Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-10-19
REPUBLICAN DOCTRINE.
Laid Down in Magnificent shape by Our
Honoretl Congressman, Captain
w. v. Lucas.

The court room was crowded to it's
utmost capacity on Saturday evening
to listen to the address on republican,
ism and its principles by our honored
congressman, Capt. w. v. Lucas, and
standing room was at premium
Among the number were forty or fifty
ladies. 1t was one of the best speeches
the Captain ever made and that is say
ing great deal. He was frequently
interrupted by laundering applause
and cries of appreciation by the delight
ed audience. While the audience was
assembling s. E. Wilson, republican
candidate for the state senate, made a
short address which was we'll received
and he took occasion to explain some
matters regarding his own candidacy
and to refute some statements made
against him as a corporation lawyer,
but as he will speak here again at
greater length we devote most of our
space today to the main address of the
the evening. The following is short
synopsis of it
Nothing affords me greater pleasure
than to appear before an audience of
my own people who have honored me
and attempted to honor me beyond my
deserts. And while my heart goes out
toward you in thankfulness. 1 want to
present to you the issues of the day
and the discussion of the great politic-
al problems that have been before the
tifty-third congress of which I was a
member through your votes, in a fair
and impartial manner without animad-
version or prejudice. We are con-
fronted today with peculiar conditions
and circumstances. There are young
men in this audience who have never
before known what hard times were.
They have lived in an age of prosperity
such as was never before known, but
two years ago the American people
decided they wanted change in the
methods of government which in thirty
years doubled the population of the
country and increased it's wealth seven
teen fold, the most remarkable record
ever made in any country as attested
by the greatest writer's and thinkers.
The American people now revel in that
change. 1t came, and in it's train came
the most disasterous results. 1t has
been claimed that there is really no
Difference between the two great par
ties at present, but could you have seen
the fight on hand in the halls of con-
gress in the last session you would not
have thought so. The populists claim
that they are simply threshing over old
straw for the purpose of making an
issue and that the tariff question does
not concern them at all. They lay all
the blame for the hard times to the
money question. The present system
of paper money or greenbacks was in
vented by Salmon P. Chase and though
they were considerably below par
during the war times, they have settled
down to value equivalent to that of
either gold or silver and it is pro-
nounced the best financial system in
the world today. A few days ago at a
convention of capitalists at Detroit the
present comptroller of the currency,
James H. Eckles, who has made finance
special study was asked to write a
paper on the United States system of
finance and he pronounced it the best
of any in the world. Both the old
parties claim the present system is
good and you don't concern yourself
about the character of the bill you
have in your pocket. You probably
don't know whether it is silver or gold
certificate, bank note, greenback or
what not. You know you can take it
anywhere on the face of the earth and
yau can get full value for it. The
quality is good, now how about the
quantity? We have about 81, 600 900
in money which the best authorities
claim is plenty or about s26.O2 per
OukACt1s IL 10 uOU I'LL C1ICu1dUlOu
be sure, but it is not the fault of the
money. There is something else
wrong. There is plenty of money in
the country but it won't be turned out
into circulation until there is some-
thing back of it. The panic was not
on account of lack of money, it was a
labor panic. When the democrats got
possession of the entire government
machinery everybody thought they
would do what they said they would do
in their Chicago platform in regard to
the tariff and the Sherman silver bill.
1 thought then and I think now that
the repeal of the Sherman bill was q
mistake. I voted for the substitute
bill and against the repeal. I think
the coinage of s4,500,OOO of silver
dollars or the issuing of silver certifi-
Gates in that amount per month was
the proper thing to do.