6 16, 1504, THE PLEA OF SENATOR HILL. His Speech at the Chicago Convention, MISTAKES IN THE PLATFORM A Question of Business, Not of Courage. In Hla Denunciation of the Silverites He Tells Them They Plot For Defeat—A Defense of the Administration — Plea For International Bimetallism, Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Con vention I do not know that it is necessary that 1 ghould reply to the distinguisl nator from South I trust that in not fail to nee spect I would erat, SAY Will 1 tf necessary wrati Safest and Best Course. to th say ti tries may d A Can Aral pria oF It wo thi y remind y ied out to its legiti well sthes, commercial § matter ourselves if this sug mate conclusion you 1 on that ight ns do away with international tn might as well do away with treaties with other countries; you might as well do away with all the provisions in your tariff bills that have relation to the laws of other countries In this great age, when we are connected with all por yoni tions of the earth by our ships, by our | cables and by all methods of intercourse, wo think that it is unwise to attempt this | alone Silver Men Go Too Far. Mr. President, I want to eall your at tention to this single point. I think it is unwise further for this convention to haz ard this contest upon a single ratio. What does this silver platform provide? It should have contented itself with the sin glo statement that it was In favor of the remonetization of silver and the placing it | upon equality with gold, but instead of that your committee has recommended for adoption a platform which makes tho test of Democratic loyalty to hang upon a sin gle ratio, and that 16 to L I doubt the wisdom of having entered into detail. I doubt tho propriety of say- {ng that 163% or 17 Is heresy and 16 is the only true Demooratic doctrine, Permit me to remind you I see distinguished senators before Joe who, In the senate of the United States, friends of free siiver, have intro- diced bills for the free and unlimited cotn. THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, JULY ago of stiver at the ratio of 80to 1. I beg to remind this convention that some of your candidates proposed for nomination are men whom 1 accept, and whose De moeracy 1s admitted, who have voted time | and time agaln in congress for other ratios than 16 to 1, and yet you are proposing t nominate silver men upon a platform that limits and restricts them to one single ratio With all due respect, I think it is an un wise step, I think it an unnecessary step, | and I think it will return to plague us ir the future, I think we have too many close business relations with the other great nations of the world for us to ignore thelr attitude Your proposed platform says that the pol toy of gold monometallism is a Britis) policy Gold Not England's Policy Alone. Mr. President, they forget to tell the people of this country that it is n Frencl polley also; they forget to tell the peopl of this country that it 1s a German policy also; they fall to remind you that it isa Spanish policy also; they fall to tell you that it fs the policy of the whole number of governments represented in what was ealled the Latin union. Therefore, I thind it looks a Mttlo—just a trifle—like Cen gogy to suggest that this is the policy of a single nation along Mr. President, 11 gret also to seo that your platform cor a single word in favor of inter tains not national bimetalllsin, not necessarily consistent with this platfors no declamtion wh t icy of 18 govern: I object to various provisions of this plat | form, snd I think if the wise, lovel, coo headed men, farsighted men, such ns the distinguished senator from Arkansas, who addressed you, had prevailed, that platform would have been different Other Mistakes In the Platform, What was tho necessity for opening ug the question of greenback clreulation What was the necessity for putting in this platform an implied pledge that this gov ernment mght issue greenbacks and mak them legal tender? The Democratic party Is opposed to paper money. The Demo cratic party, from its earliest history, has been in favor of hard money The Democratic party thinks that the best way for us to do is to eliminate Unit ed States notes and treasury notes fron your currency. They are an drag upon your metals. You have to constantly keep sup plied a fund for their redemption, unless you propose to repudiate them. Therefore, when my friend from South Carolina and my friend from Arkansas say that this platform says what it means and means what it says, I would like to bave one who follows me tell what this platforn means upon the subject of the issue of pa per money hereafter I am not violating, I think, the secrets of the committee room when I say that it was avowed that this government might desire to pursue that course, and this is ar attempt at this late day to commit the Democratic party to the suicidal policy of the issuing of paper money BOT You say you wanted a clear and dis platform You have not got it uj question. It canno fully I find brace up this new Everything | that it shall tx mints 3 that, in my humghle opin ol by this platform Is the wv that has kept your wy and your sils no suggest oomdem: ama greenback eur Iver dollar at a parit past years We think with gold during the I ns have chm ws and oonditl 1 eannot 1g tion of silver in k that you eann th ’ t safely \ preparation of a th the cost of the pro er hae greatly faller Whe ver everywhen rid The great fact confronts the w the cost of silver production duced nearly one-half Not a Question of Bravery, 1a bower If the American people wern brave, were | eourngeous, if they had the spirit of 1777 ns this platform says, could they, singly and alone, make copper the equal of gold Could they make lead the equal of gold Must you not into consideration the great fact of production, the great fact of take the lessening of the cost of production in the last 15 and 20 years? If bravery, if courage, could produce | those results, then you could make any metal, no matter what it might be, a | money metal. Dut I tell you it Is a ques ! tion of economics, a question of business judgment. It lan question of resourcls, and upon that it is the judgment of the | minority of the corimittes that the safest course is to take the first great step in fa vor of international bimetallism and stop there I know it will be sald that in some par | tloulars this platform agrees with our Re- publican friends. It to ine is neither any | better nor any worse for it. I oall your attention to the fact that your plank upon | pensions, that your plank upon the Mon. | roe dootrine, thas your plank upon Cuba, that your plank upon territories, that your | plank upon Alaska, that your plank even upon the civil service, are exactly like the Republican planks. Therefore 1 do not think that that eriticlam will detract from | the value of the suggestion, Mr. President, I sald a fow moments ago 1 thought the safest course for this convention to have pursued was simply to have sald this government should enact a | statute In favor of placing gold and silver | alike ns the currency of the country and | stop there | 1 do not think, I sald—and I will repeat It~that It 1s wise to hazard everything up- | on a single number. Let me go farther. wise & country The Attack on the Supreme Court, Will some one tell me what that clan means It what you sald and said what will explain hat provision, If it means means that it is the duty of t the suprene court 1itwn ng of additd it, or the turning « ¥ in this platform? you m you me ‘ provision anyt! OONETYSS SOIe One that POCO A Le It moans-——an na the 0s 14 na etm Polley of the Fathers Upset. In this platfor you have dex the | tie int history of try, that you are opposed ¢ whatover for offic Our fathers befor us, Democratic fat} : in the establishment of this govern ment gave our court judges a life tenun of office What was thore for reviving this question How foolish and how in my opinion! Ary Democrats whose whole life has been de voted to the service of the party—are men whose hopes, whose ambitions, whose as pirations all le within party lines—to be driven out of the party upon this new question of life tenure for the judges of our federal courts This is a revolutionary step; this is an unwise step; this is an unprecedented stop in our party history Another question, I think, should have been avolded, and that Is this: What was the necessity, what tho propriety, of tak ing up the vexed question of the issue of lard this o> any life tenur our ors whom w yore, 1% CERity unnaceeaary, the nation?! Why not have left this flonan. olal question of the free colnage of silver | alone? Repoals the Resumption Aet, What have you declared’ pounced the bold policy that, under no You have an. | ciroumatancos, shall there ever be a single | bond issued in time of peace. not accepted anything What does that moan! virtual repeal of your resumption aot—i¢ means repudiation per so and simple Yon have | It moans the | This statement Is too broad; the state. | ment is too sweeping: It has boen careful. ly considered. You even oppose congross doing it; you even oppose the president doing it; you oppose them doing it either singly or unitedly; you stand upon the {road proposition whether to protect whether to presery or far any other bo sn bond issued Why, how rprising that my Democratic a clatos the senat who for the last two or three years have Introduced Bill after LIN for the Issuing of bonds for the Nicaragun canal and other Purposes No, no, my friends, this not been wisely considered for monetary refor: tho true pathe—you true , and in up the silver of that for no parposs, the currency or note your national erodit purpose-there shall not would be to in platform In your 1 you hnve gone out of have turned from the your anxiety to build rrOncy you UNNOces sarily putin this platfor: Mnnot star has COUrse have 1 provisions which 1 a fnir discussion Lat mo tell you, my friends, without go ing Into o dscussion of the bond questior proper, which Is somewhat foreign to this subjoct==lot me tell you what would be the condition of this country today if the president of the United States in the dis charge of the public duty that is conferrc4 upon him had not seen fit to lssue bonds to protoct the crodit of the government, Bond Issues Were Unavoldable. The Democrat bill whi on sullict oceesitios of ns passed on tari] has not prodaced vet to meet the ne mt. There ha J} i Yul this | Hh unfortu tel nt rever tin been o deflalt It is hoped that } i attorw ay be in this convent) one axeeption, your I u are relying west and south, will 1» ticket, and the ellver f od Mark th Wh po whom 3 roes will tian which I ma ized to speak for the ulist pe here in a Demoeratio tion? 1 saw n this platform the « day an array of t} pred ie om, giving counienan this movement mien Dens wi ket in thei and support to never voted o lives and never expect to. They have ganized this party. They are the nu who attempted to proseribe Democrats all over this Union. They are the wore crying against in the days t tried Zon's souls during the war friends, 1 thus speak more In sorrow thar in anger. You know what this platform means to the onst. You must realize the result. But, calamitous as it may be t us, it will be more ealamitous to you if after taking all these risks you do not win this fight. My friends, we want the Democratic rty to succox. Wo want to build it up fe do not want to tear 1t down. We want Mmtic 1) men wi us ! | our priheiples—the good old principles of | bonds for the preservation of the eredit of | Jefferson und Jackson, of Tilden, of hard money, of safe money. We want no green. | back currency on our plates. We want no | paper currency whatever. We want to stand by the principles under which we have won during the history of this coun. try and made it what it is. If wo keep in the good old paths of the party, we can win. 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