Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-07-27
DEBATE GETTING EXCITING
Horn Objects to Remarks Of Har-
vey as a Reflection.
a Decentralization OF Congress by the Silver
Man Fiercely Interrupted by the
Gold Cham ion--Adjourned
at One O'clock.

A Chicago, July To- ioudy y I1di NtS
Horr debate was marked by consider
able acrimony by both speakers. In the
beginning Mr.. Horr said he ad a per-
sonal explanation TO make. He quoted
the following paragraph from his OPP
ponent's argument of yesterday:
These principles are for the selfish In
terests OF o lenders and Mr.. Horr
Is here advocating them" Mr.. Horr
said he took this as "A reflection on his
character. He continued: IL am not a
money lender. have no interest in any
bank or other institution OF like charac-
ter. | was raised on a farm n my
first work was done for $40 a month. /
come into this debate TO advocate those
| principles which will be for the best in
terests Of the working classes. from
which / come"
Mr.. Harvey explained that when he
said Mr.. Horn advocated the principles
OF money lenders he did not mean to
say Mr.. Horn himself was a money
lender. He thought, however. in giving
the history of his life Mr.. Horr should
not have omitted to state that he a
at one time been "A bank president.
This question will not be settled by
any man parading himself as a man OF
toll" continued the free silver advo-
cate. 1T lies deeper than that Mr..
Harvey then plunged knee deep INTO a
discussion Of the act Of 1873 which de-
monetiZed silver. but was shortly inter
rupted by me bell OF the timekeeper.
Mr.. Horn, after INDUCING in a little
sarcasm at his adversary's expense.
took up the history Of the passage OF
the act Of 1873 and deied the champion
Of the white metal to produce any proof
that England had any hand in the act
OF 1873. In reply to this Mr.. Harvey said
Delmar, the English historian. had
made II a matter OF record that the
English bill Of 1916 demonetizing silver
was for two weeks in the hands OF Mr..
Knox, the American comptroller of the
treasury. This statement was followed
by a denunciation Of congress-,
1.-THE attempt to smirch the congress
of the United States can be character
ICED by no other word h a Infamous
shouted Mr.. Horr, leaplng to his feet.
1.-THE man who starts In to do this had
better never have started at ALL
The discussion Of the act OF 1873 was
| continued until ! o'clock, when an ad-
journment was taken until tomorrow,
Wednesdays Debate.
Chicago, July l7,-The Harvey-Horr
duel today developed into a general en-
gagement, representatives of Philadel-
phia, Kansas City, Cleveland n else
where pitched into the scrlmmage after
the two principals had hacked ZACH
other up TO the limit. The outsiders
who ventured into the fight included
II. l.. Bliss. o. b. Gum and +. Ii. Sarr.
The hostiities of the day began by MIR.
Horn remarking in a pointed manner
that Mr.. Harvey read an essay here
yesterday upon the condition of the
world during the fifteenth century and
particularly up to the discovery or
America in 1892. He reld the statement
without It's having been called out at all
by me, as / had not attacked that part
OF his book. But he made uch an eab-
crate effort to show the condition OF
things in the world from 400 TO 1880
thatI have taken a little pains to find
out. If / could. whether there Is IN
truth in the representations that he
makes and / find that history leaves
him in "a bad condition In that regard.
as il does in regard to the bulk Of the
statements IN COINS Financial
school,"
Continuing, Mr.. Horr endeavored to
f rsps M ssat r tSf lobb e Il tee iI Rtii snS that thu q,
the feudal aristocracy, with It's tyranny
was crumbling TO a fall. He said: "Mr.
Harvey and his free silver friends iden-
tify prosperity and the progress of mar
with the lot Of the feudal nobility Of
Europe and not with that Of the toilers,
Later / shall show that in his treatment
of the present. as Of the past. Mr.. Har-
vey, stands as the exponent of the rich
and not of the toilers, whose welfare
should be considered by the legislation
of the state"
In reply Mr.. Harvey said tina in his
remarks yesterday, to which Mr.. Horr
was now objecting, he volunteered Ia
explain the preface of the School with
out waiting for 1t to be attacked. Mr..
Harvey Insisted that the allegations OF
fact which he made In his book, and
yesterday. had been taken from the
United States monetary commission az
1876. He showed this, o 10 enter into
an argument on the political economy
Of the fifteenth century. but to show
that those who had accused him of for
gerry were wrong. He sad, further
more, that Mr.. Horr should not get him
at any point Of the debate to divert his
mind from the regular argument and
local arrangement of the debate.
Mr.. Horr then went back TO yester-
days discussion OF what constitutes the
unit Of value. Therefore. Mr.. Harvey
took up the decentralization Of silver,
the act OF 1873. This time until the close
Of the debate was taken up In the dis
cussion Of this legislation.
Questions were then In order. II. l..
Bliss questioned Mr.. Harvey as to fig
ures In his book relative to the coinage
OF silver previous to 1873. Mr.. Harvey
admitted that he did enormously sta te
the moun at $37. 900. 900 less than the
mount OF silver actually coined before
1873.
o. b. Gum OF Kansas City caused Mr..
Harvey to explain at length the amount
and denomination of the silver coinage
previous to 1873. Questions by a score
OF others were asked and answered.
but the discussion was OF a rambling
nature. The debate Will be esumed At
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