The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-09-28

Hon. O. NJ. Cooper in 0cala.
Our distinguished young congress-
man, Hon. Charles NJ. Cooper, who is
candidate for reelection, arrived in
Ocala Friday morning fresh from his
achievements In Sumter and was met
BY the proper committees and shown
the courtesies due SO distinguished q
guest. The place appointed for the
speaking was The court house and the
hour 80 o'clock. but the morning pa
per put Il three o'clock, thus mislead-
ing many persons who otherwise
would have been present to hear him.
In consequence the audience was not
as large as IL otherwise would have
been. As It was, about one hundred
and fifty persons listened to him with
interest and attention. He was intro
duced by Judge McConathy in the
judges usual graceful and felicitous
manner. At the conclusion of the i'm
PRODUCTION aud as Mr.. Cooper arose he
was greeted with hearty cheers. He
spoke entirely ON matters of national
moment, beginning on the silver is
sues and ending up with the tariff.
He attributed the great panic to the
sherman act and said when Mr.. Clese-
land called the special session of con-
gress that, 10 use a figure of speech,
the house was on fire and the first
thing to be done was to put out the
flames. He claimed this was done in
the repeal Of the purchasing clause of
the Sherman act. That as it brought
on the panic It's repeal ended it. He
said the free coinage of silver could
only be resumed when its parity could
be determined and this could only be
done by international agreement, or
by other Safeguards as suggested III
the Chicago platform that would make
the two metals OF equal aud inter-
changeable value. He said this was
the plain and logical Interpretation of
the National democratic platform and
must be accepted as the utterance of
the party until changed by national
party authority. He also said that he
had been faithful TO the state platform
on the silver issue inasmuch as 1t had
fixed no ratio and was silent on the
subject. That the present intrinsic
value Of a silver dollar was but little
more than fifty cents and 10 coin ii at
Is present ratio would drive gold out
Of the country and bring on con-
traction Of the currency and money
panic more destructive I'm its conse-
uuences than has ever been before
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silver were those who advocated its
free and unlimited coinage at the RAJ
ito Of IS to 1.
With the glorious record of the last
congress behind him he said he could
proudly face the world and give an ac-
count Of his stewardship. He said ii
had made all money equally taxable;
ll had fixed q sound currency and re-
stored confidence; IL had restored the
freedom 81 elections; it had greatly
reduced the expenditure OF govern
ment; without doing injustice TO any
union soldier IL had saved In pensions
81. 000, 900; that il had done more TO
liz the burdens Of government off
the shoulders of the poor and place
them on the shoulders OF the rich
than any preceding congress in the
history Of the nation. He said the
fall measure Of tariff reform has not
yet been reached but that the present
tariff bill was more on line with
democratic thought and theory than
either the Morrison or Mills bills
which at the time of their attempted
passage met the full measure of DEM
ocratic reform.
In conclusion he scored and ridi-
culed the populists' demands. That
the few members Ia congress had al
ready introduced bills appropriating
more money than there was of paper
money, gold money, silver money,
bonds and securities Of all descrip-
tons In the whole world; that If gwen
control Of the government they would
bankrupt Il IN week and issue such
= hiatus Of money as would shake
from their orbits the earth, sun, moon
aud stars and produce universal
chaos.
His speech was well received and
listened 10 with close attention.
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