Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-28

dollar green Dack Dlii IS pLinteut 1no
 is worth $100 in gold or silver or any
 br kind of money, but how much is the
 er worth on which the money is pfihted7 Nothing. So that when they talk about the commercial value of the metal that is in silver they talk about something that is really without any mean- ing in good, common sense. But l say to them, lift off your oppression; with hold your hand of oppression and depre- ciation; restore the law like it was and let the old ship have chance to rise to the surface, and we will see her come to the top and carry her sails aloft, as she did eighty years ago, and our people will be hoated back upon the high waves Of prosperity and peace and happiness will re- turn. Loud applause.] Take poor fellow and club him in the streets until he is all battered up and his limbs sore, and, If he is not killed, you say to him: Help yourself; get up from there.' He will say: ''If you will get me physician that at will heal my will whip you the next time see you.
 so IT IS WITH SILVER;
 we have broken it down and joined hands with the British government in it's most monarchical and monopolistic land in it's most tyrannical measures we have joined hands with them to cripple silver; They have rulned many elsewhere in Europe, who were obliged to obey the behests of Great Britain in mat ters of this kind. We have joined hands with them, and in the United States we have broken down silver; we have put it down and crushed .t and stamped upon it and abused it, and now you see what hu- initiating thing 1t is today. Yes, but it is your fault. If you had left silver alone and had not used the strong hands sof yourself and your friends in putting this. money where it is today-this money of the people-it would be ss good as it ever was. There never was too much silver money and there never can be too much. Loud applause. ssA
 WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
 Now, what becomes of the argument that silver has been depreciated to GO cents of its face on the dollar? The reply is, you did it with your laws. Repeal these laws and it will go up and up until itstands where it has been for the better part of the century. But will not attempt to argue the silver question tonight. wanted to call your attention particularly to those who belong-did belong-no, 1 want to call your attention particularly to the men who now belong to the populistic or pop ulo- o-republcan party, and have left us be- cause we were not active enough and ag- gIessive enough in fighting the battles of silver and to return it to remonetiZation. Here we were fighting for it through thick and thin, against the powers of the air; against all the schemers and curses, faithful to our trust, fighting continually for the restoration of silver, and these gen. tlemen have become so anxious and so much upset with the idea that, if they had little bit of power, they would straighten it up immediately; that they concluded they would leave their democratic associates and friends and go out and bushwhack around in their effort to build up silver of their own strength. But now, instead of coming home when the great democratic party is in motion, and when every energy of that party and minority of the republican party. and a small minority it is, Is bent upon the restoration of silver, these gen. tlemen come out and hitch themselves up in republican harness and say they want to restore silver to free coinage through the assistance of republicans like John Sher- man. Well, fellow citizens, there was never state so absurd as that. If they are in earneat, if they feel they have right to re- prove us because we have not been active enough in our demands, faithful enough on the subject of silver, or if they feel in them- selves that the democrats have fallen be- heath their duty, and that there exists a difference of opinion among them as to the best method of restoring silver, why do they unite themselves with party whose leader is the destroyer of silver, and who present time. and it's sworn enemy for all time to come? Now, how can MT. Aldrich go to the congress of the United States [applause; voice, ''He is not gong lana enter lQtO Cn6 re- publican caucus beneath the scepters Of John Sherman, Tom Reid and others who cou trol republican destinies, and who are welded to the idea of the maintenance and supremacy of goid-how could he go there, pretending to be silver man, on any scheme or plan whatever, and surren der himself into the hands of these people? IA voice, "He, cam do it.] No, fellow, citizens, you are right about it. 1 will conclude with this observations:
 THE PURPOSES OF THIS CAMPAIGN
 in Alabama are based upon the idea that there may be enough of secession in the republican and democratic ranks to prevent the election of president by the popular vote in 1896, and that tho election will get into the house of representatives. The republicans believe that. They know they are beaten, and they want to handle the populists now for the purpose of beating the democrats. Hence 1t is that every state in the union having but one vote in the electoral college for president, knowing that the democratic party is not tdisorganized, know ing that they have been growing since 1865, powerful and militant party having the good of the country in view and its best interests in their charge, knowing this, the republicans see they cannot beat us. They have already been made to feel that we will carry the next election; they see for in- stance that Hill will sweep New York. Loud and enthusiastic applause.] And they see that every democratic state in the American union will come square into line until they get beyond the Mississippi river, and there they entertain some hope of disrupt ing some of the states, or getting them out of the democratic column or away from us. But they have all of a sudden, with a view of capturing five out of nine votes in Ala bama. which would be majority, you know, and would cast the vote ofsAiabama out of the democratic column and putt in the republican column-with aa7iew to that