The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1896-10-23
.NYE in MITCHELL
The Noted Minneapolis Lawyer Delivered
an Eloquent Address to a Mitchell
Audience Last Friday.
1 Plankinton Barber, Becoming Despond-
ent Through Drinking, Committed
Suicide by Shooting Himself.
MOVING THE CLERGY
The Methodist Conference Ends at Yer
million Monday and the Appoint
.mentS are Given out.
MOVING THE CLERGY
THE ORATOR OF MINNESOTA.

Frank NJ. Nye of Minneapolis Delivered n
Strong Republican Speech Friday Night.
1t was magnificent audience which
which gathered at the corn palace Fri
day evening to Lear the speech Of
Frank M. Nye. The night was very
chilly and it was finally decided late in
the afternoon to hold the meeting in
the court house, but before the time for
the spee;.h IL was plainly evident that
the court house would not contain one
third Of the crowd and the exceedingly
caitly corn palace was utilized, and as
result nearly every seat in the build
ing was occupied. The Ladies' Nc
Kinley club marched into the hall at 8
o'clock and took seats in front and were
loudly cheered by the audience. Af
ter the Juvenile band played selec-
tion the ladies were introduced to the
audience and under the leadership of
Mrs. E. G. Newbury they sang cam
paign song which brought down the
house, the words of which were COM
posed by Mrs. New bury.
The meeting was presided over by E.
T. Cotton, a student of the university,
who made magnificent Introductory
speech and was heartily applauded for
the sentiments he expressed. He said
that while he felt little silverish some
time ago he had accepted the advice of
Bryan to study the question and as a
result he had formed stronger ideas
that it was not the silver question
alone which allied the country today
and that silver was not the panacea for
restoring the former prosperous condi-
tion Of the country.
When Mr.. Nye arose to speak the en-
thusiasm OF the audience became un-
manageable and broke forth in loud ap-
plause. In the opening remarks Mr..
Nye devoted some little time to laying
the foundation for the argument to fol-
low. Every year, every month, every
day has its crisis and today this country
| is passing through period of depress-
ion which would end in reversal of
the situation. Never has the patriot
ism of the people been tried as now,
nor has the government ever been put
to stronger test, but somehow through
an unknown evolution the individual
patriotism asserted itself and likewise
it is true of our government. He de-
clared that the source of q nations life
and character originated in the home.
Mr.. Nye did not like to look at the
dark side of things. he was something
of an idealist and believed that it was
better to look on the brighter side ol
life and to enjoy the gifts with which
we are provided. He reviewed hastily
the situation of the country from the
days of Abraham Lincoln up to the
present time, during which time two
great parties, republicans and demo
Gratis had contended for supremacy
the former he designated as the posi-
tive party which has enabled the citi
zenship to attain higher position and
giving life to industry for the man tt
buy and sell at profit. The latter he
dominated as the negative party, which
acted rs barrier to the progress of the
people by the formation OF such laws al
worked to the disadvantage of the pro
ducer and the laboring man.
Mr.. Nye only gave few moments tt
the discussion of the money question
owing to the room becoming so colo
that it was hazardous to keep the aud
ience together longer. Mr.. Nye sait
that he had been for free silver during
the summer but the more he studied
the question the less he thought tina
there was any need for greater vol
ume of money and illustrated the poin
clearly by saying that it was not dol
lars which made the business but th'
business which made the dollars, ant
it was not the quantity of money whicl
benefited the country but rather tn
freedom with which the money il
circulation was used.
In closing Mr.. Nye paid some atten
tion to the Chicago platform and de
nounced in strong terms the unAmer
ican ideas set forth in it. It.was re
GREETED that the speaker had to refrai