The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-08-16
PLAIN AND FOROIBLE.
Sounds from the Chicago Silver OOnven-
ton Which Will Continue to Ring
in the Public Ear.

ported and thoroughly circulated as they
should have been. Some OF the best
speeches made there we're 80 changed in
transit to the reading public that their
makers could hardly recognize them.
The ADVOCATE will undertake to select
the best extracts from the addresses and
give them for the readers reference.
Mayor Harrison, in his address Of vel
come, said:
''I welcome you warmly because believe
you hsve the good Of the country at heart.
Some Of you may be rather wild. Il is said
you are lunatics-pilver lunatios. l look
down upon you, and l am rather glad to
Welcome such lunatics as you. Applause.
Alexander the Great, the three wise men of
the east, who found the Saviour, Martin
Luther, Christopher Columbus, Mirabeau,
Napoleon Bonsparte, Benjamin Franklin
and Morse, had all been called lunatiCs in
their times, but all had left their mark on
the civilization, the geography, the religion
or the political liberties of the world. It is
crazy men that march the world forward
and make progress possibility. Men, you
may be denounced, but John Sherman was
also crazy enough to fill his pockets with
the wealth of this world" TApplause.l
THOMAS NJ. PATTERSON,
Of Colorado, after responding to the
mayor, referred to the closing Of the sill
yer smslters. He said:
''If there is danger of anarchy in this land,
who will produce the anarchists [Cries Of
che millionaires,' wall street. If there
is danger of looting, who will be the cause
of itp Will it be the men, who are driven
from their homes by the stress of poverty,
who have been loyal, law. abiding and coun-
ry.loving citizens, or will it be the men
who in cold blood and for selfish purposes
so manipulated the legislation of this coun-
try that the money necessary to keep its
body in good health WAS destroyed or fed to
hiding places, and thus made their labor
ing men psupers thrown upon the charity
and the Christianity of the land? Ap-
plause
1--WE are asking for the free coinage that
Hamilton and Jefferson and Monroe gave
to the country, and which was ratified by
congress and the people when Andrew Jack
SON was president. Applause. We stand
by the law of 1892 placed upon the statute
books, when the constitution was first
adopted, and when the thirteen free and in
dependent colonies became united as free
and independent states. Applause. We
are in favor OF the constitution Of our
fathers; and we are in opposition to the an
archists of the land, the anarchists who sit
behind banking counters (applRuse), the
anarchists who by their legislation would
turn the poor people of the land out of their
homes, the anarchists who are forcing down
prices and robbing every man of one-hRlf
Of that which he possesses in the shape of
property. l know that there is wise and
meroiful God, and as common sense and
patriotism dominate the masses Of the peo-
pie when they see the tight, bnow that the
cause will triumph, and hope that within
syear from now we may reassemble in the
city of Chicago and sing the paeans Of JOY
and victory that will bring freedom and
happiness TO all those who now look only
into clouds and gloom. thank YOU" Ire
mendous applause.
GEN, A. J. WARNER,
president of the American -Bi-metRllic
League:
''The most extraordinary condition of
affairs meets the assembling of the oonven-
ton. Almost perfect peace prevails over
the world, the earth is yielding her fruits in
mammal abundance and rich harvaata ara