The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-27
CANDIDATE KEMP'S TALK
THE THIRD PARTY'S CONGRESS
SIGNAL CHOICE IN SAVANNAH.

of an Audience Than They Did By
Gen. Field-Some of the Solid
Truths" Mr.. Kemp Laid Before BIS
Auditors-His Views on the Money
Question.
Candidate Kemp Of Emanuel county, who
would like to take Col. Testers place in
congress, addressed an audience Of about
100 people In Turner hall last night. That
Is, there were that many present when he
began, but they were not all there when he
finished.
Candidate Kemp put ia full hour of
third party talk. There was not murmur
of applause from the beginning to the end
There were just II white men and 10 me-
groes in the hall when Mr.. Kemp was tn-
troduced by Chairman Miller This
included newspaper men aud democrats.
About dozen people dropped in during
the speech and about twenty left before It's
close.
NOT A MAGNETIC MAN.
Mr.. Kemp is a man apparently about IS
years old. a plain. respectable looking
farmer in appearance, and evil
IDENTIFY sincere IN his efforts. He
is not much of public speaker and his
arguments are rather mixed
he speaks very slowly and In q hesltating
manner lie is doubtless a good citizen at
home, but he does not make much Of a show
as a congressional candidate. There was
some conference about his opening remarks.
1t gave him great pleasure, he said, to have
the opportunity Of discussing the political
issues OF the day. He laid no claim to
eloquence or oratoTy and had never at
tempted a public speech before in his
life until tho campaign opened.
at Is very important that we look into the
situation OF our country and its condition
from the standpoint Of pure PATRIOTS" he
said. 1--WE are all suffering from the same
bring relief to US all. Those causes are not
very numerous.
LAYS IT To GLASS LEGISLATION.
"Class legislation has more to do with IL
than any other cause. Our government
national, state and local, comes from the
people, and the laws are enacted by repre-
sentatives of the people, 1t is the duty OF
every citizen to investigate for himself the
laws under which he lives. Let US look at
the condition Of ths country
"From every section there is an expression
Of dlsquietude aud unrest. The great mass
OF the people are aware that there is some-
thing wrong, and they are feeling the effects
of that wrong. There is not a single money
product of the farmers to-day that is not
being sold tor less than it costs toproduce it.
Cotton, which costs cents to raise, sells for
only cents. There will be less cotton this
year aud the railroads will have less busi-
ness. They will be compelled to discharge
some of their employees"
Mr. Kemp pointed to the fact that farm
ers produced seven eighths OF the wealth of
the country. There is no actual necessity
| for the country being in the condition that
1t is" he said. "The condition arises from
class and iniquitous laws"
THE FOUR ABSORBING BUSINESSES
-Four businesses, he said, "are really alb
sorbing all the wealth OF the country. They
are the banking business, the transports-
ton business the manu- featuring business
| and the specializing business. This is the
result of the monetary system of the gov
| ernment.n
The government had no right, according
| to Mr.. Kemp. to farm out the power of
issuing money TO the national banks, con-
trolled by private individuals The money
ought to be issued 90 the people direct by
the government at low rate of interest, as
| the people are the government. They have
! paid for the privilege of using their own
! money $6,0O0000 during the last thirty
years. There ought to be at least $50 per
capita IN circulation among the people.
''At least % per cent. of the business of
| the country is done by checks and drafts"
| said Mr.. Kemp. 1--WE take the position that
! there ought to be enough money in circula-
| ton among the people to do their bust
| ness on a cash basis. II q man has no CONS
meroial rating he has to buy or rent one at
a high price. This will be information to
the commercial agencies and should be made
q note of by business meu not in the enjoy
ment of good ratings
LABOR Disseminated AGAINST.
Mr.. Kemp said the laboriug class is dis
eliminated against in this. He discussed
the position OF the Democratic party as TO
state banks, showing an utter lack of
| knowledge both as to the position of the
| party aud banking operations. For 10
stance, he said, with state
bank in Rome and one in Sa-
! vanuah, money issued by the Rome
bank would not be good in Savannah, and
vice versa. Money Issued by Georgia banks,
! no said, would be useless in New York, and
vice versa. He then declared that state
| banks could not issue money, anyway, even
II the tax on the issue of state banks were
| repealed, aud that their issue would be
nothing more than due bills.
Mr.. Kemp attacked the railroad question.
He quoted from Poor'S statistics to show
that the railroads of the country are cnpi-
taltzed at $4,000, 100000 and are bonded for
50 900 900, 900 more. nearly one-half of which
is watered stock. He gave figures 70 show
that by combining all the railroads Of the
country, and operating them under one
ma aagement, the country would save
1914 ,0JO, 900 annually.
THE ONLY TARIFF REFORM PARTY.
He declared that the Peoples party is the
only tariff reform party of tho country.
Tho way it proposed to manage IT, he said,
Is TO abolish the tariff altogether and let
| the government issue money to pay it's eK-
penses. He favored the graduated income
! tax. Free coinage of silver
would be some help, he said
Tho English spectators could come over
here, he said. buy dollars worth OF silver
for 81 cents. carry it g England and coin it
into 81 20 in Indian rupees, with which
! they would buy cheap goods in India to sell
in competition with American Ia Dor.
Somebody should do the silver mine
owners the favor 10 put them onto this
racket There's millions in it il 1t can be
worked as Candidate Kemp says it can.
The first applause Of the evening was
! when Mr.. Kemp concluded. Chairman
George II. Miller then made a few remarks
on the money question and was followed by
Alliance Lecturer H. L. Suith of Emanuel
| county. MIR. Smith woke the crowd up
some What and harangued for nearly an
hour.
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