The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-10-29

make speeches"-Among whom, do you
suppose, and for what reasoni Why.
among the farmers of the middle and
western states, for the reason that as
the price of farm products had declined
the farmers could be deluded into the
belief that the closing of the mint in
1873 to the coinage Of the silver dollar
had caused the decline in prices of the
farm products. That was openly de-
clared in the convention. They estab-
lished their press. They established
their headquarters. They hired their
missionaries and they hired their scriv-
eners, and among them was the author
of Coins Financial School for Babes
and Suckers" (Great laughter and ap-
plause) They set them to work. They
repaired from that convention directly
to congress. They struck for free coin
age in the congress of 1S89-9O. They
succeeded in getting that further act
for the purchase of 4,5000,000 ounces of
silver per month. They were satisfied
for little while, or rather they stop
ped. daughter and applause) But
they did not stop their work in the
field. They kept up their bureau; they
continued their missionaries. We pur-
chased 4,500,000 ounces per month until
1890. But silver had declined 40 per
cent. 1t was threatening the credit of
ernment had guaranteed was becoming
beyond it's ability to maintain. Grover
Cleveland had the courage, the patriot
ism and wisdom to call congress to-
gether, and with the help of the Re-
publican party in congress accom-
plished an act for which Grover Cleve-
lands name should be canonized Zap
plause), stopping the purchase of this
depreciating silver of these northwest.
ern conspirators. What have the done
since that? They have pilloried Gro
yer Cleveland. They have inspired
their missionaris and emissaries to re.
newed zeal.
From July or August. 1898, every
day and every hour of the day their
missionaries have been swarming
through the middle and western por
tions of the country, singing at the
ear of the farmer and saying to him:
IF thou taste OF this fruit of free
coinage thou shall not surely die, but
shall yourself be as silver bugs, wear
ing crowns of the white metal" The
poison had its effect. The unwary
and unsuspecting were decoyed into
the meshes. The Chicago convention
is the result. A. j. Warner, the chair
man of that crusade and conspiracy,
was the chairman of the Democratic
convention of Ohio. He was one of the
leading spirits of the Chicago conven.
tion. And there were Stewart and Tel
ler and all the sombrero and cowboy
influences of the northwest dominat-
ing that convention. They succeeded
in elevating to the place of leadership
a man who, If he had lived in the days
been a Robespierre. If he had lived
in the days of Cicero he would have
been captain or lieutenant Of Cata
line. He lived in his day. He is re-
sorting to the same means and meth
DDS of arraying class against class
that Marat and Robespierre employed
when the French guillotine did its
deadly work. l tell you, gentlemen, he
is not a man of great ability; not a
man of great genius, of egotism and
self-conceit, believing in his own des.
tiny and is ready to sacrifice his coun
try and his God for the purpose of ac.
complishing his selfist ends"
To those who have watched the
trend of events politically in the past
few years, the statements of Judge
West will not need confirmation. For
several years the rural communities
have been flooded with free silver lit
erature gratuitously distributed, and
in all meetings, social, commercial OF
fraternal, some emissary has been
found presenting his little steretoyped
resolution favoring free silver coinage
which, in many instances, was adopted
without consideration or proper
knowledge upon the part Of those in
attendance. When the harvest was
ripe, as it appeared to the conspirators
their members in the United States
senate precipitated the fight which has
led to the present contest. Every
statement made above can be readily
verified, and they should be sufficient
to convince everyone that the crusade
headed by Mr.. Bryan is wholly and
solely for the benefit of the silver
mine owners of the west and north.
west.
WHAT is NEEDED.