The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-08-08
Carter Harrison Makes His
Usual Demagogic Address
of Welcome.
Editor Patterson. the Revolu.
tionary Editor of the Denver
News, Replies To the
Mayor-Large At
tendance.


Tic league, met at 10 o'clock thi
morning, and the attendance wa
larger than that of any previous as
sembly of like character in the hisror.
of financial agitation. The army o
delegates that assembled, over-crowd
ed the First Methodist church auditor
ium an hour before the meeting wa
called to order and it was early appar
ent that larger hall would have t.
be sought for further sessions. Tn,
features OF many of the battle SCARED
veterans of financial agitation were
visible in the heterogeneous As
semblage of to-day.
General A. J Warner, of Ohio
president of the Bi-metallic league
stood side by side with Congressman
Bartine of Nevada, and short dis
lance away was seated Congressman
w. j. Bryan of Nebraska, a man Of
opposite faith from Mr.. Bartine, but
foremost in the common battle for free
coinage. A few feet away in the
Colorado delegation was the pictur
esque Governor Waite OF the silver
state, conversing with Senator Stew
art of Nevada, the one populist
and the other republican, but both
to-day united in a common cause.
Governor Kolb, populist leader
of Alabama, surrounded by score OF
brawny populists. was one of the most
conspicuous figures in the convention.
When chairman Warner called the
convention to order, scores of dele
gates were obliged to stand in the
isles, so largely attended was the meet
ing.
In few opening words the chair
man introduced Mayor Harrison, of
Chicago, who welcomed the delegates
to the city.
81 welcome you warmly because l
believe you have the good of the
country at heart" said the mayor.
''Some of you may be rather Wild. 1t
is said you are lunatics, silver lima
tics. 1 am rather glad to welcome
such lunatics as YOU. Alexander the
Great, the three wise men of the East
who found our Saviour, Martin Luth-
er, Christopher Columbus, Mirabeau,
Napoleon Bonnaparte, and Morse
had all been called lunatics
in their times, but all have LETT their
marks on civilization. 1t is crazy
men that march the world forward
and make progress a possibility. Men,
you may be denounced by John Sher-
man, who was also crazy enough to
fill his pockets with the wealth of this
world. Be wise in your
deliberations but be fear
less. Give the benefit of your de-
alterations to congress and tell Grover
Cleveland what the people of the
United State want"
Hon. Thomas NJ. Patterson, re-
spending to the Mayors address, said
''When they tell me Chicago is a
goldbug city and | look behind me
and see its mayor one of the most dis
tinguished champions Of bimetallism
in the United States, can only say
that those who say If mistake the
bankers and brokers of Chicago for
the masses of the people-a mistake
that is often made"
Referring to the thousands of men
thrown out of employment by the
closing of silver smelters In the west.
the speaker said:
If there is danger of anarchy in
this land, who will produce anarch-
lists? Cries of 'millionaires,' Wall
street,. If there is danger of looting
who will be the cause of it? Will it
be they who were driven from their
homes by the stress of poverty-who
have been loyal, law abiding
and country loving citizens, or
will it he men who in cold blood
and for selfish purposes so manipulate
ed the legislation Of this country that
the money necessary to keep its body
in good health was DESTROYED or fled to
hiding places and thus made their
laboring men paupers, thrown upon the
charity and christianity of the land
(Applause.) We are asking for but
the free coinage that Hamilton and
Jefferson and Monroe gave to this
country and which was ratified by
congress and the people
when Andrew jackson was pres
ident; We are in favor of the
constitution of our fathers; and we
are in opposition to the anarchists of
the land anarchists who sit behind
banking counters; anarchists, who,
by their legislation, would turn poor
r,oonle of the land out of THAR hon,oe.