The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-24

mo, no. my country men, this 10 q Danger
Gus proposition which threatens the bnsi-
ness OF every man in this country. 1t is
proved that Grover Cleve land, the stuffed
prophet in his speech of acceptance did
not say. anything about it; be did not
say whethe. he stands on that
plank at all. No, he does not say anything
about the platform He says great deal
about what he has done and what he has
SAID. and he is a stuffed prophet OF his own
stuffing Prolonged laughter
Mr.. Springer said: 1t is sometimes said
that We must provide other forms OF bank
ing, because the national banks will go out
of existence Well, that may be as tho
debt Is paid off, as no bank can be organ
lzed or kept up except on the deposit of
United States bonds. that the banks would
also that by the wisdom of both
parties, by the desire of the
people, some other form of security may be
devised. l say il is very difficult now to
pass upon that question. / do not think
the people of the United States will ever
consent to accept any security from any
form of bank except the security which Is
the highest in our Iand-the security or
sixty-iive millions of the freest people that
God ever made" Long continued ap-
Senator Sherman then referred to the
free silver question. He said in part: "The
silver that Is in sight. our statistics show,
amounts to four thousand millions of dol
of the world 1S5.000.O00 of dollars 9
year, and the wild, crazy prophecy
is made that the people of the United
States will enter into the market and pay
81 for every 81 cents worth OF all these
mines of silver that may be imported or
thrown into our country. That il what
free coinage of silver means. The inev-
liable effect of that would be at
once to demOnetlZe gold and compel
its expectation and boarding and reduce us
to a single silver staedard. The result
would be that all the debts would be cut Oft
one-third. And who are the creditors of
tins country First of ALL and dearest
of oil. are tho 100000 soldiers. their
their little pension certificate. By
the free coinage of silver one third of their
pensions are to be stricken off at one fell
swoOp. Who are the depositors OF the six
teen hundred millions OF money deposited
in our savings banks to-day to the credit of
our poor peoplei Our building associations
have eleven hundred millions of dollars
invested in them. What man is SO mean,
so poor. so degraded that he will rob tho
poor in order TO save little in paying the
honest debit Nothing proposed has
strnck me as hard and severe, as this
most infernal proposition to open
our doors TO the free purchase
of silver Silver miners have no right to
demand of us or attempt to force the gov
eminent TO purchase thor article at q price
in advance of that of what 10 is worth In
the open market"
The Senator said Congress had gone to
extreme lengths To satisfy the silver men,
and instanced the bill for the purchase of
four and half million ounces of silver
month. This was bought at market
price. however, and the certificates
money. Fhe Senator said il the inter
national monetary conference fails to find
solution of the vexed silver
question "you business men have
got to meet this proposition; you have
either then to stand upon
silver standard and Danish our gold to for.
eign lands, do the other thing. which 1
am in favor Of, and that Is TO put enough
silver in the silver dollar TO make it equal
in value to the gold dollar"
The Senator also spoke at e0mo length on
the tariff and reciprocity questions. and in
conclusion urged his bearerf . vote for
Harrison and Reid
Foster and Fairbanks Evansville.
EVANSVILLE. Ind. Oct. 22-John w.
Foster. Secretary of State. and G. w. Fair
banks of indianapolis spoke tonight at
Evans Hall to five thousand people. The
con and Reid Club from Henderson came mp
and participated in the big parade:
Among other things, Foster said
the Republican party has controlled
has ruled with q policy. Il feel like Mr..
Blaine" said'he. who said that the Repub-
Iica n party had. given this country an adj
ministr ation that commends itself to voters
of the country for another term. Mr..
Cleveland, when he was President, ruled
under Republican laws SO that the
only thing he could do aside from Re.
publican principles was to send in vetoes
and that it would probably be unapproprl-
ate to designate their character. Mr.. Har-
rIson asks your Endorsement at time when
the country Is most prosperous. There are
three classes to whom ! would appeal.
Laboring men should support MT. Harri-
son, because, the Republican party
as a GLASS, employment at remuner.
alive wages. IL Mr.. Cleveland should
be elected and by any misfortune q Demo-
cratic House and Senate they wonld
about this favorable condition. Wages to-
day are almost Is per cent. greater than
what they were thirty years ago. and
President HARRISON is pledged to continue
legislation of this KIND.
"Ihe next class that would appeal to
are the business men, who desire q stabll'
ity of commerce. Are you satisfied with
the present satisfactory condition OF
business. This IS result of Re-
publican legislation in the past.
do away with the present tariff system
which tends to MAINTAIN the condition.. The
Democratic party insists also IN removing
the ten per cent. tax on State banks and
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of currency of infinite variety.
Then there Is another class that carries
rs back to u time that was q sad one for
this country-a time when the South was
IN rebellion and threatened dismember-
ment of the UnlSu. Many of orr young
men responded to their cOuntry's calls, and
while many were left on the field of battle.
Vet there are many of them still living. and
they will support benjamin Harrison. for It
I WAS the Republican party that furnished
money 10 carry on the war. ana since then
has enacted pension legislation that is
greater than the money required to sup
port the largest standing army IN Europe"
Mr.. Fairbanks was greeted with great
enthusiasm when he stood up. Said be: II
want TO thank the Republican clubs for
tho zeal in coming out on such inau-
spacious evening. / want TO thank Repub-
licans of Henderson for coming up 10 take
part IN discussing the issues 1t shows
that Republicans of Kentucky are fast
approaching the day when they Will
| throw off their bondage Of Democracy.
1t is written in tho book of fate that
BENJAMIN Harrison will be the next Presi-
dent of the United States. 1 have such
J faith in the discrimination and intelligence
/ OF tho American people as 10 believe they
! know n good thing when they ace it
The speaker then took up State issues and
! arraigned Democratic mismanagement of
I the penal ana benevolent institutions He
discussed the increased State debt while
! Democrats are In power. and con-
trasted 10 with the decrease under
Republican rulc. He attacked the various
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