The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-07-26
A JOINT DEBATE
BETWEEN HARVEY AND HoRR
ONTHEFlNANCIAL QUESTION
The Novel Contest 20 Last Eight Days,
Sundays Excepted.

The discussion OF tho silver question /
between W. II. Harvey, author Of |
Coins Financial School, and Hon. /
Rowsell G.. Horr, Of New York, which |
is 10 continue eight days, was begun /
at Chicago Tuesday afternoon at 2 !
o'clock at the Illinois Club. The dis
putants will take the Affirmative and |
negative at pleasure, and neither will |
talk longer than ten minutes at any
one time, the discussion thus being q
running fight at close range The
judges are ex.Solicitor General Of the
United States Charles II. Aldrich and
Hon. Henry Miller.
The privilege OF being present az
this momentous contest was accorded
to few. There we're seats for about 200
persons in the assembly room Of the
club house, but only little over half
that number were present
Congressman J. @. Sibley, of Penn
sylyania, a leader of tho free silver
forces in the east, occupied a promi-
nent seat. He will remain during the
debate, unless business engagements
prevent. A prominent advocate of
the gold standard was A. B. Hum
phroy, secretary OF the National
League Of Republican Clubs. Others
present were: w. w. Meagher, OF the
bimetallic league; Lyman J. Gage,
referee for Mr.. Horr; Fred W. Peck
and A. II. Reyell, Of Chicago; l.. G..
Powers, of St Paul; DIR. S. A. Robin
son, of New York, aud Charles A. Ser
gel, Of Chicago. The last three acted
as advisers to Mr.. Horr, and sat by
his side, taking oopious notes while
Mr.. Harvey spoke.
Mr.. Harvey consulted little with
anybody. He brought with him a
a great pile of authorities for the pur-
pose of substantiating statements made
in his book, to which he frequently
referred.
A man with watch sat near the
speakers, and whenever one had spoken
eight minutes he would tap loudly on
a call bell. This notified the speaker
that he had two minutes more to con-
clude his statement. BY these stages
of ten minutes each the speakers will
proceed for eight days, using only the
afternoons and resting Sundays.
Rules of the Debate.
DR.. Homer Themes, president of
the Illinois Club, called the assemblage
to order, briefly setting forth the OBJ
jects of the debate. He introduced
Hon. H. G. Miller aud ex-Judge Will
liam A. Vincent, both of Chicago,
who, he said, would be judges, and at
'the conclusion of the controversy de-
eide which had the best of the novel
debate.
Mr.. Miller then read the rules which
are to govern. 1t was, he said, the
intention of the speakers to deliver
altogether 100000 words. OF these,
5000 are to be reserved for use at the
end of the discussion. This will give
each chance to recapitulate his argu-
ment in $500 words. Three hundred
words additional will be allowed each
contestant as a rejoinder to his adver-
sary's closing argument. Mr.. Miller
stated that the whole discussion was
copyrighted and that, while it would
be given the widest publicity through
the press, it was the intention of the
principals to preserve the debate as
private property and issue it in book
form.
The debate was started by Mr.. Horr,
who referred to the author of "Coin's
Financial School" with some severity.
He said he never read a book making
so many misstatements.
Mr. Harvey, in his opening state
ment, contented himself with pre-
sentation of his plan of campaign and
told what he would prove.
Mr.. Horr wanted to know why the
names of prominent citizens had been
used in Mr.. Harvey's book, and words
put into their mouths that they had
never used, to which Mr.. Harvey re-
piled his book was simply an allegory
and the fact that little boy was put
in as teacher ought to be enough tc
prove to any sensible person that this
was so.
A Then the speakers plunged at once
into the thick of the fight. The argu
ment at all times was very spirited
and both speakers had hard work tc
preserve their tempers.