The herald., 1896-09-12

done toward holding the two coins at
a parity. In 1875 Mr.. Sherman said that
it was a safe policy to act upon the prin-
ciple that what did not suit England
would suit us. This year Mr.. Sherman
so far forgets his former position as 70
repudiate all of his sayings of former
years. j. G. Blaine agreed with Mr..
Sherman in his advocacy of bimetal.
lism, and the speaker said that If James
@. Blaine was alive today he would
still be calling and working for rec
ognition of silver. Speaking of the sale
of $262, 900, 900 of bonds by Mr.. Cleveland,
he said that the necessity for this was
the result of the policy of Mr.. Carlisle
of paying in gold only, the government
obligations, which were and are payable
in coin. l. e., gold or silver. The speaker
enlogized w. j. Bryan, and said that he
was one of the few men who had con-
vlctions as to what was best for his fell
low men, and the courage to stand be-
fore the plutocratic old party and ex-
press what he felt.
About once in every thirty or forty
years, when the affairs of the country
become demoralized, there is such
man raised up who sees the dangers and
is capable of directing and leading the
people into ways that promise and bring
relief. In 1878 Mr. Mckinley voted for
the Bland act, authorizing the purchase
numand when Mr.. Hayes vetoed the bill
Mr.. Mckinley voted to pass 1t over the
veto. In 1890 he voted for the Sherman
purchase bill and in 1891, in a speech he
criticised CleSeland's policy and said
that Cleveland was striving to discredit
silver and diminish thereby the circu-
lating medium. Today he says that we
must work under the gold standard only
until England says we can use both gold
CT Thn iv,,n will md fc
not far distant when the people of this
nation will so forcibly demand it that
the congress of the United States will be
compelled to so legislate as to restore
silver to it's former position. With this
legislation the good times will return
Good times cannot return and the 5,O0O,-
900 tramps in this country today cannot
find work so long as there is nothing
but boarded gold with which to pay
them, and those who hold this gold are
not employers and have no use for labor
or the laborer in any sense of the word.
The speaker reviewed the action of
the two respective national conventions
and the circumstances and conditions
under which Mr.. Bryan was nominated
and of his tour from Lincoln, Nebraska,
to New York and return and the deep
interest of the people and he said that he
once lived in the northeast portion of
oylN bAld dLu tudL IiC lCPof 10 'hS
had from that section was that former
Republicans were forming Bryan Silver
clubs, and he predicted that the silver
party would go down to Harlem river
with a majority that will not need New
York city to aid in the victory.
Speaking of state and local affairs. the
speaker stated that Mr.. McLachlan went
to congress on free silver platform. He
worked and voted for silver while there
and received his second nomination on
the silver platform adopted by the Re-
publican state convention.
He now changes his whole base and
says that all his past record is of no
effect that he was wrong, all wrong;
that he now sees that gold and only gold
and all gold is the thing and the only
thing and that he is sorry for all that he
has done and that he wont do so any
more, and if the people will only forgive
him this time he will try to know his
own mind in the future, ETC., ad nau.
seam, playing the school boy act to per-
fection.
The Democratic and Populist parties
have united on Mr.. Barlow and after the
election the only thing Mr. McLachlan
will have to think about will be to try
to figure out not how much but how
little he really was in the race. The pub
lie has no respect for Mr. .McLachlans S
past and he will fall far short of even
his own partys support.