The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-10-01
OGDEN FETHERs SPEAKS.
Republicans Rally once More at the
Rhode Opera House.

Rhode Opera House.
The republican rally at the Rhode
opera house Monday night was presided
over by Senator Timme. He first in
| troduced the quartette consisting of
Messrs. Davis, Cooper, Baldwin and
! Newman who very creditably rendered
a piece chosen for the occasion. After
the encore Senator Timme introduced
the speaker of the evening, Ogden Ell.
Fethers, of GAINESVILLE.
Mr.. Fethers said that we are stand
! ing on the middle ground of peculiar
campaign. In former years we were
called to open warfare with the demo-
cratic party and democratic principles.
| Now we find ourselves engaged III a
guerilla kind of struggle with a con-
glomerate party of socialists, nihilists,
anarchists and what not. Four years
ago the republican party born for free
dom, and backed by a clear record
was defeated because the opposing
party dazzled the understanding of the
workingman with promises never full
filled. The siren cry of free trade and
an untaxed dinner pail allured many
unsuspecting votes into the ballot box.
! But on the tariff we have them
beaten They have nothing more to
say and in his message the representa-
tive of the conglomeration the Pasha
of two tails" William Jennings Bryan
wrote that nothing need at present be
said on the tariff.
| Now there is new issue. The siren
cry of free silver has been raised among
the ranks of guerillas.
Here Mr.. Fethers made a compari-
son of the platforms of the ST. Louis
and Chicago conventions. He first re-
ferred to the coinage plank of the
popocrats.
!" We demand the free and unlimited
coinage of silver and gold at the pre-
sent legal ratio of 16 to l without wait
| ing for the consent or advice of any
other nation"
The speaker explained that the free
coinage of silver means the coinage
without mintage. The unlimited COIN
age means the coinage of an nnre-
stricted amount.
1t was incidentally mentioned that
the price of silver which was 68 and a
i fraction cents at the time Of the Chica-
| go convention has fallen to 81 and
a fraction at the present time. If it
has taken such tumble at the sugges-
ton of Bryan, what would 1t do at his
election?
The down trodden masses who are
to be relieved by the free coinage of
silver, are the poor, poverty stricken
wretches who own silver mines and
count their wealth by millions.
The st. Louis platform expresses a
belief in the gold standard and ma
tional bimetalism when the world is
ready for it.
The plank concerning federal au
thority was also brought up. " We
denounce the arbitrary interference Of
federal authority in local affairs, +" says
the Chicago platform.
Mr.. Fethers read from the constitu-
ton of the United States showing that
such a doctrine is directly opposed to
| the spirit and letter of our constitu
ton, and amounts to ANARCHY, pure
and simple. The constitution gives
the president of the United States the
authority to protect commerce among
the several states and establish and
protect postofices and postroads.
The resolutions of congress, signify
ing the support of that body, of the
action of President Cleveland in regard
to the Chicago riot, were also read;
and it was stated as peculiar coinci-
dence that Mr.. Daniels, who proposed
these resolutions, was chairman of the
convention that denounced federal
authority in local affairs.
Concerning the "Crime of '73" Mr.,
Fethers said that demonstration of
silver means the withdrawal of silver
from circulation as money. At the
time of that bill there was no silver in
circulation. 1t was represented by
bank bills and shin plasters.
The last point of the speaker was the
spreading broadcast of discomfort, sus-
picion and hatred. He condemned
such action as the height of all evil and
exhorted men to honesty and industry
and confidence in their fellow men.
Mr.. Fethers is delightful speaker.
His address was of the kind that peo-
pie are pleased to listen to. The salient
points at issue were thoroughly brought
out and the fallacies of the popocratic
platform so clearly shown up as to
leave no doubt in the minds of the
/ hearers.
The evening closed with another well
rendered song by the quartette and
three cheers for Mckinley.
Diarrhea and Dysentery
are dangerous, and you should not be