The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-06
Hunter scores Cleveland.


drew Hunter, of Paris. ex-Congressman at
large from Illinois. said:
1--WE are here because Of the efforts OF Mr..
Cleveland to force the Democratic party
to accept as final the law OF 1913 on the
money question. Those who nave been
heretofore recognized as Democrats, and
10 not wish to stand with US in carrying
out the provisions of the Chieaso platform
are not here 10 fix their status or 10 as
sign to them any poliucal position. Those
VINO have inflicted deep ana dangerous
wounds on the Democratic party must Oe
regarded as enemies and treated As such
whether they call themselves Democrats
or Republicans. We are here to declare
against the enemies of true democracy with
out reference TO their political titles. Al
the very moment of our ascendency 10
power, when we were fully ready 10 strike
down this law Of 1873 and re-enact the law
for the free coinage OF silver and carry out
our platform and pledges TO the people.
Mr.. Cleveland, TO the surprise of every
Democrat in the United States. abandoned
his party and platform and went over 10
the enemy. joining hands with John Sher-
man, Chandler. Cullom and Reed to con-
tinue in force the law of 1913 demonetiZng
silver The Democrats became greatly in
censed. more 50 tnan at any time in the
party's history, refused TO so 10 the polls
and permitted the elections TO go by de-
fault. Curses against Mr.. Cleveland both
long and loud. could be heard from the old
and active Democrats from one end OF the
country TO the other.
Mr.. Cleveland, believing 1T to be a part
of his executive duty, presumed TO force a
new creed on the Democratic party, of the
gold standard alone. Secretary Carlisle In
his speech Memphis has used the same
argument, made the same deductions and
urged the same conclusions that john Sher-
man did to his friends at GAINESVILLE. Both
these men appealed 10 the people to de-
1eat the the free free GO coinage .s OF silver and perpe,u
gold alone as the standard of value. Fur
thermore. l have but little doubt that Mr..
Cleveland and all those Democrats who
choose to follow him will have a ticket of
their own in 1896 and will insist that they
are the Democratic party; that We are
renesades and that We have left them.
The daring move of Mr.. Cleveland to
carry the Democratic party away from the
platform that he accepted as candidate.
and upon which he was elected. has but
one parallel in the long history of Demo-
cratic Presidents. Many OF us we'll remem-
ber how, in 1857. those In high places sought
to force new doctrines and new creeds into
the Democratic party. Mr.. Buchanan dur
ing his administration attempted TO use
Democratic party at the time Of organizing
the States of Kansas and Nebraska to
carry out his views on the slavery question.
instead of the declared principles of the
party. History has recorded the result.
The party was, rent in twain: two national
tickets were placed IN the field. and. not
withstanding the nearly one million ma
jority of the popular vote. Mr. Lincoln was
elected President. We had two State
ticket received III, ,6C9 and the DANTE. or the
administration. received SOL votes. Mr..
Buchanan controlled all of his appointees
in this State. and they worked faithfully
for his ticket, but his ticket was really re-
pudiated by the Democratic party. I am
glad TO know that Mr.. Cleveland cannot
State. They are n not tt the kind of Demo- rIo-
Gratis that can be marshaIed into line with
John Sherman, William Mckinley and Shell
by Nj. Cullom under any kind of intimida-
ton. Democrats know their duty and pro-
pose to stand by their convictions
IF Mr.. Cleveland wants to start a new
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a convention of his own and lay down his
platform. Then he will be able to see how
many voters will stand upon his platform.
He can christen his new party according to
his own tastes and go before the country. /
am reminded that the first section Of the
by she laws St n1f of @ dn we % can be
an international agreement. or. in other
words. have England fix our financial sys-
tenn for us, but in the meantime retain the
Republican legislation of 1873 for the gold
standard. The people of this country would
agreement could be executed and carried
out so that IL would benefit US. Such an
agreement would not be a law that would
bind any nation or individual The different
nations would have TO call their lawmakers
ing power together: then the question of
confirmation would have to be settled Who
has the courage to believe that they would
SO legislate as to give the United States
any advantage of them? All this dramatic
talk about international agreement with
foreign nations to secure some financial ad-
vantage 10 our own country is empty decla-
nation. and only kept before the people as
one OF the schemes Of deception for the
sole purpose of prOcrastinat tion."
Governor AItGcId Also Talks.
Governor Altged was next called on. He
spoke at some length, saying. in part:
1T is an irrevocable principle that when
you increase the volume of money I'm the
world you increase the selling price of
products i'm the world. tApplauseD On the
contrary it also is the principle when you
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stantly the selling price of commodities
| and products has to go down. What fol-
lowed this arbitrary act of 1873? The fixed
charges We're left. The mortgages were
not reduced. The interest was not reduced.
Taxes were not reduced. Consequently our
great producing classes found that when
they had paid theh fixed charges they had
nothing left. The merchants couldn't sell.
The railroads had little to carry. The man
ufacturers had to shut down What fol-
lowed? The labOrers in those factories
! were without work and very soon without
bread. You found that out And you COM
menced agitating for a change of those con-
ditions. What remedies were offered 20
you? What remedies have the self-ap-
pointed doctors OF finance given you in
the last few years? The patient had been
! bIed until IL couldn't stand up. He was
! leaning up against the fence. These great
! financial doctors came along and felt MS
pulse. looked at his face and said: Well
! the right thing 10 do is to take little
! more blood out of him. tApplauseD They
/ have been doing that. and as they pro
| ceeded the patent Kept Settlng a Htlie
/ weaker and weaker. and finally you con-
! clude that the line of treatment has been
| followed long enough and you demand a
/ change.
! Now. how are we TO get back TO the
/ condition that we formerly occupied? Why,
We must restore that purchasing power
! to. the producing masses of our country.
/ Put them back where they stood when the
| government with its strong arm in;erfeTed
/ and the whole machinery OF industry VIII
/ start up. and until that is done there
/ Is no possibility Of the return Of general
/ prosperity tCheersD The Democratic par
! ty standing for the people, Is under obli-
cations 10 right the wrong. The Repub-
i licans are followers OF the doctrines OF
/ Hamilton They believe in the doctrines
! helm enrich people and let those few rich
! people throw few bones TO the poor. The
I trouble with us has been that fer several
years now our DemJcratic leaders seem to
have gone over into the Republican field
: and tried 10 take the job away from the
Republicans daughter and applause.l
I There were some gentlemen who talked
about leaving the party. Oh. Lord, They
7 couldn't associate with such people.
! have no. heard OF any leaving yet / do
not believe any will. But i viii say this
10 YOU: That IL every man who talked OF
leaving the party would go over into the
Republican camp to-day and We should
. have an election in this State tomorrow.
We would poll ~ per cent more votes thar
We polied last fali. AppauseD
why. gentlemen. IL IS not matter OF
making converts. You do not need To maks
converts. You do not want to do IL. AL
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