The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 19, 1896, Page 2

o e THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1896. BRYAN TALKS AT AICHMOND TOMN Quite a Demonstration at the Old Virginia Capital. CEEERS IN A DIM LIGHT. Thousands Crowd the Audito- rium to See the Orator From Nebraska. PLEADS FOR FREE COINAGE. Boasts of Being the Candidate of Three Parties, but Waives That C'aim for Votes. RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 18.—In all his career William J. Bryan never received a greeting so enthusiastic, so wildly demon- strative as that given him by Richmond to-night. Not even the reception at Columbus and Toledo, although they were greater by far in the attendance, could compare in frantic excess of partsan emotion to the manner in which the great | nce that heard him to-night gave | aund him welcome. The candidate was whiried away from the station to the residence of J. Taylor Ellison, chairman of the State Democracy, where they gave him some- thing to eat and aliowed him to recovera | little from the effects of the heat. Then he was driven to the great audito- rium of the State Expostion building. It is said that there are 10,000 seats on the floor, several thousand more in the gal- leries and that the capacity with every seat occupied. every bit of aisle space led, is fully 18,000. Estimates as to crowds differ widely among those who see them, but to-night there was something by which the Audi- torium gathering might be measured, and while few there were willing to say that less than 18,000 peopie were present quite as few would express the opinion that the audtence numbered more than 20,000. It was late when Mr. Bryan arrived. He blinked his eyes as he entered the big hall from the rear of the stage, -for all but four jets of the electric light globes had gone out and the first impression of one in entering was that of semi-darkness. And so it happened that William J. Bryan received his most demonstrative greeting since his nomination from an audience of whom only half could hardly see his face and figure. The Auditorium was packed to its ut- most when the Democratic nominee ar- rived. Not another soul could push his perspiring form within many feet of an entrance. Mr. Bryan came on the stage leaning on the arm of J. Taylor Ellison. He was known in an instant. One mighty shout went up and then grew in volume, and kept growing until things began to get uncomfortable with those of sensitive ears. The applause lasted ten minutes. Benator Daniel rose to introduce Mr. Bryan, but at sight of his well-known countenance the crowd went wild, wilder even then it had when Mr. Bryan came npon the scene. Soon it became quiet enough for the nominee to be heard, but all through his address there were shouts of approval, partly suppressed cheering and much disorder that made it hard for his words to reach all in the hall. He said in part: rman, Ladies and Gentlemen: It much to find in the eapital city of iate 50 marked an evidence of the iich people are taking in this cam- paign. 1do notcome to instruct on the ques- tion of finance. It would be useless to add snything to that which has already been said by the distinguished Senator who has brought 10 the investigation of the money question that abiiity which he carried intoali his work, and who adds to ability eloquence to present, and to defend De cracy «s it was taught by the fathe: 3 use.] To such a State rep- reseuted by John W. Deniel [applause] no apostic of bimetallism need come to aid the work of 1nstruction. Iam not here as a_cam- Efigner. I am simply passing through the State, because I would never have come to Virginia with any thought that my presence here was necessary to determine the vote of this State. [Applause.] Iam the nominee of three conventions, but 1 do not appeal to the voter on the ground that I was nominated by his party. I bavea higher claim to your suffrage than party ties can give m. 110 you as the only can- didate for cy who believes the American people Lave & financial policy of their own. isuse.] If there is a man who respects party regularity he need not compjain of the manner of my nomination. The Democratic convention which met at Chicago represented the voters of that party more truly than any convention which has been Leld inrecent years. That convention ‘was regularly called by the regular authori- ties and delegates were chosen in every State in the regular manner. And more than that, the issue joined between the friends of fres coinage and iis enemies was fought out before the people themselves, the highest tribunal known under our form of Government. [Ap- plause.] The voter, not the bosses, ran the Chicago convention. [Applanse.] And I am proud to be the nominee of the convention which gave expression to the hoves,the as- pirations of the common people of the Demo- cratic party. But with all this claim to regularity I do not 28k & single Democrat to vote for my election if, in his judgment, he believes that my elec- tion would injure his country. How esn you tell whether a men is honest wnen he tells you that the election of the Chicago ticket would injure his country. Any man who thinks my election would injure this country can prove it in just one way, and that is by voting for the Republican candidate and thus insure my defeat. [Applause.] Don't tell us that your conscience would permit you to vote the Democratic ticket and then for a boiting ticket. The Bible tells us of the man who hid his talent in the earth and who was con- demned because he had neglected to improve hig opportunity. I want {0 Say to you that the ballot is given to the citizen as a sacred trust, 10 be used according to his judgment and his conseience, and that no man in the hour of peril has a moral right to throw his yote away. Wiy is it that some Democrats or some peo- ple who used to be Democrats spend the day in telling how the election of the Chicago ticket would ruin this country, and then re- {use to cast their votes for the only man who can defeat the Chicago nomination? [Cheers.] 1 will tell you why. It is because !hn{ have not the courage to bear the odium of being Republicans. [Great cheering.] We are en- gaged in a great struggle, one of the greatest struggles which the people of this country were ever engaged in tiume Of peace. Itis & struggle between]democracy on' the one side and plutocracy on the other, and there is no middle ground for any man to stand upon. [Loud cheering.] Those who are not for us are againsc us. We would have more respect for them if they were honest enonlgh to go where they belong. [Cheers.] I believe we shall win now. Bul whether we win now or 10t we have begun a warfare against the gold standard, which sheall continue until the gold standard is driven from our shores back to Engiand. [Cheers.] We have been opposed to the importation of criminals and paupers irom abroad, and we shall oppose the importa- tion of a financisl system which is criminal and which makes paupers wherever it goes. The Republican platform at St. Louis de- clares not that the gold standard is good, but that 1t must be maintained. How lonf! Un- til the American people are tired of it? No, they are tired of it now. Until the people de- sire to get rid of it? No, they desire to get rid of it now. How long? Why, we must maintain it untii foreign nations desire us to get rid of it and will let us get rid of it. [Great cheer- ing. Filtis city, where Patrick Henry aclivered his famous speech which aroused the Nation oarms, ] am not afraid that the people will tpermit a foreign financial control wheu more than 100 years ago your ancestors were will- ing to give their iives if need be to release the colonies from foreign political control. We are in favor of the immediate restoration of the free ana unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at the present legal ratioof 16 to 1 without waiting for the aia or consent of any other nation. [Cheers.] 3 We are in favor of it because bimetailism is needed to give the peaple a sufficient volume of standard money 10 keep pace with the pop- ulation and, business. The treasury reports show & shrinkage of more than $£150,000,000 in the currency of the ple within the iast two years. The Republican party does not propose any plan by which the volume of cur- rency shall be replenished from time to time as the people need money, They simply de- sire the people to turn over our financial sys- tem 10 a few syndicates who can profit by the extremities of the Government—extremities ‘which the syndicates have done more 10 cre- ate than any other cause. We spply the law of supply and _demand to money. We say the value of a dollar depends upon the number of dollsrs and that you can raise the value of a dollar by making dollars scarce, and we charge that our opponents are in isvor of making money scarce because they are controlled by those who want money 1o be dear. If yon own money you ought to vote the Republicen ticket. It you are in favor of making mouey the only thing it is desirabie to own and meking property the thing that everybody wants to get rid of, you want to vote the Republican ticket, because the Republican party proposes to coutinue the resent financial system, the object of which s to make it more profitable to hoard money and get the increased rise of the value of the dollar than to put that doilar to work employ- ing labor and developing the resources of this great country. [Cheers.] To a representative of the United Asso- ciated Presses Mr. Bryan said to-day that he had seen in the newspapers a copy of Senator Allen’s notification of his nomi- nation by the Populists and would_prob- ably answer it early next week. Mr. Bryan will start for Washington at 7 o’clock to- MOIToW morning PAOLI MASSACHE ANNIVERSARY. Pennsylvanians Will Hold Commemo- rative Lxercises. OXFORD, Pa., Sept. 18.—The one hun- dred and nineteenth anniversary of the massacre at Paoli will be observed to- morrow, as the correct date of the anni- versary falls this year on Sunday, Septem- ber 20. The commemorative programme will embrate speeches, martial move- ments and patriotic exercises. Governor Hastings and many distinguished men from other States are expected to take part in the ceremony. After the battie of the Brandywine the American army moved out of the valley of the Brandywine. The portion of the army under General Anthony Wayne was ordered by Washington to lead the advance. On the night of the 20th General Grey and Colonel Musgrove, with their Hessian forces, moved upon General Wayne’s posi- tion. The Continentals were surprsed, and in the retreat were shot down with little mercy. The Americans lost 150 killed and wounded, while the British lost only eight. Sentimental patriots dubbed the fight a massacre, and so it has come down in history. In 1877 a splendid Quincy granite shait was erected on the spot to commemorate the event. The remains of fifty-three of the victims of Hessian bul- lets and bayonets steep unuer the shaft. GROUNDING OF THE TEAAS A Machinist Blamed for the Mishap by the Oificial Report. The Error Admitted Without Explana- tion—No Damage Resulted to the Vessel. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 18.—The official report of Captain Glass and Chief Engincer Moore of the Texas, of the grounding of that vessel off Goat Island, Newport Harbor, R. L, on the evening of the 16th, was received this evening by | Assistant Secretary McAdoo. It shows that the first reports of the accident were | somewhat exaggerated and based upon a wrong conception of the cause of the grounding. The engines were stopped as the Texas. aporoached the berth selected for anchor- age, and when the port anchor was drop'geq the usnal signal to back was given. he reversing gear of the starboard engine temporarily refused tp work, and Machin- ist Hundley, in charge of the port engine, started it at full speed ahead instead of back, thus giving the ship an unexpected headway, which could not be overcome until sbe grounded. Hundley was considered a careful, com- petent man, and while admitting that he made an error bas no explanation to make of it; he simply made a mistake. Nodam- ege whatever resulted from the mishap. Mr. McAdoo will examine the reports carefully to-morrow and later announce the action to be taken, if any. g TESTING AN AIRSHIP. IFilliam Paul’s Invention Gives Promise . of Success. CHICAGO, Irn., Bept. 18. — William Paul’s airship, modeled alter the propor- tions of an aibatross, and which the inven- tor says he can make simulate the flight of gulls by using his body as ballast to change the position of the craft, was given its first test with dead ballast at Dune Park, Ind., yesterday. It covered 100 feet and settled with only slight injury. Tbe inventor and Chanute, the promotor, are now satisfied that there is no danger of the machine pitching for- ward or backward or careening sidewise, as some aeronauts predicted. Paul will trust his life to a plunge off the chute this morning if a 20-mile north wind blows. e ipmea s PRIVATE BANK CLOUSES, Causes Great Consternation and Distress in @ Pennsylvania Town. HOLIDAYSBURG, Pa., Sept. 18.—The private banking-house of Gardner, Mor- row & Co., the oldest in Central Pennsyl- vania, closed its doors this morning. Gardner, Morrow & Co. have been re- puted firm in this part of the State, and there were many depositors. The closing has plunged the community into the ut- most consternation and distress. Friends of the bankers confidently as- sert that the depositors will get dollar for dollar. "The closing precipitated three business failures, those of Thomas Huck- ling, clothier; Bunker, meat market, and Charles lh«!, grocer. s L PSR Fatal Wreck of a Fay-Car. CINCINNATI, Onro, Sept. 18.—The Cin- cinnati, Hamilton and Dayton pay-car went over the line this morning to pay off the men. When about four miles west of Connersville it collided with a wild engine backing westward, derailing the engine and pay-car. Engineer Sweetman and Fireman Kinsey of the pay-train and Con- ductor House and Fireman Hughes were killed, Five men were injured: AR i 4 Banking House Assigns. VINTON, Iowa., Sept. 18, —The banking- house of Watson & Sons, established over forty years, made a general assignment this afternoon to Matt Gamsch for the benefit of their creditors. Liabilities, $250,000; assets, $350,000. Depositors and creditors will b:KP“d in full. The assign- ment will not affect other banks. S S, Toll Gates Blown Tp. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 18.—The five remaining toll gates in Washington Coun- ty were blown up by dynamite last night. No toll is now being cotlected on any pike in the county. GREAT UPHEAVAL I ARMY CIRCLES Transfers of Many Posts Ordered by the War Department. | AFFECTS THE PRESIDIO. In!autfy ’an‘;lfirtillery Stationed “There 1 Be Sent to the South. THE CHANGE NOT RELISHED. Officers With Families Will Be Put to Much Inconvenience and Expense. WASHINGTON, D. C., BSept. 18.—A vrediction was made in THE CALL several weeks ago that there would be a general *'shake up” of infantry troops and batter- ies of artillery, and that the Fifth Artil- lery, now at the Presidio of San Fran- cisco, might be transferred to some other point. Several days later this prediction was confirmed by a statement made to THE CALL correspondent by one of the su- perior officers of the War Department. General Miles several weeks ago recom- mended to Secretary of War Lamort a transfer of infantry companies and bat- teries of artillery, and after careful con- sideration of these recommendations Sec- retary Lamont to-day issued his formal orders. They are technical and brief, but the Adjutant-General will in a day or two issue a statement of the reasons actuating the department in making these changes. The most important transfer is that of the Fifth Artillery, which, with the exception of one vattery, is now at the Presidio of San Francisco, one battery having been recentiy ordered to Fort Monroe, Va. The Fifth Artillery has been stationed on the Pacific Coast since 1891, and many of the officers will receive the news of their transfer with regret. The baiteries of the Fifth now on San Francisco Bay will take the places of the batteries of the Third Artillery,which are now distributed along the Atlantic Coast. The headquarters of the Third Artillery are at St. Francis barracks, Florida, and its batteries are scattered along the coast at Barrancas, Fla., Fort Monroe, Va., Fort MecHenry, Md., and the Washington (D. C.) barracks. The Third was stationed on the Pacific Coast before the war. ‘When the orders in detail are published to-morrow, as exyected, it will be known where each of the batteries of the Fifth Artillery will be stationed along the At- lantic Coast and where each battery of the Third Artillery will be stationed on the Pacific Coast. There is also a shake-up in the infantry. The Fifteenth, now at Fort Sheridan, IlL., is ordered to relieve the Twenty-fourth Infantry, which is at Fort Bayard and at other posts in New Mexico and Arizona. The Twenty-fourth will be sent io Fort Douglass, Utah, and the Sixteenth, now at the latter post, will take the place of the Fourth Infanty, which is now distributed in companies at Fort Sherman, Idaho, Fort Spokane, Wash., and Fort Boise, ldaho. The Fourth Infantry is sent to Chicago torelieve the Fifteenth, now at Fort Sheri- dan. The dispatches from Wasbington an- nouncing that the Fifth Artillery would be ordered away from San Franciscoto the Atlantic Coast produce a profound feeling of regret at the Presidio. The subject was discussed in all its phases at the Officers’ Club and at the canteen last night. Com- miseioned officers and enlisted men alike were eager to ascertain if THE CArL had received definite news that the Fifth had been ordered to relieve the Third in the South. There is still a small gleam of hope that the Fifth may be sent to New York to re- lieve the First and the First be sent to Florida, Louisiana and Texas. A prominent officer, whose name cannot be published, said: “It would be grievons injustice to send the Fifth to Florida. Since the war this regiment has served in the South from 1865 to 1869, and again from 1875 to 1881. Since 1865 the First Artillery has been South only three years, ‘We have been here six and a haif years, and should remain two and a half years longer. There is no question in my mind that a ‘pull’ was exerted in Washington and New York to get the Third out here s0 as to keep the First from going South, “Jt is unfair and unjust to the Fifth Artillery, and will work a severe and un- called for pecuniary hardship upon many of the officers, non-commissioned officers and enlisted men. It will cost each officer having a family at least $500 to make the change.’’ Should the Fifth Artillery go south, two batteries will be stationed at Jackson Bar- racks, New Orleans; two at Pensacola, two at Key West, headquarters and two batteries at St. Augustine, two at Fort Monroe, one light battery at San Antonio, Tex., and one at Washington Barracks. The officers at the Presidio who have families are: General Graham, Majors Darling and McCrea, and Captains Roberts, Thorp, Riley, Hills, Wood and McClellan, and Lieutenants Miley and Arnold. At Alcatraz—Lieutenant-Col- onel Binclair, Captain Morris and Captain Lomia. At Fort Mason—Captain Vogdes and Lieutenant Blunt. Nearly all the bandsmen and quite a number of the non-commissioned officers have families, At the canteen last night one soldler in agroup at & round table said: *‘Say in TrE Cary that San ¥rancisco treats the soldier better than any other city in the United States. Here the uniform is re- spected and citizens are kind and polite. Some of the men, who are always pleased with the prospect of any change, will say before they have been two days in Florida that the Presidio of San Francisco is the most delightful post in the world. The going away will be a sorry break up for many of the men who have formed tender attachments in town, but, you know, a soldier must expect these things.” Officers who have had experience in moving across the continent assert that the transportation which the Government allows is sn insignificant part of the ex- pense attending a change of quarters such as this one contemplates. Tne foreshad- owing of the transfer in a recent number jof the Army and Navy Journal was con- sidered, but it was deemed incredible that ‘the department should incur the great ex- pense of sending the Fifth to Klorida when the First could be sent there at small cost. iy ARMY SURGEON CHANGES. Ancther Order of the War Departmeut 1s Issued. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 18.—By di- rection of the Secretary of War the follow- ing changes in stations and duties of offi- cers of the medical department are ordered: Major James P. Kimball, sur- geon, will be relieved from duty at Fort Wingate, N. Mex., by the commanding officer of that post upon receipt by bim of this order, and will report in person to the commanding officer at Fort Columbus, N. Y., for duty at that post, to relieve Major John Van R. Hoff, surgeon. He willnfon by letter to the commanding general of the Department of the East. Major Hoff upon being relieved by Major Kimball will report iri person to the com- manding officer at Vancouver Barracks, Wash., for duty at that post to relieve Captain Rudolph G. Ebert, assistant sur- geon. He will report by letier to the com- manding general of the Department of Columbia. Captain_Ebert, upon being relieved by Mejor Hoff, will ‘proceed to and take his station at Philadelphia and assume duty @s attending surgeon and examiner of re- cauits in that city, and relieve Captain William E. Gray, assistant surgeon. He will report by letter to the commanding general of the Department of the East. Captain Gray upon being relieved by Captain Ebert will report in person to the commanding officer at Fort Apache, Ariz., for duzy at that post, to relieve First Lien- tenant Irving W. Rand, assistant surgeon. He will report by letter to the command- ing general of the Department of Colo- rado. Lieutenant Rand upon being relieved by Captain Gray will report in Senon to the commanding officer at Fort Clark, Texas, for duty at that post and by letter to the commanding general of the Department of Texas. PILGRIMAGE T0 THE SHAINE [Continued srom First Page.} really a ratification of the many triumphs that have been achieved by the Republican candidate since he began receiving those who call to congratulate him and themselves upon the work of the Republicaus in their National convention. Iam sure thatall of us can say that we are glad to be so near our candidate and to contribute a little more to the busy po- litical life of this eity of Canton. The all-absorbing issue in this campaign up to this time has been that of the present mone- tary system as opposed to the free and un- limited coinage of silver proposed by the Democrats in their Chicago convention. The necessity of utterly defeating the Demo- cratic proposition must be apparent to you all. The free and unlimited coinage of silver by the independent action of this Nation would bring financial disaster and general distress such as we have never before known. The maintgnance of the present monetary system is the policy of honor, and to that the Repub- lican party is committed now, as it always has been in the past. Governor Busbnell was heartily ap- plauded, and when he introduced Senzator Cullom of Tllinois there was a storm of cheers. Senator Cullom said: Mr. Bryan isan out and out free-treder as well as for free silver. Can we stand free sil- ver and free trade ? 1don’t want either. We have had four years’ experience of what we may expect all the time under iree trade. God alone knows what will become of the country if we try the experiment of the freeand un- limited coinage of tliver at 16 to 1. Feliow-citizens, 1 {cel as sure of what I am going tosay as I am that there is an all- wise overruling Providence—that if the people of the United States will at *he next election place the Government back into the hands of the Republican party, with William McKinley as President and with a Congress in harmony with him on financial and tariff questions, prosperity and confidence will come again to the people. Do you not believe it so ? Will you do it ? Thave faith that you will. ‘What a period of distress for the past three years. Plenty of money, but locked up—no- body, in fact, wanting it or daring to invest it. 1am reminded of the lines: *‘Water, water ev- erywhere, but not a drop to drink. Water, water everywhere, but all the boards did shrink.” Fellow-citizens, the Republican policy of protection is still a living issue—it will remain &0 issue until the Wilson-Gorman bill is re- pealed and & measure framed on protection lines is adopted and approved by President McKinley. We reaffirm our belief in the doc- trine of protection to American industries and industrial workers, whether in the shops, on the farm or in the factories, in the mines, wherever they are. Now, fellow-citisens, let us see about the so- called silver question. They say that gold is growing scarcer and increasing in value; that gold is appreciating instead of silver depreciat- ing, all of which makes it more purdensome to the debtor. Let us see how thisis. During the last 100 years the quantity of gold pro- duced in the world has increased from about $£33,000,000 annually to $220,000,000, while the population has simply doubled. Let us see further. Of the gold produced in the world 100 years ago 33 per cent was coined. Now 66 per cent is colned. Therefore the amount of gold in the world per capita is four times as much as it was 100 years ago. The total money in the world—gold, silver snd paper—has increased 400 per cent during the last 100 years. Of the money in the world 100 years ago 22 per cent wasof gold; 1tis now 35 per cent. As to the increase of bank checks, drafts, etc.,, which go to take the place of money, the banking facilities of the world have increased 100 per cent. Let us refer again to the provosition of Bryan and Altgeld and their followers. They say that gold is dearer than it wasin 1873, and that we neéd more money. The truth is, for very many years the price of money has been getting cheaper, The legal rate of in- terest on money is less in our State thanit used to be. It has fallen from 10 to 7 per cent, and I think men do not pay more now tkan 5 or 6 per centand the Governmentis able to get it for 3 per cent and sell its bonds atapremium, while before the per cent and sold its bonds at v count. On the basis of 100 for wages in 1860, wages in 1892 were 16834 per cent—an in- crease of mearly 70 per cent, while the pur- ch-nng' power of wages increased about 80 per cent. Mr. Altgeld and other Popocratic leaders ug the :relent dollar is_a 200-cent d R while the dollar before 1873 was a 100-cent dollar. In the first place the statement is not correct, but if it were which would you rather have, a dollar worth 200 cents or adollar ‘worth 50 cents? They say nobody ever saw & 50-cent dollar. Nobody ever saw an American doliar in coin that would notcirculate any- where1n this country and in many foreign countries at its nominal value. Suppose it is true that our dollars are 200- cent dollars, How many of these have we in circulation ? According to the last treasu: statement we have more than 1,500,000,000, consisting ot goid, silver and paper, oue dollar just as good as another, & per capita circula- iion of nearly $22. If Bryan, Altgeld and their associates are right, then our money in ¢ire: lation is equal to $8,000,000,000, T capita. As tneir platiorm per capita they ought to be $44. Let us see what would hlfwll in the event of the success of the nomi Chicago convention, Our gold us, to be hoarded—that is certain—a coatrac- tion of $600,000,000. The remainder of our mouey will shrink in purchasing power equal to the difference be- tween the par value of the dollar and the bullion price of silver. The difference is now about 47 cents. 5o that our circulation will be contracted to that extent and we will have less than $9 per capita in circulation of actual money where we now have Mr. Bryan says we would, no doubt, have a panic atfirst alter the adoption of free coin- age. He admits that much. He doesn't sa: whether it will be just a little wave whic! will wet the toes and scare the rous or whether it will be & tidal wave which will en- gull the Nation. We are not chiidren in expe- rience. We had our fiugers burned four years ago and they are yet sore from the effects of the fire. William J. Bryan told usthat free trade was just what we needed; that our troubles were all due 10 the tariff. He now “illllll:: m-lz we mn|u h-hvs heal sll\'elr: that it Wi & crime against humanity to longer re- fuse it; that all mankind has been afiicring untold misery since 1873 on account of de- monetization of silver. You know better. Will you take his advice again? I don’t think you will. Fellow-eiti- zens, there is no use in deceiving ourselves in | desling with this question. We have more gold and more silver than we ever had before altogether, more circulating medinm than we ever had before, and wejhave no money that is notat par with gold, which is the recognized money of the commercial world. Let us not run off after moonshine theories pressed upon us by Bryan, Tillman and Altgeld, and men who mulbe honest, but who are urging the people of this country to adopt & policy or try &N experiment in defiance of ‘the facts of his- tory, and in opposition to the judgment of the wisest friends of silver in the world. The Rernbuun party is for bimetallism. It believes in the use of both goid and silver as money. It believes in the sdmission of both to the mints of the United States on equal hr::; n-soadz as it c:n bleddone with sn(el;y and honor. Our party is pledged to it in the 8t. Louis plattorm. B Senator Cullom was followed by Senator Thurston of Nebraska. A most enthusi- astic greeting was given him and his Speech was interruptea by applause at almost every period. He said: . My Fellow-citizens: Iam glad to meet you here at the home of that illustrious American, our nominee for President, William McKinley, brave in war, eminent in statesmanship, the best living exponent of those American policies which insure National and individuat prosperty ; it yet remains for the crucible of & Presidenttal candidacy to fully test the fine 8old of his character. War proved his soldierly qualities; a quarter of a century of legislative and political con- tention developed, strengthened and disclosed his wisdom, patriotism and leadership. But now for the first time his countrymen can realize and understand the sweet, simple, sublime character of the man. And, fellow- citizens, whata contrast is there between the two candidates now presented for yoursufirage. One, nominated amid the excitement and hysteria of emotional frenzy, a triumph of prearranged spectacular and oratorical red fire, a nomination not thought of an hour be- {fore and regretted an hour after. The other, nominated in obedience to the ripened and deliberate judgment of the people themselves, whose spontaneous uprising in his behalf st tested and emphasized their belief in the principles for which he stands, and their sin- cere confidence in the ability, integrity, pa- triotism and statesmanship of the man. One notified (in accordence with his own request) in that great show garden of New York City, designed expressly for circuses, menageries, horse fairs, dog shows and chrysanthemum exhibitions, amid the blare of trumpets, the glare of electric lights and the incessant tramp of disappearing hosts; the other at his humble fireside in an unostentatious manner, the simple ceremonies witnessed only by his inti- mate friends. One now steeplechasing through the country in a mad scramble for piace and power, fearful that some elector may escape the witchery of nis fluted voice; the other dignified (as befits the exaltea place to which he worthily aspires), trustfully and calmly waiting in his own home while the Nation comes to him. One has selected for his arena the sandlots— his appeals are to the passions ana prejudices of men. The forum of the other is an Ameri- can dooryard; his rostrum is the porch of an American cottage; his words, simpie and force- ful, are addressed to the intelligence, the con- sclence, the patriotism and the common-sense of a brave, thoughtful, just and hopeful people. My countrymen, these comparisons are not unjust, nor are they overdrawn. They meas- ure the infinite distance between the party and that platform of Altgeld, Tillman, noyer, Llewellyn, Waite, Coxey and Bryan and the party and platform of Harrison, Allison, Reed and McKinley. This is not an issue be- tween Republicanism and Demo~racy. The Chicago convention was not the council cham- er of the Democratic party. The nominee of that convention carries the regular banner, but it was wrested from true Democracy by the Populist and the commune. If true Democracy lives its future historian will trace its title through the Indianapolis convention. If true Democracy dies its monument will de- clare, ““Assassinated at Chicago.” My countrymen, I come to you to-day in- spired not oniy by hope, but by the knowledge of certain Republican victory. Three weeks ago I was in my native State, Vermont. In every time of great public danger Vermont has responded to the call of daty. When Sumter was fired on one of her great Demo- crats, Paul Dillingham, sa1d “There shall be no Democratic party in Vermont until the Union is saved.” Her people are as patriotic in 1896 asin 1861, for with a menace to the integrity of the Nation and the welfare of her people her greatest living Democratic states- man, ex-Minister Phelps, now says 1t is the duty of every trus Democrat to place country first and to maintain its financial honor as sgainst any party platform. When Vermont spoke she spoke not alone for her Republicans, but for her trne Democracy as well. In Maine I found the State afire with Repub- lican enthusiasm, ready to stand where Blaine stood, for sound money, protection and reciprocity. And what & mighty answer Maine has given to the Chicago platform! Vermont and Maine are agricultural States. a large majority of the people are farmers; the descendentsof men who have for genera- tions battled with the sterility of the moun- tainsides and won a frugal livelihood by in- cegsant toil. Vermont and Maine are the be- ginning of the end. The same intelligent con- sideration of the present 1ssues by the people of the country will produce the same result. Not in Arkansas, Alabama or Georgis, where majorities are made by those entrenched in power to suit the necessities of the Democratic party, not perhaps in those five silver States where & local interest at the time being pre- vents a fair consideration of the great National problem, but in every other State of the Union where the baliot-box registers the conscience, the judgment and the patriotism of the elect- ors, there will be the same glorious result. 1 visited Massachusetts—rich in its memories of Plymouth, of Lexington, of Bunkar Hill— Massachusetts, which gave first blood for inde- pendence and for the Union, and I found sas- sachusetts without regard to party lines al- most unanimous for McKinley. And then New York, which Bryan calls the ememy’ country, but which is not and will not be a enemy’s country toany man who stands for the institutions, the welfare aud the honor of the United States. And in New York I thought of grand John A. Dix, who said: “If any man hauls down the American flag shoot him on the spot.” In times of peace we have no bullets for the E.ollucsl enemies of our country, but we have llots; ant New York, the great Empire State,the Gibraitar of true Democracy, will over- whelm the Popocratic sggregation by at least a quarter of a million majority. "And then through Mar, d_and Virginia and West Virginia, all sacred ground, drenched with the blood of the two greatarmies; and then to Indiana, the State of Morton and Har- rison. And, my countrymen, they areall for McKinley, even old Virginia, 1 understand that Mr. Bryan said on his re- turn to Nebraska trom his last starring tour that Obio was safe for 50,000. I believe it. I have no doubt of it. Yes, for 100,000, but not for that kind of a William. My friends, political quacks have been offer- ing cureails to the people eversince the world began. Thereisa l\lgllfl charm in every promise of something for nothing; of property without payment; of accumulation without toil; of bread without the sweaiof the brow. Itis impossible to realize whata charm there isin the word free when coupled with & party policy or & political promise. The policy of & tariff for revenue only would not have iasted its first disastrous experiment and overthrow ifit had not been for the term “free trade.” The policy of opening our mints to and placin; our National credit under the silver product of the whole world would not carry one precinct in the country 1f it were uot for the s jous suggestion of free silver—something for noth- ing—the hope held out to those who toil that in some way, not explained or understood, they are to have a share in the vas stores of | silver money when coinage and silver are free. Free to whom? Will it be free to any man in the State of Ohio—to any man who toils upon a farm or in a shop? Will it be free, ex- ceptto the owners of silyer mines and capital- ists who can purchase silver bullion for coin- age purposes? Will it be free except to those ‘who can secure the cheaper money with which to buy your grain or pay your es? What is free coinage of silver? The silver advo- cates say it is simply placing the stamp of the Government upon the coin to attest to its weight and fineness. If this were all we would not for a moment oppose their plans, for the coins would deceive no one and would imme- itely. g0 upon the market as the lon goes, at thelr commercial value. The bullion-owners couid not force the peo- 1 Pple of this country to accept such dollars, and such coinage would not be of any possible value to the mine-owners, but this 1S not what they propose. They insist, and the Chicago platform de- clares, that they shall have the right to bring all the bullion of all the world, all now coined and uncoined in other countries, all now mined and all the vast stores yet un- discovered in the mountains, to our mints and have it coined at our expense and returned to them with a law attached compelling the peo- ple of this country to nceeptall dollars thus coined as full legal tender for all debts, public and private; for all products sold; for ail services rendered; for all labor done, at 100 cents on the dollar. The man oi the factory, the mill and the shop cannot compel the mine-owner to accept his labor ata double price. Whyshouid tne mine-owner be given the right to compel the wage-earners and pro- ducers of the country to accept their silver product at double its market value? Will free coinage result in a depreciated dollar? Mr. Bryan at his Madison-square Garden meeting, beiore all of the audience had left, declared that in his belief opening our mints to the free and unlimited coinage of the world’s sil- ver would immediately advance the price of silver from 68 Ceuts per ounce. its present bullion velue, to $1 29 per ounce, its coinage value in gold. 3 Is there anything in history or the experi- ence of mankind to justify such a beliei? Can the American people afford to chance the busi- ness, the business prosperity of this country and of its 75,000,000 people, to the pelief of any man, however distinguished, when that belief is in direct oansmon to the accepted judgment of mankind? AsMr. Foraker has so well said, “Can we afford to make an experi- ment siation of the White House 7"’ What is the free coinage of silver? There are many people in this country who actually believe that under free coinage our mints will be a sortof Government thrashing-machine; that the mine-owners will ieea their bullion into the front end while the people stand around the other end of the machine and the dollars run out into their pockets. Such is not the case. Of all the bullion that will be brought to our mints not one dollar will go into the treasury of the United States. We, the people, will ‘Flim the expenses running the macktine and the same men who feed the bullion into one end will hold the bag into which the dollars rall at the other. “You may open yoir mints to the free and unlimiied coinage of silver when the mine- owners of the worid, wita the dollars we coin. can build & pyramid whose apex reaches to the eternal stars, and when it is builded and completed there is not one man in the United States who can take just $1 from that pile un- less he has 100 cents’ worth of labor or the product of labor to give in exchange, and whenever a man in this free country has an opportunity to exchange his labor or his proa- ucts for money he ought to insist upon receiv- ing in payment the best dollar that the civil- ized world affords. The silver advocates tell us we have been on & gold basis since 1873, and we admit it. Is there a mortgage in the State of Ohio which bears a date prior to 18732 Has not every dollar that has been borrowed by an Ohio farmer, or by any Ohio man,on nots ana morigage, been paid to him in gold or money equivalent to gold? Is it just that he should pey in any other money then that he has bor- rowed? But when do the mortgages of the farmers and mechanics become due? The ordinery term of a morigage on_real estate is from three to five years; very littie money is borrowed for a longer term by small borrowers. Your time 10 pay is coming soon. Where will you get the new cheap money in which to pay? Is it possible that all the farmers of Ohio will be prepared when their mortgages come due 10 pay tiem off, principal and interest, even in money worth 50 cents on thedollar? The fact of itis, my countrymen, you do not expect to pay and you cannot pay jour present mortgages when they becomo due. You will be prepared to pay the in- terest, you may be prepared to pay part of the prineipal, your hope is to renew from time to time at the same or at cheaper interest rates, and gradually, vear by year, pay off until your entire indebtedness is canceled. But you are now asked to vote for a policy which will drive capital out of the country. mortgages come due if you are notready to pay in full you cannot renew, certainly not at as favorable rates as you have now. There was another big meeting at night in the tent. The speakers were Governor Hastings of Pennsylvania and Repre- sentative McCleary of Minnesota. Both speakers were enthusiastically received. Beveral delegations called at the close of the afternoon meeting. To the Akron delegation. one of the largest that visited the city, Major McKinley said: I was especially delighted to see the great delegation from Akron in the parade to-day. It occurred to me as I saw you passing the re- viewing stand that you had not left anybody at home. [Applause.] I am sure your pres- ence here has contributed much toward mak- ing this & most successful meeting, and per- sonally I feel especially honored to see you come over in such large numbers on this our opening day, This is one of the largest politi- cal meetings, if not the largest,” ever held in the State, and it is only the opening of the campaign, and as I said in 1893, at Akron, when I looked over an audience of fifteen or twenty or more thousand people at the open- ing of the campaign, my second nomination, I said if this is the opening, what will the close be? And so I thought to-day &s you were pass- ing. I thank you for your call. [Great ap- plause.] It was quite dark when the Elkins Cadets and a large deiegation from Salem, Ohio, called. Major McKinley was tired and had gone | to his room to take a short nap. The bands played six or eight marches and he gave up the notion of slumber and made two more speeches. Judge Ambler of Salem made a short address and Major McKinley responded in a few appropriate remarks. Major McKinley then turned to the El- kins Cadets, He was heartily cheered. After the tumult had subsidea he made a speech of welcome and was greeted with rounds of applause. Major McKinley entertained Senators Cullom and Thurstorn, Governor Hastings, Governor Bushnell, Congressman Mec- Cleary and a dozen Canton friends at dinner this evenine. HARRISON WILL SPEAK. Republicans to Be Aided by the Eloguent £zx-President. CAICAGO, Irn, Sept. 18.—Benjamin Harrison will make some campaign speeches in October, and the fears of the Republican National Executive Commit- teemen at Chicago headquarters were set at rest to-day by tne welcome intelligence. It came this afternoon in the form of a personal letter from the ex-President in the Adirondacks to Committeeman Dur- bin of Indiana. Mr. Durbin would only say the letter contained a promise to make some speeches. The dates and places will be fixed after Mr. Harrison has communi- cated with Mr. Durbin, and the Indiana committee will be ignored in the matter, One of the speeches will be in Indianapolis, Mr. Harrison wil! go to New Yorkin a day or so toremain a week or ten days, and the speaking engagements will be mude as soon as the ex-President returns home. Committeeman Cyrus Leland returned from Kansas. Mr. Leland said: *“Watson has done lots of good for the Republican party by coming to Kansas and making his fiery anti-Sewall speeches. He had small crowds to begin with, but théy quickly increased, and the result will be tnat the ‘middle-of-the-road’ Populists in- tend to put up a separate Bryan and Wat- son electoral ticket, which will split the Populist vote for Bryan.” Fall Medicine is fully as important and benefi- cial as Spring Medicine, and the best Fall Medicine Hood's Sarsaparilia The best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier. 9 H Lis Hood’s Pills g iver T easy o When your | | Turkey, show that LONGING FOR THE BRITISH FLEET - Feverish Anxiety Felt by Foreigners in Constan- tinople. CHAOS STILL PREVAILS Possible That Russian War- ships May Steal a March on the English. A CRISIS HOURLY EXPECTED. Many Archives Removed From the British Embassy to Ships in the Bosphorus. LONDON, Exc., Sept. 18.—The Con- stantinople correspondent of the Standard telegraphs that the situation there does not give any evidence of improvement. He says: “We are on the verge of § crisis. The ovinion is that unless a British fleet appears shortly in the Bosphorus either Turkey will totter to her ruin, fall- ing into the hands of the Czar, or a Rus- sian fleet will take advantage of some special outrage and of the apathy of the powers to occupy the Bosphorus, and from that vantage ground, which we ought to be now holding, dictate terms to Europe. All the British residents are astonished because a fleet does not come, Mass-meetings to express the indigna- tion felt against the Sultan were held to- night in Birmingham and other cities in England. Resolutions were adopted which in general terms called upon the Govern- ment to take immediate and active steps to end the reign of terror in Turkey. In Bristol and elsewhere amendments to the resolutions were; offered urging Great Britain to act forcibly alone if nec- essary, but these amendments were de- feated. The Daily Mail wiil publish a dispatch to-morrow from Vienna saying that seven men have been killed during the last few days while attempting ‘to reach the Sul- tan’s apartments with the object of assass- inating him. ROME, Irary. Sept. 18.— The semi- official newspaper, Italia, asserts that communications, which have passed be- tween the powers upon the situation in the relations are strained to a point of rupture. ATHENS, Greece, Sept. 18.—A dis- patch from Constantinople says that a number of theological students and mem- bers of the Young Turkey party had a desperate fight in Galata on Wednesday. Fifteen of the combatants were killed. The dispatch adds that many of the archives of the British Embassy have been placed on the British ships in the Bosphorus. Tom Watson Fisits Denver. DENVER, Coro., Sept. 18.—Tom Wat- son arrived in Denver to-day, and passed the time until evening in conference with both sections of the Populists. He talked with Waite, condidate for Governor on the middie-of the-road ticket and with Bailey, gubernatorial candidate on the Populist, silver-fusion ticket. Mr. Wat- son is in bad voice and almoast exhausted by his work in the East. He spoke but briefly at Coliseum Hall to-night to a small audience, owing to a heavy rain- storm, and his remarks were confined to a statement of his personal position in the National campaign and his objections to Sewall. —_— 3 Sovereign in Chicago. CHICAGO, Ini., Sept. 18. — Grand Master Workman Sovereign of the Knights of Labor arrived in Chicago to-day for the purpose of taking an active part in the campaign for theelection of Bryan. T Prince of Wales Not Injurea. LONDON, Exc., Sept. 18.—The rumor that gained circulation last night that the Prince of Wales had been injured while shooting in the Highlands of Scotland proves, upon investigation, to have been unfounded. NEW TO-DAY. 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