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-- ' . ? GREAT SPEECH. . : THAT WON THK FKESI- VOIIIN toy .. j, l i.sjht of the Sovtnunnt ;. icrCurreucj, aurt th Spoils .toiii ,u'tfasthMHln Tono.s of XUv IltMnix i atl rel. Cujv ag .inly 10. I no text ot t William .1. Br, an, of . ...i, .vliii'h Hourly st.anijH.Mloa the Democ ratio con volition ami won for the "Hoy orator of the Piatt" the J'rosidentiai nomination today, is as folio wci: Mr. Chairman ami (ientlemon of the Con volition: I would be pre sumptuous, indeed, to present tny vSelf against the distinguished gen 'tlenieii to whom you have listened, if lliis were but a measuring of Vi!itv, but this is not a contest iimong persons. The humblest ci i zen in all the land, when armored in a righteous raus-, is stronger than sill the hosts of error that they can Mr sr. I come to speak to you in defense of a cause as holy cause of liberty the euu e inanity. (Loud applause.) this debate is concluded a as the of hu When motion vnll be made to lay upon the table the resolution offered in commenda tion of the administration, and also the resolution in condemnation of the administration. J shall object to bringing this question to a level of persons. The individual is but can atom; he is born, he acts, he dies; but principles are eternal, and this ias been a contest of principle. jSever before in the history of this .country has there Wn witnessed su h a "contest as that thtough which we have passed Never before in the history of American politics has & great issue been fought out, as this issue has been, by the voters theru 5eKes. On the 4th of March. 18!5, a few. Democrats, most of them members of Congress, issued an address to the Democrats of the nation, asserting tbaJ the money ques ion was the par amount issue of the hour: asserting also the ritrht of allow;nir the Dem ocratc party to control the position of the party on this issue, conclud ing with the request that all believ ers in free coinage of silver in the Democratic party should take charge of and control the policy of the Democratic party. Three months later, at Memphis, au organization "was perfected, and the silver Demo crats went forth openly and boldly und courageously proclaiming ttieir "belief, and declaring that if success ful they would crystalize in a plat form the declaration which they had made: and then began the conflict with a zeal approaching the zeal vvhich inspired the crusaders who followed Peter the Hermit Our silver Democrats went forth from 'victory, until they are assembled now, not to discuss, not to debate. but to enter up the judgment render d ij them to the people of this -country. (Applause ) HROTHKR AGAIXST BROTHER. In this contest brother has been arrayed against brother, and father against son The warmest ties of love and acquaintance and associa tion have been disregarded. Old leaders have ""been cast aside when they refused to give expression to the sentiments of those whom they would lead, and new leaders have sprung up to give direction to this canse of truth. (Cheers ) Thus hat; the contest been wared, And we have assemoled here under as binding and solemn instructions as were ev r l.isu-ned upon the rep- We do not come as individuals. Why, as individuals, we might have been glad to compliment the gentle man frcm New York (Hill), but we Tvuow that .the people for whom we j)eak woull never be willing to put mm in u position where he could thwart I he will of theDemociatic par ty (Cheers ) 1 say it was not a question of p -rsons; it is a question of prin. pies, and it is not with gladness, my f ient's, t at we find ourselves brought into conflict with thoe who are now arrayed on the -other side. The gentleman who just proceeded me (Gov. Russell) spoke -at the old State of Massachusetts. Ja me assure him that not one per son in all this convention entertains the least hostility to the people of liie State of Massachusetts. But we stand here representing people who are the equals before the law of the largest citizen in the State of Mas sachusetts. (Applause.) When you -come before us and tell us that we sball disturb your business interests w reply that you have disturbed sTir business interests by your course. '(Great applause and cheering.) We say to you that you have made too liaiited in its application the defi nition of business men. The men wbo plough the fields or descend a thousand feet into the mine are as mach business men as he who sits :iara backroom and corners gold. - We come to speak for this broader ei&fis of business men. Ah, my friends, we say not one word against -those who live upon the Atlantic -oast; but those hardy pioneers who graved all dangers of the wilderness, wno have made the desert to blos , som as the rose those pioneers away (out thre, rearing their children ! ueat to nature's heart. V-n they , , i .( ' t j ) v ' , vu.ces v . the b.n!3 oui time where j they ha" eroded schoolhouses for ! the ediu .aiou of their young, and churches where they praise their Creator, and cemeteries where sleep the ashes of their dead are as de serving of the consideration of this 1 party as any people in this county. I treat applause.) I PETITION'S HAVE UKFN SCORNED, i We have petitioned, and -ur peti tions have been scorned, we nave entreafed, and our petitions have been disregarded, and they hue mocked, and our ca'am":;.' came We beg no longer; we entreat no more; we petition no tnoiv We defy them. (Croat applaus- and confu s:on in the silver delegations.) The.gentleman of Wisconsin hus said that he fea'ed a Robespierre. My friends in this land of the free, we" liCed fear no tyrant who will spring up among the people. What we need is an Andrew dank' on to stand as Jackson s'ood, against the encroachment of aggrandizing wealth- (Croat applause ) They tell us that the platform was made to catch. We reply to then, chang ing conditions make new issues; that the principles upon which rtst De mocracy are as everlasting as th hills, but they must be applied to new conditions as thv arise Conditions have arisen and we are attempting to meet those conditions. They tell us that the income tax ourbt not to be brought in hero it is anew idea. They criticise us for the criticism of the Supreme Court of the United States. My. friends we have not criticised. We hau simply called attention to what you know. If you want criticism, read the dissenting opinion of the court. That will give you criticism. (Ap plause.) They say we passed an un constitutional law. The income tax was constitutional when it was pass ed, it was not unconstitutional when it went before the Supreme Court for the first time. It did not become unconstitutional until one Judge changed his mind, and we cannot be expected to know when a Judge shall change his mind. "Applause and a voice "'Hit 'em again.") The income tax is a just law. It simply intends to put the burden of government justly upon the back- of the p- ople. I am in favor of an income tax ( Applause.) When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the bur den of the government which pro tects him, 1 find a mau who is un worthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours. (Applause) He says that we are opposing the national bank currency. It is true. If you will read Avhat Thomas Ben ton said you will find that he said in searching history he could find but one parallel to Andrew Jackson. That was Cicero, who destroyed the conspiracy of Cataliue and saved Kome. He did for liome what Jack s)ti did when he destroyed the bank c mspiracy and saved America. Xp plause ) THE RIGHT TO ISSUE MONEY We say in our platform that we believe the right to coin money and issue money is a function of the government. We believe it. We believe it is a part of sovereigutv, and can no more with safety be dele gated to private individuals than we could afford to delegate to private individuals the power to matte peual statutes or levy laws for taxation. (Applause.) Mr. Jefferson, who was once regarded as good Democratic authority, seems to have a different opinion from the gentlemen who have addressed us on the part of the minority. Those who are opposed to the proposition tell us that the issue of paper money is a function of the bank, and that the govern ment ought to go out of the banking business I stand with Jefferson rather than with them, and tell them as he did, that the issue of money is a function of the government, and that the banks ought to go out of the governing business. They complain about that plank which declares against the life ten ure. They have tried to strain it to mean that what it does not mean. What we oppose in that plank is the life tenure that is being built up at Washington, which excludes from party representation in the benefits, the humbler members of our society. I cannot dwell longer in my limited time (cries of "Go n; go on." Let me call attention to two or three great things The gentleman from Xew York says that he will propose an amendment providing that this change in our law shall not affect contracts already made. Let me re mind him there is no intention of affecting these contracts, which, ac cording to the present Taws, are made payable in gold. But if he means to say that we cannot change our monetary system without protect ing those who have loaned money before the change was made, I want to' ask him where, in law or in mor als, he can find authority for not protecting the debtors when the act o: 1S73 was passed, but now insists we "must protect the creditor. He says, also he wauts to amend this law, and provide that if we fail to u.. ... 'thin a yea that we will then suspend the coin age of silver. We reply that when we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful, we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sin cerity by trying to show what we will do if we can I ask him if he will apply his logic to us, why be does not apply it to himself. He suvs that he wants this country to try to secure an international agree ment. Whv doe? not he tell us what he w going to do if they fail to se cure an international agreement? There is more reason for him to do that than for us to fail to main tain the party.' Ttiey have tried for thirty ears to secure an internation al agrcetm at. -r '! they are waiting for it most impatiently, and don't want it at all. (Cheers and laughter long continued.) MONEY THE PA R AMOUNT . ISSl' E. Now, my friends, let me come to the jiieat paramount issue. If they ask us here why it is that we say more on the money question than we sav upon the tariff question, I re ply that if protection has slain its thousands, the gold standard has slain its tens of thousands. If they ask us why we did not embody all these things in our platform, which we le'ievo, we reply to them that when we have restored the money of the Constitution, all other uecessary reforms will be possible, and that until that is done there is no re form that can be accomplished. (Cheers) Why is it that within three nior.ths such a ehansre has come over the sentiments of this country!-' Three months ago, when it was confidently asserted that those who believed in the gold standard would frame our platform and nom iuato our candidate, even the advo cates of the gold standard did not think that we could elect a Presi dent; but they had good reason for the suspicion, because there is scarce lv a State here to dav askiug for the gold standard that is not within the absolute control of the Republican party ( Loud cheering.) But note the change. McKinley was nominated at St. Louis upon a platform that declared for the main tenance of the gold , standard until it should be changed into bimetal lism by au international agreement. Mr. McKinley was the most popular man amoug the Kepublican party, and everybody three months ago in the Republican party prophesied his election How is it to-day? Why, that man who used to boast that he looked like Napoleon (laughter and cheers) that man shudders to day when he thinks that he was nomi nated on the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. (Tremendous demonstration.) Not only that, but as he listens, he can hear with ever increasing distinctness the sound of the waves as they beat upon the lonely shores of St. Helena. (Cheers.) Why this change? Ah, my friends, it is evi dent to every one who will look at the matter. It is no private charac ter, however pure; personal popular ity, however great, that can protect from the avenging wrath of an in dignant people the man who will neither declare that he is in favor of foisting the gold standard upon this people nor who is willing to surren der the right of self-government and place legislative control in the bands of foreign potentates and powers. (Cheers.) DARE NOT CHALLENGE BATTLE. We go forth confident that we shall win. Why? Because upon the paramount issue in this cam paign there is not a spot of ground upon which the enemy will dare to challenge battle. Why, if they tell us that the gold standard is a good thing, wo point to their platform, and tell them that their platform pledges the party to get rid of a gold standard and substitute bimetallism. (Applause.) If the gold standard is a good thing, why try to get rid of it. (Laughter and continued applause.) If the gold standard, and 1 might call your attention to the fact that some of the very people wh'o are in this convention to day and who tell you that we ought to declare in favor of international bimetallism, and thereby declare that the gold stan dard is wong, and that the princi ple of bimetallism, these very people four months ago were open and avowed advocates of the gold stan dard, and were telling us th it we could not legislate two metals to gether with all the world. I want to suggest this truth, that if the gold standard is a good thing, we ought to declare in favor of its re tention and not in favor of aban doning it; and if the gold standard is a bad thing, why should we wait until some other nations are willing to help us to let go. (Applause.) Here is the line battle. We care not upon which issue they force the fight. We are prepared to meet them on either issue or on both. If tfcey tell us that the gold standard is the standard of civilization, we reply to them that this, the most en lightened of all, the nations of the earth, has never declared for a gqW standard, and both tltf parties this ve.-.i- rr d . d...-iug against it. (An . xi the gold standard is the standard of civilization, why, my friends, should we not have it? So if they co.neto meet us on that we can present the history of our nation. More than that, we can tell them this, that they will search the pages ot history in vain to find a single instance in which the common people of any land have ever declared themselves in favor of a gold standard. (Applause.) They c" find where the holders of fixed inv stmeiiishave. Mr Carlisle said in 187S tbat this was a snuggle be tween the idle holders of idle capital :md the struggling masses who pro duce the wealth and pay the taxes of the country; and my friends, it is s:mpJy a question that we shall de- cue upon wnicn siue snan uiu Democratic party fight. Upon the side of the idle holders of the idle capital, or upon the side oE the struggling masses? That is the question that the party must answer first, and then it it must be answer ed by each individual hereafter. The sympathies of the Democratic par ty, as described by the platform, are ocf the side of the struggling mass es, who have ever been the founda tion of 'he Democratic party. (Ap plause ) TWO IDEAS OF GOVERNMENT. There are two ideas of govern ment. There are those who bel'eve that if you just legislate to make the well to d prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic ideas have been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosper ity will find its way up and through every class, and rest upon it. (Ap plause.) You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor oi the gold standard I tell you that the great cities rest upon these broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But, destroy our farms, and the grass will g-o.v. iu the streets of every c'-y in this country. (Loud applause.) ' My friends, we shall declare that this nation .is able to legislate for. its own people on every question, with out waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth. (Ap plause.) And upon that issue we expect to carry every single State in the Cnion. (Applause.) I shall not slander the fair State of Massachusetts-, nor the State of New York, by saying that when its citizens are confronted with the proposition. Is this nation able to attend to its own business? I will not slander either one by saying that the people of those States will declare our help less impotency as a nation to attend to our own business. It is the issue of 1776 over again, when our ances tors, three millions, had the courage to declare for their political inde pendence of every other nation upon earth Shall we, their descendants, when we have grown to 70,000,000, declare that we are less independent than our forefathers? No, my friends: it will never be the judg ment of the people. Therefore, we care not upon what lines the battle is fought. If they say bimetallism is good, but we can not have it till some nation helps, we reply that, instead of having a gold standard because England has, we shall restore bimetallism, and then let England have bimetallism because the United States has. (Ap plause.) If they dare to come out and in the open defend the gold standard as a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost; having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world. Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests, and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not place upon the "brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. (Creat applause.) A jilted girl in Vienna, Ga., had h.3i-self photographed in a coffin, ar rayed for the grave. She sent the picture to her faithless lover and he became insane Last summer one of our grand children was sick with a severe bowel trouble. 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