a speakiing Lru6
pot, callied likhe a' fciloihor in deLiline
"Yo enn'16 ju5st a1s v;ol ui indelrstand
that I am65 goinig to hiave' my say If I
standl~ hero uti L sundiiown ."'
le waIs p~ermittedl to go on with coim
palrativo0 <idet for the chairman had
pleaddI withs the alud itors and1( throat
eneid to) clear the galleries, lHe suir
prised isis hsearers ano1w by' an6 attack
oni Senator liiill hSoauis'i th l(Seonator
fr-omi New York hadt refused to make
the first speech on the pilatformn and
gi vo the S''uthi CaIrol in man lll the reply.
Incidentaily Ito sid of 1ill11
" tie desp'isedi the I 'resident of the
-United SLtte. in l8I; since then he
has hsad~ case to moicre thaln despiiso
him 1.'' lie scoredtilli for' atssusinng
the sole of aplogisL for the admiinis
I"lint, as Grover Clevnhand sannds for
gold-" ho begau. wheuupon a '11ur.
riah for Cleveland !" was ahotiuted, wiich
d row quito a hearty response from the
galleries. The attaek on the l'resi
dent which followed did not find any
.iatrikcd demonstration of approval.
"Now, I wiLn you all to listen," Till
man shouted, aid then ho read the
substitute resolution, which follows:
"We denounce the administration of
'resident Cleveland as undemocratic
itnd tyrannical, and as a departure from
these principses which are chorished
by all liberty loving Americans. The
veto power has beeni used to thy.v..-t !i.o
will of the people ats ex pressed by their
representativez; in Congress. The ap
pointive power thas been used to sub
sidizo the press, to debauch Congress
and to overawe aund control the citizens
ub their free excreIse of thier constitu
ionl 1 rights las Voters. A plutocratic
ICeF'otis1t Is tl1us sought to l- eStUb.
Ilsth(ei on th u I-111in1 of the repu bli.
"We repudiate tlle corstrutii
ilated on he fimiwnanial piank of the
ueocratic National Convenjtion ,'
nroary CarlI H I': asi eontrag to th
lain mrinlng of 1-lfrg|iii V/"p t anid 1%
> Ijg an $At: of blua faith, (6 i'zrVr1ij
th.e: to:'r to j r,:(); n or T igin' :of
0alefr ,r ,( : f ' rej t,-, Statrr,
1'':'- *ay -rt :rit, rare b xot
-r--or .. pt;~ra-- rf authiouiy
CZ,.; (/, t".'~ r);ir.': Il,;Lk:u ',v o
a i~i-l 6 .: .i~z rI of jri
--.."' -1 - m id rio.t
j.- r- fj U1thl: <:rt~r,: ro~ading
.-.,C~. wa-, or riy irrr.
r r~~r w tna w r ig to> thll- ro-1
r tr.: ira . j:r;':-s. t, r>a. whoi h l ;ie: ate
!iilsh mt I.:.. . r, t .r.; ,I r - daay of thei:
Onivent,(bi ly h ':-.:.OC,.r. a ro:iaark
l MIse of stiag -. tt ar,; at tlr:
U1m1 11h10 u11.,' en hahit, . .r .tid
o tl a t(liestlon, but1 he waH nowis..
lown.
Heim11tor Tilhlniian conlud-d by ple(dg
ig South CI2aro'.Iiiia's sol id vote to any
nd )i stridgit sllv er candidate. A , bi:
lesenulded from the stiagn the delegatLV'
et uip Ia great, s hout for 11111.
Sonator 11111 ascendled the platfor mr
m id a iporfemct ttoribm of tptpla l sif. . 1i6.
hook the hand of the prishlig oUiLer(f
.nd theln, wit'lh a smilo, howmul hin ii
:nowladgmeti tto I tIhe shoutin g, geo.
it-ulatting crowd. Moln wereon mthirt
hairs waving- hunkoreliefs, ungs, and
ossing lats in the air. As the iirst
-101am0 of 'ound ecihed aid flowed it,
t''O :-MeWne die away than it would
-a.e upam eheered and re
3, 1 *...,: 1J
H began
that readily ,he ga
lie said he wou in tmpto f ow
er answer the Senator frum South
Caroiina.
".I can ray to him," said Mr. Hill,
"that I am a .)emocrate, but not a gold
bug." Again the deionstration broke
'orth and lasted half a minute. South
Jarolina, with all its power, proceed
!d l r. iill, could not driv e him out of
Ahe Democratic party. Ie came here
in a im ission to uuite, riot to div ido; to
build up, niot to destroy, not to plot for
victories, not to plot, for defoat. The
great Empire State has stood for years
is the Gibraltar of Democracy. Mr.
MIl said ho deprecated attacks oi
,hose who bol ioved in the froo co inage
>f silver at l6 to I. I-1 had always
,reiated men of tis opinfion w ithi ie
peet and 1he would (do the sameib today.
L'o himi tI': question was one on which
non fairly di ffered. Ie believed that
,hio best course for' this convyen tion to
>uirsuo was to tiako the first great step
owardl international b imetail linm.
The (InitedI Status cannot safeay
gnoro the molCnetary systems of the old
Iations and yet thu majority pha formn
onitailned no wordl favorabie to thbis dt
;rabilo end. ft contai nedl no sugges
,Ion of what should ho (1ono if the
arai ty coul 1n rot bio mintai nedl on t.he
he Oxper(imenIt o (f lb to I.
Th'le fact contnot, lie igniored (if thie
reat, produ actio oIi(f slilver in thiIs
nounitry. Could the peole, even in
pir'ed witn thu spirit, (if ''6 make
nopperci the equial of goldI Could they
bu It the ir eyes to the quelostioni oif the
produ tctin oIf theO mentals.
"I beien ive," declarIedl Seinatii' Ifiill,
"that, thbe coulrse foir us to take is to de'
alare for- itnterna uti(nail metallIiami and
itOp there."
Aside from the silver' question, Sen
Eator Hill went, on, why had the pl1at
rormii gone Into thu gr-eentbackc' quiestioin?
Whty htadl it gonoe into the g uestion of
han ks and bonds ? lie htoped that, the(
xiounrsel of w.'ise, calmii, coiol-Iheaded
mreii wouhil preCvailI. Whfat was the
adlvantage lie asked, of plfacing oin thei
plattformii an implied pledlge for tht
Issue of paper curr'ency ? i)eimocrath
tnradlition had always favored hard
mtoney. TIhie Seunator fr'om Arik ansai
had dolreld that the Platform said
what it, meant and meant what is said
lIe challenged somel 0on0 who was ti
follow 1.1im, to exlain what this pliani
meanLOt. 11 l enoutned~ the declaratior
oif a policy for tihe issue of paperC monos
as suicidal. Th'~e income tax pilanli
also hoe scathingly criticized. II
stooId amazed, lie said, that the fol
lowers of Samtuei Tilden w ho all hi
Ii'!e opposed0( it, should now seek to
com iti their party to thIs rid icudl
scheme.
It would drive (iuit oif the party i)e
mocrats wh Io had growna gray in~ It
servicie t. mnake roomt foi' thtose whf
had lost, thoir p(o4i tiomn in thte paty.
"I thitl convon tion, after fdeclar'inl
for free silvyer,'' he said, "' nominate
any candidate baut one, yoaur Poplisti
frIends will nominate a ticket, an
your' free silver fiends will jolin hland
with themi."
"No, no,'' shouted a delegate.
"Alt,'" asked Senator 111ff, "' who( I
the'o in tis convention to speak fo
that wing of the liuoblicant party.
TIs1 set the gold men to chooering
Thbe dIemfonstraltion was11 renewedii wh'
Mir. 11111, with an inclinationt of i
head towar~id a lIttle eoteii of s iIven
bof torsa fromt th~e S't. I.ou Is cfI oventtionI
gr(Iope on theo pfatformt lhe saId:"
see on this pl1at form a number oif di
timruisahod grentleman who are couanse
inig this I)Olicy. T1hey nVo3r- voted thiu
lhimocaltie ticket in their lives."
6 \e want to build up the Domo
cratic party," ho said, " not tear it
down. We love and honor the pr-inci
PlIS (If .1 tIforson and Jackson who
were for hard Ionoy. If we aro true
to the old faith, if we stand by the
tradiitionial policy of the 1)emocratic
stilits of the past, thon wo will win; if
we put them aside, then we are lost."
The gold delegates elimbed up oil
their chir1s anWid joined the gallnEis In
the demonstration in honor of their
chai1On is he descended from the
plaitfori and resumed i1s seat In the
New York delegation.
THE PLATFORM OF THE D[MOCRACY,
1)ECLAlit AT ION (11. P'ARTY VMSl
(1I'l' S.
A Mnmtuhi tirwaii alnEl 1. iineqivocal
linenmnt--Ne StradiEte on the
l''111nnCial Ques-1tiOnl.
Tle following is the platfo Itrm as in
ally agreei d upon by tLE, comittee ol
reo.ltLitimin to) bI- auhmIttEto thE con
Ventijonj :
We., the I :Inocrats of L11he United
Statafs, in) national convention assem
bb,':d, <jo re.atllemi ouir alle~giarico to thosec
grIat isenLial prinucipics Of justico
inld Ii borty uipoll wlicIh our- institutionis
ar: foled, itaild which the Demioeratic
party I.1 advocatd fron .ufierson',
tim: to our ownl .freedon of speecii,
fIio'rn'lii of the press, freedorn of oln
I li J iCi, Ulf: JIrEss(EIv'at,[I Of jI(i'SOIrial
rights, the E#lUality Of all citizenIIS Ie
fort.. th law. and the faithful observ
ann f cuniu ioa liffmitations, D1n
ri!ng aLhe.e y-, the Demiocritie
p -irty lia., rEhi.-Ated Lit. t iiie cy Of sel
fib inte-to) thl EiitrLlizltionl of
If% rIMii:t power. aid stei flastly
inain1taine'-d the. intlb --ity to thll dual1
H(e lo! of V ernment-1114!11 c.,tablibheil by
t ihe fl111b.rs oIf tL i,- republic of repilil
I ice. I :ndeit gu 'lidanCeI anld teachings
t ib !eat pri 1E i pll of local sEli-govern.
ni,. . foundit-, hjl!.,, expre-ssii in
thO fnitlna..-:'- iof rights, (If thle State
and in t. '1. ' ritioi of Li 10clie L thity of
-U. e' . thElpowi r granic ted by
tr r~.-.'. oai,n t,! tio: Cnit-dl Sutte"s.
rr th at thl: mfoney que-stionl
i, paramroar tit,0 atl others at, this timne,
fl,"'-itis t,:to t~o the( fac(t that the
cvfrat, .onstitution name114S HilverI an,1d
gitog.tl.her aLs the mlonley meltals of
thL -i niti Ed States, and that the first
coinage law Ea1'ed by Congress under
the constitution imitde the Silver dollar
the monetary unit and adinitted gold
to free colnagel at a r ;a&e upon
the -ilver do1 ar.
and impO6tbI~~f
- the peCop e.
\\e are unalterably o- mono
metalli km which hab locked last thei.
prosperity' of an industrial people in
the paralysis of hard times. Gold
monometallism Is a British pulicy and
its adoption ilas brouight othcr nations
into tilancial servitide to London. It
is not only un-American, but anti-Am
erican, 1111d it Canlt be fastened on the
United States only by the stiffness of
that spirit and love of liberty whicl
IOClaime Id 111 pitical independence
in 176 and won in the war of the revo
lution.
We demand the free and unlimited
co~liage oif both gOild and1( silver, att the
pre'senlt legal ratti() of i16 to I, without
waiting for thu aid or con sent of any
other niation. We'L diemanld that, the
statndaird silver- dillar~ shall bo) a full
legal tender, E:l'taliy with gldi, for atll
such 11 lilation ats will prcven t for the
fuituLre the demonliejtizattlion of atny kind
(If legal tender money by prilvate con
traci.
We are opposed to the hisilng of in
tcrest-beaing b)ond(s of thbu United
States ini Lime1 of p~eace, atnd condemin
theotralhick ing w ith ban king syndicates
which, in exchange for bonds and atL an
enIormnous profit to themselvyes, suply
the LVedur'al TJreasuiryjwith gohld to main
tini the pol1icy of gold mf~oometatllismn.
Congress ialone has power to coin and
issuo1 money and IPresIien1 Jackson de
clared thait Liiis power couIld not be
dlelegated to corporations or Indlivid
ualIs. Wt', thInEfore, denounce the is
suri ance of1 notes as money for national
bantlks in doerogitilon of the constitution
and we demand thait atli paper which is
miado legal tender for1 plublic and pii
vate debts or1 wh ichi is receivable for
tdues Lo the Uited States sh all he
issued b~y the government of the Un ited
States atnd shadi 11) rteeemable in coin.
\VI, hold thlat taiff dut ies ab oub he I
1ev ied for pitrpose sof reve nue, such
dut~ies to h)o 5o iad justed as to oplerate
e quall1 y thioughout, the coun itry and1 nolt
to dIiscri miinate between class or sec
t ions, and th at taixat ion shoubilll ie
lii itedi by the needis of tuhe G overanenit,
honestly and ec~lonmicallIy admini ter
ed. We denounce its distiurbhing Lo
busi81ness the lI opubl icani Lthreatt to re
s tore the Mch' inley law which hats
1twice been1 condeimned by thlE people
~iIn National elect! ioins, iand whIiichi,
c enaceted und -ic I' h false plea (If prot)ec
ai tioin to homo10 i. ( u Eur iis, provedl ai pro.
- lie breeder of trust i and moniopllI es,
s enriebed the few at thne expIOnse of the
m niy, restri ctell trade, and deprilved
Lihe prod ucers (If the great A mnerican
stalels of access to their natural
I Until the mioney3 qu iestion Is settled
Iwe are o)ppos~ied to any agitation for
futher chaniges in oui triffY laws ex
SceptSuch~ as are necessary to meet the
s delieit ini re venue caused by the ad verse
a decision olf thne Supremoifl Court on the
incomie tax. But for this decision by
Sthe Supremoe Court,, there would be no
delicit in the revenue uinder thne latw
palssed by a Decmocratic Congress in
Sstrict puIrsuiance of tihe uniform dc
cisioni of that Court for- neatrly oine
hundred years, that courtahaving In
that decision eustained constItutional
objetions to its enactmnenit wich~ had
prevlinusly been overruled b~y the ablest
judges who have ever* sat on that
,benich. Wo declare that, it is the duty
I of Congress to use all the constitution
-al power which remains after that do'
- cis Ion. or whIch may come from its rn
vorsal by the courti as it may hereafter
be constituted, so that the burdens of
taxition miay be equally and impartial
ly laid to the end that wealth may bear
its duo proportion of the expenses of
the Government.
We hold that the most ollcient way
of protecting Amorican labor Is to pro
vont the Importation of foreign pauper
labor to compete with it in the h1om1e
market, and that the valuo of the home
market to our. American farmers and
artisans Is greatly reduced by a vicious
nonotary system which depresses the
)rices of their products below the cost
of production, and thus deprives them
of the moans of purch'ising the pro
ducts of our homo manufacturers.
Thoabsorption of wealth by the few
the cunsolidatLion of our leading rail
road system --nd the formation of
trusts and pools reo a ire a stricter con
trol by the lcdera I government of thoso
arteries of commerce. We demand
the enliargemnent of the powers of the
iltr-Stato comIlierc commission, and
sich restrictions and guatrantceos in the
control of railroads as wili protect the
peodCl from robbry IId oppression.
We (lenounce ti0 )rolligate waste of
tim umoney wilrung from the pp01)10 by
OIppressivoe taxation an(l tho lavish ap
iropriations of recent Iopubliclan Conl
grosses, which have kept taxes high,
wile the labor that pays them is un
eimployed and the produc ts of th' 1)00
ple toil are depressed in price till
they no longer 'ep)ay the cost of pro
duction.
Wo domianoi a return to that sim
p ieity anid 0eonomny which befits a
democratic govern ment and a reduc
Lion in th no umber of useless ollices,
the salaries of which drain the sub
stance of the people.
We denounco arbitrary interforence
by fedoral authoritIes in local alfairs
a. a Violation of the conlstitution of the
U1 ited States and a crimo against froo
institutions, and We slecially object to
go Verm ent by inmju netion ats a new and
iig lly dIange rous form of opl)pression by
which federal judges, in contempUllt of
the laws of the States and rights of
itilzen, hecome at once legislators,
jud ges amd executors, and we approve
the hill passed at the last session of
the lnitel States Senate and now
pending in the 1 louse of Repwesenta
lives, relative.' to oitemIII pts iII federal
couirts and providi ngz trials by jury in
cermtain cases 0! Contempt.
No diseriminattion should he indulged
by the governmentof tIh 'nitedl Stat'e
in favor of any of its debtor.:, We ap
prove of the refusal of the ''ifty-trni
Contlres to past the Pacific railroad
funiing b..and dei nounce the efforts
having ah -. .. N .rrtie
resources to entitac n,l
and while they remainTrt ,4
hold that thle otlicils appointed to atth
minister the government of any Terri
tory, together with the District of
Columbia and Alaska, should be bona
lido residents of the Torritory or dis
trict in which the duties are to be
perform.ed.
We recommend that the Territory of
Alaska he granted a delegate In Con
hres and that tho gonral land and
timber laws of the United otates b
etitne whic sahd T drriesrey. b
We rextien ou thmathyt the rioryo
ple of Cuba in their heroic struggle for
liberty and independence.
We are opposed0( to life tenure in the
publ1ic service. We favor app~ointments
based upmon merit, fixed terms of omile,
and suc h an administrationi of the civil
service laws as will afford equal oppor
tunities to all citizens of ascertained
fitness.
We (declare it to be0 the unwritten
law of this rep~ublic, established by
customi and usage of one hundred years
and sanctioned by' the examplles of the
greatest andl wisest of those who
founded andl have maintainm d1 our
gover'nment, that no man should be
eligible for a third term of the P'resl
dential oflice.
The federal government should care
for and improve the Mississippi river
and other great watci ways of the re
public so as to secure for the Interior
States easy andi che c), transportation
to tidewater. When any waterway of
the republic Is of suficient importance
to dlemand aid of the government such
aid shmouldl be extended upon a definite
plan of eon tInins work until perma
nen t improv~~)iemenit Is secumred.
Conflid ing ini the justice of our cause
and the necessi ty of its success at the
poll11 we submit the foregoing deciara
tion oi(f princiles 'oindJt prpmoses to the
conisiideirat jiidgmen t of the A morican
plel. Wie ivite the support of all
citiztein wvho aipirovo thom11 anid who
desirie to have them mado effoctive
tl~brough legislation for the relief of the
peiople and the restoration of the
country's prospecrity.
-Seimator Rainos, of New York, is
ihighly3 leasedC~ with the results of his
l iqiior tax 11aw, and1 thus far he has
recason for being pleased. He says
that when the bill was before the leg is
'atuiro last winter he cetimated that
tihe total receipts undler the operations
of the law would be $10,000,000. In
figuring upJ thme State tax rate the
compl~trollher esti matedl that the State's
share of thie revenue would be $2,500,
000. The senatoi insisted that the
State's share would be at least $3,300,
000, but was willing to compromise on
$2,000,000. The receipts to date, he
declares, demonstrate that his original
figures were correct. It is stated that
tihe total will go as high as $10,500,000,
butL he thinks that the rebates under
the law will take away nearly if not
qjuito $500,000. A committee was ap..
lolited b~y the legislature to examine
into the workings of the law, and this
committee wiil meet at Albany on the
15th inst. The (question of strengthen
ing the law so as to prevent evasions
and more severely punish violations
will be0 conisldod, andl it is likely that
the committee will take up the investi
gation of the subject of impure and
adulterated beer.