The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-10-18
Gov. Stone Speaking.

The Democratic speaking in this city.
Monday. was widely circulated, the
county committee even sending out
personal anpeals t" the faithful. of
which a copy is in cur 'ossession. The
letter says that the committee wish
the Democrats to come en- masse. ard
it will be well 10 casually invite persons
OF other political organizationg to lend
their presence 10 our meeting. Bring
with yol. il convenient. the ladies OF
your family, and suggests that others
do likewise" The whole tone of the
letter was to urge a large attendance.
The scheme was q cunning one. SO Us to
get d large attendance. SO that the
governor might be able to humbug as
many a> possible. by his sophistry and
thus miolcad the masses TO follow the
party tlat has broken every pledge.
plundering and rob ling the people in
u manner never before heard in this
country. The governor came from
kahoka on the morning train, and.
| after considerable footing by the band
| a small crowd was collected to meet him.
When the procession come up from the
depot to the public square. it was the
universal remark what funeral process
| sion is that" Not cheer was heard
and the procession filed along to the
| hotel ina solemn manner. The gov
ernor neither looked on the right or
left, but seemed thoroughly ashamed Of
the Part he was playing in an endeavOr
to delude the people. The crowd was
not over one-third as large as the as
semblv that greeted h;rl when he was
| here two years ago. In the afternoon
the governor delivered his cunning
harau que to IA fair sized crowd. and it
was apparent that the county commit
tees letter had born plenty of fruit, for
a large part of the crowd were Republi-
cans and POpulists. Gov. Stone, appar-
emily. seemed anxious to do right and
fair endeavOring to plaster over the
nefariOus jobs of Democratic admins
tration and humbug the peOl lie in vOt-
in" for his party, This was especially
true in regard to the silver part of his
speech: He seemed wonderfully anXi-
ons to be Democratic on that question.
| denouncing the administration even and
in other ways feeling for the good side OF
his hearers. for the purpose OF handing
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the Wall street party. How any honar-
able man can get up and plead for par
tv that has VIGOROUSLY and PERSISTENT
lv passed laws for trusts and other rich
corporations. yet the governor is guilty
of that dirty trick He wanted silver
alike with gold at the minis, at rela'
ton that the value of both metal nigh,
be on Il parity. Every gold bug will
say the same thing, the only difference
being that the governors plan would
be to take more circuitOus route
than the latter element. The Demo
cratic party is pledged to the single
gold standard, by the action of the
tives e'ected by that organization
and the governor knows it. The only
reason he appears friendly to silver and
her reforms is to line up the people Of
the west for the Democratic parry sc
that the leaders of the organization
NAV have trading stock to deal with
Wall Street and English money lend
ers. The people should lave less re
spect for such Il person as Gov. Stone
than 70" Cleveland and John Sherman
because the latter persons openly say
they are in favor of the gold standard
while the former is all the time playing
into the hands of the the trusts in ar
underhandcd manner.
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