The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-09-27


Reno on the early morning train and
at II O'Clock was rendered a recep-
tion. A procession under the
command Of General Twanley march
ed over the principal streets of the !
city. 1t was made up as follows:
General Twamley,
Military Band.
Marshal and AIDES.
Military Huston con manding |
German Band
Fire Department
Citizens on Foot
Citizens in Carriages.
Wagons.
At1:3o o'clock Senator PETER ad
dressed IA good-sized crowd of Popu-
ulists, Democrats and Republicans on
the government acre. Mr.. Peifers
appearance is too well known to need
description here lie is tall almost
to lankness, wears a black Prince AL
bert and russet shoes. His most strik-
ing ornaments are pair of gold
trimmed glasses and those irrcpressi-
BILE whiskers
The senator began his speech with
narrative of his travels and what he
had seen, throwing in little taffy to
! Oklahomans by the way. He launched
out broadly and learnedly on the rail-
road question and did fairly well in
depicting seme of the discriminating
methods of railway managers in the
matter of capitalization and rates of
charges for service. but the only sug.
gestion he had TO offer as a remedy for
the hurtful system was the stereotyped
Pop idea that the government should
acquire and operate all the transpor-
tation lines and systems Of the coun-
try, regardless of the fact that it
would increase the public debt more
than three times what it is, at the
same time increasing the patronage of
the national administration to an ex-
tent that tho party that should be in
control of the government when such
change went into effect could entrench
itself and remain there indefinitely.
Z NtAl nc uuutELOOh W hlnHhoN NiN
money question and detailed the is
tory of our national policy of finance
as dictated by the Republican party
with approximate accuracy as shown
by the record but of course failed to
quote from the same record the action
of the Democrats in persistently op
posing the Republican methods of
funding and refunding, @emonetiza.
tion, resumption and contraction.
When he came down TO 1898 he took
up the Republican cry and charged
the Democratic party with being re
sponsible for the depletion of the
treasury, and grew so bold as to as
sert that che fifty millions of bonds
last issued was done without authority
of law; when he knew if he knows
anything that Secretary Carlisle re-
fused to exercise the discretion that
was claimed by many he had under
existing laws at the time and did not
issue the bonds until explicitly au-
thorized to do so by act of congress
passed at the special session of 1893.
His excuse for voting with the Re
publicans on the purchase clause in
the Sherman act was because the re-
peal act did not provide for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver tao
lilly admitting that he would rather
the government should be compelled
TO continue To buy silver bullion and
pay for 1t in gold coin, even to the eX
tent Of bankrupting the treasury and
plunging the country into panic such
as had never been witnessed, than to
yield one iot of his preconceived
notions. lie also declared that prep
arations are now being made by the
treasury department to issue another
iustallmcnt of bonds, statement as
false as il is audaeious, and known tc
be so by Mr.. PETER when he made it,
but made to mislead and demagoguC
his hearers.
When ne struck the tariff question
he showed at once that he was tread
ing on thorny ground for him. His
course was like the tail @. snake,
though headed all the time in the
general direction of the Republican
position of high protection. His dis
custom was labored though lame
effort TO excuse himself for voting
with the Republicans against the bill
as il passed the senate. In one
breath he was an absolute freetrader'
and IN the next champion of protec'
ton. As sample of his wobbly
course, he declared in favor of free
salt, free sugar, free lumber free
coal, but not free wool. the most inn
portant item and one that will save &C
the people of this country more THAI
any tariff act that has been passed foI
quarter of century. Some one in
the audience asked tie senator why
he voted for a tariff on salt while in
favor of placing that article of com
mon necessity on the free list
His explanation was that the
salt miners at Hutchinson
Kansas had explained to him that
their principal field of trade was tc
the south aud that a tariff Of 10 cents
on the 100 pounds was necessary to
compete with foreign salt. In other