The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-07-30
REORGANIZATION.
Principal Subject Of the Fourth
Horr-Harvey Debate.
ReMew ey rAg wAITg MEAL Man

sented In support OF the Conspiracy
Charge--Horr Reads a Letter from Err.
neat seyd and goes Into the Subject Of
Goid-siiver Ratios.
Copyrights 1895. by Azel F. Hatcb.l
Mr.. Harvey had the floor at the begin
ming OF the fourth days silver debate and
he proceeded to sum up his view Of what
the debate had so far shown as follows:
''The debate so far is Of value in this II
shows first that gold and silver is the
money of the constitution; (2) that the
silver dollar of 37ih grains OF pure silver
was the unit OF value in our monetary
system and regulated the other coins in
our coinage system from 1899 to 1873; (5)
that silver and gold In concurrent coin
age was until 1878 the standard and meas
ure Of values Of all other property, and
the basic principle of our monetary sys-
tenn; "a that prior to 1873, when one
metal increased int exchange value over
the other, the debtor had the right to pay
in the cheaper metal; (5) that silver was
not demonetized by the act of 1879 on ac
count of the owe reproduction of silver;
co. that sl43, 100000 of silver were coined
by our minis prior 60 1878
Harvey then entered denial that he
had charged general lack of integrity on
the American people, or that every man
has his price. He simply did not intend
that those corrupt In official life should
throw around themselves the cloak of
the integrity of the Americantpeople. "He
then proceededwith an explanation of Pot
ter's position on the decentralization bill
in the house. Potter had expressed sus-
| picion of the bill because he thought it
was to assist a speculation in nickel, the
o. D
largely of nickel. Brooks was also suspi-
cious Of the bill. On May "a the bill came
up in the house In the form OF a suhsti.
tute and Hooper moved suspension of
the rules and the passage of the bill
Brooks wanted delay until Potter was
| present, but Hooper declined to walt, nor
did he want the bill read. The motion
was lost. Harvey read The Record to tho
above effect.
Horn took up the argument next He
! said: II have shown yon that this bill
! had It's incipiency among the experts on
coinage in the United States l quote
! here from W. A Shaws History of Cur
rency, page 275. The first widely en-
bracing international conference proper,
| however, was the outcome OF an expires.
| sion OF opinion In the conolave of the
Latin Union. 1t was called at the invita-
! ton of France and met at Paris on the
! 18th of June, 1877. The states represented
| were'-now listen - Austria, Baden, Ba-
den, Bavaria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain,
the United States, France, Great Britain,
! Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal,
! Prussia Russia, Sweden and Norway,
Switzerland, Turkey and Wurtemburg.
All the states except Holland declared in
favor of the gold standard"
Now, that Is the record of that confer
ence showing that the subject was being
agitated by the civilized nations OF the
world. Ii was after that action that our
| experts commenced to examine the ques-
tion and see what legislation should be
| enacted ! stated that they honestly en-.
| gagged in that work. Has he proven a
! syllable to the contrary Of that2 The bill
OF 1873 simply carried out q resolution Of
all these civilized nations of the world. /
showed you how openly, how completely
that bill was drawn in all fairness and sub
mitted in every detail to the American
| people. The silver men have attempted
from the start to smirch that bill by
claiming that those men were false to
their duties
The first yarn that they told and pub
lished in thousand papers broadcast all
ever the United States was that a man
by the name OF Ernest Seyd visited the
United States and brought with him
$500, 900 in gold and that he paid that
gold to secure the passage of that bill
Only a little while ago somebody hap
pened to think that maybe Ernest Seyd
had written something on the stion
1t occurred to some one to write to Mr.
Hooper's widow and children and see IL
there wasn't something that could DO
| found on that subject. They found a
letter from Ernest Seyd in reply TO Mr..
Hooper, who had sent him this Identical
bill and asked his opinion on it, In the
course of Mr.. Seyd's letter he s9id:
AS this is a now bill and presumably
repeats all previous enactments / suppose
that the total abolishment of the silver
dollar is contemplated. think that the
United States with her gold and silver
mines Is in an eminently favorable posi-
ton TO uphold the use of both gold and
silver, and that the double valuation as
1t existed before would be of great benefit
to the country. am myself, as yoa Will
perceive from my writings, in favor Of
the full and complete adoption OF the
double STANDARD and Ia that letter from
Mr.. Seyd from beginning to end, oover-
pages and pages Of type-written matter.
he does nothing but oppose the very
measure that these men say he spent SO
much money to pass through the Amer
lean congress-"
Harvey rejoined as follows: "TAe re-
port of the monetary conference at Paris
In 1867 will contradict the history that
Mr.. Horr has read from. As to Ernest
SsYd and letter found among Mr.. Hoop
effects since he and Seyd both died,
- pose in the years to come some one
would say TO the people then living that
John G. Carlisle was bimetallist and
here is the proof of 1t, and was to read
from Mr.. Carlisle's speech, The demone-
tizatipn of silver is the greatest crime of
the ages and its consequences for evil are
greater than all the foods and fires and
pestilences Of the past. Would that
prove that Mr.. Carlisle Is bimetallist at
particular slime when something might
be charged against him when he acted as
secretary Of the treasury under Mr.. Cleve-
land"
Harvey then proceeded with the record
Of congress when the house refused to
suspend the rules and pass the demoneti.
cation bill without reading. "Mf. Hol-
man asked this question: Before the