. Personal recollections of John M. Palmer; the story of an earnest life . h Carolina has, I under-stand, a similar provision. From New Orleans we returned to Chicago by way ofIllinois Central Railroad. At Chicago I separated fromGeneral Buckner in order to attend the funeral of Stevens, my brother-in-law, who lived at Bloom-ington. General Buckner afterwards visited Milwaukee andspoke at many points in Wisconsin, and I rejoined him atSaint Paul, Minnesota. After speaking there and atMinneapolis we came to Omaha and across Iowa, de-livering addresses at Ottumwa, Mt. Pleasant (wheren
. Personal recollections of John M. Palmer; the story of an earnest life . h Carolina has, I under-stand, a similar provision. From New Orleans we returned to Chicago by way ofIllinois Central Railroad. At Chicago I separated fromGeneral Buckner in order to attend the funeral of Stevens, my brother-in-law, who lived at Bloom-ington. General Buckner afterwards visited Milwaukee andspoke at many points in Wisconsin, and I rejoined him atSaint Paul, Minnesota. After speaking there and atMinneapolis we came to Omaha and across Iowa, de-livering addresses at Ottumwa, Mt. Pleasant (wherenotwithstanding a heavy rain we were hospitably enter-tained) and Burlington, and from there to Kansas Cityby the way of Hannibal, Fayette and Sedalia. At thisplace General Buckner left me as he had an engagementto go to Louisville. I spoke at Warrensburg and KansasCity and returned to St. Louis, witnessed the parade ofthe Sound Money men in that city and in the eveningspoke to a large audience in the exposition building. On November 4, 1896, the questions which had been. JOHN M. PALMERTAKEN. APRIL, 1899. ANNIVERSARY AT GALESBURG. 619 discussed were settled at the polls, and William McKin-ley was elected president of the United States. Thereis no doubt but that the National Democratic partyplayed an important part in this campaign. It was ourmission to preserve the integrity of the Democratic prin-ciples. We declared the true Democratic doctrines inthe platform adopted at Indianapolis and in all our pub-lic utterances we sustained them. We received but130,000 votes but we gave direction to a public senti-ment which led to the election of Mr. McKinley. Theslave power had reached the maximum of its strengthin 1856 ; and the dogma of free silver coined at theratio of sixteen to one will be banished from Demo-cratic platforms with the defeat of Mr. Bryan. 620 THE STORY OF AN EARNEST LIFE. CHAPTER XXXVIII. Anniversary of the Bloomington Convention of 1856—Old politics— Deaths. On
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