The old Abe eagle. (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 189?-189?, 1894-10-11
POPULIST5 MEET.

The Populists had their inning s atur-
day night. They had good crowd, the
hall being largely filled with non-com-
batants, fair senoritas and gallant cabe-
Ileros who had gathered to repeat the
festivities OF Begiums capital on that
memorable June sht preceding Water
loo. Republicans and Democrats in
platoons and squads occupied portions
Of the room, Populist voters being the
minor factor Of the crowd. j. M. Keith
called the house to order and presided
over the meeting. Mr.. Hoffman, q COL
orudo miner who has been on vacation
here for several months was introduced
as the first speaker, and put in half an
hour explaining how the Populist party
of Colorado grew out of the silver league
Of that State. The chief affliction of the
evening then came on in the person of
the windy wonder Of the White noun
tains, W. r. Robinson OF the Bonito,
who for nearly three mortal sufferin'
hours kept those ladies who had come
to dance yawnipg and fidgeting on the
hard seats while he failed and win
moved his weather beaten straw stack
over again. Robinson was q Democrat
originally, but grew to be better than
his party in 70, but held on to it, with
the hope Of saving it, for eight years.
Thcn be deserted it and has been po-
litical pirate since, ready to join any
gang of freebooters. He is very we'll
informed man, and has memory capa-
BILE of appropriating large slices of the
efforts of others. He is clever speaker,
but not discreet one; for in his refer
ence to the ratio of five to one established
by the emperor of China when the ports
of that country were first opened to Eu-
ropean and American commerce and the
Son of Heaven was yet childlike and
bland, contained the very goldbng argu-
ment that led tho restrictions that now
hamper silver in this country. He was
arguing that all money is fiat money
To illustrate, he cited that the edict Of
the emperor made five pounds of silver
of the same value in China as one pound
Of gold. But when foreigner owed q
celestial balance he paid it in silver
aud when the balance came his way he
J. demanded gold, so that the country soor
had no gold. Then the other fellows
would only take silver at their figures
based on the European price. The EN-
peror caught on aud with another fiat
made the Chinese ratio the same as tha
Of Europe. This argument illustrated
7. that OF the goldbugs, who tell us that il
1 we maintain bi-metallic currency witt
parity Of the metals it must be dono
through international agreement; els'
l payments will be made to us in the
cheaper and demanded OF us in the
i doarer metal, and the equilibrium thu
destroyed; we can not make the worlC
= accept our fiat. they drain US OF our golC
and then fix the gold value of our silver
' which we can neither compel others tc
. take nor refuse TO take ourselves with
: out further degrading it. The exception
:, clause in the groenback as regards du
: ties on imports was put there to com
: pei the importation of gold or its reten
ton in this country. The same cheal
and dear money arguments we're at th,
bottom Of the legislation Of '73 aud '93
which the EAGLE is not hero to com
mend. As an argument in favor OF
" Populistic fiat money the gentleman
reference to the Chinese experiment wa
unfortunate.
The audience was then delighted wit
the appearance OF Dr. Lane. who had ad
dressed the Democrats the night before
upon the rostrum with his big roll O
= manuscript. This was the signal for
:, storm Of applause from the Republicans
= THE Doctor was listened to atteutivel
but threw dtmper over the Populisi
l by declaring that Mills and Tomlinso
II were unfit to receive the support Of hor
~ est people But Mr.. Robinson arose an
g maintained in substance that Populi-
~ platform with rascal on it WAS pretera
le ble TO another with au honest man o
a. It.
Acacio Gallegos closed the exercise
.. with an address in Spanish, after whic
a. the hall was cleared aud the bale begal
ar Messrs Ellis, Graflon aud Gilmor
st candidates for treasurer, supcrinten,
ont aud sheriff. were also on the ro-trur
but had 10 show to speak. Mr. Gilmol
made very favorable impression on q
who met him.
Nv See those those lovely new bedroo
snits at Zicgler Bros, received lh
l.. week.
Segd ryo at Taliafcrro Bros