Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1895-07-20
H0RR HARVEY DEBAIE.
The Two Opposing orators Whacking
Away al Each other,


Chicago, July 18th. third day u the
Herr. Harvey pilver debate opened al IL
-. IN, the lAt.nces II the starting hour
heretofore having been found iuconveni.
cut in some respects. rbe subject under
ii-cussiou Was. what Harvey bad char.
scterized IN his book. "critne II ~" de.
csllAneoun spArring. Harvey charged cor.
iuption IN the passage VI the dem onsti-
zAtion act.
Horr rrpudia,-d the inference ,hA, the
citizens II the United States were all uur-
rupt, and none VI their women vHtuUus.
Horr declared that IL wss not true that
every man he'd his price, IN. In-m hers
nf congress wer. ~ honest 80 the average
American citizen. He knew where oi be
spoke for he has been n member uf thA,
bNdy, Hmr took up III. history II the
decentralization act and proceeded to show
the stAges through which 1t bad pss~ei.
and that bnAl enactment was uot hAi ull
.tsr u hsd been before congress- nearly
three years.
Harvey returned to the attack upon the
honesty Of legislatures throughout the
country, including congress-, and lllinols
aud Colorado legislatures. This v.nality
was sspping the ioundations Of the gov
srnmsnt ~ II destroyed every republic u
the pAst.
Hrr again rsturn-d 10 the defense II
tho honesty of American people. lie
said Harvey merely picked out = few
corrnpt men aud drew from them the
proposition that the people " the nation
were all corrupt. II Harvey had lived
IN jobs time hs wOud have Looked over
that uAfortunate mans sores and gone
ou, and published throughout the world
that all ChAl,ieA was one immense car.
banels. Horr then. amid laughter. sad
he would raturn to the question under
discussion, and prc-eisd with the his
tory Of the dsmonstizAtion act, Isninting
uut how the bill had been read in fun
several tiinss and printed separately
eleven times and twice IN the rpIp'rts ~
the comptroller VI the currency. The de-
bates ID the sebat. occupied sixty riI
columns of the Congressional Record
In the report Of the committee II wAr
-tA,-i II had been ~xAtain-d, iine by line
and word by wori, ami finally psHs,i.
He would show that In ~ doing th- sen.
At. knew what Il WAS about.
Harvey, in reply. sAid Horr w"uk have
to divert from his IssitlVn when the prop.
sr time came. la point Of fact the bill
about which ha had b-en talking was NJ,
the bill hnslly pass~d Judge Kelly. IN
presenting the bill Ia th- hous-. sAd Il
was merely . eudihcat,oL of LAVE. la re-
sponr- Ia the question. Judge Kelly ~.
piled that the bal male no change in III.
values of the coins of the nation Ia 1879
when the bili came up. II vas spoken oi
80 hill on . dry subject, And tho m-iu.
here lost interest II Was at that time. ~
apI.ears from the recorb, that the irst dis.
closure II ths intention Ia change th,
s,Andsri " gold wss male 10 = sI,--cb by
HouI-rj hut there WAS reason Ia b-liev,
that the speech vas not actually delivered
but printed by leave, or Il wac read frnu
manuscript. and th-e- woris omitted. but
no reference was male to the d-mon-tiIa
iion ~ silver. On the enrolment IL IA.
hill the clause was nmitt-d which hal th,
effect II hunting the eoinag. of silver.
Horr replying, charged Harvey viii
| quoting y single sentence and leaving ouI
the modiiylng context. The rscori
| showed the statement made N tbs ruu.
ming debate Was not under l-Ay. to print
In every sI,eech rsf-rreh ~ by Harvey
the SPEAKER sAh the bill provided Tor The
'andsrt "ip q single metal" ins,sAd ~
AZ before In two Dvtslr. And that OIL
oniuS, -Iespt Subsidiary oo,ns, sho'lld he
snld. Horr sppks Of the jsnonit,LStnH
of silver by Eagland in 1915 ss 9 rssulI
II experiences In the us. ~ double stand
ard. In 1871 G-rmAny adopted ID. old
standard and threw an the market 1870.
40 900 In silver. |, wss this tha, sst tbs
world considering the silver yus~tion. mol
any gold bug conspiracy. Tho hnAneiA
lnlley os no sr-a, nation vas ever douil
mated by conspiracy.
This clossd III. debate for th. day, ga
e.pt Anewaring pn-stions by the die
putAnts. propoundrd by n-mb.rp II the
sud,encs The attendance was not lArg'
hut apprcciAtivr. aud generous ami I'M
partial IN r-rogniiion of telling Polnt,