The morning call., 1894-10-29
OLD PARTIES ARE SCORED.
Why the Country's Prosperity
Is Decreasing.
LEGISLATION FOR GOLD BUGS.
Peculiar Arguments to Show That
the Populists Should Control
the Government.

CHICAGO. Oct. Ex-Governor David II.
Waite OF Colorado addressed large audi
enee at an opsn air meeting on the lake
'front.' and in the evening spoke to a large
audience in TattersalPs pavilion.
When Governor Waite reached Chicago
this morning he was met at the depot by
with a brass band and escorted to the
Grand Pacific, where he held an i'm prOmptu
reception in the 10 bby for an hour. AT 2
o'clock the band headed procession OF
800 Peoples party men. WHO escorted the
Governor to the Lake Front Park. at The
COlumbus Monument crowd of perhaps
10000 people had assembled.
Colonel Copeland. chairman of the
county committee, introduced the Gov
ernOr, who was received with cheers. He
spoke for half an hour. He assured his
auditors that Colorado was aroused, and
with the Populists would be triumphant.
This country is passing through a
period of depression worse than any in its
history" he said. "Five million men and
women are out of employment Those
who are at work are receiving less wages
than ever before. At the close of the war
and the years succeeding We enjoyed un-
exampled prosperity. We then had in
circulation nearly twenty hundred mil
lions of money. The Republican party
and its leaders in the Congress, at the die
tati0n Of Wall street, set about With
drawing the money from circulation.
They contracted the currency until de-
preston followed. Last year in the midst
of untold suffering and closed workshops,
due TO the contraction of the currency
President Cleveland assembled Congress
for the purpose of having it repeal The sill
yer law. which plunged The country into
still deeper distress. All the legislation of
the past twenty-four years of Repub bllcan
rule and that of the present administra-
tion have been for the corporation. the capt.
talist, the money class.
''Tnere has been but one piece of legisla-
tion in favor aud for the benefit of the
people and that was the pension bill, and
Grover Cleveland sat up at night for SIX
months to veto individual pension bills.
Wall street controls hoth the Republican
and Democratic parties and in turn the
financial policy is dictated TO Wall street
by Great Britain.
"The Democratic party has done some
thing that Its predecessors would not dare
to have done, and that was the issuing of
$50, 100000 of gold bonds. This was done
to benefit the money-lenders of Wall
street."
In the evening Governor Waite was es-
cOrted by brass band to the hall where
he was to speak. About 5000 people had
gathered to hear bin aud there were loud
cries of ''Waite, Waite, Waite for 1896"
The Governor was given a rousing re-
ception as he advanced to begin his ad-
dress and it was some time before he was
allowed to proceed. His speech, which
was an elaboration of his talk of the after
noon, consisted chiefly in censure of the
Democratic and Republican parties and
arguments to show the welfare of the peo-
Dle demands that the Government be in
trusted TO the Populists.
At the conclusion of his speech, which
was greeted with great applause, Governor
Waite was escorted back to his hotel by a
cheering crowd OF fully 1000 reople.