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Y Tin ffifrftsMit .Star. WILMINGTON, N. Cn i $1.00 A YEAR. I N ADVANCE.! 88888S8888S888888 88888SS8888888888 88888888888888888 88888888888888888 s 82888888388888388, K moon i 8888885-8838888888 S28S8S82S88888S83 f 3 .. m .-888888888888888 1A I -rfjTthe Post Office at ilmtgtoa, N. Ci as I" Second Clam Ma itr.l - SUBSCRIPTION P .iCE. flie subscription price of the We'-lT BtU baa fallows ; . f K MM Smsle Copy' 1"' r.r' : .u. . ... 80 u ' " 3 monthi 80 We are again sending bills to our subscribers. In the aggregate, they amount to a very large sum. I any 0f our subscribers are respon ag promptly. 'Others pay no attenti n to the bills. These latter do mt seem to understand that they are under any legal or moral obligation to pay for a newspaper. 1 , - THE BUSINESS INTERESTS. ' Ninety-nine per cent, of the con tentions of the opponents of free sil ver (5 based on assumption, pure and simple. They assume that free silver Won'd be. disastrous to the "business interests" of the country and there foreihe gold standard must be ad hered to. They have, a somewhat peculiar Idea as to what constitutes oar business interests, j T hey seem to think that it is the men who'run the banks, tfie stock" jobbing estab lishments; the middlemen and the manufacturers who constitute the "business1 elements" of the country, utterly oblivious of the men who pro dace the stuff-that makes the bulk of . out commerce,the crude material but ; of which our manufactured products "are formed and the skilled labor which transforms this material into finished form andgives it the addi tional value which it acquires in that form. ; , v '.-i' '-1' :-. The farmer who raises wheat, corn, pork, beet, &c, is as much a "busi ness" .man as the grain or beef buyer who bays tie grtn or beef to sell again! When it' omes to the em- loyment of capital, the business flea of toe farm have thousands of dollars invested in their business to -the one invested by the buyers of their products. "Has the many mil lions of capital invested in the tarm- ing industry or "business no right to put in its claims when the capital ia other and less, productive Kinds' of business claims that it only is en titled to consideration? Isn't' the man who digs and smelts the ore that i coofes out of the mine I - . . . ( I as much of a business man as he whose business it is to melt these metals and cast them into shapes for the uses for which they are designed? Mr. Mark Hanna is an iron manufac turer but he is no more a business mail than the men who dig out of the mine, the iron which he uses. He simply emblovs more1 ranital arid ,:J ' - ' T"y. r . pwst&e hnis,hmg touch on the bus!- t Msithat they do and reapi a larger Profit, that's all. , - . TU-' . 1 . ' J c couon planter wno raise3 tne lint for the spindle and loom is quite as much of a business man as the man who runs the' spindles and 'ooms, and when - it 1 comes' to the aggregate value of the lint produced a queer idea of business that does not class the men who produce 1300,000,000 worth of it -annually, fnj expend nearly as much annually "ProdBciog it, among the business ; mw of the country. They ire quite rauct business men as the men no speculate in this staDle. or buv 11 to convert into fabrics, and profit m9re by it. About the onlv differ ence between the twn hfknrho lnf f ie COttOn business in thai! nn nrn me cotton which the others andie Either for sale in its crude or in the finished form.. When Ernesto the matter of the caoital Rested andmployed, there isnore OOney iovested in th nrnAnrtinn nf ?t0n tha there is in the manufac f, c and handling of it by others ,-une produces. P ... ; we consider our foreign Comm.... ' .'. . . 0 .f wnich gives employment . y mousands of men. that "JIe;siness" . for the ships and a.cmP'yment to the capital in w m ships, eighty per cent, of it 0 S'sts Products ot the business h; farm, which, according to entletBen, does not figure in the -a tatogue at all, ana . rest consists of prbducts of the tw. articles manufactured from products; As; we see It, these L; .' lf they would classify e,r"7, W,U have "to revise their -gue of the "business interests Tly enlarge the scone and rl Uom ltfte present ar- W dn, n l I . n . va happen that the man jjjwjinthe lending of money Is tDousan r ,,busineh8" ao than the Are not V- Whm he ,cnd8 moncy? tr.... , C6C wousauds as much in- I i sqioow V sqmopl S I 4 - ;; . --.fr--" a v' ' u Ls-. ? - ft " . gs s s -.' "iss iii::: ca In the lava nktu -.!-. VOL. XXVII. the issuing of that money and in de fining its ' qualities and powers and uses as he is? Each one mav possi bly not have precisely the same amount of Interest in it that he has, but In the aggregate they have quite as much, are quite as much inter-, ested and if anything more sofor while with him it is simply a matter of profit,, with them it is a matter of vital Importance.. His interest Is to have money scarce so that it may command a high price, that his pro fits may be larger, while their inter est is to have money abundant that it may be the more easily procured, give labor and production more ' em ployment and more encouragement and better compensation, j r. In common with millions of our fellow citizens we . contend that when the money question is .consid ered from a "business standooint (and 'that is the standpoint from which it should be considered) ever business should have fair play and an impartial hearing and that no few special callings should arrogate to themselves the right to be con sidered the only "business" worth figuring in the premises and the only ones which have within them intelli gence enough to say how our mone tary systems shall be formed or of what our money, shall consist. -The gold handler and those who agree with him, may demand gold exclu sively, but other men engaged in different pursuits, whose businesses crippled by adhering to the gold standard have just as much right and better reason for demanding a broader and less monopolistic sys tem, one which will give them a bet ter showing and in their opinion the country more prosperity. KIXOB HXBTIOJT. as the ' anti Uryan organs can t help it they are compelled to accept Mr. Bryan s denial of the charge that he had been in the pay of the silver mine owners, in advocating free silver. They accept it, but in. a style which clearly shows that they are sorry tnat the charge wasn t true The ' following "acceptance" we clip from the New York Adver tiser: ' -'.- :'. Mr. Bryan's denial of the charge that ne naa been aired by silver mine owners to deliver free coinage speeches will be accepted as fioal by fair-minded persons of every shade of political belief. . The Chicago candidate is explicit and em phatic in his statement, and in Order that there may be no lingering doubt aboat the matter he volunteers to 'pro duce his personal accounts if it should become necessary. Nothing more could be asked. . At the same time it is not at all strange that the accusation against the repudia- tionist candidate should have been wide ly credited. It is notorious that the sil ver barons nave subsidized newspapers and. orators all over the country, that they have poured out money lavishly for the election of United States Senators . s . . . ana Representatives in vingress. ana that they maintain numerous "literary bureaus. If Mr. Bryan has felt humili ated over the fact that many, of his countrymen regarded him as the paid agent of these men it has been owing to his unfortunate associations. 'Nothing more could be asked' as to Mr. Bryan s denial, but some questions may be asked suggested by this second paragraph, i which is simply an indirect apology for the original lie and an excuse for dis seminating it: How does this organ know that the "silver" barons" have subsidized newspapers and orators all over the country, that tbey have poured pat money lavishly for the election of United ... States Senators and Representatives in Congress and that they maintain numerous ''liter ary bureaus ?" If all this be "notorl- oas" there should be no difficulty in giving the' names, of at least some of the newspapers, and some of the orators. This might have been done at the same time that the alleged discovery was made as to Mr. Bryan and this He propagated. What stronger argument against the; silver men could be produced than a show ing up like that?. But assuming that there may be some truth in this who foots the expenses of the numerous orators who have been carrying- on th ramnalcrn of educatidn for the gold men ? Who has been footing the bills of the "literary Dureau thv have been running ? As for the "subsidized newspapers," how about all that "gold" plate matter; patent nrint nnH "snnrjlements" that were sent out by the ton to thousands of papers which used them mat wasnn't subsidizing witn money, dui is was subsidizing all the same. As for buying United States Senator ships that has been pretty much the order of the day In the ortn tor some years, and we rather think fr.n the number of silver Senators f-m that side that the gold men liViU " have got away with them. . ----- '-.V M . It is reported that Comptroller Eckels and. Secretary Morton will be at the Indianapolis Convention. We think this quite likely for we do not w- f,Aar ' thrr rnnld hold SUCh a Ovv. uv v wj ' - convention and run M without Mr. Eckels, whatever it might do witnout fjunk" Morton. We give precedence here to Mr. Eckels' name vcku that is the order in which the press senatrW heralding this important 0 . ... !. Th. . . t 1 All nrnrlsing th n to OS . mai in the discussion of . tne prosp;c -D--ji,i .andldate of this com- . 1ME' .. W EEKLY bTAM. . Wi : . WILMINGTON, N. C.? FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1896. , : v; ; ': ; ' ;5 NOVu bine of illustrions and unillustrious kickers Mr. Eckels' name has never : been ' mentioned even . for the second place, whlgh we say is strange considering the . estimate which that gentleman puts on him self, the tireless energy and the co lossal ability he has shown in work ing his jaws for the" men whom he expects to get employment from after he hasjgot through his present job. But perhaps, like Bryan, he is too young. But again, perhaps he is not ambitious and that he is giving his friends the benefit of his sage coun sel and . directing , wisdom out of sheer, undiluted patriotism, of which he doubtless contains as much as a statesman of his calibre can hold. It would be safe to wager that, barring accidents, he will be there, and very muchly so. , - One' of the so called arguments against the , free coinage of silver, not only free coinage, but any coin age at all save for subsidiary money, (for that is what it amounts to) is that the silver dollars will not circu late, that they remain in the Treas ury, wmcn issues silver; certi ficates, which some of the gold or gans call ,n warehouse certificates' Would some of these organs be good enough to tell us how much gold there is in circulation? As a matter of convenience paper based; on coin and convertible Into coin is prefer able for ordinary use . in the every day transactions, to either; silver. It is not prejudice gold or against either gold or silver, but simply be cause the people prefer the lighter and more convenient paper. But as a matter of fact there are more silver dollars in actual circulation than there . is gold, and there would be still more if there were not such per sistent and concerted effort made by the gold men to keep silver out of circulation, and then assert that it isn't in circulation because the peo ple do not want it and will not have it. Hon. 'Mark Hanna has started bis "campaign of education among the workmen," and is hiring workmen who can talk to go among them and persuade them that McKinley is the man to tie to. Here is a good chance for workmenjout of a job, with a gift of gab and no conscience to annoy them, to make pretty good wages fort I a couple of months. Mr. Whitney, who has paid $200,- QOO for a 3,000-acre tract of land in the mountains of New York, where he proposes to erect a royal summer villa for his son as a bridal present, Is very much distressed I at . the thought of the poor wage earner having to take a 53 cent dollar when Mr. Bryan is elected. He knows how it is himself. - ' " ' Mr. Bourke Cockran doesn't seem. to have a much higher opinion of the farmers of this country and the "un reconciled ex slaveholders" than he has of the silver mine owners, for he says they are all in the conspiracy against the wage-earners, in whom K - this soft handed son of toil, Hon. Bourke Cockran, professes great in terestat so much per speech. There is an establishment in Taun ton" Mass.. which makes wire so fine that it would take 1 over five thou sand of them to make an inch in thickness. But these wires are not drawn half so fine as some of the al leged arguments for the gold stand ard. Madison Square Garden was ablaze with diamonds when Bourke Cockran made his reply to Bryan Bourke talked very vociferously for the diamond wearers: but it is. the people who don't, sport diamonds who do most of the Voting. Senator- Thurston accepts Mr. Bryan's denial as a complete refuta tion of the lie that he disseminated and lent the weight of his semi-en dorsement, but ne hasn't had the de cency to apologize to Bryan for using the lie. J ! ' V S-:- After Bourke Cockran's J able speech," remarks a gold organ, few remarks by David B. Hill would be in order." And when they come, we venture the prediction tbey will not be the kind of remarks- the gold papers will dote on. " ; There are employed in the con struction of the great trans-Siberian railway, over 7,000,000 of men, ex clusive of engines and officers. The man will .be 4.457 miles lone, of which over one third has been com pleted. - ;'T": Mr. Hanna is reported u be hope ful of being able to pull McKinley through, but he is not right sure. When asked in New York about Il linois, Indiana and Ohio, he answer ed thatit was rather early to pre dict as to these. Some of the London papers are predicting a money squeeze in ims country pretty soon. Pshaw! We've bid a money squeeze down here so long that we've got used to It. , , Talking : about -: hired , speakers, would Mr. Hanna kindly Inform ns as to how many "patriots" he has on his pay roll? . T t - .ANNUAL, MEETING OI Stockholder of the Xutern CaroUaa Pio- The Eastern Carolina Piscatorial As sociation met yesterday at noon at Mr, Jno. DJ Bellamy, Jr.'s office, v- Caot Tno. F, Divine was caUedto the chair and Mr. R. D. Cronly was reqaested to act as secretary-iii-' ' f ;-r '-'; ' The auditing. committee and the presi dent of the association, Dr. Porter, sub mitted reports, which - were . read and adopted. " - " An amendment to the. by-laws was adopted, to enforce collection of assess ments.! It. was decided to gather and market the first oysters from the farm 00 New River, during the month of October next. Some fine samples of bivalves were exhibited. Officers for the ensuing year were elected, as follows: President E. Porter, M. D., Rocky Point. Vice t President W..Al; Riacm .Wjl- mlngton. Secretary and Treasury F. H. Sted- man, Wilmington. ' s. Ezecntive Committee I no. F. Divine. W. A. Riach. Col. F. Gardner; W. W. Miller, 1. A. Westbrook. H. P. Wett. Dr.E.rorter. : XTval Stores la GeorgU. , i The Savannah News says: "The Sa vannah and Brunswick naval stores fac tors .held a meeting at the Commercial Club rooms yesterday morning to dis cuss the situation of the market and pass resolutions to be presented at the meeting of the '- operators and factors. which will be held here August 28. 1 The meeting was presided ' oyer by Mr. J. P. Williams, with Mr. L. W. Net- son as secretary. The Brunswick inter - . - ; ests were represented by Mr. C. Down ing, 'president ol the Downing Naval Stores Company. The agreement of the factors was to the effect that the cutting of new boxes be reduced to. 83 percent., as com pared with last year's cut, and that the catting be commenced Dec 15. and dis continued on Feb. 15.. Bobbed in Wilmington. The Goldsborb Argus of the 19 Ji has the following : "Just as the excursion train from this city was leaving Wilmington on the re turn trip last night a btg. burly negro stepped inside, the pa senger coach in which Mrs. R. A. Watts was riding, snatched her Hand satchel from her lap and made his escape hurriedly by the way that be entered. The satchel con tained Mrs. Watt' gold watch and some other Jewelry and a small amount of money, all of which is . valued at not less than $75.00. C. ; T. SM?T RAILROAD. Work Frocesslnc Satisfactorily-Bevea Miles tf Boad Graded The Southport Leader, mentioning the arrival there of Mr. J. E. Challenger, President of the C T. & O. Railroad Company, says:" Mr. Challenger stated to the Leader that everything was going along satis factorily ia the enterprise, that the people of Southport could depend upon the completion of the road, and that the parties backing the road were the sort oi people to carry ont whatever they under took. .The visit of this gentleman to Southport at this time was to determine some points about the terminal arrange ments on their property at Deep Water Point, The reports from the work at Meares Bluff are that about seven miles of road are now graded, ready for ties, and three miles more in preparation, and that the part under sub-contract extends a dis tance this side of Town Creek. The ex cessive beat retards work somewhat. . The county bridge over Sturgeon creek is finished and the work on the railroad bridge along side ready to be gin. Pile drivine at Jacques creeic is finished for the bridge there. Arrangements have been made with the Atlantic Coast Line to use its depot on Front street, as the terminal station for the new road in Wilmington. BROKE THE RECORD. Sales Taaterday la tbe Tobaooo Market or : aresDTill0, &T. O. A, Stronc Ad vanes In Fnoei. Special Star Telegram. Grxxnvillx, N. C, August 21. The Greeenville tobacco market broke the record for the season to day. The sales at the four warehouses amounted (to 125 000 pounds. : The tale started at 9 o'clock and continued until 4. There has been a strong advance in prices and general satisfaction prevails among nlanters over tne result oi saies. At tbe rate at wmcn tne new crop uas been coming in since the market opened, it is safe to estimate tnat trreenvuie wui sell eisht million pounds this season. The number of buyers is large and in creasing everyjweek. ' ? NAVAL STORES IN GEORGIA. Predicted That There Wffl Be 100,000 Bar- ' ,T rela Secyase inlTarpentlne, nd i ' t 880,000 BaneU in Bosin. Supplementary to what appeared in the Star yesterday In regard to the ac tion of the naval stores factors of Savan nah the followine from the Ntws, will be found Interesting : The naval stores factors appear well satisfied that the operators when they assemble fn convention here August 25, will indorse fully the action taken by the factors with reference to curtailing the annnlv. Several Drominent ODerators from Snnthern and Southwest Georgia were in the citv vesterdav. and among them were , three who control - ten large places. ' They were, all very much impressed with the steps that have in taken, and srlve their,; un qualified approval to the action of tbe factors. " They anncunced it as their opinion that there : would be no doubt about the operators rainy ing, ne atuuu of the factors expressed in the xesolu tinnt naised. and thev believed every operator who had the interests of the trade at heart would contorm to nmmendatlona made. - "II carried oat on this line, Mr. J. A. Ci Carson said vesterdav. "there will un doubtedly be a reduction of two-thirds inr the tutting oi boxes, which means that the croo will be "curtailed at least 100,000 barrels of spirits of turpentine, making' an allowance also for old boxes, and . the comoarauve reduction in the nrodaetton of rosin will be at least 880 - 000 barrels, i y-' - The business season this Fall wiliropen two to three weeks earliet than usual on account of the early ma turity of cotton. . ' : 1 ( . 1 . . : : - 1 -1 RALEIGH NEWS , ITEMS. POLITICAL GOSSIP AT THE CAPI- HAW OF THE 8TATE. Hanoi "abomination tot Concncs a Deooy for radonists TjOko HarrlM a Mad Maa-jgaa aod Kttohtn ; to Have - . v- . ! I Joint Canvaas. i &pectai star .orresponaence. ' ! r, Raleigh. N. C, Aug. 22. It is believed that R.1 Massev who was nominated for Congress -by the Re publican Congressional Committee yes terday, was only put up as a decoy to force fufcion between - Republicans and Populists in all the counties io the dis trict. Mr.Stroud,' the Populist nomi nee, cannot be elected with a Republi can io the field, ana1 it is believed that he will do what the Republicans will e s tc. if they only take Matsey oat of his way. Logs Harris is a mad man.. He made the remark to-day that the Republican Executive Committee did ; not have sense enough to lead a blind horse to water. Loge said . in reply to Judge Russell's comments on his absence from the Republican headquarters, that he had not been there and moreover he did not propose to go. He said that he had declined to be , secretary of the committee because -1. Holton , was chairman and he intends to stay awav. He said the committee did not seem to use the first ray of seose in permitting Massey to be put up for Congress yes terday, l Loge made the statement that Vance was the only county in the dis trict that the Republicans could carry with a straight ticket and that they should not put any obstructions in the. way of iusion with the Popullits. ' Chairman Manly went to Greensboro this morning on a fifing trip. Candidates Settle and I Kitchin have arranged a pint debate in the Filth dis trict.:--'. .- Miss Mary Eliza Moore who has been at Chautauqua, New York, this Summer. has accepted tbe position ' of teaches ot elocution and physical culture in the in stitution for the Blind here. Gov. O'Ferrall, of Virginia, telegraphs Gov. Carr to hold Walter Levennan at Clintoa, N. C, who is charged with fel ony. He will be taken to Virginia as soon as requisition papers arrive. . ' . -aBjyjBSja.aBBaaMia l AM A DEMOCRAT." " :J A 8 c a 2 eat ion to Correspondent Oommu- stoationa Attaoklng; Begula. Demo- oratlo Zfomiaeea ' or j Platforma ; Saould Bi Printed in Bepab llosn Newipp3re. For the information of. a few esteemed correspondents who do not ssem to un derstand the situation, we beg leave to say that the Star is a Democratic news paper, j It is supporting with its best energies the regular Democratic tickets and platforms. State and national, as it has always done since it was i founded, twenty-nine years ago. .; For these rea sons it declines to print communications calculated and intended to lessen the chances of Democratic 1 success, t .-The. talk about "giving both sides a hearing1 is I the i veriest nonsense. The "both sides" in this campaign are . Radical Re publicanism and Conservative Democ racy. We have Hryan. tavorlng silver, a low tariff and income tax on one side; and McKinley, favoring a robber tariff, the single gold standard and force bills on the other side. There is no escape from the conclusion that this Is the fight. Prohibition and independent gold-' standard parties are simply side-shows, and count for nothing except that they serve the purpose of taking votes from Bryan and to that extent aid McKinley. Now, why should a Democratic news paper open its columns to attacks on the candidates orjlatforms of its own part? We ask, in all candor, if the Republican newspaper is not the proper place for all communications that attack the candi dates or platform of the National Dem ocratic Convention? i : Zaoouraging to Demoorati. - ; - Mr. F. N. McDonald, of the firm of Dobler & Mudge, wholesale paper deal ers. Baltimore, was a star visitor yes terday. . He has jast returned from an extended business tour of the West, and gives a graphic account of the political situation in that section. He says tbe tarmers are almost solidly for silver, and that it is very strong in the cities, no tably in Ohio. AH through the West, Mr. McDonald says, the silver men are having barbecues. , plc-nics ; and other gatherings in the rural districts, and the excitement is at fever heat. Mr. Mc Donald expresses the opinion that his own State (Maryland) will go Demo cratic. He says Senator Gorman is a long-headed man and knows, exactly what he is doing. Bobeioa County Tobaooo. i Fayetteville Observer-. "Mr. W. J. Mc Donald exhibited this morning to an Observe reporter a sample of the ten thousand pounds cured by him on his Wakulla farm this season. The sample was of tobacco worth 40 cents per pound, aud all of that grade will have to be sent to Danville or other leading mar kets to find a buyer. It looked to us like the finest grade of Virginia tobacco golden in color and stout in texture. Wakulla is just across tbe line in Kooe- son county. In Cumberland we have several pioneers of the movement for renewing the cultivation ot tobacco, viz: Messrs. W. N. - and K, L. Williams ana otheis.".- -Basic of Sew Hanover. Col. Ham C. Jones, who has been act ing as referee in the case of the Bank of New Hanover and the branch Bank of Wadesboro, says the Charlotte News, gave another bearing to the lawyers in the case at bis office in this city to-day. The Bank of New Hanover is repre sented by Mr. E. S. Martin, of Wilming ton, and the Bank of Wadesboro is rep resented bv Judge K. TV Bennett and Hon. las. A. Lock hart. The evidence in the case, which is voluminous, has been concluded, and the referee is now hearing the argument of the counsel. It is a very weighty case and is one of much 'importance,' especially - to the Stockholders of the Wadesboro bank. i - Every rotten bank and every manufacturing concern that wishes to teach its employes an "object lesson makes it convenient now to shut up shop" on account of the free silver agi tation." Bat all this is making votes for the Democratic ticket.; - : BRYAN'S , CAMPAIGN.- ROUSING SPEKCH BY THE DEMO- ' CRATIC CANDIDATE- In Advooaey of the Priroiplea Laid Down -I In the Platform Adopted by the i .-' . Chtoaxo Conventioo. - ; r i By Teleerapb to ne Morning Star. j BARRVTOWN, . N: Y., August 22. William J.Bryan opened up the" politi cal campaign io earnest to-day at Made line, a tawn in Duchess county. He delivered the first campaign speech since his-nomination, and - showed an earnestness in delivery, closely resem bling that which brought about the great ovation he received at Chicago the day before he was selected as the Democratic standard bearer. Mr. Bryan was in excellent voice and. evidently made a good impression On his auditors. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan and their hosts. Mr, and 1 Mrs - Perrine, drove ' over to Madeline at 8 o'clock, from Upper Red hook. A number of bouses along tbe. five miles ' of road , ; were decorated with- flags, and the town of Made line 'and the adjacent village. Tivoli, were also . made attract ive; bv I a display of, bunting. At the outskirts of Madeline a reception committee and a brass band greeted the candidate, and with tbe band 4n front a procession was formed for the entry into town. Fifteen hundred persons were gathered about the speaker's stand, which was : situated in a large pasture used In all campaigua for political meet ings. Mr. Bryan was loudly applauded as be came in sight. His voice after his long rest was clear and strong and he appeared to the best advantage. He spoke as follows: Mr. Lhatrman, Ladies and Uentlt- men: The presence Of a number ot per sons who are prepared to discuss at length the issue of tbe campaign will make it unneceisary for me to occupy a great amount of your time and I appre ciate this opportunity of presenting to you, even briefly, some of the points which I deem worthy of your considera tion. We are .entering upon a campaign which is a remarkable one in many re spects. Heretofore, at least in the last twenty-five' ot thirty years, each party has gone into the campaign practically solid, presenting a united front against the opposing party, but in this cam paign there has been practically a bolt from every convention which bas been held. What does it mean? It means that conventions are deeper this year-than they have been heretofore; it means that people are not so willing now. as they have been to allow the platform of a par ty to control their actions. Men are thinking this year with more earnestness and Intensity than they have been think ing in recent years, and tbe result of this thinking will be manifested when it comes to register tbe will of this great nation and between that time and this hour we . expect to pressnt to those who must act upon the question the issue of this campaign. When our party at Chicago wrote the platform which it did, we knew that it would offend tome people. No party can take a plain, strong, emphatic position upon any question without offending some body, We described in that platform what we believe Is right. : We described there the policies which we believed were best for the American people, and we knew that it would alienate some. Let me read one of the planks of that platform. : We are opposed to the issuing ot the interest-bearing bonds of the -United States in time oil peace andl condemn the trafficking with banking syndicates, which, in exchange for bonds and at an enormous profit to themselves, supply the Federal Treasury with gold to main tain the policy of gold monometallism. That is one of the planks. Voice t in the crowd: "It is a good one."J I ' That was not put in there to attract the love of those who have grown rich out of the Government's extremities. Applause - We did not expect those who have a passage-way from '. the Federal Treasury to their offices to join with us in closing up the pas sage. We did not expect those who are . making a profit out ' of . the gold standard and out of the em barrassment it brings to the Treasury, we did not expect them to join with us in putting an end to the gold standard. Why. if we had expected it, we would have expected it in the face of all the history of the party. -If you remember, the good book states that some 1,800 years ago a man named Demetrius complained of the preaching of tbe gospel because it interrupted his busi ness. He did not go out and say to tnem, Oar business is being injured and we are mad." What did he say ? He said, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians." Ap plause.! We have some to-day who are very much like Demetrius.' They knew that the restoration of bimetallism de stroys the business in which they have been engaged. But when they make public speeches they do not say that the Democratic party is wrong, because ft interferes with their business. What do they say ? They say. "Great is sound money; great is an honest dollar. Ap plause. . - - :. ' ; ' i - . 'I say this piattorm was not written to attract their votes. It was written because we want to destroy tbe business m which they are engaged-.- But, my friends, if those who have made a profit out of the Government's financial policy array themselves against the Democratic party, may we not expect those who be lieve that we are right to come to our rescue ,and fill up the ranks that are being depleted by their desertion Ap plause. . : ' -i'lf we must part company with those who believe in a government of syndi cates and for syndicates, may we not appeal with confidence to those who be lieve that a government of the people, by the people and for tbe people should not perish from the earth. Applause. ; "If these men who pride themselves upon their prominence in the business world and who glory in tbe title of busi ness men are going to make a business out of politics, are going to Use their bal lots to increase their, incomes, I beg you to consider - whether the' great toiling maises of this nation have not a right to make a business out of politics for once and protect their homes and their fami lies from disaster." Applause. - ; I have - not been in the State, of New York long; I have not met many of your r ople.and yet, in the short time that have been here, I have met enough Re publicans who said; that they were going to. vote our ticket to make np for every Democrat that ever deserted us. and we welcome the coming guests as we speed those who r are parting., Applause. Now, my friends, this is a practical ques tion. It is a question which you must consider for yourselves. - The gentleman who has preceded me has very properly told you that .you were competent to settle these questions for' yourselves. The founders of our Government never conceded ,' that the V time would come when there would be only a few people in this country who' were competent to settle great public - - questions. fAp plause. - If they, had they would, have written ia the Constitution that on most questions everybody could vote, but on tbe money question 'only the . financiers could vote. ; Laughte and applause "It is hollow mockery to grant to the people a right ia your Constitution and then deny them the privilege of exercis ing it. I assert that the people ot the UnlteckStates, those who produce wealth as well as these , who exchange it, have sufficient patriotism and sufficient intel ligence tb sit in judgment upon every question which has arisen, or will arise, no matter how long our- Government may endure. Applause. j -: "Great as local questions are, economic questions in their final analysis are great moral questions, and it requires no ex tended experience in the handling of money to enable! a man to tell right from; wrong.' 'And. morel than that, this money qaestion - will not- be set tled until the : great, common people act upon' it. No question is settled until :- the . masses settle it. Abraham Lincoln said thit the Lord! must have loved the common people ( because he made so many of them. He was right about it. There . is ' another evidence that the. Lord loved the common people and made a great many' of them. It is because the common people are the only people who have ever supported a re form that had for its object the benefit of tbe human race. .1 do not mean to say that there have not been exceptions to the rule. I do not mean to say that you have not found among' the masses at all times those who were ready to be tray those who toiled for them if they, could see - some J chance of : personal' elevation, nor do I mean to say that those; who have gone beyond the ranks of the Common people are entirely !! un mindful of tbe claims of brotherhood upon them: but what I say is that, as a general rule, the common people here and everywhere have been the support, and the only great support, of every measure of reform. "Now you are right to take this ques tion, examine it, and form your own opinion, and 'the ballot is given to you in order that you may express your own opinion when you come to vote and not be required to accept some one . else's opinion. And I am going to call your attention to a few things for you to con sider when you are trying j to make up your mind what you ought to do. Now our opinions are all developed as to ' the policy - which ; should - be pursued. You take the gold stand ard . Democrats. Some of them say they ! ought to ; come j out - openly and endorse the Republican candidates, so as to be sure to elect him, and others sav no, that" would be dangerous, be cause unless we nave a candidate of our own why there would be a great many Democrats who would be foolish enough to vote tbe- Democratic ticket of the common people Laughter, and there they are divided. They all1 want the same object,1 they all want to elect a Republican candidate, because their De mocracy is better exemplified through Republicanism. Laughter. But I say they are divided as to the means of get ting at it, and I think they can elect a Republican candidate better by hav ing a candidate of their own to fool Democrats with than they can by openly supporting - the, Republican ticket. Not only are they divided there, but tbey are also divided all the way through when they , come to argument Why some of them will start out to show that the gold standard is : a good thing and after one of their speakers has gone on awhile showing what a great thing the gold standard is. then another speaker comes along and he says that it is a mis take to say that the gold, standard is good , the gold standard really is not good; what we want is bimetallism; but we cannot have it until somebody helps us. Laughter. Now these two argu ments are not ! consistant If the gold standard is a good thing, why should they want bimetallism;; and yet if they . " ever have two men mak ing speeches the same night the chances are 16 to ; 1 laughter that one tf them will praise the gold standard as a good thing while the others will tell you how! anxious; they are to get rid of it. When they come to the details of the argument, one man says the reason why he does not want free coinage is that he does not think that the Government should pass a law that will enable the silver miner to take 60 cents worth of silver bullion and con vert it into 100 cents and make the dif ference, and he will get red in the face and become indignant at the idea that the Government should attempt to rob some individual in this way. Of course he may have been, -in favor of a system of taxation that would give two or three hundred per cent, protection, but that does not count - It is a terrible thing to allow the silver miner to f make that profit Then the next man. who comes up will sav that as a matter of fact the stamp of tbe Government adds noth ing to the value of ' the metal and that the free; coinage of silver simply means that you convert 60 cents worth of. bul lion into . a 60-cent dollar and nobody makes any profit out of it. Applause. ' : "Now I say that the chances are that if you have two men making speeches on the same platform in favor of our not taking any action until some foreign na tion helps us, you will find that one of them will in all probability make one argument and the other will make the. other argument, and - very often the j same - man makes v both , ar guments. Now you can see the ab- dity of it. it the stiver miner unaer the Jaw of free coinage finds that his sil ver bullion is raised so that, which is now worth 60 cents will be worth 100 cents, then there are no 50 cent dollars and if the other man is correct and the law adds nothing to the value of the metal and you simply convert fifty cents' worth of silver into a 60-cent dollar, then the mine-owner- has not made a cent. Well, then, you will hear other men. If two men speak against our posi tion, one of them will probably say there has been a fall In prices, and he will de nounce the people who are complaining that gold has risen in price, and after he has proven it to the satisfaction of every man who does not think, then bis col league will tell you that not only have prices fallen, but that' it is the greatest blessing in the world to have prices fall. Now these two are not consistent, but it follows all the way through. Why is it ? 1 It Is because out opponents have no other theory, principle or policy upon which tbey are prepared to stand and right, and they do not dare to say that the gold standard is a good thing, be cause no party in the history of this country has ever decided in .favor of a gold standard, and they, dare not say that ihe gold standard is a bad thing and' then, tell 70,000,000 liberty-loving . people that tbey have got to suffer until some-foreign nation brings, them relief. Cries of 'That is right ; --' t , "My friends, I want you to remember, thar iu the . discussion of this money question there are certain fundamental principles; and when ! you ; understand hese : . principles vou. understand the money question. I was out in appor tion of the country where they Irrigate on a large scale and 1 1 found; enormous plants and io investigating this, tbe thought occurred to me, what' principle underlies the subject of - irrigation ? It is tint water runs down bill ; When you understand that water runs down, hill all you have tb do is to dig a ditch' with a slant and "you ' can ' carry water wherever you... .want. So It is with, the money question.. You have got to find out the fundamental principles which underlie the - subject and when you understand them you understand the questlon.What is the oridciDle ' 1 underlies it allK It Is law of snnnlv j 1 and demand which applies to money as to every thing else. -You know that if the world's crop next year of a certain article will fall in price; If tbe crop is much smaller than this year, that it will rise in price. You know that , the law o supply and demand reaches and controls all sorts of property, Increase the money more rapidly than the . demand for money increases and . you lower the value of a dollar. Decrease tbe quantity of money while the demand for it in- - creases and : you increase the value of a dollar. 'Now, when you understand that, -then yon understand the essence o( the money question. -. f 'K : "When you understand what its effect is on you, then you can tell where your interests lie. When you understand that principle, then you understand why the great crusade in favor of the gold ' standard finds its home amongfthe hold eis of fixed investments who, by such legislation, raise the value of tbe pro- perty which they hold. Applause -: "For this I can' quote you authority whien your opponents dare not question. I have called attention and I shall con- -inue to call attention to a remark made by Mr. Blaine in Congress on this sub ject. He said that , the destruction of silver as money and the establishing of gold as the sole unit of value, must have a ruinous effect upon all forms of pro perty, except . those investments whice bring a fixed return of money; applause - . that these would be .enormously en- hanced in value and would gain a dis proportinate and unfair advantage over every species of property; Applause ; : "My friends, there is a statement that no man who has respect for his reputa tion would dare to dispute. The estaB lishing of gold as a sole unit of value throughout the world, and the destruc-' tion of silver as a standard money, means that you shall destroy the value of all property except money and investments . that call for a fixed amount fof money. It means that you will give to these In vestments and to this form, of pro- perty money--an advantage over every other form of property. When you un- ' derstand the effect of the policy and -then understand that tbe desire for it is manifested most among those who bold the fixed investments or trade in money. ' I think you will come to the conclusion that I have come to, , that the fact that the goid standard Is a good thing for . them , is the principal reason why- they . are in favor of a gold standard. Ap plause. "' ... "- " ' : -Jj.;.; j- r ' Now, my friends, when yon make up ' your mind that the gold standard is a ' bad thing, then the , only question that you have to consider is, how can you get ; rid of it ? Tbey can raise objections to the plan which we propose, but why do not they propose something ? It is be cause they do not know what ought to' done. If so, they are ' poor ; people to i lead you out oi bondage, Laughter. J, "Is it because they know -.and will not tell ? If so, they have not'; the candor that ought to be possessed by those who . suffering and distress. They say that' ' r.' our dollar will be a 68-cent dollar. Weil, ' 'r now. my friends, they ref uie to apply ..J t to the silver that . is I produced t;i in the world the law ot supply andde--' r mand. We say increase the demand ' for silver by legislation and that new de- - f; mand, acting with the demand now in ; existence, wilt operate upon the price of silver. We say that that new demand will be sufficient to consume all the sil- ' ver presented at the, mint,! and being sufficient will raise the value of silver bullion to $1.29 throughout the . world. We have reason for our belief. They simply , say it won't , do, and then sit back and ..propose absolutely nothing. Now, my friends. I have known some of your opponents to use this soT of argument. Why. they say, if free coin age bf silver makes a silver dollar , equal iu a guiu uuiiar, way iucu n win oc yr;t at hard to . get a silver dollar as it iu to - get a gold dollar. Do you i know what tbey overlook? ' Thev -overlook the faff". IUBI OTUU ITU Ut lug Olives 1UIU UJIUUCkl- ":--f..w tion with gold we increase the pp ply of standard money; ; that JFbile ' the : silver dollar: will .'be Jworth as much , as the 'gold dftlrfir, it will be easier to obtain with tbe pro- : -ducts of toil, a silver dollar or a gold ; . dollar than it is to-day. : Our complaint is that the same hostile legislation which has destroyed the demand for silver and driven ; down tbe price of silver when measured by gold ." - has also increased the demand for , gold and driven up II the 'price . of gold when measured j by other forms of property, and that tbe t opening of our mints to th& free and unlimited coinage of silver will oper ate to bring more money Into circu lation and to lessen the strain that has existed for gold, and that by in- - j creasing the demand for ; silver we . ' . bring silver up until gold and silver . -meet at the ratio now fixed byjaw,- -1 and and a silver dol,lavda gold .' dollar wiiUJbe of the same value all ! ' over the world. . f j . A MBnt I have spoken beyond the -. time I expected to. I simply want -. to say this : j If there is, any person i , here who is ; afraid that; under the policy proposed by the Chicago plat- ' form we are going to have a flood of money and that yon will be drowned i In it, we cannot appeal to- you for ' r-. '. support. But if there, - is any ; body here whose experience is such ' that be is willing to risk the disas- ' trous consequences of that flood upon him, we ask you to consider whether - -we are not entitled to yont vote. A -voice: "Are you a Democrat ?' Yes, I am myself that, but you can k call me by any name yon please.JYou ' cannot sever me from what I believe to be tbe good for the people. Tre-. ' -mendons applause. My friends, I want yon to study this money ques- - -tion for yourselves and I want yon to understand that ' if bimetallism is to be restored,; the United States - . must take the lead. We have waited . fpr more than twenty I years to have . . the benefits bf bimetallism brought tons by those whose interests are ' opposed to ours. I assert -that the ' American people not only have the abil themselves the right, but have Ity 7 to legislate c for on every question, no mattter what other v nations - think ; -about it. The man' who says that bimetal lism is desirable and yet ;i the United States is Impotent to bring these ad-. -t -vantages to our people, has made an admission that! shall not make. We appeal to you to remember that the united States is the only nation that-' i . stands ready to protect its own peo- - pie from every danger, foreign and . domestic' , . Other, nations may ' pro- j tect their people as tbey stand, but . ont' nation is - the -only nation that ' can protect tbe American people. " j "If we need relief from' the gold . standard we must secure it for our-. , selves. And if we must secure thls relief for ourselves yon can only se-- Iieves in the restoration of the free and .unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation." Pro longed applause and cheers. ! Russell Sage says there Is no truth in the report that there will be any consol idation between the Western Union Telegraph Company and the American Bell Telephone V Company. Western Union holds considerable Bell Tele-' phone stock, but no change in relations of tbe two corporations is contemplated. - - -5? f . , :-! m .'-t!i ; : I "i f ; x Ksiuvuwat f