Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 31, 1896, Page 3

rene MUST ASSERT THEIR RIGHTS Chairman Jones, of the Demo- cratic National Committee, Issues an Address. APPEALS TO VOTERS To Assert Their Rights at the Ballot Box and Not to Submit to Co- ercion or Intimidation. The Full Power of Every Democratic Organization Pledged to Protect Voters and Punish the Scoun-~* drels Who Attempt to In- timidate Them. cago, Oct. 22.—(Special.)—Senator Jones, chairman of the democratic ne- tional committee, has given out the fol- lowing: “To the American People: In view of jhe fact that the great corporations, with scarcely an exception, and many of the large employers of labor in the United States, are engaged in a con- certed effort to coerce their employes into voting at the approaching election against their own convictions, I deem if’ my duty to call upon all those whe helieve in the supremacy of the law and the untrammeled freedom of the indi- vidual in the right of exercising the bal- lot to use their utmost effort to prevent the success of this most flagrant act of awlessness; for if this conspiracy sue: nment by corporation wil! Jed government by the re sds gove ve superse le. rporntions have no powers—ex- © conferred specifically in the creating them. The right to voters or to interfere with ‘an citizens in the exercise of hts at the ballot box are net named in any of these acts of incor- ration, and when corporations un- ke to exercise such powers they some lawbreakers and the good of society demands that they be rebuked nnd punished. During the present con- test, which involves questions of the utmost moment to the American peo- ids of men have been coia- . by fear of losing their places, to Soin reh in processions in Let «lf of a cause they detest. Requests from corporation bosses to vote the in. tic ch are perfectly ood to convey a thivat of ais- in case of refusal, are made every day to men who dare not resent the ult. . “The corporations which thus appeal to for: nd fraud strike at the very founda- tion of republican government, and the lovers of free institutions must arouse themselves to save the country from this great per “Especially should the workingmen assert their manhood rights. If they vote their convictions and in accordance with their interests, the democratic ticket is certain of election, and :m that se the employing corporations will on » to embark upon a policy ! nment. On the contrary, the. will be eager to conciliate employes who will have behind the assertion of their rights the vast powers of a fed- eral administration in sympathy with those who toil. But should they sub- mit to coercion and elect an admin- istration that will be the creature of the corporations and moneyed inter- ests of the country those working men whose entire submissiveness is regard- ed with suspicion will find themselves replaced by men who can be depended upon to vote as they are told. In the contest that is raging the salvation of the workingman lies in the assertion at the polls of his rights as-a free and independent American citizen. “The state laws providing for the Aus- tralian ballot, if enforced, are ample to protect every citizen in the secrecy of the ballot and the corporate anarchists must be compelled to obey these laws whether they are willing or not. “The perpetration of this attempted outrage upon free suffrage will work its own cure. An indignant people, jeal- ous of their rights, will demand that the legislatures, state and national, shall proceed at once by rigorous measures to prevent the possibility of a repetition of such attempts hereafter. “While the metropolitan press, with a few honorable exceptions, is under the domination of these incorporated conspirators and is basely subservient. to their wishes, the’country newspa- pers as a rule remain undebauched and are still in sympathy with the principles of government established by Washington and Jefferson, and il- lustrated and maintained by Jackson and Lincoln. They will ‘ery out and spare not’ until legislation is had that will prevent another such shameful at- tempt at abuse of power. “In the meantime the success of the present conspiracy must be prevented. The pending contest is already won by an overwhelming majority, if the honest sentiments of the people are permitted to find free expression at the polls—and this the people are ready to have at any cost. “The national committee appreciates the need of vigilance. It has taken steps to impress upon the people, and especially upon every democratic elec- tion officer, the great importance of scrutinizing the marks upon every bal- lot and of carefully watching every act at or about the polls to make sure that. no judge or clerk of election shall have an opportunity to betray the secrets uf the ballot, if he would. “And the national committee, backed by the full power of the democratic or- ganization in every state in the union, pledges itself that every scoundrel, wheth- er public officer or private citizen, who is detected in any violation of the law, shall be vigorously prosecuted and sent to the penitentiary if possible. “JAMES K. JONES, “Chairman Democratic National Com- mittens cc: Sipe No panic was ever caused in this or any other country by any expansion of the currency. laws ple, thousa pelle republi under: char INGERSOLL’S REAL SENTIMENTS | Unpurchased and Unprejudiced Speeches in Favor of Silver. In his famous lecture on “Myths and Miracles,” delivered in many sections of the country, Bob Ingersoll thus spoke of the silver question: “There is no man in the United States with ingenuity enough to account for the demonetization of silver in 1873. There is not one. We need altogether more money than we have. “We need twice as much money per capita to do the business of this coun- try as is needed to do the business of any other country, and yet there is al- ways somebody that is crazy for fear there will be more currency. I want just all the money we can get that is good, and silver is good enough for me. All I want of money is to pay my debts. Yes, sir; and I want the law to compel the.other fellows to take what I take. That is good enough for me. “I believe that every ounce of silver that is dug under the American flag should be coined free under the Ameri- can flag. In my country they are most- ly on the other side. They are with the bankers—with the rich fellows. They get together and say we want gold. A man makes a contract to pay certain moneys in five years. I want a law so that he can pay the money when the contract comes due with the money that was money when he made the contract. I do not think the few should have the right to combine to increase the value of what people call money as against the debtor and in favor of the creditor. I want the free coinage of all the gold you can dig out of the mines and crevices of the rocks, and I want the free coinage of all the silver you can win from the mines of Amer- There is no reason why Col. Inger- soll should not have spoken his honest sentiments with regard to silver in his lectures with as perfect freedom and sincerity as he declared his views of religion. There is no cause to doubt that he did so. There was not the slightest inducement to influence him to the contrary, and we have the con- clusive proof of repetitions that he did speak his honest sentiments then of sil- ver. For, in addition to the foregoing quotation from his lecture on “Myths and Miracles,” we have also the follow- ing extract from his lecture on farm- ing, as reproduced from the Illinois State Register and published in pamph- let form by G. S. Baldwin, 184 Madison street, Chicago, Page 5: “For my part I do not ask any interfer- ence on the part of the government, ex- cept to undo the wrong it has done. Ido not ask that money be made out of noth- ing. I do not ask the prosperity born of paper, but I do ask for the remonetiza- tion of silver. Silver was demonetized by fraud. It was an imposition upon every solvent man; a fraud upon every honest debtor in the United States. It assassin- ated labor. It was done in the interest of avarice and greed, and should be uadone by honest men. The farmers should vote only for such men as are able and willing to guard and advance the interests of labor.” But Ingersoll was neither bought nor bulldozed into making either of these declarations. They represent the un- purchased and unprejudiced judgment of his mind. The campaign speeches which Ingersoll is now making in favor of the gold standard merely represent the $2,000 a speech which Mark Hanna pays him. THIS FROM A NEW YORKER, TOO. Has a the Grocer King, Word to Say. Henry K. Thurber, of New York, is at the head of the largest grocery house in the world. He isastudentof finance. Jie believes the people of this country ere entitled to consideration in financial legislation. Here is what he says: “We say that gold monometallism can have but one effect, and that is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer: that we do not want the same state of things here that exists in Europe, and that gold monometallism will go very far to bring around that state of af- fairs. “The single gold standard advocates, in order to succeed, must carry with them a large number of voters whose best interest is to have bimetallism, and hence the cries of ‘50-cent dollars!” ‘sound money!’ echoed and reechoed in the papers controlled by the money classes. “Friends, did you ever stop to think, first, that every man who is living on the interest of his money is in favor of a single standard of gold? And, second, that it is not because they love the masses of the people better than they do their own financial welfare? Mr. Thurber, “I am, and have been since the foun- dation of the party, a republican, and favor a protective tariff, but in this election shall do all I can to assist in the election of the democratic nominee for president. I believe this country is in no condition at the present time to be forced onto a permanent gold basis. “We all know that we have been passing through troublous times. Ibe- lieve that the general reason is that we lave been tending toward gold monc- metallism; that if this country votes for the free coinage of silver we will see an entirely different state of things come to pass; that our property will rise in value; that our products will bring more money; that the financial pall that gold monometallism has thrown over us so long will be imme- diately removed, “I urge my friends to examine this subject, and if they believe as I believe to vote and work for the election of Bryan and Sewall.” “The restoration of bimetallism wiil not hurt any legitimate business. The elec- tion of the Chicago ticket will help legit- imate business. It only interferes with the man who wants to eat bread that somebody else has earned.”—Mr. Bryan. t gaat tine acai Talk about wreckers, Carlisle’s new financial policy is more dangerous than 10,000 dynamiters marching on the treasury building. THE PLUTOCRATIC GUFFAW. —New York Journal. WHO ARE THE ANARCHISTS? Republican Threats to Disrupt the Gov- erment If Mr. Bryan Should Win. Edward Lauterbach, chairman of the republican county committee of New York, said in a public speech, delivered a few days ago, that if Bryan and tie Chicago platform should obtain a ma- jority of the votes in the approaching election, “we will not abide by that de- cision.” Lauterbach is not an irre- sponsible nobody to indulge in idle chatter. He is Boss Platt’s right-hand man in New York, and was a delegate from the state at large, along with Ptatt, Depew and Warner Miller, to the uatignal republican convention which met at St. Louis and nominated MeKin- ley. his is, therefore, a threat to over- throw the lawful result of an honest election, made by a responsible repre sentative of the republican par’ the chairman of the republican com- rnittee of the richest and most populous county in the United States. Two nights later, Senator Palmer, the assistant republican candidate for pres- ident, made the following declaration in a speech at Detroit: “For myself, | would prefer to live under a righteous monarchy rather than submit to such principles as those declared by the Chi- cago convention.” If Bryan and principles triumph, of which there i every indication, Senator Palmer w not go elsewhere to seek “a righteous monarchy” under «which to live. He would find it more convenient to join Lauterbach in an attempt to establish one of that kind in this country. On the very day on which Lauterbach declared the determination, under the contingency mentioned, to overthrow the government, Dugald Crawford, a leading merchant of St. Louis and a large employer of labor, made a thorough and systematic search of his list of employes to find it any of them were in favor of free silver and intended io vote for Bryan. He found such, and summarily dismissed them—in viola tion of law and every principle of mau- liood. These three occurrences are mere specimens of what is going on every day among the plutocratic supporters of McKinley and the gold standard. Who are the anarchists? The Chicago platform contains not even the sugges- tion of the violation of any law. The men who are opposing it so bitterly are not afraid the laws will not be en- forced, if it should win, as Mr. Bryan has said. They are afraid the laws will be enforced. Who are the anarchists? WHAT M’KINLEYISM MEANS. Good Times Only for Those Who Have Amassed Wealth. The preservation of the single gold standard, the continued sale of bonds, the scarcity of money, the lack of inde- pendence in our financial legislation, the control of the government’s cur- rency and credit in the money centers, dear money and cheap products, are all to the advantage of those already wealthy. Men of no means, men who, besides this, have no employment, and men of small means or well to do, are getting the worst of it under the pres- ent conduct of affairs. The legislation of congress on the subject of finance and the policy of the executive depart- ment have been in the interest of those who assume to be the best advisers because they have the most. The can- didates of the democratic party do not ask that capitalists shall be de- stroyed or unfairly treated. They de- mand the equal operation of the law.—- Cincinnati Enquirer. cre Not a single dictionary or cyclopedia in the English language before the year 1878 ever defined dollar in any term other than silver. In that year the adminis- trators of the estate of Noah Webster cut the plates of our standard lexicon and in- serted a new definition that had become necessary in order to make the bond in- trigue, in congress and out of it, consist! —John Clark Ridpath, Historian. The New York Herald, a ranting Mc- Kinley organ, concedes Bryan 210 elec- toral votes and elects McKinley with the aid of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland and Kentucky. As the democrats confidently expect to carry each of these states, the Herald’s esti- mate is practically a concession of Bryan’s election. The market value of all our farm products will not pay the interest on the country’s mortgaged indebtedness; and yet it is proposed to make perma- nent the gold standard, under which the value of farm products is constant- ly falling and debts made more difficult of payment, THE MONEY-LENDER. Who Attempts to Use His Mortgages to Intimidate American Citizens. At Benton Harbor, Mich., on his re- cent tour through the state, Mr. Bryan spoke as follows of a character some- what prominent in this campaign: “In. the Banner Register, published in this city, I find the following: “Yes, times are hard, but we are not in the deepest water yet. If silver wins this fall it will be one of the greatest disasters that ever befell the farmers. I have had for over ten years nearly $20,000 loaned in this county to farmers. In many instances payments have been met, but for a few years 1 have been compelled to extend the time, and I am willing to do so under cur present financial basis; but if sii- yer wins this fall I will do what every other man will do who has money out —demand immediate payment. I ad- init I may lose some of the interest, but I have at Jeast three years to save myself, and during that time I will close in on every mortgage I have.” “My friends,” said Mr. Bryan, “I want to denounce the money lender who at- tempts to use his mortgages to intimi- date American citizens and say that that man does not deserve to live in a land where men are free and have a right to liberty, When you admit that it is necessary to go to the money Jender and obtain his consent before you can pass a law then you have passed from a democracy to a plutocracy, and liberty, as we have understood it, has fled from this nation. I want you to understand that these men, knowing that they can- not appeal to reason, attempt to appeal 1o force; these men, knowing that their arguments do not appeal to judgment, attempt to appeal to the fears of men. In this campaign, my friends, we have vrrayed against us every enemy of so- and every man who seeks to make slaves of those with whom he deals. T am glad that they are not on my side. 1 am glad that I have not the support of man who intends to foreclose his mortgages if men do not vote as he wants them to. I would rather remain a humble private citizen than to hold the most exalted office in this land if I had to receive my commission from men who know little about the genius of our institutions as the money lender whose language I have quoted.” IS HE AN ANARCHIST? The Sole Survivor of the Sixteen Men Who Named the Republican Party. At Marshall, Mich., during his recent tour through that state Mr. Bryan re- versed the usual order of things and instead of making a speech himseif merely introduced the speaker. He said: “My friends, I am not going to have time to talk to you, but I simply want to make a little speech in the introduc: tion of a famous anarchist who is go- ing to speak after I am gone. (Ap- plause.) Now, I want you when he gets up to talk to you to take a good look at him. He is a typical anarchist. You will probably see his picture in Harper’s Weekly next week. His name is Hon. Albert Williams, and he lives at Iona, Mich., and was introduced two years ago at [ona by Mr. McKinley as the only survivor of the 16 who met and adopted the first republican platform, and suggested the name of the republic- an party, on the 6th of July, 1854, under the oaks at Jackson. (Applause, and a voice: “I was there.”) , He must be an anarchist, because he is with us this year. (Laughter.) My friends, he is one of the many men who have found it necessary to either get out of the re- publican party or surrender their coun- try into the hands of foreigners, and he has naturally chosen to get out of the party.” The St. Louis platform pledges the republican party to use its utmost en- deavors to substitute the free coinage of silver by international agreement for the gold standard, but the whole republican campaign since the ad- journment of the convention has been ene united and protarcted effort to fas- ten the gold standard permanently on this country and to defeat free coinage by any means. If the increased demand for silver does not raise its price, why is it that in August, 1890, silver advanced to $1.21 an ounce here and $1.19% an ounce in London because it was anticipated that congress was about to command heavier purchases of it? “History in all ages can be sought in vain to prove that the common people— the struggling masses—of any land had ever declared for ® gold standard.”—W. J. Bryan. BISHOP M’GOVERN Of Pittsburgh Advances Some Strong Ar- guments in Favor of Silver. The Harrisburg Patriot publishes an interview with Rt. Rev. Thomas Mc- Govern, bishop of the diocese of War- fisburg, Pa., in which he says in ps “I am in favor of honest money. Now, what I want to know is, what is hon- est money? We now have gold, paper, bonds and promises to pay, and all pass as honest money. There is not enough of gold in the world to pay its indebted- ness. The United States government could not pay its indebtedness in gold because it has not got it. She gives us treasury notes or bonds, and these are to be paid in honest money, one paper usually exchanged for another.” “What about silver?” asked the re- porter. “Silver is surely as good as paper, and 50 per cent. better. If the govern- ment pays her indebtedness in silver she is puying it in a better currency than in paper. All nations 4yould be bankrupt to-day if they were asked to pay this indebtedness in gold. Can we not take silver the same as we are taking paper money? Silver will at least, increase the volume of cireula- tion, which is now in our country too limited to carry on business and makes rates too high. “Money, after all, is only a commodi- ty in the market,” added Bishop Mc- Govern, earnestly. “When it is sear it rates high; when it is abunant it rates lew. If we increase the cireula- tion by the free coinage of silver we are employing a better substitute t paper, because silver has an intri value; paper has not. The opponents of the free coinage of silver assert that it will bankrupt us, but there is no mere danger of our government becoming bankrnpt by the free coinage of silver than there is by an extra issue of peper money and bonds. “There is no danger of a general stampede being made on the United States treasury by the people or the creditors. This thing of preserving the credit of our nation is good sentiment, but our government discounted its cwn paper over its own counter during the civil war, The soldier was paid in paper money on the battlefield and the cus- tom house duties were demanded in gold. We sold $1,000 bonds for $259 in gold and paid six per cent. interest in gold on the face value of them. To whose advantage is the gold standard? The shylocks of Europe and the go!d- bugs of Wallstreet. And at whose loss? The toiling masses.” “Do you believe the prices of com- modities would rise if we were to Lave free coinage of silver at a ratio of six- teen to one, as declared for by the C cago platform?” “Some commodities would probably increase in price,” was the bishop's swer, “but wages would also rise. Fr coinage would also help our manufac turers because they would be better able to borrow money at fair rates. Every man would be employed and he would get his wages. When there =re two employers after one man wages are bound to go up, and when there are two men after one boss for a job you may be sure wages are going down. “What right has Europe to dictate to us what kind of currency we ought to have? If they are not willing to take our currency, let them not buy our ex- ports. But they are not going to lnse our trade. They will accomodate them- selves to the cireumstances. That will act as a tariff and be on a sliding scale, and go up and down just as Europeans want our trade.” Bishop McGovern said he believed the free coinage of silver would be a boon to the farmers in the west, who pay ten to fifteen per cent. interest oa their mortgages. Many of these people have bought land for $5,000 on which they have paid $3,000. They are paying ten to fifteen per cent. on the mortgage of $2,000, which is now only the actual value of the property. The result is that in a short time the farmers will lose their property and be driven from their jiomes like the tenant farmers of Ire- Jand, and lose all their money they have paid on it. PALMER’S: QUEER TALK. Democratic Candidate Says He Cannot Blame Any Citizen Who Votes for the Republican Nominee. “I cannot blame any voter who may conclude to vote for McKinle, This was the remarkable s: made by Senator John M. Palmer, “sound money” democratic candidate for president, in the presence of nearly 4,000 people. It occurred in the course of his remarks at the Auditorium last night, and has started some lively tall among politicians. In no political campaign since the government was established has a pres- idential candidate been known to frankly admit that it might be a good thing to vote for his adversary. Mr. Ickleheimer, of the well-known Wall street gold broker firm of Heidelbach, Ickelheimer & Co., is heartily in favor of McKinley and the permanent gold standard. So is J. Pier- pont Morgan. So is President Cleve- land. Also Herr Most, our leading an- archist. Among others who are work- ing hard for the gold standard may be mentioned H. C. Friek, of Homestead; Mark Hanna, of Cleveland; H. C. Paine, of Milwaukee, three gentlemen who have done much to reduce the wages of workingmen to a reasonable basis. George M. Pullman is also in line for gold. Any American workman should be proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with these distinguished friends of Jabor. “Archbishop Ireland is a good saint among bankers, but a poor banker among saints. . . . The great tribune of other days sold himself into slavery to Wall street when, in 1892, he borrowed a half million dollars.”—Father Phelan, of St. Louis, on Ireland’s Letter. Democrats are not opposed to gold. They favor the free coinage of both gold and silver—the same treatmeat of both metals. \ STILL IN THE LEAD IS BRYAN. Chicago Record’s Ballot Contin- ues to Give Him the Largest Per Cent. of Gains. PROVED BY FIGURES. A Steady Stream of Ballots with a Uniform Result in Favor of Mr. Bryan. A Postal Card Ballot That from the First Has Shown That There Are More Re- publicans Who Will Vote for Bryan Than There Are Dem- ocrats Who Will Vote for McKinley. The Chicago Record’s postal card bal- lot continues to show the largest per- centage of gains for Bryan. A larger number of republicans are voting, to be sure; but that was entirely natural and to be expected. Republicans are urged to vote. Democrats and others intend- ing to vote for Bryan and free silver, on the other hand, have been urged not to vote; but enough of them hare voted in every ward of Chicago and in each of the doubtful states to show that there is a much larger drift of republicans to Bryan than of demo- erats to McKinley. This the most significant thing—indeed, it is the only significant thing—about the Record’s ballot. Mr. D. M. Link, of Auburn, Ind., makes the following impartial analysis of the vote: “I believe the true estimate of the November vote can only be based upon the change of votes as shown by the Record. For instance, to-da, Record shows that the McKinley vote in Cook county is composed of $2 per cent. re- publicans and 182-3 per cent. demo- crats; the Bryan vote of 72 per cent. democrats and 28 per cent. republic- ans. In Nebraska the McKinley vote is composed of 92 per cent. republic- ans and 8 per cent. democrats, while the Bryan vote 70 per cent. demo- cratic and 30 per cent. republican, In Michigan McKinley's vote is 90 per cent. republican and 10 per cent. democratic; Bryan’s, 74 per cent. dem- ocratie and per cent. republican. In Iowa McKinley’s vote is 924% per cent republican and 7% per cent. democratic; Bryan's is 77 per cent. democratic and 23 per cent. republic an. In Indiana McKinley's vote is composed of 94% per cent. republic- an and 5% per cent. democratic; Bry- ’s, 781-3 per cent. democratic and 3 per cent. republican. In Illinois, outside of Cook county, McKinley’s vote is composed of $2 2-3 per cent. republic- an and 71-3 per cent. 4 i Bryan's, 821% per cent. democ per cent. republican. In Missouri nley’s vote is composed of 941-3 cent. republicans and 52-3 per an’s composed of 88 1-3 per cent. democrats and 112-3 per cent. former republicans, From these figures it ean be seen that Bryan has made a clear gain in Chicago of 91-3 per cent.; in Nebraska, 22 per cent. Towa, 151%; Indiana, 16 1-6; HMlinoi side of Cook county, 101-6 pe: and in Missouri of 6 per cent me, is the most certain indi the change of sentiment, the percentage of change and who is gaining by the change.” The per centage of gains here shown yan does not apply merely to one ward or two wards in the city of Chicago, or to any particular one of the doubtful states. It shows that al- most the same identical percentage of gain is shown in all the wards of per cent. former democrats, while vote cent., This, to ation of Chicago and in each of the doubtful states. This makes it a safe and en- reliable basis for calculation, and table Jandslide for Bryan in every state which appears in the Record’s ballot. ‘This analysis is strictly in lne with, and is confirmed by, information received at both state and national democratic headquarters in this city from entirely reliable sources in these states, Mr. Bryan’s election is assured, and cach day from now until the elec will only emphasize his victory add to the size of his majority. A Test Vote in Iowa. The Des Moines Daily News is an independent republican daily, which has taken a poll of its readers on the coinage issue, and placed the returns in the hands of non-partisan judges for eanvass. The ballot of 250 towns, as sent to the News, gives, Bryan three yotes to MeKinley’s one. The repub- lican vote, which was 708 for Bryan and 509 for McKinley was specially signifi- cant. “Those who are most fearful that there will be a laxity of the enforcement of the law are the very persons who would suffer most if the laws were enforced. The very persons who are afraid the law will be violated with impunity are the ones who have violated the law with impunity.”— Mr. Bryan. Here is a fair illustration of the opera- tion of the gold standard: In 1870 the verage value of the farms in the United States was $3,430. In 1880 the average value had been reduced to $2,428, and in 1890 to $1,620. All prosperity must come from the farm. How can pros- perity come from farms like these? Every regular state democratic conven- tion and every regular county democratic convention held since the Chicago gpnyen- tion has indorsed the nominees and the creed of the democratic party. Every stock waterer in the country, from the Standard Oil magnates to Steel Trust Hanna himself, is joining William C. Whitney and J. Pierpont ae in protesting against “the dangers of inflation.”