The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-08-27
GENERAL WEAVER IN CALIFORNIA.
Rouaing Speeches BY the Prudential
Candidate and Mr.. Lease.

Rouaing Speeches BY the Presidential
Candidate and xra Lease.
| General James B. Weaver, the
presidential candidate of the peo-
ple's party, recently visited Califor-
MIA. He was accompanied by Mrs.
Weaver, Mrs. Mary Lease of Kansas
and several other distinguished
personages. The party was re-
ceived everywhere with the greatest
enthusiasm. In a conversation
with a newspaper representative
soon after his arrival at San Fran
cisco, General Weaver spoke in the
most encouraging terms of the out
look from the standpoint of the
party which he represents. He
claimed that the vote in the south
ern states would 60 largely to the
peoples party, and that he conf
IDENTIFY counted on a round million
and a half from the colored votes.
| Grand ovations are being tend
cred General Weaver and Mrs.
Lease, who is said to be the most
powerful lady speaker of the day.
She has been referred to as "Queen
Mary Of Kansas, and our Queen of
Hearts," Over 5000 people were
present at an ovation given the
distinguished party at Los Angeles,
and at the close of an address by
Mrs. Lease a shower Of silver dol
lars was thrown upon the stage.
The peoples party has no rich
corporations to supply campaign
funds, they depend on voluntary
contributions. It is the peoples
battle for righted wrongs, and the
people are supplying the funds to
carry it on. We quote from
speech made by General Weaver
in Oakland:
We propose to have more money when
we get into powar-and we're going to
get into power as sure as you're born.
We will pass law which will give the
people free coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to 1. am told this will ruin the
country, but am brave; am willing to
he ruined that way.
The other day l heard man in cot
ton shirt, with only one suspender, his
clothes marked by lack Of patches,
chewing tobacco vigorously as he whit
tied stick, say: "If these peoples party
folks and these alliance people and labor
union folks have their way and we have
free coinage of silver, what'll we do for
money when we go abroad?"
Iwant system of domestic finance in
this country adapted to the wants of the
people who toll. What is the relative
importance of our foreign trade to the
the millions who trade at home2
A gentleman said the other day that
the trouble with the silver dollar Is that
you can't get rid of it. You pay it out
and it comes right back on your hands.
Well. that is the kind Of dollar for me.
But they tell US, the gold bugs, that they
are intrenched behind the impregnable
rock OF the constitution. Let me tell you
that the constitution says that it is within
the power of congress to coin and regu
late the value of money. Now we pro-
pose that congress, instead of Wall street,
shall fix the value of money.
Now the other day in Nevada they
presented me with silver pen and
made pledge-it is the only one have
ever made since became your candidate
that is, to sign bill for the unlimited
coinage of the white metal, if am
elected president. They try to frighten
US. Why was told the other day that
if we had free coinage Europe would be-
gin to dump all her silver into this coun-
try. didn't get frightened at that, but
| just stuck to my piety and prayed:
"Lord, let them begin to Dump" If they
dump the silver of Europe into this
country it will be in exchange for our
corn aud oats and wheat and other pro
ducts.
At the close of General Weaver's
speech Mrs. Mary Lease was intro
duced and made most able ad-
dress. She was greeted with over
whelming applause. The following
is an extract from her speech:
Beyond the ocean we hear the cry of
thirty millions Of Russians Of Give us
bread!' We hear the cry of the Irish
race and have heard it for hundred
years. We expect this condition of at
fairs in the old world, but we hear the
same means of poverty coming up from
the American people. You may call me
an anarchist, a socialist, or communist,
but hold that if in this broad land there
Is one who has not enough to eat it is be-
cause someone else has more than enough. |
To- day we find that the sons of toll are
to beg of the silk hated dude
and the soft-handed capitalist for the
right to exist.
To-day men and women are thinking
as they never did before. A mighty tidal
wave Of thought is sweeping over the
American people, rebaptising them for
liberty and progress. We are living in a
wonderful time when old ideas and old
are hopelessly adrlft upon
the sea of human thonght. This mighty
organized force of united labor reaches
out it's hands to its farming brother and
says: /" You and set the world freel"
We are living in day which proclaims
that there is no difference between the
brain Of an intelligent woman and the
brain Of an intelligent man. No differ
ence between the soul power, the brain
power, that nerved the arm Of Charlotte
Corday and that which nerved old John
Brown in his barricade at Ossawattomie.
A wonderful change of public sentiment,
Of thought, has taken place in your time