The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-29
He Finds Occasion to Take a Hard
Fall Out Of Car
- Isle.
The Secretary Of the Treasury Was at
One Time Most Rabid
. Si|verite..

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Memphis, Tenn, May 25.-Memphis is
the storm center of the South just now
in the agitation of the all-absorbing cur
rency question. Coming on the heels
of Thursdays sound money convention,
at which the economic views of the Sec
rotary of the national treasury were ex-
pounded to a large gathering Of men
from all parts of the South opposed to
the free coinage of silver at the ratio Of
lie to /, comes rousing meeting last
night of an equally numerous class Of
citizens whose slogan is honest money"
and whose guest of honor was the elo-
quent Nebraskan, w. J. Bryan. Short
~ after the sound money convention was
called, the silver people got to work
upon a counter demonstration, with the
result that Mr.. Bryan consented to re-
ply to the speech Of Secretary Carlisle
at a meeting held at the Grand Opera
House last night That structure seats
only about one-third as many people as
the Auditorium, in which Thursdays
convention was held, and large num-
Der, of people who sought admittance
could not be accommodated. Mr.. Bry
an was introduced by w. H. Carmack,
editor Of the Commercial Appeal, and re-
ceived an enthusiastic welcome. A
considerable part of his speech was TAX
en- up with comparisons on Secretary
Carlisles last speech with utterances
said to have been made by him in 1873.
The telling points in Mr. Bryans speech
were loudly applauded, and when he
concluded, the audience rose to it's feet
and cheered for several seconds. He
was followed by Congressman J. M. AL
len, of Mississippi, in a humorous and
interesting speech. Mr.. Bryan's speech
was in substance as follows:
Il have read the speech delivered by
Mr.. Carlisle in this city Thursday; also
that delivered by him at Covington, KY,
last Monday evening, and I have COM
pared them with the speech delivered
By him on Feb. 81, 1875 In the house of
Representatives, and am reminded Of
the Language used by David, in lament
ing the death of Saul, How are the
mighty fallen
"In 1873 Mr. Carlisle was hurting the
pebbles of truth at the giant of the Phil
istines, John Sherman; today, as Co
Hath, he daily issues challenges to his
former friends. His speech Of 1878
was made when he was 43 years old, in
AhA Hv,n IF h nh
strength and mental vigor. He had then
been practicing lawyer for 20 years,
member of the state legislature of Ken
lucky and Acknowledgements of the
state, and was then member of con-
gress. Mr.. Carlisle did not refer at
Memphis to his speech of 1873, but he
did refer to it at Covington, and said:
Some of the opinions then expressed
have been modified and some of them
have been changed altogether by subse-
Quent events and by more thorough
investigation of the subjects to which
they related, but on the question of free
coinage, my convictions have never been
shaken for moment but he did not
state, even at COvingtOn, what parts he
modified.
HE served in the house and senate for
about Is years after making that speech,
he attempt to withdraw the utterances
of-1878, or to modify the emphasis with
which he then spoke. He explains that
he voted for free coinage in 1878 in the
hone that it would be amended in the
senate, but he never voted against free
coinage until after the nomination of Mr.
Cleveland in 1892. 1t is true that in 1878
Mr.. Carlisle did say that he was opposed
to the free coinage of silver, but he ought
in. all fairness to have stated that at that
time he was opposed to the free coinage
Of gold. also:
opposed to the free coinage of either gold
or silver, but in favor of the unlimited
coinage off both metals, upon terms of
exact equality Not only is his present
language contradicted by his former
speech, but a letter written in 1880 by
him that he was at that time in favor Of
free and unlimited coinage of silver.
"Mr. Carlisle in 1878 said: The strug-
gle going on now cannot cease and ought
not to cease until all the Industrial inter-
ests of the country are fairly and finally
emancipated from the heartless DONNA
ton of the syndicates, stock exchanges
and other great combinations of money
grabbers in this country and Europe
"Now Mr.. Carlisle is the honored guest
of d convention attended by bankers and
flnanciers who are opposed to the use of
silver as standard of money.
''Mr. Carlisle asks why the advocates
Of bimetallism are not in favor of the
restoration of silver gradually What
mockery this is! Did they not secure the
passage of the seigniorage bill Just after
the repeal of the Sherman law and did
not Mr.. Carlisle's chief, Mr. Cleveland.
veto this bill, notwithstanding that it
wSs voted for by more than two-thirds of
the Democrats of both houses? Did not
the advocates of bimetallism in the SEN
ate offer to support a bill providing for
the free coinage of silver, with the pro-
vision that the government should
charge seigniorage equal to the differ
ence between the bullion and coinage
values? Did not the opponents of silver
oppose this measure as violently as they
did the free coinage of silver?
'Tn 1873 when Mr.. Carlisle was in SYM
patty with the masses of the people. he
. said Let us, if we can do no better,
pass bill after bill, embodying in, each
some one substantial provision for re-
lief, and send them to the executive for
his approval If he withholds his sigma
ture and we are unable to secure the ne
cessary vote here or elsewhere to enact
them into laws, let us, as a last resort,
suspend the rules and put them into gen.
eral appropriation bills with the distinct