The Presidential Candidates and Platforms, Biographies, and Nominating SpeechesBrooklyn Daily eagle, 1896 - 40 pages |
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... mass of citizens who realize that the hour has come for justice . Did we deem this issue less im- portant to humanity we would yield , since the associations of all our political lives have been intertwined with the men and the measures ...
... mass of citizens who realize that the hour has come for justice . Did we deem this issue less im- portant to humanity we would yield , since the associations of all our political lives have been intertwined with the men and the measures ...
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... mass of the people who constitute the parties . And there has been growing in this country - swelling with each recurrence of national election - a great mass of independent thinkers and voters , which falling within itself to control ...
... mass of the people who constitute the parties . And there has been growing in this country - swelling with each recurrence of national election - a great mass of independent thinkers and voters , which falling within itself to control ...
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... masses of our people in the United States but feels that his lot would be made better , his aspiration take new wings if he could know in the performance of his labor what would be the price of his product ? Is not this purpose worth ...
... masses of our people in the United States but feels that his lot would be made better , his aspiration take new wings if he could know in the performance of his labor what would be the price of his product ? Is not this purpose worth ...
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... Mass- achusetts . Let me assure him that not one person in all this convention entertains the least hostility to the people of the state of Massachusetts . ( Applause . ) But we stand here representing people who are the equals before ...
... Mass- achusetts . Let me assure him that not one person in all this convention entertains the least hostility to the people of the state of Massachusetts . ( Applause . ) But we stand here representing people who are the equals before ...
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... masses ? That is the question that the party must an- swer first , and then it must be answered by each individual hereafter . " The sympathies of the Democratic party , as described by the platform , are on the side of the struggling ...
... masses ? That is the question that the party must an- swer first , and then it must be answered by each individual hereafter . " The sympathies of the Democratic party , as described by the platform , are on the side of the struggling ...
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Popular passages
Page 24 - We denounce arbitrary interference by Federal authorities in local affairs as a violation of the Constitution of the United States and a crime against free institutions, and we especially object to government by injunction as a new and highly dangerous form of oppression by which Federal Judges, in contempt of the laws of the States and rights of citizens, become at once legislators, judges and executioners...
Page 9 - All our silver and paper currency must be maintained at parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolably the obligations of the United States and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth.
Page 26 - York; the farmer who goes forth in the morning and toils all day, who begins in the spring and toils all summer, and who by the application of brain and muscle to the natural resources of the country creates wealth, is as much a business man as the man who goes upon the Board of Trade and bets upon the price of grain...
Page 24 - We are unalterably opposed to monometallism which has locked fast the prosperity of an industrial people in the paralysis of hard times. Gold monometallism is a British policy, and its adoption has brought other nations into financial servitude to London. It is not only un-American, but...
Page 9 - Democratic tariff as sectional, injurious to the public credit, and destructive to business enterprise. We demand such an equitable tariff on foreign imports which come into competition with American products as will not only furnish adequate revenue for the necessary expenses of the government, but will protect American labor from degradation to the wage level of other lands. We are not pledged to any particular schedules. The question of rates is a practical question to be governed by the conditions...
Page 26 - The man who is employed for wages is as much a business man as his employer; the attorney in a country town is as much a business man as the corporation counsel in a great metropolis; the merchant at the crossroads store is as much a business man as the merchant of New York...
Page 34 - All land now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens should be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only.
Page 34 - We tender to the patriotic people of Cuba our deepest sympathy in their heroic struggle for political freedom and independence, and we believe the time has come when the United States, the great republic of the world, should recognize that Cuba is, and of right ought to be, a free and independent state.
Page 27 - You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our 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 grow in the streets of every city in the country.
Page 25 - Confiding in the justice of our cause and the necessity of its success at the polls, we submit the foregoing declaration of principles and purposes to the considerate judgment of the American people. We Invite the support of all citizens who approve them and who desire to have them made effective through legislation for the relief of the people and the restoration of the country's prosperity.