Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1890-09-26
4 BOLD BAD man,
II. [. Loucks, Independent Candidate TO,
Gouernor Addresses a Large House
at Canton.
He Admits That he is Bad, but Became q
Citizen of The United States Eieven
Years Ago.
MIR. LOUCK's SPEECH.

MR.. LOUCK's SPEECH.
The mass meeting of independents and
other voters of Lincoln county, held
in Canton Monday afternoon, was attend
ed by about 500 people A great many
more would have come but for the fact
that every conceivable obstacle was
thrown in the way of those desirous to
hear Messrs Loucl1s and Zipp speak, to
discourage them from coming Among
the stories circulated through the country
to discourage people from coming to the
meeting was that the state central COM
mittee of the democratic and indie
pendent parties had consummated a
deal by which Loucks and Leavitt were
withdrawn from the ticket and owing to
this Mr.. Loucks had declined to fill his
engagement. A number of similar yarns
kept great many from coming out.
The meeting was held in Bedford's hall
and was called to order at half past two
O'clock bys.Jere Gehon; who was on
motion made chairman. d. e, N +. !Gehon
made quite speech before introducing
Mr. Loucks, in which he reviewed ct
some length, the merits and work Of the
Farmers Alliance. the state organization
Of which Mr.. Loucks is president.
Mr.. Loucks took the floor amid loud
applause. He said he appreciated the
fact that 80 many ladies had come to hear
him. The women had his sympathy above
ell other people in this oppressed condition
Of the country because they had not
had the opportunity by which to make
things better. The men have had the
chance and haven't improved it. He had
noticed that the women were taking con-
siderable interest in this campaign, and
men are thoroughly aroused over the
condition Of affairs. Why is it that
you are taking such an interest in this
work? No one who reads can deny that
there is something wrong somewhere.
There is no country wherein the natural
resources are so great as here and yet
there is complaint and dissatisfaction
upon every hand. From every state in
the union comes the cry of oppression.
Mr.. Loucks briefly reviewed the prevail
ing condition Of affairs throughout the
country and stated that it was nearly all
due to the unsatisfactory condition Of
money, transportation and land systems
of this country.
The Independent party proposes to
change the present system. first by Civ
ing the people. .a
| MONEY AT COST.
| He read the first plank of the new party
platform in reference to this question and
outlined number of different plans by
which the money can be put in circula-
ton as easily and more SO than hereto
fore. Some one had sent him a copy of
a Canton paper (the Advocate) which for
some obscure reason referred to- the inde-
pendent party as the so-called indepen-
dent party and the so-called platform of
the etc." He did not understand why
this paper would thus refer to this party
and this platform because from the
amount of ado this paper made over
them, the independent party is evident
ly a very real party and the platform evil
IDENTIFY a very real platform. [applause. ]
The editor of this paper has evidently a
very confused understanding Of the
money system Of this country. He read
an extract from an article published in
the Advocate several weeks ago in which
that paper presumed to critisize the
money plank Of the independent plat
form by assuming the supposition that
under the proposition to give the people
money at cost" the government would
be made to start its printing presses to
work at issuing money and sending it out
to the people regardless of value etc. He
was surprised to hear Of man who was
silly enough, who haden't any more
brains than to suppose any such thing.
The independent party did not propose to
do any such thing and the fact that the
editor of the Advocate was silly enough
to suppose any such a plan would be
adopted, demonstrated how little he
knew about the financial system of this
country. Nosane man, said the speaker,
had ever advocated the idea of the govern
ment starting its printing presses to work
making money and no sane man would
suppose that this would be done under
Independent party rule. He was sur
prised that any school boy didn't know
better than this.
The advocates Of the old party doctrines
have also a very confused idea of the
definition of the word coin, in the const-
tuition. said the speaker. They invari-
ably construed it as meaning that it ap-
piled to silver or gold alone. This was
narrow, for the best authority upon this,